kentgirl22 is pleased to offer for sale the following very rare original 1971 UK 1st pressing vinyl 2 LP SET:

AMON DÜÜL II

"DANCE OF THE LEMMINGS"

VERY RARE ORIGINAL 1971 UK UNITED ARTISTS LABEL 1st PRESS DOUBLE VINYL LP

CAT.NO.UAD 6000 3/4

ORIGINAL UK DOUBLE 2 LP SET IN STUNNING TOP MINT CONDITION!

PROBABLY THE FINEST ORIGINAL 1ST PRESSING YOU CAN FIND!! 

Great ORIGINAL United Artists Records 1st PRESSING Double LP Housed in Fabulous Laminated Gatefold Sleeve!

Highly collectable original 1971 UK 1st pressing DOUBLE LP SET from this legendary late 60s early 70s German krautrock psych / prog pioneers.

This incredible double album has been mine from new and I doubt if you can find a much better condition original 1st pressing copy! A beautiful laminated gatefold cover that will be near impossible to ever find better. Both records look and play fantastic. I have only played this album two times from new!! Once when originally purchased (I also bought this on cassette which is what I listened to also back then) and today as I type these comments. Both albums play superbly....absolutely breathtaking!!

This Amon Dull II double album represents an absolute milestone in progressive psychedelic music!! The band is in the grips of an overwhelming psychedelic possession culminating in this, their finest and most challenging recording. The musicianship is akin to an urgent and neuron shattering explosion through inner space. To me, this might be the pinnacle of kraut rock, pillaging the celestial spheres with manic textures and sonic explorations. Whereas a band like Pink Floyd would let their psychedelic explorations evolve as a natural consequence of a particular mood or setting, Amon Duul II at their peak were a more furious band where someone might have the impression that they had completely succumbed to the mind altering substance and were flailing and writhing in their drug induced torture. Simply an astounding performance!

A truly magical and important double album and one that needs to be in any serious 70's krautrock / prog / psych record collection!!

Both LP's are in stunning MINT condition.

GREAT ORIGINAL UK 1ST PRESSING OF THIS SEMINAL AND HIGHLY REGARDED EARLY 70's KRAUTROCK DOUBLE LP

Tracks

Side 1.

SYNTELMAN'S MARCH OF THE ROARING SEVENTIES (15:51)

(a) In The Glass Garden
(b) Pull Down Your Mask
(c) Prayer To The Silence
(d) Telephone Complex

Side 2.

RESTLESS SKYLIGHT - TRANSISTOR - CHILD (19:33)

1. Landing In A Ditch
2. Dehypnotized Toothpaste
3. A Short Stop At The Transsylvanian Brain Surgery
4. Race From Here To Your Ears
5. Riding On A Cloud
6. Paralized Paradise
7. H.G.Well's Take-Off

Side 3.

1. Chamsin Soundtrack

The Marilyn Monroe-Memorial-Church (18:05)

Side 4.

1. Chewinggum Telegram (2:41)
2. Stumbling Over Melted Moonlight (4:33)
3. Toxicological Whispering (7:45)

Produced by OLAF KUEBLER & AMON DUUL II

Rare Original 1971 UK United Artists Label 1st Pressing Vinyl 2 LP Set Housed In Front And Back Laminated Gatefold Sleeve

Record Label: United Artists

Catalogue No: UAD 6000 3/4

Matrix Nos: UAD 60003 A-1U; UAD 60003 B-1U; UAD 60004 A-2U; UAD 60004 B-1U

Year: 1971

Made In UK

CONDITION

Vinyl: Mint (-)

(Stunning copy with beautiful gleaming vinyl surfaces with deep shine, only played two times from new!  A superb visual and aural copy. Super clean, shiny, intense black and very heavily pressed. An exceptional looking pair with nothing more than a tiny few ultra faint, fine surface traces - mere removal blemishes that only just show with angled viewing that barely any records ever escape as the barest minimum. A set played two times only (from new) including my play-grade today!! Visually superb records that should please all collectors. I have seen brand new records with more marks than this! A copy hardly even played which is unusual – for those who bought these German prog albums, most played them heavily – for fans of this genre, these were immensely popular. These super records play up to their visual grading with nothing to fault. 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 barely even register and no pops or clicks were noted. Remember these albums have some very quiet passages that will test out any vinyl copy, but even these play very quiet. Clearly this has been very well stored and caringly looked after within a non-smoking environment. Nothing spoilt my pleasure when play-grading this Krautrock classic. This copy will prove very difficult to find significantly better and can be strongly recommended. Both records deliver fantastic audio throughout with great powerful sound clarity. A fabulous original UK 1st pressing of this classic krautrock double LP.)

Labels: EX (+)

(Very clean and highly attractive original Cream and Brown labels. Unmarked except for two small circular stamps on one side only of each disc (see pics). No spindle traces are evident. Clearly a record little handled or likely played and finding this title significantly better will prove immensely difficult if not near impossible!)

Gatefold Sleeve: Mint (-)

(A gatefold format, laminated front and back. Printed and made by the E. J. Day Group, London and Bedford. An absolute stunning peach of a cover that will rarely ever be found better or even matched at all. A connoisseur standard cover in pristine preserved condition – one that time has forgotten. It will truly remind those around at the time what this once looked like when first issued, yes it really IS that good. The laminate gleams and is crystal clear so the incredible artwork can be enjoyed to full advantage. There is just a very small area of laminate blistering near the top right corner but no peeling. No friction rubs or dulling and any creasing is ultra fine, few and faint. The freshness and smooth finish has to be seen and felt to be believed, and even under light there are few marks or blemishes and even fine hairlines have largely been avoided. Up there with one of the very best Krautrock covers you will ever see. The inner gatefold is pristine with a great centre spread picture – set the controls for the heart of the universe! A pristine perfect middle that has a lovely reassuring 'creak' when opened, just like when first made. The spine is solid, thick, straight and square with all the text near perfect and unworn. Ultra clean and fresh, this beautiful gatefold sleeve will prove close to impossible to find significantly better)

NOTES

AMON DÜÜL II

"DANCE OF THE LEMMINGS"

UAD 6000 3/4

Rare Original 1971 UK United Artists Records 1st Press 2 LP sET Housed In Stunning Laminated Gatefold Sleeve

Line-up / Musicians

Karl-Heinz Hausmann: electronics 
Chris Karrer: acoustic & electric guitars, violin, vocals 
Peter Leopold: drums, percussion, piano 
Lothar Meid: bass, double bass, vocals 
Falk U. Rogner: organ, electronics 
John Weinzierl: acoustic & electric guitars, vocals, piano

Guest Musicians

Al Gromer: sitar 
Jimy Jackson: organ, piano, choir 
Henriette Kroetenschwanz: vocals 
Rolf Zacher: vocals

On offer here, from my own collection, is this very rare original 1971 UK United Artists label 1st press vinyl double LP

On the original 1st pressing United Artists cream and brown label

Housed in original front and back laminated gatefold sleeve ' Made and Printed by the E.J. Day Group, London and Bedford'

Complete with its original 'Made In Great Britain' paper inner-sleeves

Catalogue No: UAD 6000 3/4

Matrix Nos: UAD 60003 A-1U; UAD 60003 B-1U; UAD 60004 A-2U; UAD 60004 B-1U

 1971 UK original 1st pressing issue of extremely hard to find double album by legendary German krautrock pioneers

On offer here, from my own collection, is a MINT condition original UK 1st PRESS of the classic AMON DUUL 1971 double album 'DANCE OF THE LEMMINGS', issued on the UK 1st press United Artists Records label. The two records are housed in beautiful original 1st press laminated gatefold sleeve.

In the early 70s, this version of Amon Düül II was churning out classic albums for fun! And here is another original UK 1st Pressing for your vinyl collection.

Dance of the Lemmings was the band’s third album, following on from the groundbreaking debut Phallus Dei and the previous album Yeti, after breaking away from the original Amon Duul band due to musical differences and direction. So often compared to Hawkwind, Amon Duul II made some of the most stunning progressive rock sounds from the early 70s. Long acid-trip progressive freakout tracks with a spacy type sound at times, but unlike the Hawks, Amon Duul II had a female vocalist (Renate Knaup-Krotenschwanz). Personally I love all their early albums and this is yet another great work, a challenging double set that ranks as one of their very best. The importance of Amon Duul II within the 'Krautrock' genre is so often understated when compared to other classic bands like Can, Faust, Neu and Kraftwerk – it’s long time that record was put right.

Outside of Germany, this album is known as "Dance of the Lemmings". This third album finds these Krautrock pioneers at the top of their game, as far as experimentation goes. And this album, like its predecessor, Yeti, was originally released as a double LP set. The first two sides of "Lemmings..." consists of bizarre music, consisting of vocals, jams, and bizarre effects. The third side consist of freaky spaced out experimental effects that sound a whole lot like Alpha Centauri-era TANGERINE DREAM (who were their contemporaries, after all). This stuff would fit fineon Rolf Ulrich Kaiser's Ohr label (the label TD, ASH RA TEMPEL, the original AMON DÜÜL with their album Para Dieswierts Düül, and others recorded for), although released on United Artists here in UK and presumably Liberty in Germany.

Then the final side simply consists of mindblowing lengthy riffing guitar-jams. If you enjoy CAN's "Tago Mago" but wondered how that album might be like if that band didn't rely so much on grooves and went for a more musical, psychedelic direction,then  this is a great album to try. For the rest of you, still a highly recommended album for the adventurous listener.

"Dance Of The Lemmings" is such a wonderfully strange album, chaotic psychedelic folkish krautrock, with a jamming 'heavy' feel to the songs. Following on from 'Yet' here we have another double album by Amon Duul II and yet again they produce another masterpiece of krautrock and heavy progressive rock. Many people regard this as their best album and it's not hard to see why! The music contained on these grooves is loaded with amazing improvised psychedelic space krautrock and weird as hell vocals that could easily blow your mind. Anyway, you can file this wonderous double album together with Yeti and Tago Mago by Can at the top end of any best krautrock albums ever list! The two records are made up by 3 long pieces and 3 shorter instrumentals the first 2 long epics are maybe the best; Syntelman's March of the Roaring Seventies and Restless Skylight-Transistor-Child , staggering psychedelic space rock with lots of stuff going on and a lot of acoustic playing which welds together with the heavier guitars of old. The Marilyn Monroe-memorial-church is an improvistaion, pretty spooky and in places very cool and totally stoned out weird, sounding not to far away from early Tangerine Dream. The final three closing songs, or instrumentals, since there are no vocals are the most straight hard rocking stuff on the album and very nice, great riffs repeated over and over like your typical krautrock with thudding addictive basslines. Needless to say this is essential krautrock that you must have. A masterpiece of progressive music. A truly great band, and this rare original double album is quintessential Krautrock.

 This astonishing double album is a 'MUST HAVE' for 70s KRAUTROCK afficionados, seldom comes up for sale and even less so in such superb condition.

On offer here is a VERY rare Double LP (especially in this condition!!!!) by Amon Duul II called 'Dance Of The Lemmings' and is an ORIGINAL 1971 UK 1st Pressing on the 1st Press United Artists label!!!!  THIS DOUBLE LP IS SERIOUSLY RARE AND VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND IN SUCH GREAT CONDITION!  THIS IS ONE OF AMON DUUL II's RAREST LPs EVER - AND VIRTUALLY NEVER TURNS UP FOR SALE ESPECIALLY IN SUCH TOP MINT CONDITION AS THIS COPY IS IN!!  JUST TRY AND FIND ANOTHER ONE!!  BACK IN 1971 WHEN THIS DOUBLE LP WAS FIRST RELEASED, IT ONLY SOLD IN SMALL NUMBERS AND WAS ALMOST IMMEDIATELY DELETED!  AS A RESULT IT IS SERIOUSLY RARE AND INCREDIBLY HARD TO LOCATE TODAY!  NOT ONLY THAT BUT THIS DOUBLE LP IS IN SUPERB TOP MINT CONDITION AND HAS BARELY BEEN PLAYED AT ALL!!  JUST TAKE A LOOK AT THE PICTURES!! THIS IS THE ORIGINAL 1971 UK 1ST PRESSING ON THE 1ST PRESS UNITED ARTISTS LABEL, TWO ORIGINAL MATCHING PLAIN INNER SLEEVES, AND 1ST PRESS 'E.J.DAY' GATEFOLD LAMINATED COVER!!  THIS DOUBLE LP IS SERIOUSLY RARE AND VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND LIKE THIS - SO DONT MISS OUT ON THIS INCREDIBLE OPPORTUNITY!!!!  This is the ORIGINAL United Artists UK 1st Pressing from 1971 and is in SUPERB condition!!!!  The records are pressed on THICK quality vinyl. The Cat. No is UAD 60003/4 on the ORIGINAL 1st Press United Artists label (see picture) and is a UK Stereo 1st Pressing (there were NO Monos)!!!!

The record labels are in SUPERB condition (see pictures) with NO wear, NO writing (apart from an absolutely ULTRA faint TINY name trace on 1 label ONLY), and barely ANY spindle marks AT ALL!!!!  IT IS VERY CLEAR THAT THESE RECORDS HAVE BARELY BEEN PLAYED AT ALL!!  The vinyl is in AWESOME condition!! There are NO scratches, NO hairlines, NO scufflines, and only a VERY few of the VERY lightest paper scuffs only visible under EXTREME light!!!!  ITS AS SIMPLE AS THAT!!!!  BOTH RECORDS STILL RETAIN THEIR ORIGINAL 'JUST PRESSED' LOOK AND LOOK AWESOME!!!!  It is also great to find that the records play as STUNNINGLY as the visual with NO pops, NO sticking, NO jumps, barely ANY crackle AT ALL, and only some absolutely ULTRA faint touches of MEGA low level background sound on the run on grooves & gaps - NOT in the music AT ALL!!!!  The sound quality is simply SUPERB with NO distortion and NO groovewear either!!!!  The records must grade MINT-!!  WHAT AN AWESOME SET OF RECORDS!!  Believe me these records are NOT overgraded in ANY way!!  The records also come in the original two matching plain inner sleeves which are in SUPERB condition!!!!  The 1st Press 'E.J.Day' Gatefold Laminated Cover is in BRILLIANT condition!!!!  It has NO edge wear, NO spinal wear, only VERY slight corner wear (NOT through the colour), only a few VERY light creases (cover is VERY flat looking!), VERY shiny laminate, and NO writing!!!!  The opening edges are beautifully straight with NO feathering!!!!  Even the unlaminated inside of the cover is in BRILLIANT condition with NO grubbyness, NO yellowing, NO ringwear, barely ANY rubbing AT ALL, and NO writing!!!!  The cover must grade EXCELENT+ NEAR MINT!!

THIS LP IS SERIOUSLY RARE AND VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND LIKE THIS - SO DONT MISS OUT ON THIS ULTRA RARE OPPORTUNITY!!

UNITED ARTISTS LABEL 1972 ORIGINAL UK FIRST PRESSING VINYL LP. CAT.NO. UAG 29406 (STEREO). UNLAMINATED GATEFOLD SLEEVE.

FANTASTIC STUFF, BARELY PLAYED, VERY RARE IN SUCH SUPERB NEAR MINT CONDITION!! 

I DOUBT IF YOU CAN FIND A MUCH BETTER CONDITION ORIGINAL UK 1st PRESSING OF THIS GREAT KRAUTROCK LP!

 Low Start....No Reserve....Don't Miss Out!!

Please take a look at my other ORIGINAL AMON DUUL UK 1st PRESS LPs listed this week

POST & PACKING:

UK: 1st Class: £4.00 (Recorded Delivery) each additional LP will cost £1.50
EUROPE: Airmail: £7.50 or £12.50 (International Signed For Delivery) each additional LP will cost £2.50 
INTERNATIONAL / REST OF WORLD: Airmail: £11.00 or £16.00 (International Signed For Delivery) each additional LP will cost £3.00

***Any record (or combination of records) which sells for more than £20 MUST be sent by a trackable method ie INTERNATIONAL SIGNED FOR outside of the UK. This is compulsory. Please do not bid above £20 on this item if you are not prepared to pay for this secure shipping service. I will email you when payment has been received to let you know when the item will be posted. Please leave feedback upon receipt of the item so that I know you have received it safely. Any problems please email me. Thanks.

ALL RECORDS ARE VERY WELL PACKAGED WITH THE VINYL OUTSIDE OF THE SLEEVE TO PREVENT ANY 'KNIFING' DURING TRANSIT. A PROTECTIVE POLY SLEEVE, CRUCIFORM (NOT ENVELOPE) MAILER AND STIFFENERS ARE ALWAYS USED TO ENSURE THAT YOUR RECORD ARRIVES SAFELY.

Note: The pictures provided are REAL images of the ACTUAL item you are bidding on. What you see is what you'll get!

Records / CDs Are Graded In The Following Way:

MINT (M): The record / cd displays barely any signs of use, if any, with no marks or deterioration in sound quality. Extra items and cover are near perfect.

EXCELLENT (EX): Shows only minor signs of being played with very little lessening in sound quality. The Cover and extras will have some light wear and or creasing

VERY GOOD (VG): Has been played many times but has no major deterioration in sound quality, despite some noticeable surface marks and occasional light scratches. Cover and extras will have normal wear and tear but no major defects

GOOD (G): Has been played so much that the sound quality has noticeably deteriorated with some distortion and mild scratches. The cover and any extras may suffer from folding, scuffing, split spine, discoloration etc.

FAIR (F): The record is still just playable and has considerable surface noise and may even jump. Cover and contents will be torn stained and/or defaced.

POOR (P): The record will not play properly. Covers badly damaged or partly missing

+ or - : Indicates slightly better (+) or slightly lesser (-) condition than main grade

All records / cd's are from my personal collection and have been carefully play graded before listing. In many cases I have owned them from new and all have been looked after very well. Please check out my other similar items currently listed on eBay.

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All records are securely and well packed to avoid any unnecessary damage during transit. I aim to dispatch all items within 48 hours of receiving payment. I always obtain a certificate proof of posting receipt for every item sent, which will complete our transaction. Thank you for taking the time to look at my listings, I hope you will be lucky if deciding to make a bid.