GENESIS Foxtrot RARER ORIG UK 1972 A-1U/B-1U with RED SPINE TEXT & INNER EX+

	£		93
	$		124

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Artist or Band: GENESIS

Album Title: Foxtrot

Producer(s): David Hitchcock & Genesis

TRACK LIST:

Side 1: Watcher of the Skies; Time Table; Get ’em Out by Friday; Can-Utility and the Coastliners.

Side 2: Horizons; Supper’s Ready (parts i-vii).

Label/Format: Charisma – Original large format pink hatter with B&C credits, these have matt, smooth surfaces.

Label Conditions: Both look superb and highly attractive with rich colour and barely aged at all. Any of the very few spindle marks are fine, light and faint as mostly seen under angled light.

Cat Number: CAS 1058.

Mode / Speed: Stereo / 33.3 rpm.

Weight of this Record: 122 grams. A fine solid weight.

Country of Manufacture: England.

Rarity: Early pressed copies of this title are scarce especially in this type of condition. This has the vertical red spine text that was later changed and is still fully present and strong. The reason I make a point on this is for the fact, this red text regularly fades and can actually disappear entirely. Indeed the last copy of this I offered had virtually any trace of this text. Red ink when exposed to natural light has a tendency to fade or change to a dull pink colour. Finding the first covers with the red vertical text ink is actually quite difficult. The but good news hardly stops there: this is a super all-round example. The cover very little aged or worn and looking impressive, the record appearing very little used at all with superb clean sound with very little unwanted for a difficult and challenging recording. A typical prog-rock piece with several quiet passages. Lastly, this includes the quite scarce original Charisma Hatter ‘Charisma puts a little colour in your cheeks’ inner sleeve, also in super condition. This is a very fine complete original to please many Genesis fans and collectors.

Original Year of Release: 1972

Matrix Nos: CAS 1058 A-1U / CAS 1058 B-1U

Mother/Stamper Codes: 1 OD / 1 ML

Run-Out Groove Etchings: ‘PORKY’ / ‘PECKO’ – all this information on quite narrow run-out areas, this early cut issue utilised most of the playing area room for maximum dynamic range with it’s wider grooves.

Musicians: Tony Banks – Organ, mellotron, piano, electric piano, 12-string, voices; Steve Hackett – Electric guitar, 12 string and 6 string solo; Phil Collins - drums, voices, assorted percussion; Peter Gabriel – lead vocal; flute, bass drum, tambourine, oboe; Michael Rutherford – bass, bass pedals, 12 string guitar, voices, cello.

Brief Info: The fourth Genesis album and third on Charisma, this one was not issued on the pink label, this is first B&C credited large hatter original. A great album it is too, by now the band were fast gaining a cult following within the progressive market. Gabriel’s on-stage theatricals were getting more dramatic and the music was getting more complex and adventurous. ‘Foxtrot’ includes the live stage favourite in the long ‘Supper’s Ready’ which occupies most of side two and is broken into seven segments. It starts off with the classic ‘Watcher of the Skies’ and there is no filler material on this classic prog set. This album is beautifully packaged too with a fantastic cover and this vintage copy includes the original Charisma inner bag to make it totally complete. This copy looks hardly played and is likely to please most Genesis fans. Again I do remind, this has the original vertical reading red text on the spine which is still fully intact with strong colour.

Cover Grade and Format: EXCELLENT(+): an unlaminated gatefold format that is textured front and back (the inside is smooth). Like the labels, this cover has the original B&C credits and was printed and made in England by the E. J. Day Group. The spine text in red and reads vertically – the colour strong and unfaded – which is more unusual to find. The original ‘Charisma puts a little colour in our cheeks’ promotional inner sleeve is also included.

Cover Front: Typically impressive artwork, and here looking lovely with minimal traces of wear, rubbing, creasing (one tiny tip) and no fading. Ultra faint toning trace hints when viewed point-blank near the very top edge, this being very critical. No sticker issues either, this classic Genesis front will take a lot of beating.

Cover Back: All largely the same, just the odd ultra fine and faint surface crease that is hardly even visible. The lack of ringwear is a major plus as well.

Cover Inner Gatefold: Little short of as made and looking marvellous, and blemishes almost too few and tiny to mention.

Top Edges: Both very solid, straight and barely worn, the odd faint toning spot trace being critical. Also flush and practically parallel.

Bottom Edges: Largely the same again, any rub traces tiny and light.

Right Edge(s), and Type: Clean and mostly sharp with little wear, any thickening or burring gentle and light as viewed critically end-on. Record enters on the back edge, both guaranteed untrimmed or enhanced.

Spine and Text: Impressive, I know how hard this early red spine is to find nice. A little rubbing to the very ends but little else. Very solid, quite thick and straight with barely any hint of compression. Also folded square so the edges meet up closely together and practically parallel. As stated the vertical red text is superb and unfaded with quite deep colour. These are actually quite scarce. Red being notorious for fading it invariably goes pink over time and often fades away totally. As seen, this is impressive and fully present with no rubbing. Second ‘Day’ covers had no spine text and later ones by Howards Printers had black text.

Corners: Very gentle and small tip rubbing that few can hope to avoid totally. Just a couple of tiny tip creases with no knocks or dinks, very fine shape is retained.

Cover Summary: An impressive all-round example of this wear-prone early 1970’s cover, one that will prove difficult to find much better. Rarely seen without major wear, especially the early first-made examples, this visually attractive sleeve should please many, if not most collectors.

The Inner Sleeve: MINT(–): a superb example and great indication that LP has rarely been removed as this looks little handled or aged. Clean, very fresh and brightly coloured with barely any creases and all edges solid and intact. These promotional inners were never lined and very prone to major splits. Only the earliest examples of this album included this lovely Charisma inner which was always highly prone to ringwear which this has avoided. Even the top recessed opening is crisp and very neat. Both of the rear flipbacks are solid and burred. Finding this relatively scarce inner sleeve better will prove immensely difficult.

Vinyl Condition/Visual Grading: EXCELLENT(+): and probably worth the extra (+) with little nothing more than a very few faint and fine surface marks if viewed closely under angled light. A super visual copy that is very clean with equally fine shine and solidly pressed. A copy that looks little played and this is not an easy record to find like this. Visually a super original early pressing that should please many, if not most collectors.

Album Played For Grading: Yes. [I play ALL records I offer before submitting to Ebay, also the record is played in its entirety unless clearly stated otherwise. I do NOT play snippets or joining grooves to check for sound quality and quietness – I play from the beginning to end via clinically revealing B&W speakers that include the legendary tweeter from their awesome Nautilus range that reveals every blemish or minuscule sound present on any record.]

Sound Quality and Audio Grading: This classic Gabriel-era Genesis record plays even above it’s high visual grading and most-all beyond with very little to fault, and Genesis albums are never easy on vinyl with many very quiet passages and complex structured music. It offers strong, distortion-free sound, all frequencies are sharp and clear - sound quality is very high with a wide dynamic range and very detailed sound with no tracking issues*. Any surface sounds are minimal and very gentle and little unwanted registered. The odd faint surface sound is near impossible to avoid totally as is the odd sporadic tick or two on a quiet segment. But this is an exceptional clean pressing for a fairly difficult album. Few copies will outperform this early pressing significantly I feel sure. Few records of this type will ever play ‘silent’ throughout, the format barely allows it and pressing quality from the 1970s onwards was seldom 1960s standard. Charisma records were also quite variably in pressing quality sometimes with invisible pressing sounds and even distortions – none were heard on this splendid copy. Both channels are clean and sharp, I feel very sure this record has been played very lightly and has been clearly well stored and carefully handled within a non-smoking environment. Little, if indeed anything spoilt my pleasure when play-grading this wonderful record. It will prove difficult to find significantly better and is strongly recommended.

* As played-graded on a high-end Linn LP12 Sondek turntable with Ittok Mk II arm and Ortofon Quintet Black moving coil cartridge tracking at 2.2 grams.

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Deck: Linn LP12/Hercules/Cirkus with Ittok Mk II arm and Ortofon Quintet Black moving coil cartridge (tracks at 2.2 grams). Amps: Naim Supernait 2 with Project USB phono stage and Tellerium Black interconnects. Speakers: B&W 704 Floorstanding 3-way Monitors (bi-wired with Tellurium Black terminated cable). All records I offer on Ebay are cleaned on a professional VPI-17 vacuum machine before play-grading for the cleanest and best possible sound and will include a brand new lined inner and protective cover too. Pictures taken with a Nikon D5000 SLR Digital Camera.

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