B. B. KING: The Thrill Is Gone - STATESIDE DEMONSTRATION COPY - EX

	£		36
	$		48

B. B. KING: The Thrill Is Gone/You're Mean (Stateside, SS 2161, 1970, 7" single). Demonstration copy.
As far as I can tell, this is the only demo copy currently available online. (You watch, there'll be six of them up tomorrow!)
A-side is EX. B-side has some marks and plays at mostly EX, but with a bout of background for about the first 20 or so seconds, plus some light repeating pops about half way through. Overall, though, a nice record, and certainly rare as a demo.
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Conditions with records tend to be subjective and I don't use 'Mint' even for new, still sealed records - all records come fresh from the pressing plant with some minor imperfection to sleeve, record, inner, etc. A record that has been played a few times and well looked after I describe as EX, whilst the majority of LP sleeves from played but well looked after records tend to be what I would call VG (which should mean exactly what it says, 'very good'). Judging by records bought on eBay over the last few years would suggest that my "Very Good" (and, often, my "Good") equates to many sellers' "Excellent".
All records/books/etc. are from my own collection, started in 1966, and most of it has been in storage for the last fifteen years or so. Lockdowns have caused a revisit and clear out. Why do I have multiple copies of records I haven't played since the early 1980s? There are about 15,000 more items to come from my rambling progressive rock, jazz fusion, folk, folk-rock, blues, 1950s stereo classical/easy listening, psychedelic, reggae, ambient, railway, field recordings, electronic and occasionally just plain 'out there' collection.