M- SHRINK 1970 WB SMALL FACES FIRST STEP RONNIE WOOD ROD STEWART 1st LP
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56
$ 56
Sold For
Jul 25, 2021
Sold Date
Jul 20, 2021
Start Date
21
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USA
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FIRST STEWART/FACES LP GROOVES
A BEAUTIFUL TOP COPY IN FACTORY CELLOPHANE
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- THE SMALL FACES
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- USA - (olive green) Warner brothers 1851
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A BEAUTIFUL (MINT) TOP COPY ... STILL IN FACTORY CELLOPHANE
- so hard to find any better!
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1 in a 100 (or more) = this cover shows NO wear anywhere!!
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ORIGINAL 1970 FIRST PRINTING on the old olive green Warner Brothers label and a thick gatefold cover ...
The 'revamped' Small Faces with Ron Wood & Ron Stewart who came over from the mighty Jeff Beck Group...
"First Step" is one of their best ... featuring the phenomenal "FLYING", "WICKED MESSENGER", "THREE BUTTON HAND ME DOWN" "PLYNTH" and more ... rocked-out to the maximum...
The drums! This album is all about the drums. Kenny Jones was let loose on this 10 song album in a way that he never would be again. If you only heard the drum work, you might think you were listening to The Who, Cream, or the Jimi Hendrix Experience.
Wicked Messenger - A Bob Dylan-penned fable with heavy organ (think Emerson, Lake and Palmer) starts the album off with a literal bang. Quite fine and quite audible bass work from Ronnie Lane, Ron Wood on the lead guitar, and Kenny pounds the drums until the very last of the 4:08. Good to the last beat!
Rod the Mod does such a great job as "the voice" that he could have made a career out of covering Dylan songs. Oh, and, yes, the arrangement does sound like Hendrix' cover-arrangement of Bob Dylan's All Along the Watchtower. Once the last drum beat hits, its obvious that Martin Birch did an A to A+ job of engineering.
Devotion - This ballad about family ("It's so good to be with the people that know you/ It's good to hear the things they say/ At times when you are with them...") This is the first of two songs on First Step that sounds like Handbags and Gladrags on The Rod Stewart Album - meant and intended as a compliment. Wood picks in circles like Dave Mason on this one. Kenny kicks the drums right before the end.
Shake, Shudder and Shiver - It starts off with a heavy lead guitar opening riff isolated on the right channel before the rest of the band drops in on the left. Kenny pushes the band like a locomotive barreling down the tracks. There's more than a trace of Cream's Sunshine of Your Love in the lead and bass rhythm. This is one of those hard rock tracks that, heard live, would cause fans to light their flames in tribute.
Stone - this Ronnie Lane vocal goes on for all of 5:43 - about twice the length needed. As a short throwaway, it might have seemed cute. The positive is hearing Rod as a not so bad (and barking) back-up singer.
Plynth - This was the band's live show stopper and with good reason. Peter Green Fleetwood Mac meets Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck. Absolutely brilliant stereo production - it's moving in stereo - and Wood has never played a crisper lead. The drums are so clean and clear you feel like you're sitting under the kit.
The second side is along the lines, juust as good -- as this first side and contains possibly the best ever Small Faces track in the shining "Flying" with its ultra catchy melody, really timeless this is...the album ends on one of The Small Faces banging cookers "Three Button Hand Me Down" in which they'd rock the balls off in concert... all in all, told you - great stuff !
Wicked Messenger
Devotion
Shake, Shudder
Stone
Around The Plynth
Flying
Pineapple And The Monkey
Nobody Knows
Looking Out The Window
Three Button Hand Me Down
- CONDITION:
- The cover: rated: a BEAUTY! M- gatefold in factory cellophane front cover and M- back cover (shrink wrap on back has a couple of tears (cover is MINT- front and back)... one of the most prone-to-wear covers, the (original issue) back cover is impossible to find without wear - here is that special original press = no wear! Thick old-style gatefold cover has the ultimate collectible look, it's 50+ years of age...the notoriously prone-to-wear back cover is a beauty - blowing away most surviving copies. Overall it's one hard cover to find completely clean like this!
- The vinyl: is very glossy clean, rated: M- playing smooth and enjoyable ... so both olive green WB labels are clean
A cool addition to anyone's music library!
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GRADING SCALE: M, M-, EX, VG++,VG+, VG, VG- M Completely clean, no marks, plays clean
M- Carefully used, looks clean, plays clean, shiny gloss, plays clean
EX Faint scuff or superficial mark, near M-, high gloss, plays clean VG++ Glossy with minimal scuffing or light mark playing very nice, enjoyable
VG+ a bit more scuff or marks still plays well with very minimal surface at worse VG more marks/scratches only minor, nothing deep, no loud clicks or pops this grade is abused by many, VG here does not mean "trashed" VG- surface noise present, will not have skips or jumps ALL PAYMENTS SHOULD BE MADE WITHIN 5 DAYS Of AUCTIONS END BIDDERS PLEASE = Do Not Bid If You Are Not Serious About Following Through The Transaction! ALL ITEMS GUARANTEED FOR WINNING BID - LESS SHIPPING!
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