T-Rex / The Slider (US, Reprise Records, MS 2095) <July 21, 1972>

T. Rex / The Slider (US, Reprise Records, MS 2095) <July 21, 1972>
(SIDEⅠ)　MS-2095 31458-A-1B
(SIDEⅡ)　MS-2095 31459-B-1B
ちなみに以前にupしたものはマトの末尾が1A/1Bでした。

"The Slider" is the 7th studio album by English rock band T. Rex, released on 21 July 1972 by record labels EMI and Reprise. Two singles, "Telegram Sam" and "Metal Guru", were released to promote the album. "The Slider" received acclaim from critics, and reached number 4 in the UK charts and number 17 in the US.

On the recommendation of Elton John, The Slider was recorded outside of Paris at Château d'Hérouville to avoid British taxing laws. Production started on March 1972 and the basic recordings were completed in Strawberry Studios in five days.One of the songs recorded at Chateau was "Metal Guru". Bolan described the song as a "festival of life song", and that he related "Metal Guru" to "all gods around... someone special, a godhead. I thought how god would be, he'd be all alone without a telephone".

Further recording was done at the end of March in Rosenberg Studios in Copenhagen, Denmark. The backing vocals by Flo & Eddie were recorded at Elektra Studios in Los Angeles, in April.Like all previous T. Rex albums, The Slider was produced by Tony Visconti.The album notes credit Ringo Starr with the front and back cover photographs. The photographs were taken the same day that Starr was filming the T. Rex documentary Born to Boogie at John Lennon's estate, Tittenhurst Park.

"Metal Guru"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpA-7dNuobU

Metal Guru is it you
Metal Guru is it you
Sitting there in your armour plated chair

Metal Guru is it true
Metal Guru is it true
All alone without a telephone

Metal Guru could it be
You're gonna bring my baby to me
She'll be wild you know
A rock'n'roll child

Metal Guru has it been
Just like a silver-studded sabre-tooth dream
I'll be clean you know
Pollution machine