THE CLIMAX BLUES BAND Debut 1st Pressing PCS 7069 SUPER RARE 1969 SIUK Text

	£		75
	$		99

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THE CLIMAX BLUES BAND Debut 1st Pressing!PCS 7069 Parlophone 1969

Here we have an extremely rare album on very first Yellow and Black Parlophone (with the by 1969, error "Sold In U.K." text also!) pressing of The Climax Chicago Blues Band's Debut Self Titled LP from 1969. Though reissued, this is an extremely hard title to find on very first pressing! Great rollocking US late 60's white-boy-style progressive-chicago-blues-rock,with absolutely superb audio! This is also one of the very first off the press with incredibly early stamper/lacquer codes of 1A/1A!

Record Condition: VG+ It's so much better than this, and plays incredibly,however, there is one scratch that knocks it down visually, though it plays through the scracth with just a few background ticks in the quietest passages. The rest ofthe record has just some of the lightest surface paper withdrawal lines visible when angled into strong direct light etc. Really a stunning record even with the visible mark on side 1,withoutthis mark would definitely be in the "Excellents" area of grading, and it still feels a sin to call it VG+ it's screaming to be an EX- but anyway that one mark makesme say VG+, but you will be very impressed. As connoseurs of this record will know a real test is the final almost imperceptably quiet "The Entertainer",I only know this very first pressing,so perhaps they improved it forlater ones, but this is pressed SO quietly and with such shallow grooves, that you think that you'regoing mad,the record ends, then you start hearing tinkling somewhere, then you realise the record hasn't quite ended,and you pu the volume all the way up to hear it- obviously on any player even on a brand new record when youdo that there is a little vinyl noise/"static", but I honestly think that this copy holds up as well as any would! This is a stupendous copy of an incredibly rare pressing of The Climax Chicago Blues Band's Eponymous album, with one indescreet mark on it. Ithink you'll have to wait a long time to find a better copy of this!

Sleeve Condition: EX- Really lovely interesting matt,non-laminated flip-back sleeve, in lovely crisp condition. Indeed the stylised "faded and worn photograph" makes it difficult to tell what of this sleeve is age wear! The edges are realy crisp pristine, the opening mouth edges are lovely and crisp,the scallop-cornered spine is still beautifully square, and immaculately legible (hard for a non-laminated flip-back sleeve like this,butthis is gorgeous!) barely any wear to corners, a very small ammount of disk-rub/stain at 12o'clock front anf back, other than that, just ever so slight age dullening of a little bit of the white areas.Absolutely completely free from graffiti/tears/nicks/wear-throughs/folds etc. Really is incredibly lovely!  

DEADWAX INFO:

SIDE 1:

1                         A

    YEX  713 -1G

SIDE 2:

1                         A

    YEX  714 -1G


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