PINK FLOYD - PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN - MONO 1967 vinyl LP. 1st UK pressing
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PINK FLOYD - PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN - MONO 1967. 1st pressing
This is a 1967 1st UK MONO vinyl pressing of Pink Floyd's debut LP.
It is on the black & blue Columbia label: SX 6157 and shows the very first known matrix numbers:
XAX 3419 -2 / XAX 3420 -1.
The disk is housed in a front laminated, tri-flipback 'Ernest J. Day' printed mono cover with NO 'File under Popular - Pop Groups' on the back.
Record sound:
Side 1: EX+ to M- deep full sound. No clicks when test played.
Side 2: EX+ to M- deep full sound. No clicks when test played.
Record visual:
EX++ to M-
No scratches, just very fine hairlines (from removing record from inner sleeve) when you look at the record up to a very strong light.
Both playing surfaces are extremely clean and retain their gloss shine, with no dull areas or 'groove-whitening' caused by overplay on poor equipment. Both sides of the record lie 100% flat on the turntable when playing. It does not skip or stick anywhere.
Labels: M-
A really clean and unworn pair with just one or two barely visible spindle marks around the centre holes. No writing, marks or blemishes.
Cover: EX+
A superb example which retains a clean-gloss front laminate, but no heavy creasing or any other significant signs of wear. Corners are free from any bumps or bruising. The rear panel is free from any blemishes or wear. All flipbacks are undamaged and fully intact. The spine is clean and white with full lamination and wording.
Mild crease to bottom right hand corner (see photo). Name of previous owner written in small letters in biro in top left hand corner of back cover (see photo).
Inner sleeve: EX/EX+
Housed in the very first EMI advertising sleeve for this release, which shows The Beatles’ Revolver, The Yardbirds’ ‘Roger the Engineer’, etc. Later copies - even of this first pressing - had a different inner sleeve showing The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper. Clean and flat with a few very light storage wrinkles - no tears or rips other than an 8cm split in middle of bottom seam (which allows the record to partially poke through the bottom of the sleeve), which could easily be mended (see photo). ‘Pink Floyd 1’ written in biro in small letters at top right corner of one side of the sleeve (see photo).
This is a really fantastic record. In my forty years of record collecting, I've never seen or heard a 1st pressing of this album ANYWHERE near as good as this.
Please view my photos as they are part of the description!
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