Led Zeppelin IV 4 LP UK 1st On Green & Orange 1972 Q1 Mountain Top GREAT AUDIO
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An original Q1 1972 copy on Atlantic Orange & Green label. Want a great playing early Zep4 - but not keen on the prices? - then read on. This early copy comes hot on the heels of those final red & plum copies that are so highly prized. Time frame wise you could could be talking as little as two weeks! So bang for buck this is probably the best copy you can bag. Great audio & Great price. How do we know that it's a mere three months from those original masters? Well, this is the earliest design possible for an orange and green label. The text is all in the bottom half and there's no Warners logo. But the real clincher is that, in the deadwax, this copy still has the original red & plum catalogue information - both sides! Catalogue number "2401012". Also they were still mistakenly calling 'Mountain Hop'- Mountain Top! The vinyl comes housed in an original gatefold cover - thicker card version as was standard during Q4 1971. Also included is the original lyric inner sleeve. So, 100% genuine and 100% complete.
Vinyl (Ex/Ex-) In lovely condition and has only seen relatively light use. Under close inspection I can only make out a few very light marks per side - nothing remotely troublesome. A thorough testing from beginning to end reveals a mostly EXCELLENT level of playback with one deviation. Intros and inbetweens are very nice and quite and the audio comes across with excellent clarity. When on song this LP is blindingly good. It really can reveal the full glory of Zep IV. By and large a clean player. Even some of the acoustic numbers play relatively clean. California plays better than many copies will do - nice and clean. There's a few crackles momentarily as 'Evermore' starts up - but it plays pretty good to my ears. The only disappointment is the first half of 'Stairway' - there's a bit of background apparent. Not invasive, and to be fair to it - this is a particularly hard section to find playing clean on any copy. Still perfectly acceptable - but just be sure that you can handle that before purchasing. Overall a lovely playing plumb matrix copy.
Cover (Vg+) Very nice looking cover with a relatively clean and uncreased front and back - just some light wear in places. Two things to note. On the front there's a signature in the top right corner. On the rear someone has cleverly managed to print a mystical inscription. Clever because it looks like it was part of the original design - but most certainly never was! The spine is showing a bit of wear in places, but not too bad. The interior looks great. There's a bit of edge wear in places, but no wear-through anywhere. The openings are nice and sharp and the cover still retains excellent rigidity.
Inner (Vg+) Very nice condition. Two inch bottom edge split and a one inch side split.
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