BLIND FAITH CLAPTON WINWOOD 1ST UK PRESS UNPLAYED MiNt

	£		267
	$		354

BLIND FAITH ''BLIND FAITH'' (clapton,winwood,baker,grech)1ST UK PRESSING ON THE POLYDOR LABELS CAT NO. 583059  1969 ORIGINAL PRESSING!!! THE VINYL'S PLAYING SURFACE IN VERY NEAR MINT!!!! ABSOLUTELY AWESOME AUDIO ON ALL FREQUENCIES!!VIRTUALLY UNPLAYED! ORIGINAL MACNEILL PRINTED UNLAMINATED GATEFOLD COVER!! RARELY EVER SEEN IN THIS CONDITION!!!!!! EARLIEST 1ST PRESS MATRIX A#1 B#1 !!!!!! THE BEST AUDIO THAT I HAVE HEARD OF THIS PRESSING!!!

Another from my personal collection!! The vinyl has hardly been played and the audio is awesom through out!! Top!cristal clear audio!!! 1st press! 

Blind Faith were an English blues supergroup which consisted of Eric Clapton (The Yardbirds, Cream), Ginger Baker (Graham Bond Organisation, Cream), Steve Winwood (Spencer Davis Group, Traffic) and Ric Grech (Family). The group only released one album, Blind Faith, in August 1969 and were often seen as stylistically similar to the bands which Winwood, Baker, and Clapton had most recently participated in (Traffic and Cream). The band helped to pioneer a fusion of rock and roll with the blues!!!

Blind Faith's beginnings date to mid-1968, with the breakup of Cream. Rock's original supergroup had become a financial powerhouse, selling millions of records within a few years and raising the group's (and each member's) repertoire to international popularity. Despite that success, the band was crumbling from within due to frequent animosity between Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker, with Eric Clapton doing his best to mediate. In addition, Clapton had tired of being coerced into playing commercially-driven blues, and hoped to move forward with a new, experimental, less strait-jacketed approach to the genre!!!!.

Steve Winwood was facing similar problems in The Spencer Davis Group, where he had been the lead singer for three years while they produced straight-laced blues. Winwood wanted to experiment with the band's sound by infusing jazz elements, but left due to his musical differences, instead forming a new band -- Traffic -- in 1967. That band split temporarily in 1969, and Winwood, started to jam with his good friend Eric in Clapton's basement in Surrey, England. Winwood and Clapton had previously collaborated on the Eric Clapton record, "Powerhouse"!!!

The release of the album provoked controversy because the cover featured a topless pubescent girl, holding in her hands a silver space ship designed by Mick Milligan, a jeweler at the Royal College of Art.Some perceived the ship as phallic The U.S. record company issued it with an alternative cover which showed a photograph of the band on the front.

The cover art was created by photographer Bob Seidemann, a personal friend and former flatmate of Clapton who is known primarily for his photos of Janis Joplin and the Grateful Dead. Bizarre rumors both fueled and were fueled by the controversy, among them that the young girl was Baker's illegitimate daughter or, alternatively as a fantasy, was a groupie kept in the meadowlands as a slave by the band members. Actually, the young lass was a London suburbanite, who posed upon consent by her parents and for a handsome fee, as described in Seidemann's mini essay about the origins of the Blind Faith album cover artwork (Re: Blind Faith (album)

1. "Had to Cry Today" (Steve Winwood) – 8:48
2. "Can't Find My Way Home" (Steve Winwood) – 3:16
3. "Well...All Right" (Norman Petty, Buddy Holly, Jerry Allison, Joe B. Mauldin) – 4:27
4. "Presence of the Lord" (Eric Clapton) – 4:50
5. "Sea of Joy" (Steve Winwood) – 5:22
6. "Do What You Like" (Ginger Baker) – 15:18

The Matrix

side 1. 583059 A#1 side 2. 583059 B#1 (1ST PRESS)

There isn't much to say about the vinyl this looks as new! I can hardly see a blemish!!!!Any marks that could be possibly be seen looked under strong light would be sleeve removal marks! (non audio sounding) in fact the  vinyl looks awesome for 38 years old!!! Try to find better after 38 years!! Points to note!! These vinyls have been stored seperately in poly sleeves during its storage life which has preserved this vinyl all of these years this is how i have always stored my vinyls!!!!!

THIS AUDIO WILL BE HARD TO SURPASS!!!!TOP ON ALL FREQUENCIES!! THE AUDIO IS CRISTAL CLEAR AND VIBRANT WITH (NO) CLICKS OR PPS OR THAT THIS HAS BEEN OVERPLAYED (NO) DISTORTION CERTAINLY (NO) SKIPS OR JUMPS!!!!! 

The  record sleeve.

This is the original poly lined sleeve (no) splits or tares!! just light creasing with age!!! 

The Cover

This is the original unlaminated gatefold cover!! Very Very hard to find in this condition!! (very minimal creases to mention on the  rear only with a slight ripple at the rear (see photo) just very (very) light general storageware  to the edges very (very) light bumping to the corners(see photos)very (very) light  ringware hardly noticable! extreemely light foxing on the inside but in general is superbe!  you have to look hard for any!!!  this is strong and straight!!! printed by Macniell ltd (only 1st press)!!!!Superbe spine! (very hard to find!) Points to note! This original cover was withdrawn in some countries because of the contrivercial cover! Very hard to find like this! , beleive me.!!!!

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