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ALICE COOPER / KILLER 1971  WARNER BROS.  USA 1st PRESS

••• THEATRICAL ROCKING HEAVY ROCK / GLAM FROM ALICE'S HEAVY SHREDDING EARLY YEARS! Wicked cool heavy guitar tracks including "Under My Wheels" and iconic album artwork from the heavy 1970's. 

• 1971 1st USA  pressing
• the dead wax is etched "BS-2567" "40015 A / 40016B"
• gatefold cover is color printed semi glossed cardboard with perforated tear-away cardstock calendar 
• inner sleeve is generic

CONDITION:
VINYL =    VG   Sleeve scuff/rubbing, hairlines or light playmarks visible under bright halogens. The labels are VG+ with light spindle marks & ink writing.

PLAY GRADE =   VG   Light hiss or crackle between tracks & lightly in background of quiet section, downgraded on most noise or low level distortion in the first 2 songs of side 1,  LOUD MUSIC MOSTLY OVERPOWERS WITH BOLD DEEP BOOMING FIDELITY.

COVER =    VG+   Light storage wear or rubbing/streaking, minor creasing near some edges, some storage or handling impressions, calendar has been disconnected/separated from cover, CLEAN COLORFUL BOLD BRIGHT.  The edge seams have very minor rub wear though color in some spots but SOLID NO SPLITS THROUGH, SPINE LEGIBLE. Corners have rub/rounding wear.

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Alice Cooper ?– Killer

Label: Warner Bros. Records ?– BS 2567, Warner Bros. Records ?– 2567 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album 
Country: US Released: 1971 Genre: Rock Style: Classic Rock

Tracklist Hide Credits

A1 Under My Wheels Guitar – Rick Derringer 2:50 A2 Be My Lover 3:15 A3 Halo Of Flies 8:21 A4 Desperado 3:25 B1 You Drive Me Nervous 2:24 B2 Yeah, Yeah, Yeah Guitar – Rick Derringer 3:33 B3 Dead Babies 5:40 B4 Killer 7:07

Credits

• Backing Vocals – Reggie Vincent
• Bass, Vocals – Dennis Dunaway
• Design [Album Design] – Alice Cooper (2)
• Drums, Vocals – Neal Smith
• Engineer [Recording Engineer] – Brian Christian
• Executive-Producer – Jack Richardson
• Lead Guitar – Glen Buxton
• Mastered By – Randy Kling
• Other [Boa Constrictor] – Kachina 
• Photography By – Pete Turner (4)
• Producer, Arranged By [String And Horn Arrangements], Keyboards, Synthesizer [Mini-moog] – Bob Ezrin
• Rhythm Guitar, Vocals, Piano, Organ – Michael Bruce
• Technician [Recording Technician] – Joe Lopes
• Vocals, Harmonica – Alice Cooper (2)
• Written-By – Alice Cooper (2) (tracks: A3 to B3), Bob Ezrin (tracks: A1, B1), Dennis Dunaway (tracks: A1, A3, B3, B4), Glen Buxton (tracks: A3, B3), Michael Bruce, Neal Smith (tracks: A3, B3) 

Notes

Produced for Nimbus 9 Productions, Ltd. 
An Alive Enterprises Production. 

All songs recorded at RCA, Chicago. 
All songs published by Alive Enterprises (BMI) 

Mini-moog synthesizer by Moog Music, Inc., Williamsville, New York. 

Warner Bros. Records Inc., a Subsidiary & Licensee of Warner Bros. Inc., Burbank, Calif., New York, New York. 
Made in U.S.A. 
© 1971 
Printed in U.S.A. 
? 1971 

Original issue, sleeve includes detachable 1972 calendar. 
BS 2567 appears on spine of sleeve and labels, 2567 appears on front of sleeve.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Rights Society: BMI
• Matrix / Runout (Label, Side 1): S40015
• Matrix / Runout (Label, Side 2): S40016
• Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 1): BS-2567 RE-3-40015 A 1A S (signature) 2 [(opposite direction) A 1]
• Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 1): BS-2567 Re3-40016 B 1A 1 (signature) [(opposite direction) A]
• Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 2): BS-2567 BS-2567 RE-3-40015 A 1A (signature)
• Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 2): BS-2567 RE3-4?0?1?6? B 40016 1B 2 (signature)
• Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 3): BS-2567 RE2-40015 A-2F 1T (signature)
• Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 3): A3RS-3784-2J BS-2567 40016-3-1 5-2 1T ?
• Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 4): BS-2567 RE-2-40015-3A [Randy Kling signature]
• Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 4): BS-2567 RE-2-40016-B [Randy Kling signature]
• Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 5): A3RS-3783-2K BS-2567 40015-3 S1
• Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 5): BS-2567 RF<-- [SCRATCHED OUT] 4006RE-1-2
• Matrix / Runout (Side 1, hand etched 1T BS-2567 (variant 6)): RE 2-40015 A-2G
• Matrix / Runout (Side 2, hand etched 1T BS-2567 (variant 6)): RE 2-40016 B-2G

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