PATTO Hold Your Fire WL PROMO 1ST PRESSING PSYCH Lp
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~RECORDELITE~RARE AUTHENTIC LP AUCTIONS
~Rarer Than Rare!~
One of the Extremely Rare auctions of vinyl you may come across in the Psych Blues Rock category
This is the Absolute Original U.S. Pressing~
VERTIGO VEL1008 Records in Stereo
But what makes this even more rare... this is the super hard-to-find anywhere WHITE LABEL PROMO Issue!!
And everything..the Cover...the Vinyl...The Label...are in NEAR MINT TO MINT Condition.
It's a beauty.
And this is the band's Second of Only 3 albums evermade..
Here you will find High gloss MINT vinyl (no groovewear).(Looks Unplayed)..Super clean MINT labels (like new) with the Beautiful Classic Vertigo Swirl (see photo closeups)...and a Superb Original Gatefold Cover with no ringwear, no seam splits, no stains, no tears, no writing and so on..ultra nice! And the back cover & inside Gatefold (with song lyrics) are as nice as the front!
The vinyl also comes in the Original Mercury/Vertigo company sleeve.
Some edgewear and cornerwear exists but nothing serious
Cover falls into the NM or NM- range
The Original "Recommended Cuts" Promotional Sticker can be easily seen and is in wonderful condition upper rt front cover (see photo closeup for details)
THIS WHITE LABEL PROMOTION COPY was not available to the buying public but instead was generally sent to the radio station in advance of the “Public” First pressing, hoping to receive “air-time” & increase sales of the record. In effect they were the real FIRST pressings of this album, hence their historical value.
This particular Lp reveals the letters "G.K." etched into the dead wax area...standing for Gilbert Kong, the brilliant and long time Vertigo/Mercury Records Mastering Engineer...who is found on the album cover credits for this record.
Please Enjoy this piece of Psych Rock history & the amazing talents of PATTO
Patto (named after vocalist Mike Patto) was highly regarded on the British rock scene in the '70s. The key point of the band was probably the superb guitar work of the eminently flexible Ollie Halsall, a performer whose session work was highly prized, even though the guitarist seemed hesitant to step into the spotlight. Patto performed a stately mix of jazz-rock with a little bit of blues. Following the breakup of the band, Halsall moved on to play with Tempest while Patto joined Spooky Tooth. Patto and Halsall came back together in Boxer in 1975, though Halsall remained for only a single album, with Patto remaining the sole founding member by the following album. Patto died in 1979 of throat cancer.
This was the second of only 3 albums produced by this great Psych Rock band.
Ignore the fact that the opening title track sounds almost exactly like the intro to Neil Young's "Ohio" and Patto's second album kicks into gear from the moment needle strikes vinyl. A driving fiesta of good-time bluesy-rock, Hold Your Fire retains just enough of its predecessor's jazz fusion sensibilities to ensure that you're never sure what will happen next, but similarly imbibes sufficient oxygen from elsewhere on the early-'70s British rock underground to line up alongside any other primal gem of the age. Certainly producer Muff Winwood seems considerably more at ease than he did his last time around, hauling Ollie Halsall's tuneful soloing high up in the mix and framing the album's best tracks — the melancholy "You, You Point Your Finger" among them — within some breathtakingly lovely arrangements. Another highlight, the funky Faces-like "See You at the Dance Tonight," almost single-handedly blueprints the best of the still-unborn pub rock boom, while Halsall's playful "Air Raid Shelter" would not have been out of place on Hold Your Fire, which further proves that not all of Patto's early instincts have been suppressed. Neither do the surprises stop with the music. Hold Your Fire was released in positively the most un-Roger Dean-like sleeve design to which Dean ever put his name. There again, vast spacescapes filled with floating islands and flying elephants were never really Patto's forte — not when the alternative offers barefoot cops, scantily clad damsels, and hippies bearing colorful mushrooms.
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On Sep-22-08 at 19:51:52 PDT, seller added the following information:To all fans of PATTO...When this auction is completed please watch for Rare PATTO Original Test Pressing of their very first album. THANKS!
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