Egg 'The Polite Force' Vinyl LP UK Re-press 1970
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I am not a record dealer, just someone who has accumulated a large collection of vinyl in the 1970s and to a certain extent in the 1980s, and now has (sadly) to let my old 'friends' go to new homes (age and inevitable decay- me, not the records).
While not strictly part of the ‘Canterbury scene’, Egg became associate members as it were by mere chance, They were formed by Dave Stewart from the remains of a band called Uriel, which featured one Steve Hillage (Gong etc),who went up to the University of Kent at Canterbury. Here he met with, and became influenced by, Caravan and Soft Machine, the quintessential Canterbury bands. As Uriel had been offered a record deal, Hillage and the other three members of Egg briefly re-formed to record under the name of Arzachel. After that Hillage departed, and the trio reverted to the name Egg.
This, their second album, explores further the themes and styles exhibited on their first release, with complex time-signatures, musical dynamics (‘silences’) and some interesting use of a choir of wind instruments,including the great Henry Lowther on trumpet, and arranged by Mont Campbell the bass player, himself an accomplished musician and composer trained in the Classical tradition. They were one-offs, really, nobody sounded quite like them before or since.
I am not an expert on the grading of records, but I do know that 'Mint' and 'near-Mint' are, for all practical purposes, meaningless. Who buys a record and then never plays it?
The Cover is EX, with no wrinkles I can discern, but there is a tiny amount of faint ‘foxing’ on the reverse. It is also ‘glazed’ (like the first album) to such an extent that it was not easy to photograph with my cheap camera. The vinyl surfaces are blemish-free on visual inspection. The sound on playing is VG+ to EX, with very little surface noise. Please remember that I played these records because I loved the music; I did not buy them as future Collectors’ items or exercises in Hi-Fi navel-gazing. I always took good care of them, however, kept them in vinyl sleeves, and in cases, but even then, some wear is an inevitability.
The matrix numbers on the run-out are ZAL-10066.P-IW ZAL-10067.P-IW
This is a repress (1970) as confirmed by the clever people at ‘Discogs’.Record Collector 2020 guide suggest £100.00 for a ‘mint’ genuine 1st pressing.
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