Blind Faith Lp N Mint 1969 UK Gatefold Beautiful Cover.

$

36

Artist: Blind Faith

Title: Self Titled

VINYL Near Mint.

COVER: Very Nice. (See pic).

INNER SLEEVE: poly lined plastic inner sleeve.

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NOTES: BLIND FAITH ''BLIND FAITH'' (clapton,winwood,baker,grech)1ST UK PRESSING ON THE POLYDOR LABELS CAT NO. 583059 1969 ORIGINAL PRESSING!!! THE VINYL'S PLAYING SURFACE IN VERY NEAR MINT!!!! ABSOLUTELY AWESOME AUDIO ON ALL FREQUENCIES!!VIRTUALLY UNPLAYED! ORIGINAL MACNEILL PRINTED UNLAMINATED GATEFOLD COVER!! RARELY EVER SEEN IN THIS CONDITION!!!!!! EARLIEST 1ST PRESS MATRIX A#1 B#1 !!!!!! THE BEST AUDIO THAT I HAVE HEARD OF THIS PRESSING!!!

Blind Faith were an English blues supergroup which consisted of Eric Clapton (The Yardbirds, Cream), Ginger Baker (Graham Bond Organisation, Cream), Steve Winwood (Spencer Davis Group, Traffic) and Ric Grech (Family). The group only released one album, Blind Faith, in August 1969 and were often seen as stylistically similar to the bands which Winwood, Baker, and Clapton had most recently participated in (Traffic and Cream). The band helped to pioneer a fusion of rock and roll with the blues!!!

Blind Faith's beginnings date to mid-1968, with the breakup of Cream. Rock's original supergroup had become a financial powerhouse, selling millions of records within a few years and raising the group's (and each member's) repertoire to international popularity. Despite that success, the band was crumbling from within due to frequent animosity between Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker, with Eric Clapton doing his best to mediate. In addition, Clapton had tired of being coerced into playing commercially-driven blues, and hoped to move forward with a new, experimental, less strait-jacketed approach to the genre!!!!.

Steve Winwood was facing similar problems in The Spencer Davis Group, where he had been the lead singer for three years while they produced straight-laced blues. Winwood wanted to experiment with the band's sound by infusing jazz elements, but left due to his musical differences, instead forming a new band -- Traffic -- in 1967. That band split temporarily in 1969, and Winwood, started to jam with his good friend Eric in Clapton's basement in Surrey, England. Winwood and Clapton had previously collaborated on the Eric Clapton record, "Powerhouse"!!!

The release of the album provoked controversy because the cover featured a topless pubescent girl, holding in her hands a silver space ship designed by Mick Milligan, a jeweler at the Royal College of Art.Some perceived the ship as phallic The U.S. record company issued it with an alternative cover which showed a photograph of the band on the front.

The cover art was created by photographer Bob Seidemann, a personal friend and former flatmate of Clapton who is known primarily for his photos of Janis Joplin and the Grateful Dead. Bizarre rumors both fueled and were fueled by the controversy, among them that the young girl was Baker's illegitimate daughter or, alternatively as a fantasy, was a groupie kept in the meadowlands as a slave by the band members. Actually, the young lass was a London suburbanite, who posed upon consent by her parents and for a handsome fee, as described in Seidemann's mini essay about the origins of the Blind Faith album cover artwork (Re: Blind Faith (album)

"Had to Cry Today" (Steve Winwood) – 8:48 "Can't Find My Way Home" (Steve Winwood) – 3:16 "Well...All Right" (Norman Petty, Buddy Holly, Jerry Allison, Joe B. Mauldin) – 4:27 "Presence of the Lord" (Eric Clapton) – 4:50 "Sea of Joy" (Steve Winwood) – 5:22 "Do What You Like" (Ginger Baker) – 15:18

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side 1. 583059 A#1 side 2. 583059 B#1 (1ST PRESS)

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GRADING

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cover / record - All records are cleaned.

SS still sealed

NM near mint. cover and record looks like new.

VG++ cover and record looks almost like new.

VG+ cover may show light wear but still looks very nice / record may have very light surface marks or scuffs which have little or no effect on play. may have a little surface noise but should sound great. 

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G cover will have a lot of wear, may be completely split / record is heavily scratched but plays , but might skip or jump.

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