EMERSON LAKE & PALMER Brian Salad Surgery 1974 UK 1st PRESS w/POSTER - NEAR MINT
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Feb 13, 2017
Sold Date
Feb 3, 2017
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£ 24
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EMERSON LAKE & PALMER Brian Salad Surgery 1974 UK 1st PRESS w/POSTER - NEAR MINT
EMERSON LAKE & PALMERBrian Salad Surgery
MANTICORE (K 53501) FIRST UK PRESSING
RELEASED DURING THE 1973 OIL CRISIS MOST COPIES AVAILABLE IN THE UK WERE MANUFACTURED IN THE USA, SHIPPED OVER HERE AND HOUSED IN UK COVERS FOR UK DISTRIBUTION
THIS FIRST UK PROPER PRESSING DATES FROM AFTER THE EMBARGO WAS LIFTED IN MARCH 1974 AND IS PRESSED ON LIGHTWEIGHT VINYL AS PLASTIC WAS STILL SUBJECT TO RESTRICTIONS
MATRIX: K - 53501 - A3 / K 53501 - B3
TOP COPY - SEEN LITTLE USE
HOUSED IN A FINE EXAMPLE OF THE H.R. Geiger FOLD-OUT COVER
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL DIE-CUT SIX PANEL POSTER
AND PLAIN WHITE INNER DIE-CUT INNER SLEEVE WITH UK PATENT NUMBER AND "MADE IN ENGLAND" PRINTED IN BLUE
Emerson, Lake & Palmer's most successful and well-realised album 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, unmarked labels which carry just a few light spindle traces
VINYL Visual: NEAR MINT
Both sides shine like new
VINYL Audio: NEAR MINT
Plays as-new throughout - the cleanest copy you could wish for
SLEEVE: EXCELLENT
General light wear and storage rub to the corners but all spine text is clear and bold - fine example - notoriously difficult to find in decent condition
POSTER: EXCELLENT
Again, general light handling but no damage to the die-cut sections
POST & PACKING:
A PROTECTIVE POLY SLEEVE, NEW 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 standard)
UK: £9.00 (Royal Mail Special Delivery Next Day by 1pm)
EUROPE: Airmail: £15.00 (International Signed For delivery)
INTERNATIONAL: Airmail: £18.00 (International Signed For delivery)
Combined Post: for items purchased within any 10 day period @£3 for each additional LP
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