TIM BUCKLEY BLUE AFTERNOON RARE ORIG '69 STRAIGHT WHITE LBL PROMO FOLK PSYCH LP+

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·       TIM BUCKLEY - BLUE AFTERNOON - ORIGINAL 1969 'STRAIGHT' RECORDS LP STS-1060

·       ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING

·       *** WHITE LABEL PROMO ***

·       *** PROMOTIONAL COPY; THE RECORD HAS STOCK LABELS; HOWEVER, THE PROMOTIONAL STICKER ON THE COVER CLEARLY IDENTIFIES THE ITEM AS PROMOTIONAL ***

·       THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST U.S. PRESSING; THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.

·       ORIGINAL GATEFOLD COVER, MADE OF THICK CARDBOARD (AMERICAN STYLE) 

·       CLEAN, WEAR-FREE LABELS

·       THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING

·       MATRIX NUMBER IN TRAIL-OFF VINYL (DEAD WAX) ENDS WITH '-1A/-1B'.  ON SOME LABELS,  SUFFIX '–1' DENOTES THE VERY FIRST, ORIGINAL PRESSING)

·       This album has been out of print and unavailable on Compact Disc for many years, and there are currently no plans to reissue it on CD or DVD that we are aware of.

(►PLEASE SEE THE IMAGE OF THE COVER, LABEL OR BOTH, SHOWN BELOW)

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Of all moody, minor-key, brooding 1960's albums, this one - as the title suggest - has got to be one of the moodiest, minor-key-est and most introvert of them all, certainly in terms of its overall texture, structure and form (contents, too). It also happens to be one of Tim Buckley's most beloved works and one of the true gems of the psychedelic singers/songwriters era. Done in one bold stroke during the summer of 1969 (the recording sessions also produced material for his "Lorca" album, for a different label - Elektra), Buckley recorded this gorgeous work just as he was contemplating the direction his music and his life were taking at this point. He apparently believed that he was needlessly being pushed into commercialism and he decided to take a 180-degree turn. Before he exploded into full-fledged hermeticism of the "Starsailor" (1970), he managed to record an album that everyone could - and would - love, and relate to. This is the music to drift away by. Music to meditate on the meaning of Cosmos, or - simply - music to watch people go by. A timeless piece of meditative, transcendent, luminous poetry, backed by an incredibly talented and competent, but also unobtrusive and subtle bunch of musicians. The original album, recorded for Frank Zappa's "Bizzare" label, sold a meager few thousand copies and promptly disappeared from the stores, never to be seen again until the equally rare Rhino/Bizzare 1989 CD reissue, which - unfortunately - shared the exact, same fate of its predecessor and has been out of print for almost twenty years. Grab this great, legendary psych album before someone else does!!

THE WHITE LABEL PROMO, RADIO STATION-, AUDITION OR DEMONSTRATION COPIES AND RELEASES (such as the one we have here) were often distributed to the radio stations before the record was released to the public, sometimes as much as four months ahead. These records are generally considered to be the "first among equals": the VERY FIRST generation and the VERY FIRST pressings of the particular title; a PROTOTYPE and the earliest known official pressing of the record.

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·       CONDITION:

·       RECORD

 (IMPORTANT NOTE: unless otherwise noted, ALL records are graded visually, and NOT play-graded!; we  grade records under the strong, diffuse room light or discrete sunlight)

(a)          WE GRADE THE VINYL AS STRONG VERY GOOD+ . CAUTION: The vinyl is NOT MINT or NEAR MINT, but is nevertheless in a very nice and clean condition. There are some surface marks and abrasions, mostly light and superficial, although some may be longer than 1.1/4 inches (1 inch = 2.5 centimeters)

(b)          The record comes in the original stock inner sleeve.

(c)           The record is pressed on a beautiful, thick, inflexible vinyl, which was usually used for the first or very early pressings. Usually, the sound on such thick vinyl pressings is full-bodied, vivid, and even dramatic. Do not expect to obtain such a majestic analog sound from a digital recording!

(d)            White Promo Label version of this title is much rarer that a regular, commercially released, version of this title. We estimate that stock copies of this album outnumber promo copies by a ratio of at least 50:1.

(e)           Of course, this is a full-bodied ANALOG recording, and not an inferior, digital recording!!!

·       COVER

THE COVER IS ABOUT VERY GOOD+(+)

The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:

-        Cover has some ring wear. On the scale from 1 to 10 (1 being the least, and  10 being the most severe), we assess the severity of ring wear as 5.

-        Cover has a sticker residue (partially peeled remnants of the price sticker or some other sticker; the buyer can probably remove these small, still affixed bits and pieces of the sticker with a minor effort)

-        The gatefold cover has partially split seams on 2 out of 4 "legs" of the cover (about 3 inches each / 1 inch = 2.5 centimeters).

-        Cover has some fraying/wear along the top and bottom seams

-        Cover has a few tiny wrinkles along the spine

-         Cover shows some light yellowing on both sides, apparently from aging.

NO OTHER IMPERFECTIONS ON THE COVER:

-        No cut-out (drill) holes.

-        No cut-out corners

-        No saw-marks or indents

-        No dirt/dust rubbing stains (friction marks caused by rubbing against other covers)

-        No writing

-        No stamps

-        No peel-off marks

-        No stains

-        No mold or mildew spots

-        No water damage

-        No razor marks, scratches, pressure marks, lines, streaks, or  cuts.

-        No warping

-        No wax, glue, paint or liquid drops on the cover

-        No glue traces or wax residue.

-        No bar codes

-        No RIAA stamps or stickers. 

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