KING CRIMSON/ROBERT FRIPP RED VERY RARE SEALED ORIG '74 ATLANTIC LP PROG CLASSIC

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·       KING CRIMSON – RED  - ORIGINAL 1974 ATLANTIC STEREO LP SD-18110

·       ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING

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

·       GUARANTEED ORIGINAL RED (ORANGE) AND GREEN ATLANTIC RECORDS LABEL WITHOUT WEA LOGO ALONG THE LABEL’S EDGE AND WITH ROCKEFELLER PLAZA  ADDRESS.

·       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, THICK CARDBOARD COVER (AMERICAN STYLE)

·       FAIRLY THICK VINYL PRESSING On the scale from 1 to 10 (1 being the least, and  10 being the most severe), we assess the thickness of the vinyl as 6.

 (►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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"The best album ever made" - Kurt Cobain

Holy Mother!  Where do I start with Red?

I can honestly say that no album is more tight, innovative, provocative, loose, musically rich, powerful, dark, deep, and finally - completely and utterly necessary to the very last note than Red is.

Intelligent, progressive, and varied enough, King Crimson's Red is most probably the best album ever made. 

From the opening track "Red" to "Starless", the album bleeds every single drop, and just enough, of pure concentrated creativity. 

"Red" opens up the album giving us a taste of tritonal bliss, executed simply and viciously. 

This is truly the first grunge album.  While 21st Century Schizoid Man opened up the fires of what we call alternative rock today, that initial blast was silenced with the break up of the original band.  Lark's Tongues in Aspic and Starless and Bible Black were the first to develop this sound further, but Red is where grunge was perfected and blue printed for future generations.

"Fallen Angel" is a masterpiece, featuring sax and oboe.  The song is perfectly executed from beginning to end - the timing, the crescendos, the spacing, the use of strong riffs and changing melodic sections.  Night and day are represented within one song, and with the night eventually winning the battle.

"One More Red Nightmare" is the most easily enjoyable song on the album.  Once again, the tritone is king.  A heavy metal riff blasts off the song, John's vocals exploding at break neck speed.  The middle section is where Fripp comes in shredding a heavy funk riff only for Mel Collins to push it even further by blasting the sax.  The third verse rushes through and crashes into an explosion of grunge-funk riffing and sax, burning the song to cinders via a 3 minute sax solo from hell.

"Providence" is Crimson at their improvisational best.  It starts off slowly and ominously, but John Wetton's bass blasts it into life.  David Cross' violin screeches and moans.  John builds a heavy grungy funk groove that tears the song to shreds with Bill Bruford following and Fripp ripping his licks viciously.

"Starless" is the single greatest rock song in history.  It makes Stairway to Heaven look like a pop song.  John begins with a ballad, his singing at it's veritable peak, along with Mel Collins softly playing on the soprano sax.  But at the final verse, his vocals explode with agression, leaving Fripp to solo a two note solo while Bruford bangs metal sheets and rattles chains.  His solo peaks at two powerful guitar wailings, and then John jumps in and Fripp and him have a duel of sonic power, each one rising closer to climax, and then... Bang!  Ian McDonald, God of Crimson, blasts his way onto the scene with his sax, bleeding every last drop of musical rage out of the song, only for the rhythm section and Fripp to thrash their way  out of the song twice, reprising the main theme ad inferno.

Red both singlehandedly invented a style of music and perfected in album form by using concise songwriting, viciously loose playing that is so loose that it's tight, and musical variety and fluidity brought forth with the use of sax, the cello break in "Red", and the improvisational nature of "Providence". 

No other album is so perfect in it's musicality, deliverance, and artistic inventiveness.  Well,  Nevermind is a close, close second.

 (EXCERPT FROM AN ANONYMOUS ONLINE REVIEW)

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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. For our policy on still sealed records ►click here (PLEASE READ BEFORE PLACING A BID).

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

(c)           The record is  apparently pressed on a RELATIVELY  thick, inflexible vinyl. This is NOT a thin, flimsy ('dynaflex' type),  vinyl, but not the thickest, most rigid vinyl, either.

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

·                               THE COVER

COVER IS (WEAK) NEAR MINT, STILL SEALED AND COVERED IN ITS ORIGINAL ►SHRINK WRAP   (A LARGE PIECE OF SHRINK - ABOUT 25% - WRAP IS MISSING ON THE FRONT SIDE)

(PLEASE NOTE: THE SHRINK WRAP HAS SEPARATED ALONG ABOUT 40% ON THE TOP SIDE AND 30% ON THE BOTTOM SIDE, BUT THE ALBUM IS STILL VISIBLY SEALED)

The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:

-        Cover has a partially split bottom seam (between 1 and 2 inches  / 2.5 to 5 centimeters)

-        Cover has some fraying/wear along the upper seam

-        Cover has a small cutout saw-mark (an indent about 3-5 mm long ) on one of its seams.

-        Cover has JUST A HINT of ring wear (nothing significant); On the scale from 1 to 10 (1 being the least, and  10 being the most severe), we assess the severity of ring wear as 1.

-        Cover has a light "wrinkle" (crease)  in one of the corners.

-        Cover has one corner slightly worn / dinged / bent  (nothing significant)

-        Cover has a visible wrinkle (crease) in the cardboard base on the back panel (a minor cover construction flaw)

NO OTHER VISIBLE FLAWS OR IMPERFECTIONS ON THE  COVER

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