SEALED Cactus Self Titled LP 1970 vinyl record SD 33-340 DEADSTOCK 1st US Press
$
150
Favourite Auctions
To save auctions to your favourites, please login
If you don't have an account, please register
Description
Recently I was able to find a small number of albums all from the early 1970's that the original owner (for whatever reason) did not open. I purchased the best few examples from that collection, and this is one of them. Now, nearly 50 years later, this is still in absolute perfect condition. Not just 'near mint' this sealed LP looks like it just came off the assembly line. This record has 4 very sharp corners, tight clean shrink wrap, and no signs of being improperly stored. These original issues are not a common LP and that makes this copy so much more rare and collectible. Hopefully, you enjoy rock this loud as much as I do. Once this sells I do not expect to find another like it ever again and I do not expect its blue chip value to ever decrease as I consider prices for sealed US 1st pressings like this to continue to rise as their scarcity continues to decrease.
It will be packed in a secure record mailer very safely and will ship to the lower 48 only.
Cactus was loud and fast- America's answer to Led Zeppelin. Note the instruction on the back of the LP 'this album should be played at "high" level' !
...They [Cactus] immediately got to work on their first, self-titled album, a remarkably fast ’n’ furious explosion of fuzz and proto-metal highlighted by a berserk, hell-for-leather cover of Parchment Farm. “It’s true, we did a lot of speed,” Carmine says, honestly. “At the time, Parchment Farm was one of the fastest songs ever recorded. And that’s what we wanted it to be. We were trying to out do Ten Years After. They had this really fast song called I’m Going Home, so we said: ‘Let’s make ours even faster.’”
“And we did,” Tim adds.
Lots of rock’n’roll singers die. It can be a very hazardous occupation. But few of them perish as violently as original Cactus frontman Rusty Day, who was machine-gunned to death in his home on March 6, 1982. At the time, Day was working on an album with Uncle Acid & The Permanent Damage Band. He was also dealing cocaine on the side.
price rating
