ELMER GANTRY'S VELVET OPERA. 1968 CBS/DIRECTION STEREO-SUPER EXCELLENT CONDITION

	£		62
	$		82

HERE IS ONE OF THE MOST SOUGHT AFTER ALBUMS OF THE 1960s ON IT'S EARLIEST UK PRESSING!:

ELMER GANTRY'S VELVET OPERA.

THE FIRST AND ONLY ALBUM BY THIS BRILLIANT  BRITISH GROUP THAT COMBINED THE PSYCHEDELIC INFLUENCES WITH ROCK AND MELODIC 1960s BEAT.

AN ORIGINAL 1968 1ST UK STEREO PRESSING WHEN MOST COPIES SOLD WERE IN MONO AND QUITE OFTEN STEREO COPIES WERE ONLY OBTAINED BY SPECIAL ORDER.SO OFTEN STEREO COPIES WERE PLAYED IN ERROR ON MONO ONLY EQUIPMENT RESULTING IN MAJOR DAMAGE-THIS COPY HAS NOT HAD THAT FATE-IT'S SUPERB WITH GREAT SOUND AND NO NASTY DISTORTION!

 CBS DIRECTION LABEL S 8-63300+A1+B1 MATRIXES-THE EARLIEST POSSIBLE AND THICK VINYL WITH "ROUGH TEXTURED"EFFECT LABELS.

WAY BACK IN 1968 THIS WAS OF COURSE A POOR SELLER FAILING TO MAKE THE ALBUM CHARTS AND ALMOST EVERY COPY THAT SURVIVES IS IN BEATEN UP,WORN CONDITION!

MOST COPIES SOLD NEARLY 44 YEARS AGO WERE PLAYED A LOT USUALLY USING ANCIENT,HEAVY AND AWFUL EQUIPMENT AND SO OFTEN TAKEN TO PARTIES RESULTING IN ALL KINDS OF DAMAGE!-THIS ONE HAS HAD A FEW PLAYS WITH A FEW VERY FAINT AND TINY VISIBLE SURFACE MARKS IN STRONG LIGHT! SOME FAINT SURFACE NOISE HERE AND THERE ON THE QUIETER PASSAGES AND THAT IS BEING VERY STRICT-I ALWAYS LISTEN ALL THE WAY THROUGH WITH THE TREBLE FULL ON TO"CATCH"ANY FAULTS!

NO NASTY DISTORTION AS PRESENT ON THE MAJORITY OF COPIES THAT SURVIVE! 

NO CLICKS,NO JUMPS,NO STICKS!

LOVELY WARM SOUND WITH TONS OF BASS RESPONSE AND BEAUTIFUL SOUND BALENCE MAKING USE OF THE STEREO IMAGE!

CLEAN LABELS-NO SPINDLE WEAR!

A COPY THAT HAS BEEN USED,BUT STILL OBVIOUSLY CHERISHED AND WELL CARED FOR BY ONE OWNER SINCE 1968!

THE LAMINATED FRONT COVER HAS A FEW TINY EDGE CREASES AND A LITTLE FAINT STAINING AT THE BACK  BUT NO WRITING,RIPS OR REPAIRS.

NO HORRIBLE SMOKE OR DAMP SMELL AS SO OFTEN THE CASE WITH SUCH OLD LPs!

THIS LP ITSELF IS STRICTLY GRADED IN  EXCELLENT CONDITION!

MOST WILL REMAIN ON COLLECTORS SHELVES!

 THIS IS A VERY NICE BRITISH PRESSING!

THIS ISSUE FROM 1968 HAS FAR MORE BASS AND MUCH THICKER VINYL AS WELL AS A MUCH THICKER COVER THAN LATER 1970s and 1980s ISSUES WHICH HAD WAFER THIN VINYL!

SOME WONDERFUL SONGS INCLUDING THE NEAR HIT SINGLE"FLAMES" AS WELL AS A GREAT MOODY PHOTOGRAPH ON THE FRONT,A STYLISH BACK COVER WITH SLEEVE NOTES COMMENTS ON EACH TRACK AND NOTE THE USUALLY MISSING STEREO STICKER-MANY PEELED IT OFF!

A GREAT INVESTMENT!!!

TOTALLY FLAT VINYL! GET IT WHILE YOU CAN!

READ ON CAREFULLY FOR ALL THE INFORMATION ON THIS GEM!! 

PLEASE LOOK AT THE PHOTOS.

CHECKOUT MY  REALISTIC STARTING PRICE OF JUST  £40!!

YOU MIGHT FIND CHEAPER COPIES BUT I DOUBT THEY WILL BE AS GOOD AS THIS EXAMPLE! 

YOU'LL LOVE IT FOR YEARS AND HOPEFULLY WILL RETURN TO ME AGAIN!   

SUPERB STEREO SOUND PLUS THE ADDED ADVANTAGE OF THE BASS THAT CANNOT BE MATCHED ON CD!!

The previous owner was not a smoker and so this item doesn't stink of that dreadful stale smoke!!!!Lovely pressing!! Warm sound!!.

 I test on a lightweight pickup of approx 2 grammes and listen with the treble full on and no filtering or mono switch used.

As both a collector and dealer,I AM VERY STRICT ON GRADING but DO CHECKOUT MY FEEDBACK FOR GRADING PROOF!!!! .

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UK POSTAGE IF FREE,1ST CLASS RECORDED DELIVERY!POSTAGE OUTSIDE THE UK IS AS FOLLOWS:

EUROPE:£5 REST OF THE WORLD:£8

IF BIDDING IS HIGH I'LL SUGGEST INTERNATIONAL SIGNED FOR WHICH IS £15 EUROPE,£20 REST OF THE WORLD. 

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BID WITH 100% CONFIDENCE FROM A DEALER THAT OTHER DEALERS LOOK TOWARDS FOR INSPIRATION AND FREQUENTLY COPY!

THIS COULD BE YOUR LAST CHANCE TO GET THIS  LP AS GOOD AS THIS!!

NO, NOT"IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND"AS STATED OVER AND OVER ELSEWHERE ON EBAY, BUT IN THE NOT TOO DISTANT FUTURE MIGHT WELL BE THE CASE!!

MORE ESSENTIAL AND RARE ORIGINAL 1960s AND 1970s LPs FROM ME ENDING AT AUCTION ON EBAY ON THE SAME EVENING AS THIS ONE ENDS!