22. SHAPE OF THE RAIN, RCA NEON, ORIGINAL 1st UK PRESS LP, RARE & LOVELY PROG
£
103
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136
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shape of the rain, uk rca neon original 1st press. some people consider this one of the greatest lps ever made. i used to own another copy when i was a teenager, paid about £3, and i only ever really liked one song, the melancholic masterpiece "i'll be there" hidden on side two. very light but still complex tuneful prog lp, highly individual band, and a gem.
grading is - cover / disc
vg+++/ vg+ the cover looks almost mint and thats because it has professional restoration by a museum restorer with perfect and invisible colour matched touching up, its only visible if you know where to look and do so very intently, but ive downgraded it anyway for transparency. the last photo shows the inside right of the gatefold and there was a surface tear near the wooden post in the image, this has been touched up and now you cant really see where it was, and the spine lettering is also restored in places. basically absolutely tight clean cover with no wear at the edges and looks great. the disc has quite a few light marks, and a small scratch right at the end of side two. the lp plays ok with some bits of surface noise, but is not mint.
ive listed around 60 rare progressive, psych, folk and blues lps on ebay in a big clear out, please click other items if interested to see them all. they are all getting harder to find as the years go by, and prices and demand seems to have gone stratospheric.
all are 1st pressings, original uk editions.
all lps are placed in period/vintage plain paper inner sleeves. any generic polylined inner sleeves have been discarded as they are unsafe and damage lps, as per the policy of many serious collectors. old pvc lined inners are ageing, chemically unstable, and sticking to lps, paper inners are the only currently known way to avoid it. vertigo inners are retained and sent outside the covers to avoid damaging contact.
most photos show the fronts, backs, spine and labels so cover condition is fully visible in the photos.
lps listed include sam apple pie, hungry wolf, gerry lockran, mike westbrook love songs, shape of the rain, cressida, idle race, five day week straw people, dransfield, fuschia, rockin horse, gentle giant, and the now very rare aubrey small lp with insert.
grading is mainly visual, all the lps have been fully or partly tested mainly on the run in and first tracks, and any visible defects have been played through to see if theres any audible results.
tested on lenco/cyrus/tannoy 60s/70s equipment.
everything starts at 99p and theres no reserve prices!
POSTAGE - £5 for anywhere in europe and uk. if you bid from usa, japan, australia please wait for an invoice.
postage will be combined and reduced significantly for multiple wins, just wait for an invoice, if ebayers win a few lps postage will be free.
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