CAPTAIN BEEFHEART MIRROR MAN RARE SEALED ORIG '68 BUDDAH LP w/ BROKEN MIRROR CVR

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·       CAPTAIN BEEFHEART AND HIS MAGIC BAND - MIRROR MAN - EXTREMELY RARE ORIGINAL DIE-CUT "GLASS SHARDS" (BROKEN MIRROR) COVER - ORIGINAL 1969 BUDDAH RECORDS STEREO LP BDS-5077.

·       ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING

*** STILL SEALED GUARANTEED ORIGINAL FIRST PRESSING ***

·       GUARANTEED ORIGINAL PSYCHEDELIC (KALEIDOSCOPE) BUDDAH LABEL WITH A DARK SILHOUETTE OF THE SITTING BUDDHA AT THE BOTTOM OF THE LABEL , SUCH AS THE ONE SHOWN BELOW, FROM OUR PREVIOUS AUCTION

·       THE THICKNESS OF THE VINYL, THE APPEARANCE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE COVER, LABEL’S LOGO AND OTHER PERIPHERAL ELEMENTS OF THE COVER, ARE ALL PERFECTLY CONSISTENT WITH THE ORIGINAL, FIRST PRESSING OF THIS TITLE.

·       THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST U.S. PRESSING; THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.

·       ORIGINAL UNIPAK-STYLE COVER (ONE SIDE OF THE GATEFOLD OPENS, THE OTHER ONE IS A ONE-PLY CARDBOARD)

·       ORIGINAL DIE-CUT COVER WITH "GLASS SHARDS" OUTLINES

·       FAIRLY THICK VINYL PRESSING On the scale from 1 to 10 (1 being the least, and  10 being the most severe), we assess the thickness of the vinyl as 7.

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

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Originally, Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band's second album was intended to be a double-album set called "It Comes to You in a Plain Brown Wrapper." Although 1968's Strictly Personal has the same artwork that was mooted for the double album, it's a single disc. As part of the same post-Trout Mask Replica closet-cleaning that led to Buddah (the parent company of Blue Thumb Records, which released Strictly Personal) reissuing Safe As Milk as Dropout Boogie in the U.K. in 1970, the label released Mirror Man, the second disc that was intended for the Plain Brown Wrapper release. Recorded in November 1967 (an odd misprint on the sleeve claims it was recorded in 1965, when the band barely existed), the four lengthy tracks on Mirror Man are even more simplistic and primal than those on Strictly Personal. All four are worthwhile, but the key tracks are "Tarotplane Blues," a free-form jam in which Beefheart jumbles together the lyrics of at least half a dozen blues standards into a stream-of-consciousness ramble (adding musette and harmonica for good measure) as the Magic Band vamps on a slide guitar-based, two-chord groove for over 19 minutes, and the similarly expansive "Mirror Man," one of the key tracks of Beefheart's entire career. Probably the catchiest tune Beefheart ever wrote, "Mirror Man" has an almost funky, hip-swaying groove, and there's a playful lightness to the way Beefheart chants the simplistic lyrics that prefigures the flights of fancy on Trout Mask Replica and Lick My Decals off, Baby. The remaining two tracks, "25th Century Quaker" and "Kandy Korn," are less essential but interesting enough.

 (EXCERPT FROM AN ONLINE REVIEW BY STEWART MASON, ALL MUSIC GUIDE  /ALLMUSIC.COM/)

This is a rare  original "broken mirror" die-cut cover of the Captain Beefheart's second - and last - for Buddah records - album. This album contains sessions recorded in August 1965, a few months before their legendary "Safe as Milk" sessions, and was produced by Bob Krasnow (later of blue Thumb label, which released Captain Beefheart’s next album) as were the other two early Cap Beefhart's albums (Safe as Milk and Strictly Confidential). Ostensibly, Cap Beefheart was brutally unhappy with Bob Krasnow's unauthorized "psychedelic" mix, but, in our view, the mix aged very nicely, indeed.  Track listing: Tarotplane - Kandy Korn - 25th Century Quaker - Mirror Man.   Finding a still sealed original copy?!?! Forget it – not even a HOPE!!! This may be the last one you will ever see.

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·       CONDITION:

·       RECORD

 (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)

(a)          THE ALBUM IS STILL FACTORY SEALED AND IS BELIEVED TO BE PERFECTLY MINT. Please note: sealed items are assumed to be mint and are sold as-is, as we have no way of inspecting them. For our policy on still sealed records ►click here (PLEASE READ BEFORE PLACING A BID).

(b)            The record is  apparently pressed on a RELATIVELY  thick, inflexible vinyl. This is NOT a thin, flimsy ('dynaflex' type),  vinyl, but not the thickest, most rigid vinyl, either.

(c)           The record is believed to come in its original stock inner sleeve.

(a)          Of course, this is a full-bodied ANALOG recording, and not an inferior, digital recording!!!

COVER (THIS IS THE ORIGINAL “BROKEN MIRROR”, DIE-CUT COVER)

COVER IS NEAR MINT, STILL SEALED AND COVERED IN ITS ORIGINAL ►SHRINK WRAP

The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:

-        Cover has a few wrinkles along the spine

-         Cover has three corners slightly worn / dinged / bent.

-         Cover has a visible "wrinkle"(crease)  in one of the corners.

-         The cover has a few tiny scratch marks on the front side  (nothing significant)

NO OTHER VISIBLE FLAWS OR IMPERFECTIONS ON THE  COVER

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