THE DOORS Waiting for the Sun RARE ORIG UK 1968 Nr EX ELEKTRA LP, SUPERB SOUND.

	£		106
	$		140

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Artist or Band: THE DOORS

Album Title: Waiting For the Sun

Producer(s): Paul A. Rothchild

TRACK LIST:

Side 1: Hello, I Love You; Love Street; Not to Touch the Earth; Summer’s Almost Gone; Wintertime Love; The Unknown Soldier.

Side 2: Spanish Caravan; My Wild Love; We Could Be So Good Together; Yes, the River Knows; Five to One.

Label/Format: Elektra – original deep orange and black format with matt, partially textured surfaces on the inner area. The outside ring rim areas are smoother. These have the ‘Polydor Records’ credits on the 6 o’clock position as seen.

Label Conditions: Both very clean, fresh and attractive with spindle marks on the lighter side of moderate, but still fine and quite faint. The record plays beautifully and a delight to play-grade.

Cat Number: EKS 74024

Mode / Speed: Stereo / 33.3 rpm.

Warps: Assume all records I offer have no warping of any significance and all tracking is easy and effortless and should play on all turntables and even ‘budget’ decks.

Weight of this Record: 153 grams. This one of the heaviest original Doors albums I have had.

Country of Manufacture: England

Rarity: Scarce, original Doors albums are never easy to find, especially in better condition. All, including this are getting more and more elusive as time progresses.

Original Year of Release: 1968

Matrix Nos: EKS 74024 A1 / EKS 74024 B1 [machine punched and very clear]

Muscians: Jim Morrison – lead vocals; Robby Krieger – lead guitar, rhythm guitar; Ray Manzarek – organ, piano, keyboard bass; John Densmore – drums. Occasional bass is played by Douglas Lubahn, Kerry Magness, Leroy Vinegar.

Brief Info: The Doors are one of my favourite bands of all-time and I will rarely even consider offering any of their albums that fail to please me for sound quality. I have always found this a difficult album as a first pressing, often let-down by indifferent pressing quality and unwanted sounds. This has NO such issues and was a pleasure to hear again from an original vinyl source. This was The Door’s third album and last available in both mono and stereo formats – this being a stereo copy. Another brilliant set, now with more variation, and in the US, one of their most popular as their reputation, especially live grew. Personally, I prefer the stereo pressing of this album, it images brilliantly, and the song ‘Spanish Caravan’ has jaw-drop fidelity and separation. Morrison’s expressive vocals are magnificent throughout, what a vocalist this man was, so sadly lost at far to young an age. This a rare opportunity with both record and cover very nice.

Cover Grade and Format: NEAR EXCELLENT: arguably better for a typically wear-prone unlaminated gatefold format with matt smooth surfaces This has the correct EKS Catalogue Number. Printed and made in England by Ernest J. Day & Co Ltd and including the ‘Manufactured by POLYDOR RECORDS LTD’ text on the back as well. The basic plain white inner is included that has the ‘PATENTS APPLIED FOR’ text.

Cover Front: The front is impressive with any very minor rub traces seen on the top edge. Any discolouration, marks or dulling, gentle and light, mostly seen under light just politely reminds of its considerable age. The band graphic looks magnificent as seen in close-up. The lack of fading and sticker issues always good news.

Cover Back: Largely the same, any rim impression or rubbing little, gentle and faint. The lack of ugly, often full ring wear is a major plus. Like the front, it retains deep unfaded colour.

Cover Centrefold: The black lizard side is stunning, again as seen in close-up with barely anything of note to fault bar a small fine edge hairline crease and little else. The pale left text side with the lyrics of Morrison’s ‘The Celebration of the Lizard’, will rarely ever avoid set-off where the black surface ink opposite rests upon it when closed. But this has very little of that, but has darkened a little mostly near the sides to again politely remind of age.

Top Edges: Both straight and flush with any rubbing light and patchy.

Bottom Edges: Both again straight, the front has mainly only light patchy rubbing, the back more moderate. For matt storage edges, they have fared quite well.

Right Edge(s), and Type: Any thickening little and light. The record is stored on the back edges, the front is closed and machine cut.

Spine and Text: In terms of rubbing or wear, hardly any, but the surface is a little light faded, however all the text is present and easily readable. It remains solid, straight with minimal compression with only mild tilt.

Corners: Any tip rubbing mainly only light with fine to very fine shape retained with no knocks.

Cover Summary: With any wear or general ageing only light, this is a very fine example of an unforgiving first issue cover. One to please many collectors.

The Inner Sleeve: EXCELLENT: the plain solid white unlined white inner has aged little with any discolouration only mild. No hard creasing, any crinkle gentle and light with all edges intact.

Vinyl Condition/Visual Grading: NEAR EXCELLENT: a very fine visual copy that is very clean with fine shine and quite heavily pressed. A copy with relatively modest plays on all the evidence with any surface marks very light and mostly faint as seen more critically under bright light. No penetrating stylus scratches, any scuffs or hairlines gentle and light, viewed in average room light little even register. The most important factor, this plays great. Visually a fine record that should please many 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 equipment, all listed further down.]

Sound Quality and Audio Grading: This brilliant Doors album plays even above it’s high visual grading with hardly anything to fault. Offering strong, distortion-free sound, all frequencies are sharp and clear – sound quality is very high with a wide dynamic range and very detailed sound. Any surface sounds are minimal indeed and this is a very clean pressing with no tracking issues* or inherent pressing noises. Few available copies will outperform this early first pressing I feel sure. Both channels are clean and sharp, I am certain this record has been played quite modestly and has been generally well stored. Nothing of any note spoilt my pleasure when play-grading this lovely record. It could prove difficult to find significantly better and can be 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 grams. Records are a ‘contact’ format, and few will avoid the odd minor sound blemish.

I am one of the most established sellers on Ebay, trading since 2001 and offering the finest records I can find. I pride myself on offering a variety of genres to keep my site as interesting as possible. I will rarely offer any record that falls below a true Excellent grading, unless its of a certain rarity which will justify offering a lesser grade. I try, to the best of my ability to describe as accurately and as honesty all elements of the items I offer for sale. You may notice I only submit records quite sparingly on Ebay as I Play-Grade every record I offer in their entirety – also on higher-end equipment – not just bits to guess a grade – visuals alone do not always tell a true story. I will try to mention any defects or flaws no matter how small that I notice to be fair as possible to any interested collector – I am very fussy and my buyers have the right to be too. Every record I offer, whether it be a common or rare item deserves the same respect as far as I am concerned and will be treated the same – just because an item is rare does not always mean it’s good. I get just as much pleasure offering a relatively common record in near mint condition as the real rare items. All the pictures I use for your guidance are the item being offered with no digital enhancements. Room light factors can make things vary sometimes, that is hard to control, especially in winter. I hope the item below is to your liking – any questions can be emailed and I will do my best to answer you. I am enthusiastic, and have a fair degree of knowledge about many genres and I promise quality items. Please assume all records I offer have NO jumps, sticks, major warps or writing on covers or labels unless clearly stated to the contrary. Thanks for your interest and Good luck – MIKE.

Deck: Linn LP12/Hercules/Cirkus with Ittok Mk II arm and Ortofon Quintet Black moving coil cartridge (tracks at 2 grams). Amps: Naim Supernait 2 with Project USB phono stage and Tellerium Black interconnects. Speakers: B&W 805 Nautilus (bi-wired with Tellurium Black terminated cable) with REL subwoofer. All records I offer on Ebay are cleaned on a professional Nessie 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 D7500 DSLR Camera.

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