ROLLING STONES Sticky Fingers Orig. RARE Heavy PAN ZIP
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Description
Artist or Band: THE ROLLING STONES
Album Title: Sticky Fingers.
Producer(s): Jimmy Miller.
TRACK LIST:
Side 1: Brown Sugar; Sway; Wild Horses; Can’t You Hear Me Knocking; You Gotta Move.
Side 2: Bitch; I Got the Blues; Sister Morphine; Dead Flowers; Moonlight Mile.
Label/Format: Rolling Stones Records – original format with the first COC 59100 number (Please see my label scan).
Label Conditions: Both very clean, fresh and highly attractive with any spindle marks tiny, very few and faint. Being honest, finding it hard to find any of note at all.
Cat Number: COC 59100 [later pressings had the COC prefix changed to CUN].
Mode / Speed: Stereo / 33.3 rpm.
Warps: Assume all records I offer have no warping of any significance and all tracking is easy and effortless and should play on all turntables and even ‘budget’ decks.
Weight of this Record: 110 grams. Below average for it’s era, I have rarely found this record to be much heavier. Rolling Stones Records were never the quality of Decca, but how many others ever were?
Country of Manufacture: England.
Rarity: The title itself is moderate, but this early example is very different as it includes the first made much heavier style zip (as seen in close-up). Known as the ‘PAN’ zip as engraved into the distinctively round hole style puller part. The second issue zipper, is much smaller, around 60 per scent small infact, and has a much different shape with two small rectangle ‘holes’. These original ‘PAN’ zips are far, far harder to find and often when they show are badly tarnished and often siezed-up with rust. This one has survived in super shape and easily unzips to full length as seen on my other close-up photograph. Also note on my close up, the fragile and very damage-prone buckle area is totally perfect, uncreased and undamaged or rubbed in any way – this too is hard to find like this. Often the victim of protective inners that catch this delicate part. I would presume the zipper style was changed due to cost, these are not cheap lightweight zips like the replacement ones, these have plenty of real metal and looks fantastic. Other than this, all else is pretty much the same but note, the later copies had the catalogue number prefix changed from COC to CUN. I will make no comment on the choice of these letter choices. So a rare original and at last one that plays well, these can be very disappointing as pressing quality is somewhat variable and never Decca quality. My first one of these for ages, and one of the very best too.
Original Year of Release: 1971
Musicians: Mick Jagger – lead vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, percussion; Keith Richards – electric guitar, 6 & 12 string acoustic guitar, backing vocals; Mick Taylor – electric, acoustic, slide guitar; Charlie Watts – drums; Bill Wyman – bass guitar, electric piano. Guest Musicians: Ry Cooder – slide guitar, Jim Dickinson – piano, Rocky Dijon – congas, Nicky Hopkins – piano, Bobby Keys – saxophone, Ronnie Lane – vocals, Jimmy Miller – percussion, Billy Nicholls – vocals, Jack Nitzsche – piano, Billy Preston – organ, Jim Price – trumpet, piano, Ian Stewart – piano, Pete Townshend – vocals.
Brief Info: The first album on the new Rolling Stones Record label and feature to include Mick Taylor as a full-time member replacing Brian Jones. A wonderful album including the ever-popular single ‘Brown Sugar’ with varied material, some quite dark. Famed for it’s zipper cover which was based on an idea by Andy Warhol and designed by Craig Braun, many regard it as the greatest album cover ever made. Inside the cover and beneath the zip lies a pair of white pants and text ‘Andy Warhol - this photograph may not be etc’. Do not underestimate the rarity of the first ‘PAN’ zipper cover, they are highly sort after and unique to the UK examples, but only for a relatively brief time before being changed. Later copies still, omitted the zips altogether. This copy includes the insert and the condition for the set is very fine with the record playing very well indeed with little unwanted bar a tiny few gentle ticks on ‘I Got the Blues’, those apart, almost perfect, and never take that for granted as many copies will disappoint.
CONDITION: The corners have some wear. Please see pictures. The record itself has some very light wear, it plays perfectly. The zipper is in great shape. The jacket may need to be re-glued back together, it is coming apart a bit, but this is an easy fix. Overall it isn't in the most perfect condition, but it's rarity makes up for that.
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