Genesis - Trespass Pink Scroll 1st press EX

	£		122
	$		162

Genesis - Trespass

Textured g/f sleeve + lyrics insert

Pink Scroll UK

CAS 1020

1970

!!!Sensational Copy!!!These turn up less and less, year on year!!!

Progressivedelight!!

Absolutely lovely copy of this second Genesis album, and their first prog album proper. Earliest stampers (A-2U  B2-U) possible, indicate the absolute rarity of this copy. This album  rarely comes up for sale. This opportunity does not come around every day.

This is a very heavy slab of vinyl and pure quality!!!!! The vinyl looks stunning and I played it all the way through, it sounds so much better than the CD remaster!! These first pressings are heavy vinyl and absolute quality!! Re-issues do just not measure up to the depth of the sound. This is just awesome!!! There are a few hairlines on each side but these are inconsequential. NO jumps, NO pops and NO skips. Some background crackle at times between tracks ,a good clean will most likely take care of this !!!! This album is playgraded on a Linn Sondek/ Rotel/ B&W set-up. The audio is simply MINDBLOWING!!!!

Incredibly the textured weaved sleeve (E.J. Day Group ltd.) has no creases and is nice and deadstraight . These very first sleeves were made of very tough cardboard and the texture feels like linen. The opening is unbelievably crisp. A few corner and top edge scuffs.  NO text on the spine INDICATING VERY FIRST BATCH!!!  The inside g/f is also textured, indicating the VERY FIRST BATCH  . The inside has a smal tearmark over the plain field.The picture is NOT affected. NO writing, No scribbles, NO marks. A seamsplit along the back bottom edge extending approx. halfway.

The original lyrics insert is still present and has a fold through the centre and a little sticker of the picture of an elephant in the bottom corner. This is tiny about 2cmX2cm and I don't understand why it is there?

Labels are EX+.

Rarity: SERIOUSLY RARE – NOT QUITE AS RARE AS THE ‘FROM GENESIS TO REVELATION’ UK ORIGINALS BUT NOT FAR FROM IT IN THIS VARIANT AND CONDITION AS A COMPLETE UK FIRST PRESSING, FIRST ISSUE ON THE ORIGINAL PINK SCROLL LABEL WITH THE ELUSIVE FIRST LYRIC INSERT - Sold a tiny quantity on first commercial release in 1970 (thought to be a mere few thousand), in fact so small were the sales that it failed to make an entry into the UK charts at any level at that time, and surprisingly it only just breached the 100 mark for one week in 1984 as a re-issue – just goes to show that even some of the best progressive rock albums were overlooked in those ‘early’ days; and by any standard this certainly is ONE OF THE BEST PROGRESSIVE ROCK ALBUMS EVER PRODUCED. Due to the very limited first press run they were very rare in 1970 and are understandably much rarer now based on numbers alone. However, on top of this, the few rarely seen are in various states of used condition with their vulnerable textured non-laminated gatefolds badly worn, discoloured, stained or damaged; the elusive original lyric insert - which was limited in distribution to first release - lost or substituted, and vinyls played into submission; consequently an example like this in EXCELLENT AND BETTER CONDITION THROUGHOUT IS INCREDIBLY HARD TO FIND.

So, the extreme rarity factor of this original is clear and to avoid the pitfalls of swapping, mixing and matching, which can easily occur, I have set out below a number of key characteristics which distinguish COMPLETE UK FIRST PRESS, FIRST ISSUE sets, like this one, from subsequent re-pressings and reissues.

(a)    Vinyl Weight: Vinyl Weight - the earliest were around the 135 to 160 grammes range with the heavier generally being the earliest first – this is one of the heaviest (and therefore, in my opinion, earliest) variants at 160 grammes, later examples range from about 115 to130 grammes.

(b)    Matrices, Mother / Stamper Codes – the first matrices are A-2U & B-2U, there were no commercially released ‘1’ masters but the mothers on the firsts are 1 on both the ‘A’ & ‘B’ sides.

(c)    Record Labels – the first pressings all had the full pink with ‘the famous CHARISMA label’ in white on a black outline scroll design and displayed the B & C Records credit on the bottom perimeter – later issues and re-pressings had three different variants of the ‘Mad Hatter’ label first dusky pink and later blue with various sizes of ‘Hatter’.

(d)    Gatefold Cover – the earliest gatefold covers were made by E. J. Day and were textured on all outer surfaces, INCLUDING THE CENTRE SPREAD, with a light ‘ fine weave or interwoven’ effect. Very few of these fully textured gatefolds were made before they discontinued the centre spread texturing and left it smooth but continued to texture the front and back. These first two variants had no text on the spine so as not to interfere with the continuous theme, front to back. Later with re-issues the texturing was replaced with an all smooth surface gatefold by Howard Printers of Slough which did have the group name, album title and catalogue code printed on the spine – still a very nice quality gatefold, but not the original.

(e)    Lyric Sheet Insert - the originals are dusky green-grey thin matt finish paper.

The key features are:

• COMPLETE ORIGINAL UK ALBUM FIRST PRESS & FIRST ISSUE
• FIRST MATRICES, FIRST MOTHERS & VERY EARLY STAMPERS
• SUPERB CHARISMA HEAVYWEIGHT VINYL EXCELLENT TO PLUS
• STEREO RECORDING FORMAT DELIVERING SENSATIONAL AUDIO
• ORIGINAL THE FAMOUS CHARISMA PINK SCROLL B & C LABEL
• ORIGINAL UK FULLY ‘WOVEN’ TEXTURED in - and outside  E. J. DAY GATEFOLD
• ORIGINAL ‘DUSKY GREEN-GREY’ BASE MATT FINISH LYRIC INSERT
• THERE WILL NOT BE MANY OPPORTUNITIES TO BUY ONE LIKE THIS

I offer a full no quibble refund policy if not entirely satisfied.

Please do take notice of the full description as this album is not a mint copy, but very presentable overall.

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