T REX " PROPHETS SEERS & SAGES .. "SUPER UK RARE MONO + INSERT
  £   69
  $   91

 


£ 69 Sold For
Oct 11, 2011 Sold Date
Oct 1, 2011 Start Date
13   Number Of Bids
  Great Britain Country Of Seller
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WOW ! THIS IS NOT ONLY A SUPER COPY  OF A MUCH RARER MONO UK PRESSING BUT IS ALSO STILL FULLY COMPLETE WITH IT'S OFTEN MISSING INSERT L@@K...


THIS IS TYRANNOSAURUS REX'S SECOND LP ALSO FROM 1968 AND LIKE ALL PRE T.REX ERA LP'S IS INCREDIBLY RARE AS, EVEN THOUGH THERE WERE THE FAVOURED ARTIST OF THE LATE GREAT AND HIGHLY INFLUENCIAL UK DJ JOHN PEEL ( WHO ALSO MAKES AN APPEARANCE ON THIS LP ) THERE RECORDS HARDLY SOLD ANYTHING DESPITE THE PLUGGING FROM PEEL AND EMI

MARC BOLAN'S PIXIE MUSINGS WERE HARDLY THE STUFF OF COMMERCIAL SUCCESS UNTIL A LINE UP CHANGE IN 1970, A MOVE ALA DYLAN TO ELECTRIC AND A SUBSEQUENT SHORTENING OF THE NAME TO T.REX YOU COULD WELL CREDIT BOLAN WITH THE INVENTION OF GLAM ROCK BUT IF YOU LISTEN TO HIS OUTPUT PRE 1970 YOU WOULD WONDER WHEN IT ALL HAD COME FROM !

TRUELY THE STUFF OF LEGEND. THESE TYRANNOSAURUS LPS HARDLY SURVIVE IN DECENT CONDITION AND WITH THEIR INSERTS AND EVEN LESS SO IN MONO LIKE THIS COPY !


GOOD LUCK TO ALL BIDDERS !!  

For Auction here is the UK LP ''  PROPHETS SEERS AND SAGES AND THE ANGLES OF THE AGES " 

ARTIST:  TYRANNOSUARUS REX

MONO/STEREO: MONO

Cat. No : LRZ 1005

LABEL:  REGAL ZONOPHONE 

COUNTRY: UK

DATE: 1968

MATRICIES:  -1 -1

MOTHER/STAMPERS : 1P 1GD


VINYL WEIGHT: 145g

TRACK LISTING

 


 

 

CONDITION......

 

VINYL : LOVELY FIRST PRESSED SHEEN ON THE VINYLS, THE ODD LIGHT HARLINE ONLY UNDER A BRIGHT HALOGEN LAMP GRADES EXCELLENT

 

 



LABELS: BARELY ANY SPINDLE TRACES AND NO WRITINGS OR LABELS GRADE EXCELLENT 




 

 

SLEEVE :  EASILY ONE OF THE BEST OF THESE RARE SLEEVES I HAVE SEEN, THESE UNLAMINTED TEXTURED FLIPBACK SLEEVES ARE TRUE SHOCKERS IN EVERY SENSE. EMI BEGAN EXPERIMENTING WITH THESE IN 1968 AND I THINK THIS  MAY BE THE FIRST ( OTHERS INCLUDED RELEASES BY JECF BECK, SYD BARRETT AND THE MOVE ). AS SUCH WITHOUT LAMINATION THEY ARE PRONE TO A GREAT DEAL OF WARE YET AS YOU CAN SEE FROM THE PICS THIS IS EASILY ONE OF THE BETTER ONES WITH A FULLY READABLE SPINE AND MINOR STORAGE AND RINGWARE.  JUST A TINY STICKER REMOVAL ON THE FRONT YET STILL GRADES VG+ WHICH IS AKIN TO EXCELLENT FOR ONE OF THESE !!


 


 



  INSERT : NO SERIOUS FLAWS, TINY BEND ON ONE CORNER, STILL EXCELLENT
 


A CHANCE TO GRAB A SUPER RARE RECORD WITH INSET AND IN MONO ...GOOD LUCK TO ALL BIDDERS

 

 

FOR BIDDERS OUTSIDE UK THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT...  non uk bidders please read my notes about international postage below.....returns policy only applies to UK outside of UK buyer has to cover the return postage! FOR INTERNATIONAL BIDDERS PLEASE ALSO NOTE THAT due to ebays revised " buyer " protection policy even more sellers will start to refuse to sell internationally. I however will still sell internationally but i reserve the right to not to complete any international transaction if the buyer has any bad or witheld feedback or for any other reason that I choose and this is especially so for items that sell for near to GBP 150 or higher. So if you are an international bidder and win one of my auctions and then find I have completed the transaction elsewhere this will be because the new ebay/paypal policy now makes it almost impossible for sellers to sell safely overseas, thank you

FOR BIDDERS WITH ZERO FEEDBACK THIS IS ALSO VERY IMPORTANT...   I have recently been the victim of serveral spurious bids from several different members (usually based in the Russian Federation). Please note that if you win any of my items and have zero feedback I will ask you for immediate payment or for you to email and immediately confirm that you were a genuine bidder. Failiure to meet either of those critiera will result in the item being  offered to the next highest bidder without further delay. thank you.

DOMESTIC UK DISPATCH WILL BE VIA RECORDED/SIGNED FOR DELIVERY  TO PREVENT FRAUDULANT CLAIMS OF NON RECEIPT ! INTERNATIONAL BIDDERS PLEASE SEE MY NOTES BELOW 

 

 (Please note that whilst I try to endeavour to adhere to strict RC gradings I will never describe ANYTHING AS MINT even when I think it to be so. As far as I am concerned any secondhand item by definition cannot be mint. However if I believe an item to be Mint  I will instead either use the terms Near Mint, mint minus, or in archive or vault condition. When I use these terms you know that in my opinion this is in effect a de-facto Mint grade )

 

INSURANCE INCLUDED IN P&P PRICE DEPENDING ON FINAL SALE VALUE...

Dont forget to take a look at my other items. Please feel free to contact me with any queries you may have.

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I ONLY DO A COUPLE OF RUNS A WEEK TO THE POST OFFICE BUT MY ITEMS ARE ALWAYS DISPATCHED WELL WITHIN ONE CALENDAR WEEK OF PAYMENT BEING RECEIVED. I APOLOGISE IN ADVANCE TO THOSE BUYERS WHO SEEM TO EXPECT THEIR ITEM TO ARRIVE THE NEXT DAY, IF YOU WANT TO CHECK WHEN AN ITEM WAS SENT JUST PLEASE FEEL FREE TO EMAIL ME AND I WILL BE VERY HAPPY TO TELL YOU!! (SOME PEOPLE DO MAKE YOU LAUGH, FOR ITEMS I BUY I ONLY NORMALLY GET CONCERNED AFTER A COUPLE OF WEEKS AND EVEN AFTER THAT THEN ONLY POLIETELY ENQUIRE IF AND WHEN THE ITEM WAS SENT).

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PAYMENTS BY PAYPAL ARE PREFERRED BUT I ALSO ACCEPT OTHER METHODS. I ALSO POST WORLDWIDE (PLS APPLY FOR RATES) BUT DUE TO A PROBLEM WITH A DISREPUTABLE BUYER IN JAPAN (EBAY WILL NOT ALLOW ME TO NAME THEM) , FOR ALL PAYMENTS MADE VIA PAYPAL THE ITEM WILL ONLY BE SENT BOTH TO THE UK AND WORLDWIDE BY RECORDED OR INTERNATIONAL SIGNED FOR DELIVERY. THIS IS TO ELIMINATE THE POSSIBILITY OF ANY ATTEMPT TO CLAIM BACK THE PAYMENT VIA PAYPAL EVEN AFTER ACTUALLY HAVING RECEIVED THE ITEM.

 

THIS OBVIOUSLY HAS HAD THE RESULT OF INCREASING MY COSTS FOR POSTING AND PACKING AND I AM VERY SORRY FOR THIS BUT PAYPAL OFFER NO PROTECTION FOR SELLERS UNLESS THERE IS PROOF OF DELIVERY!! PROOF OF POSTING WOULD SEEM INSUFFICIENT TO THEM AND I HAVE FOUND THIS OUT THE HARD WAY..

 

DUE TO THE BEHAVIOUR OF THIS SAME BUYER PAYPAL PAYMENTS WILL ALSO NOT BE ACCEPTED FROM BUYERS WHO DO NOT ALLOW THEIR FEEDBACK TO BE READ, 

 

COST VIA INTERNATIONAL SIGNED FOR MAIL HAS RECENTLY BEEN INCREASED BY THE UK POST OFFICE SO TO EUROPE FOR A SINGLE LP IS NOW USUALLY GBP 9.99 AND TO THE USA/REST OF THE WORLD GBP 13.99 FOR A SINGLE LP AND 16.99 FOR A DOUBLE BASED ON A "DECLARED" VALUE OF UNDER GBP 50... ANY ADDITIONAL LP'S SENT VIA COMBINED POSTAGE WILL USALLY BE AROUND AN ADDITION G 2.00 PER LP

 

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