TIM BUCKLEY GOODBYE & HELLO ULTRA-RARE ORIG '67 ELEKTRA MONO LP w/GATEFOLD COVER

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eBay item 214276686 (Ends 12/14/99, 21:58:41 PST) - TIM BUCKLEY~GOODBYE & HELLO~ORIGINAL MONO LP!

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·       TIM BUCKLEY - GOODBYE AND HELLO - ORIGINAL ELEKTRA 1967 MONO LP EKL-7318

·       ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING

·       MONSTROUSLY RARE MONO PRESSING, MANY TIMES RARER THAN STEREO; DO NOTE THAT SOME OF THE MONO MIXES ARE SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFERENT AND MAY, IN FACT, BE DIFFERENT TAKES ALTOGETHER ("NO MAN CAN FIND THE WAR" BEING THE MOST GLARING EXAMPLE)

·       NOTE: THERE ARE TWO PRESSINGS OF THIS ALBUM ON THE GOLD (TAN) ELEKTRA LABEL, LEADING MANY COLLECTORS TO CONFUSE THE TWO, ALTHOUGH THE TWO PRESSINGS ARE SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFERENT:

·       THE ORIGINAL, FIRST PRESSING – SUCH AS THE COPY WE HAVE HERE -  HAD GATEFOLD COVERS MADE OF THICK, HARD CARDBOARD, WITH TIM BUCKLEY`S BLACK-AND-WHITE (OR, MORE ACCURATELY, SEPIA-AND-WHITE) PHOTO ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE GATEFOLD, IN STANDING, UPRIGHT POSITION; THE ORIGINAL PRESSINGS ALSO HAD A 4-DIGIT ELEKTRA CATALOG NUMBER (7318) (OR THREE DIGITS FOR MONO PRESSING: 318)

·       THE SECOND PRESSING ON THE GOLD (TAN) LABEL HAD THE SO-CALLED UNIPAC COVERS (ONE SIDE OF THE COVER HOLDS THE RECORD LIKE A REGULAR COVER, THE OTHER ONE IS A SINGLE-PLY CARDBOARD WHICH FOLDS OVER LIKE A GATEFOLD); THE SECOND PRESSINGS HAD BUCKLEY`S COLOR PHOTO ON THE RIGHT-HAND SIDE IN SITTING POSITION; THE SECOND PRESSINGS HAD A 5-DIGIT CATALOG NUMBER (74028). THIS, SECOND, PRESSING WAS NEVER RELEASED IN MONO.

·       THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, FIRST PRESSING AS DESCRIBED ABOVE

·       THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST U.S. PRESSING; THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.

·       SONIC RECORDING PRODUCTS (SON), HOLBROOK, LONG ISLAND, NY PRESSING

·       ORIGINAL ELEKTRA GOLD (TAN) LABEL, MID-'60s STYLE WITH THE LARGE "E" LOGO ON TOP (IN USE BETWEEN 1966 AND 1969)

·       ORIGINAL GATEFOLD COVER, MADE OF THICK CARDBOARD (AMERICAN STYLE) 

·       CLEAN, WEAR-FREE LABELS

·       THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING

·       MONO version of this album has NEVER been available on legitimate Compact Disc or in any other digital format.

(►PLEASE SEE THE IMAGE OF THE COVER, LABEL OR BOTH, SHOWN BELOW)

(Note: this is a REAL image of the ACTUAL item you are bidding on. This is NOT a "recycled" image from our previous auction. What you see is what you’ll get.  GUARANTEED!)

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Often cited as the ultimate Tim Buckley statement, Goodbye and Hello is indeed a fabulous album, but it's merely one side of Tim Buckley's enormous talent. Recorded in the middle of 1967 (in the afterglow of Sgt. Pepper), this album is clearly inspired by Pepper's exploratory spirit. More often than not, this helps to bring Buckley's awesome musical vision home, but occasionally falters. Not that the album is overrated (it's not), it's just that it is only one side of Buckley. The finest songs on the album were written by him alone, particularly "Once I Was" and "Pleasant Street." Buoyed by Jerry Yester's excellent production, these tracks are easily among the finest example of Buckley's psychedelic/folk vision. A few tracks, namely the title cut and "No Man Can Find the War," were co-written by poet Larry Beckett. While Beckett's lyrics are undoubtedly literate and evocative, they occasionally tend to be too heavy-handed for Buckley. However, this is a minor criticism of an excellent and revolutionary album that was a quantum leap for both Tim Buckley and the audience.

(EXCERPT FROM AN ONLINE REVIEW BY MATTHEW GREENWALD, ALL MUSIC GUIDE  /ALLMUSIC.COM/)

Here it is, in all its Morning Glory: the hard-to-find Tim Buckley's second album, the rare ORIGINAL  MONO pressing of his 'Goodbye and Hello' album. This is the album that gave Tim Buckley his big break and which made his name famous world-over, if only for a brief period of time, before he lapsed into self-imposed oblivion. The material is vintage Tim Buckley, ranging from troubadour musings to some of the most sophisticated, intricate, melodic songs ever crafted by Man. If you have not experienced 60’s firsthand, this is the album which will probably evoke them much better than any other album in existence. Some of the songs are my personal perennial favorites: The hypnotic, Bergman-like "Pleasant Street", the beautiful "Phantasmagoria in two’, the poignant "No man can find a war" or the thoughtful, profound "Once I was" and "Morning Glory" (this, later one, covered by practically every self-respecting up-and-coming folk artist of the late ‘60’s). And then, there`s  this wonderful multi-octave range voice, which is a force of nature! The album is truly a masterpiece, even if a few of the songs on it did not age all that well. The sound is very warm and friendly original MONO mix , with delicate, intricate, baroque/elizabethan passages more nuanced and gradated than on the stereo version.  A genuine piece of rock, folk and early psych history. Our estimate is that stereo copies of this album outnumber mono copies at a ratio of at least 20:1.

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·                   CONDITION:

·                   RECORD

(IMPORTANT NOTE: unless otherwise noted, ALL records are graded visually, and NOT play-graded!; we  grade records under the strong, diffuse room light or discrete sunlight)

(a)          WE GRADE THE VINYL AS EXCELLENT. This is one of those albums that are somewhat difficult to grade. It is somewhere between VG++ and NEAR MINT, just a notch below NEAR MINT. A few light abrasions ARE visible, but they are extremely shallow, superficial  and only moderately visually distracting (nothing significant).For the most part, the vinyl looks impeccable without any MAJOR visual flaws or imperfections. Much of the original luster is intact, and the vinyl shines and sparkles almost like new.

(b)          The record is pressed on a beautiful, thick, inflexible vinyl, which was usually used for the first or very early pressings. Usually, the sound on such thick vinyl pressings is full-bodied, vivid, and even dramatic. Do not expect to obtain such a majestic analog sound from a digital recording!

(c)           The record comes in the original stock inner sleeve.

(d)          Mono pressing of this title is much rarer, and by far more  preferable to its stereo counterpart. We think that the mix is more natural, humane, "organic" and that the mixes are somewhat different than on the stereo version. We estimate that stereo copies of this album outnumber mono pressings by a ratio of at least 20:1.

(e)           Of course, this is a full-bodied ANALOG recording, and not an inferior, digital recording!!!

·                   THE COVER

THE COVER IS NICE --- ABOUT EXCELLENT OR VERY GOOD++ (VG++).

The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:

-         Cover has some light ring wear (nothing significant); On the scale from 1 to 10 (1 being the least, and  10 being the most severe), we assess the severity of ring wear as 3

-         Minor shelf wear noted on the seams (nothing significant)

-         Cover has a few tiny wrinkles along the spine

-         Minor yellowing is noted on the INSIDE gatefold

NO OTHER VISIBLE FLAWS OR IMPERFECTIONS ON THE  COVER

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