GENE VINCENT IF YOU COULD ONLY SEE RARE SEALED ORIG '70 KAMA SUTRA LP w/STICKER

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·      GENE VINCENT – SELF-TITLED 1970 KAMA-SUTRA ALBUM, ALSO KNOWN AS “IF ONLY YOU COULD SEE ME NOW – ORIGINAL 1970 KAMA SUTRA STEREO LP KSBS-2019

·      ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING

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

·      BELIEVED TO BE PRESSED ON THE ORIGINAL PINK KAMA SUTRA LABEL WITH A SERIES OF SITTING BUDDHAS ALONG THE LABEL’S EDGE LABEL (NO OTHER PRESSINGS OR LABELS EXIST)

·      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 GATEFOLD COVER, MADE OF THICK CARDBOARD (AMERICAN STYLE) 

·      ORIGINAL "TEXTURED" (CRUDE FINISH) COVER.

·      COVER HAS A NIFTY 'HYPE' (ADVERTISEMENT) STICKER STILL AFFIXED TO THE FRONT PANEL

·      THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING

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

(Note: this is a REAL image of the ACTUAL item you are bidding on. This is NOT a "recycled" image from our previous auction. What you see is what you’ll get.  GUARANTEED!)

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In 1969, the New York-based label Buddah/Kama Sutra Records began tapping into the burgeoning rock & roll revival, which was initially a kind of counter-musical reaction to the counter-culture and the psychedelic boom of the previous two years. The company signed up revival band Sha Na Na, and took on Bill Haley around this time, and in early 1970, Kama Sutra also got Gene Vincent onto its roster. Haley's resulting work was very much of a piece with his classic '50s output, but Vincent, working under the auspices of his new manager and producer Tom Ayres -- an alumnus of Johnny Burnette's Rock & Roll Trio -- delivered something very different the first time out. Recorded March 5-8, 1970 in Hollywood, the album was unlike any body of music ever associated with Vincent, before or after. With a core band that included Augie Meyers, Harvey Kagan, and Johnny Perez of the Sir Douglas Quintet -- which Ayres was also managing at the time -- the songs and the sessions saw Vincent aiming for a modern country sound with some progressive elements. "Slow Times Comin'" clocked in at nine minutes, including a four-minute instrumental break that offered lots of room for guitar and organ excursions -- other songs, such as "Geese," display a modern, poetic sensibility; and Vincent made a fine cover of Bobby Bare's "500 Miles Away from Home" (a country adaptation of Hedy West's "500 Miles"). The album is a lot more than 500 miles away from "Be Bop-A-Lula" or "Woman Love," and when it was released in 1970 it was mostly ignored by both Vincent's dedicated fans and country audiences alike. But as it turns out, it's a very good record, if not a record that one would expect from Gene Vincent -- he's not quite good enough a singer to pull off some of what he tries to do here, on numbers such as "If Only You Could See Me Today," but what he lacks in range he makes up for with sheer expressiveness, there and on "A Million Shades of Blue" -- and the latter shows off how good his voice could be on a country song, working with a relatively restrained female accompaniment. Most Gene Vincent fans never heard this album, and those who did probably mostly didn't like it -- but it has aged incredibly well, and 40 years later it comes off as a record that Vincent and all concerned could easily have been proud of. Vincent fans should think of this record in context with Elvis Presley's efforts at updating his sound at Chips Moman's American Studios in Memphis, around the same time -- perhaps a little too ambitious, and not 100-percent successful, but definitely worth hearing. And better material -- the last of Vincent's career -- would soon follow.

(REVIEW REPRINTED COURTESY OF BRUCE EDER, ALL MUSIC GUIDE  /ALLMUSIC.COM/)

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·      CONDITION:

·      THE 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.

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

(c)         The record is apparently pressed on a beautiful, thick, inflexible vinyl, which was usually used for the first or very early pressings. Usually, the sound on such thick vinyl pressings is full-bodied, vivid, and even dramatic. Do not expect to obtain such a majestic analog sound from a digital recording!

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

·                          THE COVER

COVER IS STILL SEALED; HOWEVER, WE ARE UNABLE TO GRADE IT MINT OR NEAR MINT DUE TO MINOR FLAWS LISTED BELOW; WE GRADE THIS COVER AS EXCELLENT OR VG++

[NOTE: BASED ON THE APPEARANCE OF THE COVER, WE BELIEVE  THAT THERE IS A BETTER THAN 50/50 CHANCE THAT THIS ALBUM WAS RESEALED BY THE RETAILER OR DISTRIBUTOR[

The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:

-       Cover has a small cutout hole in one of the corners

-       Cover shows JUST A HINT of yellowing on both sides, apparently from aging.

-       Cover has two corners slightly worn / dinged

-       The gatefold cover has partially split seams on 1 out of 4 "legs" of the cover (about 4 inches / 1 inch = 2.5 centimeters).

NO OTHER VISIBLE FLAWS OR IMPERFECTIONS ON THE  COVER

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(A) All orders valued at $50.00 or more will be shipped fully insured against loss, damage or theft by ShipCover, eBay's contracted insurer, at our expense (B) Yes, we do combine items into a single shipment; in order to enable this feature, the winning bidders should WAIT until their last item of interest ends and ONLY THEN make a payment. Doing otherwise will result in multiple shipments to the same customer and forfeiture of multiple shipping charges already paid. (C) Because we do not play-grade our items, we do not know how the purchased item will play on the buyer's equipment. We can only make reasonable inference on the record's playing condition based on its visual appearance. (D) This seller will NOT cancel erroneous, frivolous and prank bids. The bidders can do so on their own, by visiting eBay's Site Map, then clicking on Bid Retractions link. (E) This seller does not specifically grade or describe certain items, such as: shrink (cellophane) wrap and accompanying extras (inserts, booklets, etc.); however, the presence of these items WILL be noted and accompanied by the gallery photo(s). (F) Please do not submit any bids on our items if you have insufficient user history. (G) Other than in very rare justified cases, failure to pay for the item you won amounts to a fraud and will result in a permanent ban on bidding on our future listings. (H) We will NEVER deliberately, knowingly or willingly provide a false, deceitful or misleading information.

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OUR REFUND POLICY :

WE OFFER UNCONDITIONAL MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE (POSTAGE INCLUDED) WITHIN 30 DAYS FROM THE RECEIPT OF THE MERCHANDISE, NO QUESTIONS ASKED; STILL SEALED ITEMS MUST BE RETURNED SEALED IN ORDER TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR A REFUND.   NO EXCEPTIONS!

FINE (BUT IMPORTANT!) PRINT

 (1) The year indicated in the title bar is the year of the original release,  NOT necessarily the year of the actual pressing; for the actual generation of the pressing, please see our item description (top section, the text in red letters). (2) Please do NOT bid based on the title bar, subtitle bar or item specifics box alone; instead, please read the entire description before bidding; (3) Absolutely NO order cancellations after the auction closes. ever, under any circumstances. We can ONLY cancel bids before the item closes. (4) We are unable to provide matrix-, stamper- or other pressing  information in the final 24 hours of the auction. (5) All disagreements and miscommunications can be - and will only be - solved in a civil and mutually respectful manner; please avoid puerile, offensive, abrasive or menacing language (6) This seller will accommodate all reasonable requests and - unless seriously molested - is generally a flexible, pragmatic and agreeable person.

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