TRAFFIC Traffic 1968 UK ISLAND 1st *STEREO* PRESS MINT- AUDIO
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Apr 20, 2012 Sold Date
Apr 10, 2012 Start Date
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TRAFFIC Traffic 1968 UK ISLAND 1st *STEREO* PRESS MINT- AUDIO

G&L GATEFOLD w/FIXED BOOKLET, TOP COPY, STUNNING SOUND

TRAFFIC
Traffic

UK ISLAND (ILPS 9081 T) FIRST PRESSING (October 1968 ) OF TRAFFIC'S EPONYMOUS SECOND LP
GREAT COPY DELIVERING ABSOLUTELY STUNNING SOUND - INCREDIBLY LOUD, BRIGHT, FRESH AND IMMEDIATE AND IT PLAYS WITH PRACTICALLY NOTHING TO FAULT

PRESSED ON HEAVYWEIGHT VINYL WITH THE FIRST ISSUE MATT PINK ISLAND LABELS WITH THE ORANGE/BLACK CIRCULAR EYE LOGO
MATRIX: ILPS9081 T A//2 6 / ILPS9081 T B ? 5 (the first Stereo matrix)
THE RECORD IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL THICK CARD, INTERNAL FLIPBACK, MATT GATEFOLD SLEEVE "Printed in England by Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd." WITH FIXED, STAPLED EIGHT PAGE BOOKLET
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL POLY-LINED INNER SLEEVE DATED '098' (September 1968)

After dispensing with his services in December 1967, the remaining members of Traffic reinstated Dave Mason in the group in the spring of 1968 as they struggled to write enough material for their impending second album.
The result was a disc evenly divided between Mason's catchy folk-rock compositions and Steve Winwood's compelling rock jams.
Mason's material was the most appealing both initially and eventually: the lead-off track, a jaunty effort called "You Can All Join In," became a European hit, and "Feelin' Alright?" turned out to be the only real standard to emerge from the album after it started earning cover versions from Joe Cocker and others in the 1970s.
Winwood's efforts, with their haunting keyboard-based melodies augmented by Chris Wood's reed work and Jim Capaldi's exotic rhythms, work better as musical efforts than lyrical ones. Primary lyricist Capaldi's words tend to be impressionistic reveries or vague psychological reflections; the most satisfying is the shaggy-dog story "Forty Thousand Headmen," which doesn't really make any sense as anything other than a dream.
But the lyrics to Winwood/Capaldi compositions take a back seat to the playing and Winwood's soulful voice.
As Mason's simpler, more direct performances alternate with the more complex Winwood tunes, the album is well-balanced.
It's too bad that the musicians were not able to maintain that balance in person; for the second time in two albums, Mason found himself dismissed from the group just as an LP to which he'd made a major contribution hit the stores. Only a few months after that, the band itself split up, but not before scoring their second consecutive Top Ten ranking in the U.K.; the album also reached the Top 20 in the U.S., breaking the temporarily defunct group stateside.

Side 1:
You Can All Join In
Pearly Queen
Don't Be Sad
Who Knows What Tomorrow May Bring
Feelin' Alright?
Side 2:
Vagabond Virgin
Forty Thousand Headmen
Cryin' To Be Heard
No Time To Live
Means To An End

LABELS: NEAR MINT
Clean, bright and fresh labels with some light/moderate spindle rash around the Side Two spindle hole but hardly any on Side One
VINYL Visual: NEAR MINT
Both surfaces retain their original deep, like-new glossy sheen and are unmarked under normal light, displaying only the finest wispy hairlines under very bright light
VINYL Audio: MINT-
My play-check at loud volume revealed no major audio distractions of any kind - just one pop on the run-in to Side One (before the music starts and possibly as a result of the needle being dropped onto the record at this point) - otherwise, the playback is flawless with no groove-wear, distortion or surface noise and the sound quality is sensational - clean, bright, sharp and incredibly fresh and immediate - wonderful copy
SLEEVE: EXCELLENT
Apart from a little rubbing to the colour of the front and a little storage wear to the edges, the sleeve is in fine shape - good and solid. The inside is clean and fresh with no damage to the top flipback sections and the fixed booklet with its textured matt pages is perfect
INNER SLEEVE: EXCELLENT
The original poly-lined inner sleeve has some discolouration and corner creasing but there are no seam splits - fine original inner

ALL RECORDS ARE PACKAGED WITH THE VINYL OUTSIDE OF THE SLEEVE TO PREVENT ANY 'KNIFING' DURING TRANSIT
A PROTECTIVE POLY SLEEVE, NEW INNER SLEEVE WITH ANTI-STATIC LINER, QUALITY BOX (NOT ENVELOPE) MAILER AND AMPLE STIFFENERS ARE ALWAYS USED TO ENSURE THAT YOUR RECORD ARRIVES SAFELY

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