CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & His Magic Band SAFE AS MILK Psych Lbl STERLING Shrink NM LP

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More PSYCH and Classic 1960's Rock LPs from a fanatically well-kept collection of a long-time former DJ
Mostly 1st PRESSINGS, including a good amount of PROMOs and a few choice IMPORT LPs.
Many of these still in SHRINK WRAP ...several STILL SEALED
Quite a few WLP, Sterling, RL and Masterdisk pressings in the mix!

*Sadly I am NOT FAST at listing and am lucky to get around 50 up at a time, but they will keep on coming (as I pause between each auction series to focus on top level packing and immediate shipping) throughout this fall, several hundred to list, so keep checking back.
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Some of my PHOTOS suffer from LOW LIGHT lighting conditions (due to very cloudy / rainy days recently).
This causes unavoidable grain and spottiness in image, particularly on dark covers / labels and especially the vinyl.
I apologize for that and assure all bidders that such grain/spots are Digital Artifacts only - are not actually present
on these LP Covers / labels / vinyl themselves at all  - and DO NOT properly represent the true condition.
My camera simply is not able to resolve fine detail in low light ...especially on the vinyl grooves.

In any such case, please always refer to the written grade and description for accurate condition details.
*some of the vinyl is appearing like unearthed ancient archeological artifacts or mars-scapes (!)
If this could have been at all avoided it would have been. ...hopefully new camera soon!

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This auction is for:
Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band
SAFE AS MILK
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BUDDAH Records BDS 5063
'Psychedelic' Kaleidoscope label 1970 issue LP
STERLING Master • STERLING stamped in Dead Wax both sides
Includes Original BUDDAH Inner Sleeve

VINYL is NM
Gleaming gloss vinyl looks and plays like New. labels pristine both sides.
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COVER is NM-
Still in original factory shrink wrap. Super clean, crisp and bright with sharp corners all around. tiny notch in l.r. edge, otherwise like new. No creases, dings, writing or soil.

*Front cover photo is showing some vague tan tint at bottom edge,
This is only shadow from my low light and is not actually on the LP.
Snapping BRIGHT WHITE, edge to edge, on cover.

STRICT CONSERVATIVE GOLDMINE GRADING
NM / EX(VG++) / VG+ / VG

STERLING MASTER?

MATRIX NUMBERS
?Side One: BDS 5063 A
?Side Two: BDS 5063 B
"STERLING" stamped and "SON" etched also in trail-off wax both sides.

The fantastic debut from The Captain & his Magic Band!?
...featuring RY COODER, original guitarist

ESSENTIAL and Historic album ...including
ABBA ZABBA, ELECTRICITY, ZIG ZAG WANDERER, DROPOUT BOOGIE, YELLOW BRICK ROAD, SURE 'NUFF 'N YES, I DO...

"These early Beefheart recordings are eccentric blues-rock gone askew, with jagged, fractured rhythms, soulful, twisting vocals from Van Vliet, and more doo wop, soul, straight blues, and folk-rock influences than he would employ on his more avant-garde outings. "Zig Zag Wanderer," "Call on Me," and "Yellow Brick Road" are some of his most enduring and riff-driven songs, although there's plenty of weirdness on tracks like "Electricity" and "Abba Zaba"?."?


The Magic Band members here were:
Don Van Vliet, aka Captain Beefheart publishing in his real name and performing by his alias (Vocals, Harmonica & Bass Marimba)
Alex Snouffer, aka Alex St. Clair Snouffer (Guitar)
Ry Cooder (Guitar, Slide Guitar & Bass Guitar)
Jerry Handley (Bass Guitar)
John French, aka 'Drumbo' (Drums & Percussion)

Guest Musicians [that are known ...others were present]:
Taj Mahal (Percussion), Russ Titelman (Guitar), Milt Holland (Log Drums & Percussion), Dr. Samuel J. Hoffman (Theremin)
...Zoot Mascara Antenna Fingerling had yet to make the scene

SIDE ONE
1      Sure 'Nuff 'N Yes I Do      
2     Zig Zag Wanderer
3     Call on Me
4     Dropout Boogie
5     I'm Glad       
6     Electricity

SIDE TWO     
1     Yellow Brick Road
2    Abba Zaba          
3      Plastic Factory
4     Where There's Woman
5     Grown So Ugly
6     Autumn's Child

Original BUDDAH company inner sleeve included?.?

Disc kept in separate ANTI-STATIC inner sleeve to protect both the original inner and the vinyl


SUPERB, Archive Condition, 45+ years old issue of this flipped Acid Blues Garage Psych classic!

Even though still in the original shrink-wrap
LP is kept in a protective, clear poly outer-sleeve

Please see my other listings for more Captain Beefheart and
other Vintage Collectible PSYCH, Rare 60's and CLASSIC ROCK LPs
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The making of Safe As Milk, the debut album of Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band, is a long and convoluted story, revealed at length elsewhere upon the Web and in written accounts. However, some rudimentary details are worth sharing here.

The band recorded in the Spring of 1967 at Sunset Sound Studios, later for the finished work at RCA Studios, Hollywood, C.A., USA.

Vliet wrote all of the songs, with the exception of Grown So Ugly, by Robert Pete Williams. Herb Bermann (Lancaster resident & soul-mate at the time) co-wrote the lyrics with Vliet on all songs - with the exception of the above and; Call On Me, I'm Glad and Abba Zaba. Jerry Handley co-wrote Plastic Factory with Vliet & Bermann. Cooder arranged Sure 'Nuff 'N Yes I Do & ...Ugly, Vliet arranged the remainder.

At this time, in 1967, 'Kama Sutra' records had a distribution deal with MGM. Meanwhile a Verve 3000 series catalog was allocated for Beefheart (FTS 3054) - but not used - because Vliet had signed with Kama Sutra after failing to be picked up by A&M. To extricate from MGM, Kama Sutra had created Buddah Records late in 1967, headed by Neil Bogart. Thus, Vliet & the band were recording for Buddah, although signed to Kama Sutra and Kama Sutra is shown on international releases. Bob Krasnow and Richard Perry produced the sessions. Some engineering was done by future TMR bassist Gary Marker, then Hank Cicalo at RCA. This is the first mono & stereo album on the Buddah label, later celebrated by the reissue (also now long gone out of print on vinyl) on BMG's new-look & retitled 'Buddha' label.

After "Safe As Milk" the band line-up was in flux. When they re-entered a recording studio in October 1967, for what was to be a double album "It Comes To You In A Plain Brown Wrapper", the project met various problems. Tracks from sessions surfaced on Beefheart's 2nd "Strictly Personal" & 5th "Mirror Man" albums, among other releases.

SAF AS MILK's working title was "Abba Zaba", after the American candy bar of Cardinet Candy Co., in a yellow/black checkered wrapper (hence the back cover design). However, the company vetoed use of the name and a title that was as 'safe as milk' was used. (A track titled "Safe As Milk" can be found on "Strictly Personal".)
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