JIMI HENDRIX EXP Electric Ladyland double LP Track 1968 Stereo UK 1st Press

	£		460
	$		610

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I aim to put a weekly batch up (time permitting) every Wednesday, all timed to end 10 days later on Saturday night. I'll only ever offer THE BEST, MOST AMAZING, MOST IMPORTANT, VERY RAREST UK 1ST PRESS ORIGINAL RELEASE RECORDS I've got!!! I won't insult you with later 2nd pressings unless they are of exceptional quality and rarity. I'm sure you love good music as much as me, especially when it's a 1st Press LP, direct from the master tape, as the musicians intended it to be heard (none of this "digitally remastered",weak reissued, remixed rubbish from hired hands with one eye on the mixing desk and the other on the clock! If these session men really knew how genius should sound, surely they would've been geniuses themselves?! There will only ever be one Hendrix, and that's just a tiny example).
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Title :  The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland

Label & year : Original Black Track 613008/9 Double LP , UK Stereo 1968 ULTRA RARE day-of-release "inverted" labels 1st Press with IMPOSSIBLY RARE WITHDRAWN blue text sleeve!!! 

Matrix's : Side A : 613008 A // 1, Side B (D) : 613008 B // 1, Side C (B) : 613009 A // 1, Side D (C) : 613009 A // 1 (scratched out and replaced with 613009 B)

Matrix's : Side A : 613008 A // 1, Side B (D) : 613008 B v 2 420 , Side C (B) : 613009 A v 2 420 , Side D (C) : 613009 B // 2

A USED BUT GREAT PLAYING STEREO UK 1ST PRESS EXAMPLE OF THIS MILESTONE IN ROCK WITH BRILLIANT WITHDRAWN BLUE TEXT SLEEVE FOR ONCE!!! AWESOME PLAYER - WELL USED BUT WITH BRILLIANT AUDIO FOR ONCE WITH BEAUTIFUL FREQUENCIES!!! AN ABSOLUTELY ELECTRIC DOUBLE LP FROM SURELY THE GREATEST ROCK TRIO OF ALL TIME, AND SO HARD TO FIND THIS MILESTONE OF PSYCHEDELIC ROCK IN IT’S EARLIEST WITHDRAWN BLUE TEXT SLEEVE FORM!!!

A MEGA RARE OPPORTUNITY TO OWN THIS MAGNIFICENT INCREDIBLY RARE ICONIC WITHDRAWN BLUE TEXT UK 1ST PRESS STEREO PSYCH CLASSIC WITH UNBELIEVABLY RARE EARLIEST EVER TRUE DAY OF RELEASE WITHDRAWN BLUE TEXT SLEEVE!!! STRONG, UNSPLIT AND ULTRA VIBRANT FOR ONCE WITH BEAUTIFUL DEEP RICH COLOURS!!! MOST WERE FORCED BACK AT THE SPINE TO CENSOR THE SWINGING SIXTIES MODELS FROM CAUSING A SCENE IN THE RECORD STORES - NOT THE CASE HERE!!! UNBELIEVABLE!!! ULTRASONICALLY CLEANED FOR MAXIMUM FIDELITY - OUTSTANDING!!! Please check out my other auctions for more 1st Press classics, and TRUE Rock connoisseurs, you do NOT want to miss out on this AWESOME iconic piece of WITHDRAWN BLUE TEXT psych history - bid now!!!

Underestimate the sheer phenomenal rarity of this EARLIEST EVER UK 1st Press with day of release black Track labels with inverted matrixes above the catalogue number, and the IMPOSSIBLY RARE WITHDRAWN blue text sleeve which only an absolute MINISCULE amount of 1st Presses of this EVER had at your peril - apparently all the sleeves were initially planned to be the blue text version, but as it was just going to press, Noel had a bust up with the management about the size of his picture being too small on this blue text version (he possibly thought it undermined his contribution) and many other tensions that had been building into a head (like the sheer amount of hangers on in the studio e.t.c), ending in Noel quitting, and the management got revenge for being left in the lurch with upcoming tours being thrown into chaos e.t.c, by immediately halting the press as quickly as it began and reducing the size of Noel's picture even further!!! Petty, I know, but as a result, only an absolute TINY amount EVER had blue text, much like only a TINY amount of the first run of Are You Experienced ever had a fully laminated sleeve!!! 

If you were to walk into a record shop on the day this was released, chances are you'd be VERY lucky to even find ONE blue text version amongst the white sleeves on the rack!!! It was mere months after the release date that the labels were redesigned to the more common (though still very rare) uninverted Track labels!!! Of course, NOT the case here!!! An ESSENTIAL iconic true day of release WITHDRAWN earliest ever rock rarity for ANY serious collection!!!  

Just like any of the Hendrix experience albums, this is one of THE BEST of all time containing some of THE GREATEST music EVER recorded!!! Widely know as his masterpiece, the first two Experience LP's were recorded in a matter of days, this however took around a year!!! (a heck of a long time in those days) It was worth it though. It could so easily have fallen apart like many painstaking works of genius (such as Brian Wilson's unfinished legendary Beach Boys classic SMiLE), but he stuck with it after Chas Chandler walked from the project and created a work of pure brilliance which has and will continue to transcend ALL time! If you've never heard Hendrix's original master mix and only the CD reissue, then you're going to be blown away!!! This has got incredible psychedelic effects, MEAN bass and razor sharp lifelike clarity and detail!!! And when Hendrix is jamming on songs like the long bluesy version of Voodoo Chile and Rainy Day, it sounds incredibly intimate as it floats over the backing band, JUST like his amp is in the room!!!

It's easy to forget just how amazing this LP is what with "Experience Hendrix" doing their best to scrape the barrel with endless thrown together Best Of's and dictaphone demos retrieved from the bin over the years. But it was here on this Track original blasting out of my speakers now where the world first heard the seriously trailblazing "Crosstown Traffic”, “Long Hot Summer Night”, “Gipsy Eyes”, the completely unique sounding to this day harpsichord driven “Burning Of The Midnight Lamp”, the greatest Dylan cover reinvention of ALL TIME in “All Along The Watchtower”, the literally otherworldly beyond human “Voodoo Chile”, never mind all the rest, and not to mention the phenomenal boundary breaking "1983 (A Merman I Should Turn To Be)" for the very first time, as they intended to be heard, all in perfect running order, and all as one piece!!! It has forever secured it's place in the top 10 greatest albums of all time, and there it shall remain until the world blows up!!!

Until that moment? Well, we should all listen to his records and be thankful that Jimi Hendrix was born!!!

Tracklist : And The Gods Made Love, Electric Ladyland, Crosstown Traffic, Voodoo Chile, Little Miss Strange, Long Hot Summer Night, Come On (Let The Good Times Roll), Gipsy Eyes, Burning Of The Midnight Lamp, Rainy Day Dream Away, 1983 (A Merman I Should Turn To Be), Moon Turn The Tides...Gently Gently Away, Still Raining Still Dreaming, House Burning Down, All Along The Watchtower, and Voodoo Chile (Slight Return).

Musicians : Jimi Hendrix - Vocals / Guitar / Bass / Harpsichord, Noel Redding - Vocals / Bass, Mitch Mitchell - Drums, plus countless other guests such as Stevie Winwood, Brian Jones, Al Kooper e.t.c.

About : Ultra Rare 1968 UK Original 1st Press!!! This MASSIVELY RARE LP initially sold barely anything (LP's were also really expensive to most people back then!!!) and therefore had a very small run, and is INCREDIBLY HARD TO FIND, especially in this condition!!! AN absolute classic LP from this incredible band!!! An astonishing album that really DESERVES to be in EVERY serious 60's / 70's record collection!!! Don't miss out on this MEGA RARE LP!!! If you like good music, bid now!!!

The LP :

Labels : 

Classic UK Original black Track inverted 1st Press labels!!! All sides are GREAT with general signs of age, NO writing, NO stickers, and NO tears whatsoever!!! Just has some spindle marking from general use over the years!!! GREAT for a 58 year old record!!! All must grade overall as Good!!!

Record : Visual - 

Spectacular Original 1968 UK 1st Press Vinyls!!! Nice bright, clean and shiny as if they were just pressed!!! Fantastic jet black mirror like surfaces, they look OK with NO overly excessively nasty marks and nothing that ruins playback!!! It just has quite a bit of general age wear such as a few of the usual light, wispy sleeve traces, some feelable scratches that look worse than how they sound which is testament for the quality of the pressing, and a few mild hairlines (only visible in angled light) mostly from where it has sat or been removed from it's cover over the years. Of course, none of these blemishes interfere with cohesive playback thanks to the quality deeply pressed 1st issue, and they CERTAINLY don't effect the smoothness of it's playing!!! Well used and not looked after very well, but still GREAT for a record of this age and rarity!!! And thankfully, it sounds BRILLIANT!!! Both must grade overall visually as Fair!!! (graded STRICTLY to the UK RRPG standards, not overgraded AT ALL!!! Customer satisfaction is of 100% importance to me)

Record : Audio - 

Thankfully, it plays BRILLIANTLY with fantastic stereo separation and clarity!!! It really sounds great with NO hisses, hops, distortion, sticks, or skips!!! Only (like pretty much all records) has low level static in places such as on the run in grooves, a few ticks and clicks here and there on occasions, and just a touch of mild and light "bluesman's fag" static in few and far between places such as on some of the quieter sections, but it truly doesn't overshadow the music AT ALL!!! I'd even argue it gives it added soul!!! A GREAT listen - The music is TRULY loud and clear with that bass, depth, warmth and clarity you can only get from UK 1st Press vinyl!!! Absolutely essential!!! BRILLIANT for a record of this age and rarity!!! Must grade overall audiably as Good++++ (LP 1) and Very Good (LP 2)!!! (graded STRICTLY to the UK RRPG standards, not trashed or overgraded AT ALL!!! Customer satisfaction is of 100% importance to me)

Sleeve : 

Original UK 1st Press fully laminated 1968 WITHDRAWN gatefold E.J Day blue text sleeve complete with unsplit inners!!! IMPOSSIBLE to find this sleeve in anything approaching a good condition - most are spent, torn and worn due to age and the lifestyles of the buyers of this particular LP!!! This one is NOT too bad AT ALL and remains truly great, especially considering the nature of these fragile sleeves!!! NO tears, NO writing, NO graffiti, NO really bad marks AT ALL, and still strong and solid after all these years!!! Only has a few usual signs of ageing such as usual laminate creasing and a touch of ringwear (notorious for this sleeve), a little rubbing to parts of the seams from where it has sat on the shelf over the years (absolutely no splits) and some general mild surface rubbing and laminate indents from age and where it has sat between sleeves over the years (nothing drastic AT ALL),  a touch of denting/rounding to the four corners which basically ALL vintage LP's have, and POSSIBLY (just to be sure!!!) one or two other minor signs of age here and there, though nothing that really stands out to note at all!!! And that's truly about it!!! I tend to bring it down by listing ALL the negatives I can possibly find, but this is truly remains a GREAT sleeve and a TRUE rarity to find one as brilliant as this - most have been virtually destroyed by being forced to fold back the opposite way to censor the pictures and are very often just about being held together by tape, but not this one!!! The pictures remain awesome and the psychedelic inside as vibrant as ever!!! It remains strong, solid, unsplit and unspoilt, and even the spine remains strong, solid, unworn and unsplit!!! Must grade overall as Good+!!! (graded STRICTLY to the UK RRPG standards, not trashed or overgraded AT ALL!!! Customer satisfaction is of 100% importance to me)

*Sorry for the camera flash reflection and for not having a photo of the front - ebay won't let me!*

Summary :  A well used but BRILLIANT sounding example of this iconic INCREDIBLY RARE classic UK 1st Press LP with the IMPOSSIBLY RARE withdrawn blue text sleeve and inverted matrixes!!! Hard to find in ANY condition, but SERIOUSLY RARE TO FIND ONE AS SONICALLY AWESOME AS THIS!!! YOU MAY NEVER GET THE CHANCE AGAIN, so don't miss out on this scarce opportunity to own a true piece of 60's/70's music history!!! Bid now!!!

Please take a look at all my other auctions for many other ultra rare classic LPs, and feel free to contact me with any questions you may have. Thanks again for looking, it's truly appreciated!! Cheers!!!

I've realized that most countries have their own unique grading system. I base mine strictly on the UK RRPG grading system (occasionally with a + or a - to indicate the higher and lower ends of the grade, though I only use these if i'm having real trouble deciding!), so please check their chart for further clarity if you are unsure of what my grades mean. As a general rule, a mint record will be 100% perfect, an excellent record will be in fantastic clean condition with the occasional mild mark and minor use from the years, and a very good record will have noticeable, yet light visual markings and obvious signs of age and use, but will still remain clean with relatively light wear and will play fantastically well with plenty of life remaining in it. I very rarely offer records below the very good region unless they are of an EXCEPTIONAL rarity and playing quality...I hope this helps!

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