1st Pressing   The Jimi Hendrix Experience ?– Electric Ladyland Vinyl LP UK

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1st Pressing !      The Jimi Hendrix Experience ?– Electric Ladyland Vinyl LP UK.      Dispatched  Royal Mail Special next day delivery with signature.

Bought from new on release, didn't ever intend to sell but now down-sizing - until a couple of days ago not played since 1970

Have checked very carefully with available data to find which version this actually is .....   LOOKS LIKE THE "GHOST" to me.

Side A – just one light scratch, although it is on the track no“clicks” when played, there are marks either side but I think that these are pressing marks and also do not affect play.  There is a slight static sound in first 2-3 seconds on Voodoo Chile then plays ok

Side B - there is a slight crackle on the lead into Long Hot Summer Nights but not from when track starts.

Side C - great

Side D - between Still Raining and House Burning there is a little noise between the tracks, also slight noise very end of Voodoo slight return track on run out.

Papercovers good condition for the age but see photos  – British Patent No’s on the left and Made in England 108 right side

Laminated Cover good, always been kept in a plastic sleeve, it creaks a bit when you open it but that is because of how it was put together. The opening edge has a little bit of wear but not badly. A little shelfwear only on bottom edge.

As far as I can tell this is the Ghost Version,   because .........

Catalogue number is repeated above in smaller inverted numbers. 

The gatefold also has the large photo of Hendrix on one side and smaller sepia photos.   Redding and Mitchell onthe other, Track Records is in the centre in white and to the left is text starting "POLYDOR STEREO RECORDS can be played on Mono Radiogrammes"

White text on the front cover

Blue text inside – with some faint white markings in it.

 The track lists .....

          3.   Crosstown Traffic instead of Cross Town Traffic 

          5.       Burning of the Midnight Lamp    instead of  The Burning of the Midnight Lamp

HOWEVER, also checked with Discogs details for the Ghost version as follows ….

Firstpress with gatefold sleeve with all white text and the print credit centered.

YES - FRONTCOVER TEXT IS ALL IN WHITE but text inside is blue

Cover spread has 'unwrapped/floating' gloss laminate applied, matt print areas left exposed at the two cut edges where the albums insert. YES

Hendrixportrait on right-hand side (Back cover behind it). Small sepia images of Redding & Mitchell on left (Front cover behind it). YES,but not very small

Discs in poly-lined white paper punch-hole sleeves. "Patent no 800513& 973939" "Made in England" (Without 108) YES

Produced in auto-coupled sequence Side A/D and B/C : YES

Disc1: 613008 Side A; Cat# (613008 A) [inverted over 613008]
Disc 1:613008 Side D; Cat# (613008 B) [inverted over 613008]
Disc 2:613009 Side B; Cat# (613009 A) [inverted over 613009]
Disc 2:613009 Side C; Cat# (613008 B) [inverted over 613009] YES

Comparisonof matrix number with TheJimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland and TheJimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland :defect in matrix stamping on this early issue, altered by hand.Number on side C is different as 613009 B has been added with handand the machine stamped number is completly scratched except //1 Seeimages. YES

Comparisonlayout with label of TheJimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland (Unfortunatly TheJimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland doesn'tshow image label) :

- Label A and D are similar ? SIDE A PRINTED LOWER

-Label B and C are different. The text beginning with "ELECTRICLADYLAND" is very close to the center. The text seems to have moved up. SIDE B and side C are not printed below ST 33 but nearly onleft side.

SIDEA, B, C, D UNDER AND TO LEFT OF ST 33

Titles:This UK issue has no suffix to "Come On",      3. Come on

"The"is prefixed to "Burning Of The Midnight Lamp" 5.Burning of the Midnight Lamp and "Cross Town" appears as two words. 3.Crosstown traffic

Recorded:Initial tracks at Olympic Studios, London, January 1968. Completed at Record Plant Studios, Studio A, New York, June to August1968.
Performers, additional to the band, and technical credits added retrospectively. Taken from the authorized Hendrix family trustreleases on the Experience Hendrix label. ?

1. Barcodeand Other Identifiers

• Matrix/ Runout (Side A: # denotes scratch-out (See Notes)): 61300##8 A//1

• Matrix/ Runout (Side D: # denotes scratch-out (See Notes)): 61300#8 B//1

• Matrix/ Runout (Side B: # denotes scratch-out (See Notes)): 61300#9 A#//1

• Matrix/ Runout (Side C: # denotes scratch-out (See Notes)): 613009 B######## //1 CHECKEDA and D THE SAME AS ABOVE