'69 WITHDRAWN 1st UK "AUDIENCE" CREATIVE ATMOSPHERIC PROG BLUES
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WITHDRAWN ORIGINAL UK 1969 FIRST PRESS: RARE!
AUDIENCE
\ UK - POLYDOR - 583065
MINTY CLEAN VINYL! (see full details below)
Very rare as was quickly withdrawn, thus remained a small release limited edition and of course 46 years later the item is highly sought after, especially being the first LP by the ever popular/creative UK progressive band, AUDIENCE.
100% first press, 1969 UK original housed in a super fragile sleeve ... valued and sold quickly for $250 and up - with a high of $710...
AUDIENCE was a London-based group that recorded their first album in 69 and had their eponymous debut pulled from the stores a few months after its release, which makes the album a major collectible.
Deciding to adopt the name Audience, rather than persist with the laborious Lloyd Alexander Blues Band from whom they emerged, the band recorded this album in early 1969. Audience developed a blues-derived proto-prog that had two main characteristics, guitarist Howard Werth's voice (which can sound like VdGG and Gnidrolog's voices) and Keith Gemmell's many wind instruments. Tracks like the opening Banquet (this has the power of future records), the superb Heaven Was An Island (with its great percussive intro leading to a sizzling sax and wild lyrics), the dreamy Maiden's Cry (plaintive yet riveting with its sax approaching VdGG's Jackson), the solemn Leave It Unsaid and a first version of House On The Hill are all excellent tracks indicating the greatness of their future oeuvres.Elsewhere are tracks like "Poet" (cool flute), "Waverley Stage Coach (bluesy), and "River Boat Queen" (weird and rather highly surprising w/ interesting backing arrangement.)The first Audience is hardly representative of their blistering and sizzling hard-bluesy prog as delivered on "Friend's Friend's Friend" and its better-known successor "House On The Hill." But if you loved those two albums enough, this one will also please you because the nascent Audience sound is there, with their power musical powers waiting to be unleashed. Because of this album's quick disappearance from the market, you will find many of the ideas getting a second chance (under different names mostly) over the following two albums, making this album sounds sometimes like a demo.
- Howard Werth / guitar (acoustic), guitar, vocals
- Tony Connor / percussion, piano, drums
- Keith Gemmell / saxophone, wind, woodwind
- Trevor Williams / bass, guitar (bass), keyboards, vocals
Banquet ...(3:47)
Poet ...(3:05)
Waverley Stage Coach ...(2:59)
Riverboat Queen ...(2:57)
Harlequin ...(2:35)
Heaven Was an Island ...(4:18)
Too Late I'm Gone ...(2:37)
Maidens Cry ...(4:47)
Pleasant Convalescence ...(2:30)
Leave It Unsaid ...(4:10)
Man On Box ...(3:05)
House On The Hill ...(4:05)
CONDITION: The cover: Very fragile charcoal paper fragile cover, pretty much forget about ever finding a copy without some light creases. This copy, see photo, pretty decent with all things considered. The front, rated: VG++, light creasing at bottom left, then only slightly around edges. The back cover(VG) is clean, BUT rated as such due to a tape pull tear at bottom that only lifts off insignificant text -- the song titles etc all fine. The cover retains fresh original colors, no delete marks, no split seams, no bends, and no writing ... collection worthy rarity ...
The vinyl: Clean and glossy over both sides, rated: M- expect play grade to be with very enjoyable audio...NO distracting surface problems ... both Polydor labels are clean...
A cool addition to anyone's music library!
SEE: SELLERS OTher items for similar cool sounds for "head" people...
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All imperfections are noted both cover & record
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