Suite: Judy Blue Eyes/ Long Time Gone

From a warehouse find, this is a new, unplayed stock copy with a drillhole, in its original Atlantic Records factory sleeve. Believe it or not, at 4:35 (a long song for 1969), this is a dramatically edited version of the 7:25 album track! If you ask me, the edited version beautifully preserves the best bits from the album cut and makes me thank the editing gods for showing that the song didn't need to be nearly twice as long to have the desired musical effect! (I'm sure some people hate the edit, but then, those folks probably prefer Iron Butterfly's LP's 17 minutes of "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" to the less than 3 minutes you get with the 45's edited version. Go figure.) (This scan is a representative image from our archives.)