GENESIS TO REVELATION UK DECCA + INSERT A BEAUTY L K

	£		75
	$		99

NON UK BUYERS PLEASE NOTE MY COMMENTS REGARDING INTERNATIONAL MAIL BELOW...RETURNS POLICY ONLY APPLICABLE TO UK..RETURNS OUTSIDE UK BUYER WILL HAVE TO COVER ALL POSTAGE COSTS FOR INTERNATIONAL BIDDERS PLEASE ALSO NOTE THAT due to ebays revised " buyer " protection policy even more sellers will start to refuse to sell internationally. I however will still sell internationally but i reserve the right to not to complete any international transaction if the buyer has any bad or witheld feedback or for any other reason that I choose and this is especially so for items that sell for near to GBP 150 or higher. So if you are an international bidder and win one of my auctions and then find I have completed the transaction elsewhere this will be because the new ebay/paypal policy now makes it almost impossible for sellers to sell safely overseas, thank you

FOR BIDDERS WITH ZERO FEEDBACK THIS IS ALSO VERY IMPORTANT...   I have recently been the victim of several spurious bids from several different members (so far all based in the Russian Federation). Please note that if you win any of my items and have zero feedback I will ask you for immediate payment or for you to email and immediately confirm that you were a genuine bidder. Failure to meet either of those criteria will result in the item being  offered to the next highest bidder without further delay. thank you. 

     NOT WITHSTANDING THAT THIS 1ST GENESIS LP SOLD HARDLY ANYTHING ON IT'S RELEASE AND SO IS ONE OF THE MOST SORT AFTER EARLY PROG CLASSICS BUT I HAVE NEVER SEEN A SLEEVE AS GOOD AS THIS ONE. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I HAVE EVER SEEN THE DARK BROWN UNLIMITED REAR OF ONE OF THESE SLEEVES WITHOUT ANY RINGWARE - IT IS SIMPLY IMPOSSIBLE LIKE THIS, AND THE LAMINATED FRONT STILL GLEAMS LIKE NEW! THE LAST ONE I SAW LIKE THIS A LITTLE WHILE WENT FOR SEVERAL HUNDRED POUNDS

WHATS MORE IT ALSO STILL RETAINS IT'S LYRIC INSERT WHICH IS RARE ENOUGH JUST TO SURVIVE BUT THIS ONE IS IN NEAR MINT CONDITION !!

THIS RECORD WAS RECORDED IN 1968 BY JONATHAN KING ( YES THAT KING.. ) WHILE THE EMBRYONIC GENESIS WERE STILL AT COLLEGE, AND WAS RELEASED IN MARCH 1969. HOWEVER THE SPARTAN DESIGN AND THE FACT THAT THEY COULDN'T USE THE NAME GENESIS AT THAT TIME SO THE LP'S TITLE HAD TO DOUBLE UP FOR THE NAME OF THE GROUP AS WELL CAUSED SOME CONFUSION. INDEED MANY RECORD SHOPS WITHOUT ANY GUIDANCE FROM DECCA AND SO NOT KNOWING ANY BETTER MIS-FILED IT IN THEIR RELIGIOUS SECTIONS AND SO IT SOLD HARDLY ANYTHING. 

THIS WAS QUITE A SHAME AS I WAS SURPRISED AT HOW GOOD THIS LP IS, IT IS QUITE SIMILAR IN SOUND TO THEIR STABLEMATES THE HAYWARD/LODGE ERA MOODY BLUES, INDEED HAD DECCA PUT THEM ON IT'S SEMI-PROG DERAM LABEL THEY MIGHT HAVE MADE MORE OF AN IMPACT.

GENESIS OF COURSE WOULD RE-IMMERGE TO FAR MORE SUCCESS IN 1970 AS A VERY DIFFERENT SOUNDING OUTFIT, INDEED THAT SUCCESS PROBABLY KEPT THIS LP IN PRINT IN THE HOPE THAT IT MIGHT START TO SELL ON THE BACK OF IT. HOWEVER, PROBABLY BECAUSE THIS LP SOUNDS SO DIFFERENT IT DIDN'T SEEM TO MAKE THAT MUCH DIFFERENCE TO SALES AND SO ALL VARIANTS OF THIS LP ARE STILL VERY RARE, (ESPECIALLY MONO COPIES WHERE THE BOXED MONO IS ACTUALLY FAR RARER THAN THE UNBOXED!!). THIS LP WAS FINALLY DELETED AROUND 1971 ALTHOUGH IT WOULD BE RE-PACKAGED IN 1974 JUST AFTER GENESIS WENT GLOBAL.

I WAS NEVER A BIG GENESIS FAN BUT I REALLY LIKED THIS RECORD, BUT THEN I QUITE LIKED THE MOODY BLUES TOO....

A VERY RARE AND SORT AFTER DISC..

FOR AUCTION IS THE UK LP  " FROM GENESIS TO REVELATION "

ARTIST : GENESIS ( ALTHOUGH AT THAT TIME THERE WERE ISSUES WITH THE NAME SO ON THIS LP THEY ARE ACTUALLY CALLED GENESIS TO REVELATION )

COUNTRY: UK

CAT NO:  SKL 4990

STEREO/MONO : STEREO    

LABEL: BOXED DECCA

DATE : 1969

WEIGHT: 140g

MATRIX: 1w 2w

CONDITION......

SLEEVE:   THE BEST EXAMPLE OF THIS SLEEVE I HAVE EVER SEEN, ANYBODY WHO KNOWS THIS LP WILL KNOW THAT THE UNLAMENTED FAIRLY PLAIN DARK BROWN REAR SUFFERS BADLY FROM RINGWARE AND GRUBBY FINGER PRINTS. AMAZINGLY THIS IS THE FIRST ONE OF THESE I HAVE SEEN WITHOUT ANY RINGWARE AT ALL, SIMPLY IMPOSSIBLE!!! THE LAMINATED ROBERT STACE FRONT GLEAMS LIKE NEW WITH MINIMAL CREASING AND ONLY A LITTLE LAMINATE LIFT AT THE EDGE. I WOULD GARDE THIS AS NEAR MINT IF IT WERE NOT FOR THE ODD PRINT ON THE REAR WHICH IS INEVITABLE I AM AFRAID, STILL GRADES EXCELLENT EASY AND LIKE I SAY THE BEST I HAVE SEEN.

VINYL VISUAL : EXCELLENT, ONLY THE ODD BAG MARK THAT I CAN SEE EVEN UNDER A BRIGHT LIGHT

LABELS: NO STICKERS OR WRITINGS, FAIRLY  MINIMAL EVIDENCE OF PLAY THAT I CAN SEE BOTH SIDES EXCELLENT

INSERT: JUST PERFECT AS CRISP AS THE DAY IT WAS PRINTED, AS CLOSE TO MINT AS YOU WILL EVER HOPE TO SEE

THIS IS A VERY SORT AFTER ANYWAY BIT IN THIS CONDITION AND COMPLETE...  - WELL GOOD LUCK TO ALL BIDDERS!!

(Please note that whilst I try to endeavour to adhere to strict RC gradings I will never describe ANYTHING AS MINT even when I think it to be so. As far as I am concerned any secondhand item by definition cannot be mint. However if I believe an item to be Mint  I will instead either use the terms Near Mint, mint minus, or in archive or vault condition. When I use these terms you know that in my opinion this is in effect a de-facto Mint grade )

Dont forget to take a look at my other items. Please feel free to contact me with any queries you may have.

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I ONLY DO A COUPLE OF RUNS A WEEK TO THE POST OFFICE BUT MY ITEMS ARE ALWAYS DISPATCHED WELL WITHIN ONE CALENDAR WEEK OF PAYMENT BEING RECEIVED. I APOLOGISE IN ADVANCE TO THOSE BUYERS WHO SEEM TO EXPECT THEIR ITEM TO ARRIVE THE NEXT DAY, IF YOU WANT TO CHECK WHEN AN ITEM WAS SENT JUST PLEASE FEEL FREE TO EMAIL ME AND I WILL BE VERY HAPPY TO TELL YOU!! (SOME PEOPLE DO MAKE YOU LAUGH, FOR ITEMS I BUY I ONLY NORMALLY GET CONCERNED AFTER A COUPLE OF WEEKS AND EVEN AFTER THAT THEN ONLY POLITELY ENQUIRE IF AND WHEN THE ITEM WAS SENT).

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PAYMENTS BY PAYPAL ARE PREFERRED BUT I ALSO ACCEPT OTHER METHODS. I ALSO POST WORLDWIDE (PLS APPLY FOR RATES) BUT DUE TO A PROBLEM WITH A DISREPUTABLE BUYER IN JAPAN (PIGGIESSS - I AM HAPPY TO NAME THEM) , FOR ALL PAYMENTS MADE VIA PAYPAL THE ITEM WILL ONLY BE SENT BOTH TO THE UK AND WORLDWIDE BY RECORDED OR INTERNATIONAL SIGNED FOR DELIVERY. THIS IS TO ELIMINATE THE POSSIBILITY OF ANY ATTEMPT TO CLAIM BACK THE PAYMENT VIA PAYPAL EVEN AFTER ACTUALLY HAVING RECEIVED THE ITEM.

THIS OBVIOUSLY HAS HAD THE RESULT OF INCREASING MY COSTS FOR POSTING AND PACKING AND I AM VERY SORRY FOR THIS BUT PAYPAL OFFER NO PROTECTION FOR SELLERS UNLESS THERE IS PROOF OF DELIVERY!! PROOF OF POSTING WOULD SEEM INSUFFICIENT TO THEM AND I HAVE FOUND THIS OUT THE HARD WAY..

DUE TO THE BEHAVIOUR OF THIS SAME BUYER PAYPAL PAYMENTS WILL ALSO NOT BE ACCEPTED FROM BUYERS WHO DO NOT ALLOW THEIR FEEDBACK TO READ, SO IF YOU FALL INTO THIS CATEGORY PLEASE DO NOT BID ON MY ITEMS UNLESS YOU CAN PAY BY ANOTHER METHOD…….EUROPE INTERNATIONAL SIGNED FOR MAIL COSTS ARE USUALLY GBP 8.99 FOR A SINGLE LP AND FOR USA/REST OF WORLD IT IS USUALLY GBP 12.99 FOR A SINGLE AND GBP 15.99 FOR A DOUBLE LP 

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