BAD COMPANY Bad Company 1974 UK ISLAND 1st PRESSING MINT
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BAD COMPANY Bad Company 1974 UK ISLAND 1st PRESSING MINT
BAD COMPANYBad Company
1974 UK ISLAND (ILPS 9279) FIRST PRESSING
NICE ORIGINAL COPY WHICH PLAYS PERFECTLY
PRESSED WITH THE FIRST ISSUE RED ISLAND CUSTOM LABELS
MATRIX: ILPS 9279 A-1U / ILPS 9279 B-1U
HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL GATEFOLD SLEEVE “Printed in England by Robor Limited.”
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL PLAIN WHITE INNER SLEEVE WITH UK PATENT NUMBER AND "MADE IN GREAT BRITAIN" PRINTED IN GREY
From the wreckage of Free came Bad Company, a group fronted by singer Paul Rodgers and featuring his drummer bandmate Simon Kirke, Mott the Hoople guitarist Mick Ralphs, and King Crimson bassist Boz Burrell. The latter is something of a ringer, suggesting an undercurrent of adventure in the band, but as the group's eponymous 1974 debut decidedly proves, the band is proudly not progressive. If anything, Bad Company excise the excesses of Free -- there are no winding jams and very little added color by way of pianos or even air in the production; those two tricks are evident on their title track/rallying call "Bad Company," and the details make a difference, as do the pastoral acoustics of the closing "Seagull" -- reducing their rock & roll to a strong, heavy crunch; compare "Ready to Love," a tune Ralphs brought over from Mott the Hoople, to the original to see how these quartet members keep their heads down as they do their business. Appropriately enough given their name, there's a sense of slow, churning menace to Bad Company. Even the quickest songs -- the blues boogies of "Can't Get Enough" and "Movin' On" -- don't exactly proceed at a rapid clip, a steadiness that makes the quartet seem heavier. It's hard rock painted in stark black & white: cranked guitars mirrored by a deliberate wallop from the rhythm section, a rock & roll so loud and basic it wound up not aging much at all even though it pretty much defined mid-'70s album rock
Side A:
Can't Get Enough (4:10)
Rock Steady (3:46)
Ready For Love (5:00)
Don't Let Me Down (4:18)
Side B:
Bad Company (4:50)
The Way I Choose (5:05)
Movin' On (3:20)
Seagull (4:06)
LABELS: NEAR MINT
Clean, unmarked labels with barely a spindle trace to be seen
VINYL Visual: MINT
Both sides shine like new
VINYL Audio: MINT
Plays beautifully throughout with nothing to fault the strong, loud, powerful sound
SLEEVE: EXCELLENT
Some general light storage rub to the surfaces/edges but clean and solid with all spine text clear and bold
POST & PACKING:
A PROTECTIVE POLY SLEEVE, QUALITY BOX (NOT ENVELOPE) MAILER AND AMPLE STIFFENERS ARE ALWAYS USED TO ENSURE THAT YOUR RECORD ARRIVES SAFELY
UK: £5.00 (Recorded Delivery)
EUROPE: Airmail: £15.00 (International Tracked)
INTERNATIONAL: Airmail: £25.00 (International Tracked)
ALL RECORDS ARE PLAY-CHECKED UNLESS SEALED
Combined Post: Additional records £2 (UK) £3 (Europe) £5 (International)
Guarantee: All records are unconditionally guaranteed (including sealed and/or unplayed) and I will offer a complete, no quibble refund upon return of the item should you not be pleased with it in any way
* EU BIDDERS PLEASE BE AWARE TAX AND FULL CUSTOMS CHARGES WILL BE APPLIED AT YOUR END 1480 (GS 9.1.1 (1480))
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