JEFFERSON AIRPLANE "Crown Of Creation" 1st STEREO PRESS

	£		48
	$		63

 
JEFFERSON AIRPLANE "Crown Of Creation" 1st STEREO PRESS 1968 UK RCA RED SPOT, FRONT LAMINATED COVER, EX+ AUDIO

JEFFERSON AIRPLANE
Crown Of Creation


ORIGINAL UK RCA (SF 7976) FIRST *STEREO* PRESSING (December 1968) OF JEFFERSON AIRPLANE'S "Crown Of Creation" LP IN BEAUTIFUL CONDITION DELIVERING SENSATIONAL AUDIO (ON MY SYSTEM - AT A LOUD VOLUME!) (please see detailed audio assessment below) FANTASTIC WEST COAST PSYCHEDELIA, MORE TONED DOWN THAN THEIR PREVIOUS LP "After Bathing At Baxter's" AND WITH A FANTASTIC CUT (BY DECCA, WHO PRESSED SOME OF THE FINEST SOUNDING RECORDS OF THE PERIOD)

PRESSED ON QUALITY HEAVYWEIGHT VINYL (very thick and chunky) WITH THE FIRST ISSUE GROOVED, BLACK 'RED SPOT' RCA LABELS WITH "MADE IN ENGLAND BY THE DECCA RECORD COMPANY LTD. LONDON, FROM MASTER RECORDING OF R.C.A." RIM TEXT
FIRST PRESS MATRICES: WPRS - 0549 - 2K / WPRS - 0550 - 2K
VERY EARLY MOTHERS/STAMPERS: 1/U and 1/B (marking this copy out as in the batch of the first 600 ever pressed) AND WITH THE 'JT' TAX CODE ETCHED ON BOTH RUN-OFFS
THE RECORD IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL FRONT LAMINATED SLEEVE (THE PRINTERS CREDITS ARE VERY FAINT BUT APPEAR TO READ "Printed in England S P Ltd."
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL DECCA COMPANY INNER SLEEVE WHICH IS DATE CODED '11 - 68' (November, 1968)

The group's fourth album, appearing ten months later than After Bathing at Baxter's, isn't the same kind of leap forward that Baxter's represented from Surrealistic Pillow. Indeed, in many ways, Crown of Creation is a more conservative album stylistically, opening with "Lather," a Grace Slick original that was one of the group's very last forays (and certainly their last prominent one) into a folk idiom.
Much of what follows is a lot more based in electric rock, as well as steeped in elements of science fiction (specifically author John Wyndham's book The Chrysalids) in several places, but Crown of Creation was still deliberately more accessible musically than its predecessor, even as the playing became more bold and daring within more traditional song structures.
Jack Casady by this time had developed one of the most prominent and distinctive bass sounds in American rock, as demonstrated on "In Time," "Star Track," "Share a Little Joke," "If You Feel," (where he's practically a second lead instrument), and the title song, and Jorma Kaukonen's slashing, angular guitar attack was continually surprising as his snaking lead guitar parts wended their way through "Star Track" and "Share a Little Joke."
The album also reflected the shifting landscape of West Coast music with its inclusion of "Triad," a David Crosby song that Crosby's own group, the Byrds, had refused to release -- its presence (the only extant version of the song for a number of years) was a forerunner of the sound that would later be heard on Crosby's own debut solo album, If I Could Only Remember My Name (on which Slick, Paul Kantner, and Casady would appear).
The album captured the group's rapidly evolving, very heavy live sound within the confines of some fairly traditional song structures, and left ample room for Slick and Marty Balin to express themselves vocally, with Balin turning in one of his most heartfelt and moving performances on "If You Feel."
"Ice Cream Phoenix" pulses with energy and "Greasy Heart" became a concert standard for the group -- the studio original of the latter is notable for Slick's most powerful vocal performance since "Somebody to Love." And the album's big finish, "The House at Pooneil Corners," seemed to fire on all cylinders, their amps cranked up to ten (maybe 11 for Casady), and Balin, Slick, and Kantner stretching out on the disjointed yet oddly compelling tune and lyrics.

Track Listing:
SIDE 1: LATHER / IN TIME / TRIAD / STAR TRACK / SHARE A LITTLE JOKE / CHUSHINGURA
SIDE 2: IF YOU FEEL LIKE CHINA BREAKING/ CROWN OF CREATION / ICE CREAM PHOENIX / GREASY HEART / THE HOUSE AT POONEIL CORNERS

LABELS: EXCELLENT - clean, bright and unmarked with only moderate spindles - about a dozen or so
VINYL Visual: EXCELLENT+ The vinyl surfaces retain their original deep, glossy sheen and are practically unmarked (there are some (very) light hairlines but these have no audio consequence)
VINYL Audio: Plays beautifully throughout with a deep, heavy and mostly dense sound (but the quieter sections are crystal clear and bright) and on playback at a loud volume (which is how I always listen to my LPs prior to listing) there are no scratches, no sticks or jumps, no loud clicks/pops and no surface noise. The whole LP plays to a very high standard with no groove-wear and no distortion and is critically graded EXCELLENT+ for audio - great copy
SLEEVE: The original front laminated sleeve has a beautiful glass-like gloss to the laminate with very little rubbing and the unlaminated back is clean and unmarked with just a little record impression on the opening edge. The edges and spine have practically no wear whatsoever and all spine text is clear and bold (the spine is 'pinched' at the top and bottom - a tell-tale characteristic of the first issue) - EXCELLENT

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