BOB DOWNES OPEN MUSIC/ELECTRIC CITY RARE ORIGINAL VERTIGO UK 70`

	£		72
	$		95

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We are professionals and have stored and graded records over many, many years.

Our grading "mint" is mint and that means we don't want to see anything on the record and it should be like a new record. That's why we rarely use "mint grading".

I have seen many times that people use ex or near mint if the record is vg+. We have to maintain high standards so that music lovers are super satisfied.

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Thank you very much and keep on rockin 

VERY RARE ORIGINAL FIRST PRESSING VERTIGO UK 1970

ORIGINAL BOB DOWNES OPEN MUSIK / ELECTRIC CITY VERTIGO -6360 005     UK 1970

ORIGINAL GATEFOLD COVER VERTIGO. UK  1970

ORIGINAL RECORD VERTIGO UK  1970

ORIGINAL LABELS VERTIGO  UK 1970

ORIGINAL VERTIGO INNER SLEEVE VERTIGO. UK 1970

• Matrix / Runout: 6360005 1Y//1▽420 1 1 4
• Matrix / Runout: 6360005 2Y//1▽420 1 1 4

ONE MORE RARE GEM ON VERTIGO LABEL UK

LEGENDARY BOB DOWNES AND HIS FIRST AND ONLY RECORD ON VERTIGO

THIS IS MUST HAVE FOR SERIOUS COLLECTORS AND MUSIC LOVERS

THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST  STEREO PRESSING ; THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.ULTRA RARE .

:  PLEASE SEE THE IMAGE OF THE COVER, LABEL OR BOTH, SHOWN BELOW)

(Note: this is a REAL image of the ACTUAL item you are bidding on. This is NOT a "recycled" image from SOME OTHER auction. What you see is what you'll get.  GUARANTEED!)

REVIEW BY ALLMUSIC (JAMES ALLEN)

Electric City Review by James Allen

England circa 1970 was a hotbed of jazz-rock crossover activity. On one hand, progressive rock was in its first flowering, and jazz flavors and players were beginning to find the way to the rock world open to them for the first time. On the other, the breakthroughs of Miles Davis, John Coltrane, et al., were inspiring a new generation of British jazz musicians to push the envelope. The former found adventurous bands like Colosseum and Mogul Thrashjazzing up their rock, while the latter found the likes of Ian Carr's Nucleus and Keith Tippett's Centipede bringing a fresh, rock-informed attitude to progressive U.K. jazz. Not only can sax/flute king Bob Downes' early albums such as 1970's Electric City be stylistically located in the midst of all this cross-pollination, but some of the best of both camps, including trumpeter Carr and guitarist Chris Spedding, were in on the sessions. Electric City is quite a mixed bag; a batch of vocal tunes sports the album's most overtly rock-oriented, groove-based arrangements, and vocals by Downes himself. To say that Downes' vocal gifts are not on par with his head-turning instrumental talents would be putting it kindly, but there are plenty of other sides to this outing. Such tunes as "Crush Hour" and "Dawn Until Dawn" bear heads that show the influence of ‘60s post-bop jazz, interwoven with modal improv sections bordering on free-blowing freakouts. It's here that the sax and flute skills of Downes really shine, as he turns in solos that are alternately blistering and searchingly poignant. Then there are odd detours like "West II," a Caribbean-flavored tune that echoes Sonny Rollins' "St. Thomas," and the melodic (mostly) balladic "In Your Eyes," which sounds like it could have come off King Crimson's contemporaneous Lizard album. There's an appealingly rough-around-the-edges quality to it all that gives the feeling of barriers being broken down and new worlds discovered.

IMPORTANT NOTE: unless otherwise noted, ALL records are graded visually, and NOT play-graded! We  grade records under the strong, diffuse room light or discrete sunlight.

WE WILL ALWAYS PREFER TO GRADE OUR RECORDS FAIRLY AND PROFESSIONALLY.

VINYL:

BEAUTIFUL VINYL WITH SOME VERY LIGHT AND SUPERFICIAL MOSTLY SLEEVE SCUFFS -ARE (BARELY)VISIBLE ,BUT ARE PROBABLY INAUDIBLE, AND DO NOT AFFECT VISUAL INTEGRITY OR BEAUTY OF THE VINYL. THERE IS ON THE SIDE A (ON THE 3RD SONG)ONLY ONE VERY SUPERFICIAL SMALL LINE AROUND 8MM LONG ALMOST PARALLEL WITH THE GROOVE ON THE SIDE A . NOTHING SIGNIFICANT.

WE GRADE VINYL VG++(VERY GOOD ++)

SLEEVE:

SLEEVE HAVE MINIMUM RING WEAR ON THE BACK SIDE. NOTHING SIGNIFICANT, NOTHING EXTREME.SEE PICTURE.

SLEEVE IS MISSING A LITTLE BIT COLOR UP IN THE RIGHT CORNER ON THE FRONT AND BACK IN THE RIGHT CORNER. PROBABLY THERE WERE SOME SMALL STICKERS BEFORE.SEE PICTURE.

SLEEVE HAVE SOME TYPICAL SMALL WEAR ON THE CORNERS AND SOME WEAR ON THE EDGES.SEE PICTURE 

SPINE HAVE VERY VERY LITTLE MINIMUM WEAR (NOTHING SIGNIFICANT) AND IS MOSTLY IN  BEAUTIFUL CONDITION AND CLEAN.SEE PICTURE

ALL IN ALL CLEAN SLEEVE ON BOTH SIDE AND INSIDE. SEE PICTURE.

SWIRL INNER SLEEVE WITH SOM YELLOWING DUE TO AGES IN ONE PIECE.SEE PICTURE

WE GRADE SLEEVE VG++(VERY GOOD ++)

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