Grateful Dead SELF TITLED LP STEREO GOLD LABEL RARE. NEAR MINT

$

150

I am parting with some of my treasured LPs.  Here's a great record from 1967.  It was recorded in just 4 days.  This was the first Grateful Dead LP, and these original STEREO/GOLD LABEL pressings are very rare.  When this LP was released, The Dead were not the huge band that they would become.  They were just starting to headline shows, mostly around San Fransisco.  They certainly had a local cult following, but when this LP was released it was not by any means a seller...  This particular LP is an amazing copy.  The cover as good as you can expect to find these days.  It's still in shrink with a cover sticker that must indicate a price structure in a store.  The spine is perfect and there are no seam splits.  There is a small cut to the paper on the bottom left seam, exposing the cardboard.  There is very minimal cover rubbing on the bottom, but hardly a distraction for an LP that is extremely hard to find in such condition.  The original inner is perfect.  The first song on the LP is THE GOLDEN ROAD TO UNLIMITED DEVOTION, which would essentially define what would be called DEADHEADS, and create the jamband culture.  It was the only song the band wrote for this LP.  Garcia also wrote Cream Puff War, which was a take on something by LOVE or THE 13TH FLOOR ELEVATORS.  However, it's Jerry's blistering guitar work on this song that showed the world at the time what kind of talent was just breaking through.
The LP itself plays perfectly with no pops, skips or jumps at all .  There is minor background noise in places but way below the music.  The vinyl looks shiny and with a few hairlines, and with stampers that end in 1A/1A.  The labels are super clean.   It's a piece of history.
I love original original pressings because I feel every LP is of it's time and place. The vinyl, and record pressings are all from that moment in time, and no re-pressing or re-mastering will ever make the sound better for me. 
 PLEASE CHECK OUT MY OTHER LPS FOR SALE NOW ON EBAY.  I AM POSTING SOME TREASURES.  SOME ARE RARE AND COLLECTIBLE, AND OTHERS ARE JUST GREAT ALBUMS LIKE THIS ONE IS.