SUPER '69 Orig ? TEN YEARS AFTER ? SSSSH WICKED HARD BURNING BLUES PSYCH JAMS

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            POWER PSYCH BLUES JAMS!

   SUPERIOR U.K. ROYAL SOUND PRESSING

                    TEN YEARS AFTER

               SSSSH!

                      ENGLAND -  DERAM RECORDS - SML 18016

British '69 ORIGINAL ...

SUPERIOR British ROYAL SOUND PRESSING

REALLY HARD to find CLEAN ... here, a clean British first printing in laminated GATEFOLD cover. Far surpassing the USA issue, contains a BETTER APPEARANCE cover , better sound ....deep colorization...

1969 first pressing pressing vinyl on the old Deram Records label...in nice laminated CLEAN gatefold cover... will include the original 1969 printed DERAM RECORDS inner sleeve ...

Arguably the best TEN YEARS AFTER album, a blasting blitzkrieg of British bluesrock with a psych twist and lots of turned on jamming (dig the throbbing bass lines throughout) ...

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Vastly underrated, the band freshly off their heroic WOODSTOCK performance, delivers an intense, tightly wound pulsating throbber...right off the bat "BAD SCENE" may be even better than their signature song "I'm Going Home", a torrid ripper that never lets up...other highlights include the pounding cruncher "Stoned Woman" and both performance show-stoppers "I Woke Up This Morning" and "Good Morning Little School Girl" , (both) lengthy jammers with  heated Alvin Lee guitar theatrics, blazing fingers off the fretboard ... all in all, classic winner of the times...

1969's "Ssssh" proved to be the album that broke the band commercially in the US. Produced by Alvin Lee and company, it also happens to be the tightest and most interesting album they'd released. The album certainly sold well, hitting # 20 in the States. Largely written by Lee, the set still found the band finally beginning to move away from their roots, towards more of a conventional hard, high energy rock sound. While blues remained the predominant genre and the focus remained on Alvin Lee's blazing guitar, this time around the band came together as a very tight performing unit. Tracks such as 'Bad Scene' and the blazing 'Stoned Woman' may be the most exciting thing you've ever heard this band ever play as the band's playing is red hot, injecting a surprising amount of heat and passion into the proceedings. 'Good Morning Little Schoolgirl' with slightly revamped ('dirty') lyrics ensured the song would never get US airplay, but did get plenty of regional underground FM radio play. Simply because they're so different than the rest of the album, the catchy flower-power ballads 'f You Should Love Me' and 'I Don't Know That You Don't Know My Name' are a welcome varied effort. Finally, it's always hard to pick an album as being an act's creative zenith, but "Ssssh" may well be the one for Ten Years After containing no weak tracks anywhere in sight ...

side 1

 Bad Scene - 3:20

Two Time Mama - 2:05

 Stoned Woman - 3:25

Good Morning Little Schoolgirl - 6:34

side 2
 If You Should Love Me -5:25

 I Don't Know That You Don't Know My Name -1:56

The Stomp - 4:34

 I Woke Up This Morning - 5:25

CONDITION:

The cover: The fragile laminated gatefold is cover is solid shape: "EX" (excellent) and that's just great for such a wear prone cover ===most originals look heavily worn after 48 years (the dark cover is highly wear-prone) so way way above average here, a clean survivor 

The vinyl: Clean and glossy over both sides, rated VG++ to M-  very clean audio, NO distracting problems ... both UK DERAM labels are clean