LED ZEPPELIN 1 SILVER STRIPE RED PLUM 1ST UK PRESSING 1969 A1 B1 EX LP VINYL I

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This copy is the 1969 pressing A1 B1 with  2nd label with the Orange letters on front cover and Warners credits on Red Plum label.

with corrected matrix  on side 1, and on side 2,

Matrix / Runout (Runout side A variant 1): 588171 A//1 1 2

• Matrix / Runout (Runout side B variant 1): 588171 B//1 101

SILVER STRIPE COVER

Page had cut his teeth in the tough studio circuit in London and toured Europe and USA with the Yardbirds, he was already forming a close bond with Peter Grant who rewrote the rock rulebook in the 70s, Peter Grant was an ex bouncer, wrestler and all round genius gentleman manager who took no excuses or prisoners the chemistry was right....

They were set to blow away all the opposition with a new heavy blues sound already sweeping Europe with the Jeff Beck group and others leading the way, the cover of Willie Dixons `You Shook me` also appears on Becks `Truth` albulm which led to a few harsh words considering Beck and Page were old band-mates. The all new Led Zeppelin headed out to USA and hit LA in early 69 to promote the new record and as already a legend was in the making.....it was the start and paved the way of the Rock Era of the 70s Supergoups and if you were lucky enough to see Zeppelin you would `speed the word....as it was back in the day.

Robert Plant was on trial with Zeppelin and did not get any song credits till the 2nd album was released, he wanted to cement his place in band and laid it all on the line in this blues rock showcase for Pages ideas with the Bedrock of John Bonhams drums keeping the frame tight.

This the bands debut sold only 600,000 In UK which incudes the later Green and Orange labels compared to US sales of 8,000,000 gives you an idea of how super rare the UK Red Plum copies now are, its estimated that less than 80,000 were pressed for the first run after that in late 1970 all were Green and Orange.

So these early Red Plums vinyls in EX are getting scarce now...

How many remain now in anything like this order ? Probably easily less than 5,000!

Much is written about the sound on the Turquoise copies having owned several we found the later Red Plums with Warners credits to be equal and depending on the condition often sound better than the US versions which were produced in much higher volumes. The pressing quality we have found is superb and way better than the mass produced USA presses where the record sold bucketful the early ,70s as the the groups reputation grew , in New York and LA.

Get yourself a genuine UK first press on the Red Plum label.

Vinyl: EX-: Side 1 EX: side 2. Under strong light a couple thin non feelable hairlines on Side 1. Wonderful, clean lables

Cover: EX- Very presentable. No seam splits, nice spine. Just some minor laminate creasing in areas. 

See all close-up pics for full details. 

See our other rare lp listings this week.

Tracked shipping:
US/Canada- $24
Europe - $55 tracked 
Japan - $65 tracked