HOT TUNA Self-Titled 1st ALBUM RCA D GROOVE FROM 70 W/COLOR INNER SLEEVE ??????

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  HOT TUNA Self-Titled 1st ALBUM RCA DEEP GROOVE FROM 70











A MINT MINUS ORIGINAL LP ON RCA LSP 4353 (REISSUES HAVE A DIFFERENT CATALOG NUMBER: AYL-1-3864)

FROM 1970 IN STEREO AND STILL WITH SHRINK WRAP OVER COVER!

PRODUCED BY AL SCHMITT AND RECORDED LIVE AT THE NEW ORLEANS HOUSE IN BERKELEY BY ALLEN ZENTZ

WITH THE ORIGINAL FULL COLOR INNER SLEEVE AS SHOWN (WITH RING IMPRESSION)

10 TRACKS INCLUDE HESITATION BLUES, HOW LONG BLUES, UNCLE SAM BLUES, DON'T YOU LEAVE ME HERE, DEATH DON'T HAVE NO MERCY, KNOW YOU RIDER, SEARCH MY HEART, WININ' BOY BLUES, NEW SONG (FOR THE MORNING), MANN'S FATE

COVER STOCK STILL WITH WHAT APPEARS TO BE THE ORIGINAL FACTORY SHRINK WRAP INTACT. CORNERS WITH SMALL ROUGH SPOTS AND OUTER LAYER LOSSES ON POINT. NOTWITHSTANDING, A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS, SO PLEASE DO LOOK AT THE COVER PHOTOS TO ASCERTAIN COVER CONDITION.

VIRGIN SPINDLE HOLE SIDE TWO. SIDE ONE HOLE WITH A FAINT RUB MARK THE HIGH LUSTER VINYL BLANK AT FIRST GLANCE OUT OF THE SLEEVE APPEARS UNUSUALLY PRISTINE AND TO HAVE NOT BEEN PLAYED, MUCH LESS TOUCHED, BEFORE NOW. UNDER BRIGHT ANGLED LIGHT AND ASSIDUOUS EXAMINATION A FEW LIGHT SURFACE RUBS AND OR SURFACE PAPER SLEEVE CONTACT IMPRESSIONS.

RARELY SEEN LP WHICH NOW FETCHES 75 PLUS WHEN SEEING THE LIGHT OF DAY
FROM A NOTED JAZZ REVIEWER'S PRIVATE COLLECTION

?PLEASE NOTE THE VINYL DESCRIPTION IS ONLY A VISUAL INSPECTION UNLESS OTHERWISE MENTIONED. HERE IS A FEW WORDS ABOUT MY GRADING SYSTEM AND IS IN ADDITION TO ANYTHING WRITTEN ABOVE AND SUPERSEDES ANY OTHER GRADING SYSTEM, INCLUDING GOLDMINE: ALL RECORDS ARE VISUALLY GRADED AND THE RED GRADE ABOVE REFERS ONLY TO THE STATE OF VINYL......YOU PLAY THE VINYL AND NOT THE COVER....COVER IS NOTED SEPARATELY. IF I'VE TEST PLAYED THE LP IT WILL BE NOTED. MINT INDICATES PRISTINE VINYL WITHOUT ANY MARKS ON THE VINYL BLANK. MINT MINUS MAY CONTAIN A FEW VERY LIGHT SURFACE RUB MARKS FROM HANDLING & SLEEVE WEAR OR A FEW PLAYS. IF YOU ARE A REAL VINYL AFICIONADO AND COLLECTOR YOU'LL KNOW THAT EVEN A FACTORY SEALED LP OCCASIONALLY HAS SOME LIGHT RUB OR SLEEVE MARKS FROM TRANSPORT AND SHELVING. ANYTHING IN THE VG CATEGORY WOULD CONTAIN SOME LIGHT AND FINE SURFACE PLAY LINES AND EVIDENCE OF PLAY WEAR THAT IS EASILY SEEN. SELDOM IS ANYTHING OFFERED IN THE "G" STATE.

FROM THE ALLMUSIC.COM WEBSITE:
Review
by William Ruhlmann
When Hot Tuna's self-titled debut album was released in May 1970, it seemed like the perfect spin-off project for a major rock group, Jefferson Airplane's lead guitarist and bass player indulging in a genre exercise by playing a set of old folk-blues tunes in a Berkeley coffeehouse. The music seemed as far removed from the Airplane's acid rock roar as it did from commercial prospects, and thus, it allowed these sometimes overlooked bandmembers to blow off some steam musically without threatening their day jobs. In retrospect, however, it's easy to hear that something more was going on. Friends since their teens, Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady had developed a musical rapport that anchored the Airplane sound but also existed independently of it, and shorn of the rock band arrangements and much of the electricity (Casady still played an electric bass), their interplay was all the more apparent. Kaukonen remained the accomplished fingerpicking stylist he had been before joining the Airplane, while Casady dispensed with the usual timekeeping duties of the bass in favor of extensive contrapuntal soloing, creating a musical conversation that was unique. It was put at the service of a …  » Read more

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