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THE YARDBIRDS featuring JIMMY PAGE - LIVE YARDBIRDS - ULTRA-RARE WITHDRAWN ORIGINAL 1971 EPIC RECORDS STEREO LP E30615
ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING
INSANELY RARE STILL SEALED GUARANTEED ORIGINAL WITHDRAWN FIRST PRESSING
THIS ITEM COMES FROM THE INCREDIBLE, SINGLE-OWNER COLLECTION WE ACQUIRED A WHILE AGO, IN WHICH ITEMS ORIGINALLY BOUGHT BY THE OWNER FROM THE MID-1970s to THE MID-2010s WERE KEPT STILL SEALED IN A NEAR-LABORATORY, TIME-CAPSULE CONDITIONS AND IN PRACTICALLY CLIMATE- AND HUMIDITY- CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT. CONDITIONS OF SOME OF THESE ITEMS RANGE FROM IMPECCABLE TO TRULY UNBELIEVABLE. SOME OF THESE BEAUTIFUL MUSEUM PIECES LOOKED SO PERFECT THAT WE HAD TO REINSPECT AND RE-EXAMINE THEM A FEW TIMES TO MAKE SURE THEY OUR EYES ARE NOT DECEIVING US.
GUARANTEED ORIGINAL YELLOW EPIC LABEL WITH BLACK PRINT, MID-TO-LATE 60s STYLE , SUCH AS THE ONE SHOWN ABOVE, FROM OUR PREVIOUS AUCTION
PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS NEITHER A BOOTLEG PRESSING WITH BLACK AND WHITE COVER NOR THE BUDGET PRESSING ON THE RED COLUMBIA SPECIAL PRODUCTS LABEL THIS IS ONE AND ONLY REAL THING
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.
TWO BREATHE AIR HOLES NOTED ON THE SHRINK WRAP
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 7.
This album has been out of print and unavailable on Compact Disc or in any other format for many years much like the original LP album, the 2000 compact disc was withdrawn from circulation after Jimmy Page served a court injunction to stop the commercial release . In 2017, Jimmy Page finally - after years of whining, legal objections and litigation - allowed the remastered and significantly repackaged release to go ahead - BUT - with URRRRGH resequenced and re-edited program, with strange fades which truncate some of the songs and eliminate concert banter, and with the completely retitled and redesigned artwork. So, again, if you wish to own the REAL THING, the original LP album is the one and only way to go
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
Arguably the most famous lost live album in history, Live Yardbirds Featuring Jimmy Page, cut at the Anderson Theater in New York on March 30, 1968, has been issued twice on vinyl legitimately only to be suppressed by legal action and innumerable times since as a bootleg. Page s guitar which goes out of tune several times is the dominant instrument here, alternately crunchy and lyrical, but always loud and dexterous the roughness of Keith Relf s singing is also more apparent, but his shortcomings don t really hurt the music. The performance also reveals just how far out in front of the psychedelic pack the Yardbirds were by the spring of 1968 Page had pushed the envelope about as far as he could, in terms of high-velocity guitar pyrotechnics. Ironically, this album isn t quite as strong as the contemporary Truth album by Jeff Beck, mostly because the Yardbirds were still juggling three sounds: the group s progressive pop/rock past, the psychedelia of 1968, and a harder, more advanced blues-based sound. It s clear that they had few places left to go with the first two Dazed and Confused, by contrast, represented something new, a slow blues as dark, forbidding, and intense as anything that the band had ever cut -- it showed where Page, if not this band, was heading.
EXCERPT FROM AN ONLINE REVIEW BY STEVE HUEY, ALL MUSIC GUIDE /ALLMUSIC.COM/
All albums by Yardbirds, the first-ever supergroup which included at different times Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page on solo guitar are extremely coveted and highly collectable, especially in good condition, such as the copy of this classic Yardbirds album we are offering here - BUT THIS ONE IS PARTICULARLY HARD TO FIND. Withdrawn at Jimmy Page s insistence and as a result of contractual dispute, this album only saw two almost clandestine releases, of which we offer the VERY FIRST pressing here. The album is remarkable for the inclusion of I m confused - which was to become Dazed and Confused on Led Zeppelin s first album --- this album amply illustrates the evolution of the track from the white electric blues rave-up to the acid-blues in the Led Zep version. Finding a still sealed original copy? ? Forget it MISSION IMPOSSIBLE
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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 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.
c Of course, this is a full-bodied ANALOG recording, and not an inferior, digital recording
