CLEAR BLUE SKY - SAME - VERTIGO SWIRL / SPIRAL 6360 013
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Dec 27, 2009 Sold Date
Dec 17, 2009 Start Date
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Description

CLEAR BLUE SKY - JOURNEY TO THE INSIDE OF THE SUN

LABEL - VERTIGO SWIRL

RELEASE COUNTRY - UK

ISSUE DATE - 1970

MATRIX NUMBER - 6360 013

 

Clear Blue Sky biography
Originally a trio of friends from school, John Simms (guitar), Mark Sheather (bass), and Ken White (drums) grew up in the Acton area of London and started as a college circuit blues-rock band called JUG BLUES (later MATUSE and then X). Impressing manager Ashley Kozak, the band were given a deal with Vertigo, changed their name to CLEAR BLUE SKY and recorded a self-titled record under the production of Patrick Campbell-Lyons. Still only eighteen, the three musicians mixed hard blues with progressive and psychedelic rock in an unusually mature way, and the LP was released in January 1971 sporting one of Roger Dean's earliest album covers. The group was occasionally compared to CREAM, LED ZEPPELIN and early JETHRO TULL, though the music had a firm prog sensibility unlike CREAM or ZEPPELIN and sometimes may even remind of RUSH.

CLEAR BLUE SKY's 1971 debut (reissued on Repertoire,1991) is considered their most important and the LP is a collector's item. The second record, "Destiny" [Saturn, 1990], released twenty years after the first (and then again in 1999 on Aftermath in CD format), is old material but shows an improvement in form and approach from the first session. 1996 saw the part-concept album "Cosmic Crusader" and later another theme record "Mirror of the Stars". "Out of the Blue", a collection of live and unreleased material, came out in 2001.

VINYL - VG, still has its shine, quite alot of hairlines.

COVER - VG+, original sleeve, no rips, tears or splits, small sticker mark on the frount, name written in pen on the inside.

INNER SLEEVE - VG, original vertigo swirl inner sleeve, small split, date (1970) and a name written on it.

LABEL - EX, great condition label, has a small name in pen.

This isnt your mint condition but it is an absolute GEM of a mega rare record for your collection.




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