BAD COMPANY Bad Company 1974 UK ISLAND 1st PRESSING
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BAD COMPANY Bad Company 1974 UK ISLAND 1st PRESSING
BAD COMPANYBad Company
UK ISLAND (ILPS 9279) FIRST PRESSING (June 1974)
SEEN A FEW SPINS BUT WELL CARED FOR AND DELIVERING SUPERB SOUND
VERY NICE ORIGINAL COPY
PRESSED WITH THE FIRST ISSUE RED ISLAND CUSTOM LABELS
MATRIX: ILPS 9279 A-1U / ILPS 9279 B-1U
HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL GATEFOLD SLEEVE “Printed in England by Robor Limited.”
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL PLAIN WHITE INNER SLEEVE WITH UK PATENT NUMBER PRINTED IN BLACK
From the wreckage of Free came Bad Company, a group fronted by singer Paul Rodgers and featuring his drummer bandmate Simon Kirke, Mott the Hoople guitarist Mick Ralphs, and King Crimson bassist Boz Burrell. The latter is something of a ringer, suggesting an undercurrent of adventure in the band, but as the group's eponymous 1974 debut decidedly proves, the band is proudly not progressive. If anything, Bad Company excise the excesses of Free -- there are no winding jams and very little added colour by way of pianos or even air in the production; those two tricks are evident on their title track/rallying call "Bad Company," and the details make a difference, as do the pastoral acoustics of the closing "Seagull" -- reducing their rock & roll to a strong, heavy crunch; compare "Ready to Love," a tune Ralphs brought over from Mott the Hoople, to the original to see how these quartet members keep their heads down as they do their business. Appropriately enough given their name, there's a sense of slow, churning menace to Bad Company. Even the quickest songs -- the blues boogies of "Can't Get Enough" and "Movin' On" -- don't exactly proceed at a rapid clip, a steadiness that makes the quartet seem heavier. It's hard rock painted in stark black & white: cranked guitars mirrored by a deliberate wallop from the rhythm section, a rock & roll so loud and basic it wound up not ageing much at all even though it pretty much defined mid-'70s album rock.
Side 1:
Can't Get Enough (4:10)
Rock Steady (3:46)
Ready For Love (5:00)
Don't Let Me Down (4:18)
Side 2:
Bad Company (4:50)
The Way I Choose (5:05)
Movin' On (3:20)
Seagull (4:06)
LABELS: EXCELLENT+
Moderate spindle traces but clean and unmarked
VINYL Visual: EXCELLENT
Both surfaces have light hairlines but nothing major and no other marks
VINYL Audio: EXCELLENT+
Plays beautifully throughout with little to fault the strong powerful sound and loud cut.
An occasional tick noted but nothing really.
A very nice original copy
SLEEVE: EXCELLENT+
Great condition, especially for this black sleeve, with little wear and all spine text clear and bold
POST & PACKING:
A PROTECTIVE POLY SLEEVE, NEW ANTI-STATIC LINERS, QUALITY BOX (NOT ENVELOPE) MAILER AND AMPLE STIFFENERS ARE ALWAYS USED TO ENSURE THAT YOUR RECORD ARRIVES SAFELY
UK: £5.00 (Recorded Delivery)
EUROPE: Airmail: £15.00 (International Signed For delivery)
INTERNATIONAL: Airmail: £20.00 (International Signed For delivery)
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856 (GS 7.0.20 (856))
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