YARDBIRDS LITTLE GAMES MINT ORIG '67 MONO LP IN SHRINK

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·       YARDBIRDS - LITTLE GAMES - ORIGINAL 1967 EPIC RECORDS MONO LP LN-24313

·       ORIGINAL US PRESSING

·       ORIGINAL YELLOW EPIC LABEL WITH BLACK PRINT

·       IMPORTANT NOTE:  IN 1967/68, THE COLUMBIA RECORDS-AFFILIATED LABELS (SUCH AS COLUMBIA, ODE AND EPIC) PRODUCED A LARGE NUMBER OF MISPRESSINGS (ALBUMS BY YARDBIRDS, SPIRIT, BOB DYLAN AND SIMON & GARFUNKEL COME TO MIND) WHERE STEREO COPIES WERE MISLABELED AS MONOS AND VICE VERSA. CLOSE TO 40% OF ALL KNOWN MONO COPIES OF THIS ALBUM WERE “FALSE” MONOS: STEREO PRESSINGS MASQUERADING AS MONOS – THIS IS ONE OF THE PRECIOUS FEW COPIES WE HAVE FOUND WHICH IS BOTH LABELED, AND ACTUALLY PLAYS,  MONO)

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

·       ORIGINAL, THICK CARDBOARD COVER (AMERICAN STYLE)

·       COVER IS STILL ABOUT 90% IN ITS ORIGINAL SHRINK (CELLOPHANE) WRAP

·       CLEAN, WEAR-FREE LABELS

·       THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING

·       MATRIX NUMBER IN TRAIL-OFF VINYL (DEAD WAX) ENDS WITH "-1D/-1E".  ON SOME LABELS, THIS  INDICATES THE VERY FIRST, ORIGINAL PRESSING

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

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This is the FINAL Yardbirds’ studio album – an album on which Jimmy Page took over the helm from Jeff Beck. Initially butchered by the critics and buying public alike, the album aged with remarkable grace and became one of the venerable Yardbirds classics.

Track listing: Little Games - Smile on me - White Summer - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor - Glimpses - Drinking Muddy Water - No Excess Bagage - Stealing, Stealing - Only the Black rose - Little Soldier Boy

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If almost any group other than the Yardbirds had released Little Games, it would be considered a prime late '60s artifact, instead of a mild disappointment. Not that it's a bad album — it just lacks the polish of the group's other LPs. The Yardbirds' blues roots and progressive tendencies clashed with the pop-rock preferences of their record company-mandated producer, Mickie Most, resulting in a hastily done and uneven LP. The two best cuts were "White Summer" and "Drinking Muddy Water," excellent showcases for the experimental and bluesy sides of the band; both, curiously, were also virtually thefts, "White Summer" lifted from Davy Graham's arrangement of "She Moved Thro' The Fair" and "Drinking Muddy Water" a rewrite of Muddy Waters' "Rollin' and Tumblin' ." The best of the rest included "Only the Black Rose," a strangely beautiful, moody acoustic psychedelic piece; "Stealing Stealing," an unusual (for this band) pre-World War II style acoustic blues; and "Smile On Me," a hard, bluesy number that could have come from any part of the group's history. The attempt at a catchy rocker, "No Excess Baggage," however, needed more work; the power-chord laden "Tinker Tailor Soldier Sailor" sounded more like the Who than the Yardbirds, though it did introduce Jimmy Page's violin bow discourses on the guitar; and "Little Soldier Boy" was a silly pop-psychedelic piece more appropriate to the Monkees than the Yardbirds.

(REVIEW REPRINTED COURTESY OF BRUCE EDER, ALL MUSIC GUIDE  /ALLMUSIC.COM/)

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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  NEAR MINT. Some VERY LIGHT AND SUPERFICIAL abrasions – mostly sleeve scuffs -  are (barely) visible, but are probably inaudible,  and do not affect visual integrity or beauty of the vinyl. The original luster is very much intact, and the vinyl shines and sparkles almost like new. Visible – but totally insignificant – scratch noted on side 1

(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)           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 10:1.

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

·       COVER

COVER IS NEAR MINT,  STILL IN ITS ORIGINAL ►SHRINK WRAP (A SMALL PIECE OF SHRINK WRAP IS MISSING)

The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:

-        Cover has a small, neat, circular cutout hole in one of the corners

-         Minor shelf wear noted on the opening side (nothing significant)

-         Cover shows JUST A HINT of yellowing on back side, apparently from aging (nothing significant).

-         Cover has JUST A HINT of 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 1.

-         Cover has a few tiny wrinkles along the spine

NO OTHER IMPERFECTIONS ON THE COVER:

-        No split seams

-        No cut-out corners

-        No saw-marks or indents

-        No dirt/dust rubbing stains (friction marks caused by rubbing against other covers)

-        No writing

-        No stamps

-        No tearing: no chips, dents or nicks on the seams

-        No peel-off marks

-        No stains

-        No mold or mildew spots

-        No stickers or labels

-        No water damage

-        No razor marks, scratches, pressure marks, lines, streaks, or  cuts.

-        No warping

-        No wax, glue, paint or liquid drops on the cover

-        No glue traces or wax residue.

-        No bar codes

-        No RIAA stamps or stickers. 

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