Hi, and welcome to psych_out! auctions!!! I've collected 50's, 60's, and early 70's records of almost every genre - Psych, Prog, Psychedelic Funk, Soul, Rhythm 'n' Blues, Pop, Folk, Garage, Acid, Freakbeat, Rock, Jazz e.t.c and everything in between for all my life!!! Obviously, 90% of the LP's I've ever gotten hold of are completely trashed from the hard living ways and the rock 'n' roll, drug and booze fuelled debauchery of all the wild parties of the times, but the golden 10%? Reluctantly, I've decided to offer them to all of you serious record collectors out there!!! I'm currently trying to set up a record label so unfortunately personal sacrifices have to be made when it comes to my collection, resulting in GREAT benefits for all you shrewd bidders and serious connosieurs of TRUE solid gold music history out there!!! Make no mistake, I'll try my best to consistently offer some of the VERY BEST records available on ebay, many which have taken me YEARS to find!!! I aim to put a weekly batch up (time permitting) every Wednesday, all timed to end 10 days later on Saturday night. I'll only ever offer THE BEST , MOST AMAZING , MOST IMPORTANT , VERY RAREST UK 1ST PRESS ORIGINAL RELEASE RECORDS I've got!!! I won't insult you with later 2nd pressings unless they are of exceptional quality and rarity. I'm sure you love good music as much as me, especially when it's a 1st Press LP, direct from the master tape, as the musicians intended it to be heard (none of this "digitally remastered",weak reissued, remixed rubbish from hired hands with one eye on the mixing desk and the other on the clock! If these session men really knew how genius should sound, surely they would've been geniuses themselves?! There will only ever be one Hendrix, and that's just a tiny example). I try to be one of the best sellers on ebay and would like to thank all of you potential bidders for your support and taste in music!!! I strictly grade all LP's I list, visually and sonically using the UK RRPG standards as customer satisfaction is highly important to me, and I'll always do my very best not to let you down. Be sure to add me to your favourite sellers list and check my auctions frequently as i'll be listing some gems that you just WON'T want to miss out on!!! I think that's everything, so let the auction commence!!! Title : The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis : Bold As Love Label & year : Original Black Track 612 003 LP , UK Mono 1967 IMPOSSIBLY RARE 1st Press complete with PHENOMENALLY RARE ORIGINAL ORANGE LYRIC POSTER INSERT!!! !!! Matrix's : Side A : 612003 A v 1, Side B : 612003 B v 1 (EARLIEST EVER!!!) (EARLIEST EVER!!!) OUTRAGEOUSLY RARE MONO CLASSIC IN OUTSTANDING CONDITION COMPLETE WITH AMAZINGLY UNAGED ORIGINAL ORANGE LYRIC INSERT POSTER AND ABSOLUTELY IMPOSSIBLE UNIQUE ONE OFF LABEL ERROR - TWO SIDE B LABELS!!! ALMOST CERTAINLY THE ONLY EXAMPLE LIKE THIS IN EXISTENCE AND THEREFORE INSTANTLY THE VERY RAREST HENDRIX LP OF ALL TIME - JUST TRY FINDING ANOTHER !!! ABSOLUTELY AWESOME AUDIO!!! TO FIND A UK MONO 1ST PRESS ON IT'S OWN IS INCREDIBLY HARD IN ITSELF (THE VAST MAJORITY WERE STEREO), BUT ONE WITH THE OUTRAGEOUSLY RARE LYRIC INSERT/POSTER AND TWO SIDE B LABELS? ABSOLUTELY IMPOSSIBLE!!! ONLY A TINY AMOUNT OF THESE POSTERS WERE EVER MADE FOR A MINISCULE FRACTION OF THE VERY FIRST PRESSING RUN!!! HARDLY ANY OF THESE MAGNIFICENT POSTERS WILL HAVE SURVIVED THE FIVE HARD DECADES SINCE JIMI HIMSELF OVERSAW THIS INCREDIBLE CREATION, ESPECIALLY ONE AS TRULY OUTSTANDING AS THIS!!! HERE IS YOUR CHANCE to own a TRULY UNIQUE one off mismatched label 100% complete pillar of music history in MAGNIFICENT shape!!! Do not miss out on this historic masterpiece, bid now!!! Now, I can't stress enough how amazing this Mono mix truly is. Overseen by and mixed with Hendrix, you simply haven't heard this LP unless you've heard it like this!!! One Rainy Wish in it's Mono mix is a COMPLETELY different beast to any other you may of heard, and as for Castles Made Of Sand? FORGET any other version!!! It fades in PHENOMENALLY, and the outro has an utterly OUTRAGEOUS shimmer NOT in any other mix out there!!! That's just two examples of this magnificent mix - I truly believe that this album in it's mono form is the closest we can ever get to hearing the sound inside Hendrix's head!!! Just like any of the Hendrix experience albums, this is one of THE BEST LP's of all time containing some of THE GREATEST music EVER recorded!!! I love this album. It's got a unique sort of taste, feel, and atmosphere. It's certainly the most psychedelic thing The Experience ever did, right from the phenomenal music to the INCREDIBLE cover artwork! This LP is a masterpiece, and absolutely LOADED with classics - you've only got to look at the tracklist! It feels really relaxed and easy going, as if Hendrix was satisfied with proving himself to the world with "Are You Experienced",and felt it was time to do what he really wanted to do. There's not too much out and out blues on here, it's more experimental such as the Jazzy "Up From The Skies",the truly psychedelic "One Rainy Wish",the Dylan-esque classic "Castles Made Of Sand",the hilarious "Wait Until Tomorrow",the delicate "Little Wing" and "Bold As Love",and his trademark freak out track! On Are You Experienced, it was "Third Stone From The Sun". On Electric Ladyland, it was "1983 (A Merman I Shall Turn To Be)". On this, it's the PHENOMENAL "If Six Was Nine"!!! I can't believe how amazing this LP is, every track is truly outstanding. Probably my favourite Hendrix LP (though I couldn't live without any of them). Even Noel Redding's "She's So Fine" is suprisingly excellent psych-pop! It easily sits in the top 10 greatest albums of all time, and there it shall remain until the world blows up!!! Until that moment? Well, we should all listen to his records and be thankful that Jimi Hendrix was born!!! Tracklist : EXP, Up From The Skies, Spanish Castle Magic, Wait Until Tomorrow, Ain't No Telling, Little Wing, If Six Was Nine, You've Got Me Floating, Castles Made Of Sand, She's So Fine, One Rainy Wish, Little Miss Lover, and Bold As Love. Musicians : Jimi Hendrix - Vocals / Guitar / Bass / Harpsichord, Noel Redding - Vocals / Bass, Mitch Mitchell - Drums, and Chas Chandler - Producer. About : Ultra Rare Original 1967 UK 1st Press!!! This MASSIVELY RARE LP initially sold barely anything (LP's were also really expensive to most people back then!!!) and therefore had a very small run, and is INCREDIBLY HARD TO FIND, especially in this condition!!! AN absolute classic LP from this incredible band!!! An astonishing album that really DESERVES to be in EVERY serious 60's / 70's record collection!!! Don't miss out on this MEGA RARE LP!!! If you like good music, bid now!!! The LP : Labels : Classic UK Original double ridged black Track 1st Press labels!!! Both sides are FANTASTIC with NO real signs of age, NO stickers, and NO tears whatsoever!!! Just has a tiny smudge over the “2” on side A to indicate that it is indeed side A, and only a tiny amount of ultra light spindle marks which suggests that this has barely had much play over the years at all!!! AWESOME for a 50 year old record!!! Both must grade overall at least as Excellent!!! Record : Visual - Spectacular Original 1967 UK 1st Press Vinyl!!! Nice bright, clean and shiny as if it was just pressed!!! Fantastic jet black mirror like surfaces, it looks GREAT with NO really nasty scratches, groovewear, or nasty deep scuffs whatsoever!!! The only blemishes are just some light wispy sleeve traces, a few mild hairlines and age marks, and just a small amount of cosmetic non-sounding and unfeelable scuffs (only visible in direct angled light) mostly caused from where it has sat or been removed from it's cover over the years!!! Of course, none of these ULTRA light blemishes really interfere with play AT ALL thanks to the deeply pressed quality!!! AWESOME for a record of this age and rarity!!! Must grade overall at the very least as Very Good!!! (graded STRICTLY to the UK RRPG standards, not overgraded AT ALL!!! Customer satisfaction is of 100% importance to me) Record : Audio - Thankfully, it plays BRILLIANTLY with fantastic mono blast and clarity!!! It really sounds incredible with NO hisses, hops, distortion, sticks OR skips!!! Only like pretty much ALL records has just a mere touch of the lightest crackle here and there, only a few light ticks on here and there on very rare occasions, and a hint of low level ultra light "bluesman's fag" atmospheric static in few and far between places such as on some of the quieter sections like the run in grooves and between some tracks e.t.c, but it TRULY doesn't overshadow the music AT ALL!!! I'd even argue it gives it added soul!!! And that's truly about it!!! The vast, vast majority of the music is ultra clear and sounds ABSOLUTELY AWESOME with that bass, depth, warmth and clarity you can only get from 1st Press UK vinyl!!! An outstanding listen! Absolutely ESSENTIAL!! MAGNIFICENT for a record of this age and rarity!!! Must grade overall audibly at least as Very Good++++!!! (graded STRICTLY to the UK RRPG standards, not trashed or overgraded AT ALL!!! Customer satisfaction is of 100% importance to me) Sleeve : Original UK 1967 1st Press laminated flipback gatefold E.J Day sleeve complete with original earliest “1 17 ” (nov 1967) pre release inner and PHENOMENALLY RARE ORIGINAL LYRIC INSERT POSTER (FANTASTIC condition and rarely even left the sleeve - ultra clean and as vibrant as the day it was pressed with NO pin holes, NO tears, and NO writing OR graffiti whatsoever - just has only some near invisible hints of handling and only vague evidence of an ultra minor little fold crease to the very bottom right corner tip to show of it's five decades!!! OUTSTANDING !!!) IMPOSSIBLE to find this sleeve in anything approaching a good condition - most are spent, torn and worn due to age and the lifestyles of the buyers of this particular LP!!! This one is NOT, and looks FANTASTIC, especially considering the nature of these fragile sleeves!!! NO tears, NO writing OR graffiti, NO dulling, NO bad marks AT ALL, NO seam splits, and still ULTRA strong and solid after all these years!!! Only has a small amount of ultra mild signs of ageing such as a small amount of ultra light edge creases and the merest hint of a record imprint, some minor touches of the slightest general ultra light surface glazing here and there from where it has sat between sleeves over the years (barely anything at all), a touch of denting to the four corners which basically ALL vintage LP's have, and POSSIBLY (just to be sure!!!) one or two other minor signs of age here and there, though nothing that really stands out to note at all!!! And that's truly about it!!! I tend to bring it down by listing the most minor negatives I can possibly find, but this remains a FANTASTIC sleeve, and a TRUE rarity to find one as incredible as this - most have been virtually destroyed or are just about being held together, but not this one!!! The iconic psychedelic artwork is as vibrant as the day it was pressed and looks simply AMAZING!!! It remains ultra strong, solid, unsplit and unspoilt, and even the spine remains ultra strong, solid, 100% unworn and unsplit!!! Must grade overall at the least as Very Good++++!!! (graded STRICTLY to the UK RRPG standards, not trashed or overgraded AT ALL!!! Customer satisfaction is of 100% importance to me) Summary : A PHENOMENAL UNIQUE 100% complete example of this IMPOSSIBLY RARE pioneering classic UK 1st Press LP!!! Hard to find in ANY condition, but simply IMPOSSIBLY RARE TO FIND ONE AS TRULY FANTASTIC AS THIS!!! YOU MAY NEVER GET THE CHANCE AGAIN, so don't miss out on this scarce opportunity to own a true piece of 60's/70's music history!!! Bid now!!! Please take a look at all my other auctions for many other ultra rare classic LPs, and feel free to contact me with any questions you may have. Thanks again for looking, it's truly appreciated!! Cheers!!! I've realized that most countries have their own unique grading system. I base mine strictly on the UK RRPG grading system (occasionally with a + or a - to indicate the higher and lower ends of the grade, though I only use these if i'm having real trouble deciding!), so please check their chart for further clarity if you are unsure of what my grades mean. As a general rule, a mint record will be 100% perfect, an excellent record will be in fantastic clean condition with the occasional mild mark and minor use from the years, and a very good record will have noticeable, yet light visual markings and obvious signs of age and use, but will still remain clean with relatively light wear and will play fantastically well with plenty of life remaining in it. I very rarely offer records below the very good region unless they are of an EXCEPTIONAL rarity and playing quality...I hope this helps! Postage and packing (UK bidders) will be £4.99 signed for for the first item, £2.00 for every item after that. Europe buyers, postage is £13.99 signed for for the first item, £3.00 for every item after that. Rest of the world buyers, postage is £17.99 signed for for the first item, £3.00 for every item after that (orders over £30 need to be sent signed for). Contact is expected to be made within a day, and payment expected within 3 days of the auction ending, otherwise you may lose priority over the item and it may be offered second chance to the under bidder or relisted e.t.c. Contact is king! UK bidders, I accept paypal or postal orders. International bidders, I accept Paypal or Bank Transfer! Unfortunately, I cant accept any other internet payment other than paypal. Please PLEASE get in touch via the ebay messaging system rather than opening a case if there’s any kind of problem, I will do my very best to sort it out. Please just ask if you have any questions or if you require further information. The photos below are of the genuine item, apologies for the occasional blurryness or glare from the light in some of them. If you would like further pictures or details, please ask. If you are not happy with your item, please let me know within 3 days. I pride myself on my 100% feedback so if there are any problems, I will do my very best to sort them out. All my auctions start from a bare minimum price, so there is always plenty of opportunity for a bargain! Please check my other auctions for many more of the rarest, most awesome Vinyl Record items ever!!! Thanks for your time, happy bidding! | |
