EMERSON LAKE & PALMER Brian Salad Surgery 1974 UK 1st ISSUE MISPRESS Nr MINT
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105
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139
£ 105
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Sep 25, 2014
Sold Date
Sep 15, 2014
Start Date
£ 20
Start price
24
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Great Britain
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EMERSON LAKE & PALMER Brian Salad Surgery 1974 UK 1st ISSUE MISPRESS Nr MINT
EMERSON LAKE & PALMERBrian Salad Surgery
UK MANTICORE (K 53501) FIRST PRESSING
MISPRESSED WITH THE SIDE ONE LABEL REPRODUCED ON EACH SIDE
RELEASED DURING THE 1973 OIL CRISIS MOST FIRST PRESSING WERE MANUFACTURED IN THE USA, SHIPPED OVER HERE AND HOUSED IN UK COVERS FOR UK DISTRIBUTION
THIS FIRST UK PRESSED LP DATES FROM AFTER THE EMBARGO WAS LIFTED IN MARCH 1974
GREAT COPY - BARELY PLAYED, DELIVERING STUNNING SOUND AND HOUSED IN A PRACTICALLY AS-NEW EXAMPLE OF THE ORIGINAL H.R. Geiger FOLD-OUR COVER "Printed and made in Great Britain by Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd"
MATRIX: K - 53501 - A-6 1M / K 53501 B3 W-3
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL DIE-CUT SIX PANEL POSTER "Made in England"
AND PLAIN WHITE INNER SLEEVE WITH UK PATENT NUMBER AND "MADE IN GREAT BRITAIN" PRINTED IN BLACK
Emerson, Lake & Palmer's most successful and well-realised album (after their first), and their most ambitious as a group, as well as their loudest, Brain Salad Surgery is also their most electronic sounding one.
The main focus, thanks to the 30 minute three-part "Karn Evil 9," is sci-fi rock, approached with a volume and vengeance that stretched the art rock audience's tolerance to its outer limit, but also managed to appeal to the metal audience in ways that little of Trilogy did.
Indeed, "Karn Evil 9" is the piece and the place where Keith Emerson and his keyboards finally matched in both music and flamboyance the larger-than-life guitar sound of Jimi Hendrix.
Pete Sinfield's lyrics, while not up to his best King Crimson-era standard, were better than anything the group had to work with previously, and Greg Lake pulled out all the stops on his heaviest singing voice in handling them, coming off a bit like Peter Gabriel in the process.
The songs (except for the throwaway "Benny the Bouncer") are also among their best work -- the group's arrangement of Sir Charles Hubert Parry's setting of William Blake's "Jerusalem" manages to be reverent yet rocking, while Emerson's adaptation of Alberto Ginastera's music in "Tocatta" outstrips even "The Barbarian" and "Knife Edge" from the first album as a distinctive and rewarding reinterpretation of a piece of serious music and Greg Lake's "Still...You Turn Me On" is his last great ballad
Side 1:
Jerusalem (2:44)
Toccata (7:23)
Still... You Turn Me On (2:53)
Benny The Bouncer (2:21)
Karn Evil 9 (1st Impression - Part 1) (8:44)
Side 2:
Karn Evil 9 (1st Impression - Part 2) (4:47)
Karn Evil 9 (2nd Impression) (7:07)
Karn Evil 9 (3rd Impression) (9:03)
LABELS: NEAR MINT
Clean, fresh and unmarked labels - a few light spindle traces - seen little use
VINYL Visual: NEAR MINT
Both vinyl surfaces shine like new - even under bright light barely a mark can be seen
VINYL Audio: NEAR MINT
My play-check at loud volume found little to fault - just an odd one-off click but I did not clean this copy as it looks so immaculate so these will no doubt disappear after a clean/few spins - beautiful copy - as good as new
SLEEVE: NEAR MINT
Stunning example - the finest I have seen with nothing but a touch of record impression
POSTER: EXCELLENT
Light signs of handling - one minor crease, but clean and unmarked - no splits to any of the folds
POST & PACKING:
A PROTECTIVE POLY SLEEVE, NEW INNER SLEEVE WITH ANTI-STATIC LINER, QUALITY BOX (NOT ENVELOPE) MAILER AND AMPLE STIFFENERS ARE ALWAYS USED TO ENSURE THAT YOUR RECORD ARRIVES SAFELY
UK: FREE (2nd Class Recorded Delivery)
UK: £9.00 (Royal Mail Special Delivery Next Day by 1pm)
EUROPE: Airmail: £14.00 (International Signed For delivery)
INTERNATIONAL: Airmail: £17.00 (International Signed For delivery)
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