BLACK SABBATH - VOL 4 1st Press 1972 VERTIGO SWIRL inner booklet attached
  £   87
  $   115

 


£ 87 Sold For
Mar 14, 2021 Sold Date
Mar 7, 2021 Start Date
28   Number Of Bids
  Great Britain Country Of Seller
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Description


BLACK SABBATH -

VOL 4

 

VERTIGO  6360 071

1st UK  Press 1972 



Credits

  • Arranged By [All Arrangements] – Black Sabbath
  • Design [Cover Design] – Bloomsbury Group
  • Engineer – Colin Caldwell, Vic Smith*
  • Photography By – Keith McMillan*
  • Producer – Black Sabbath, Patrick Meehan

Notes

as Black Sabbath Vol 4 but with "Made In England" on label

Spiral label.

Gatefold sleeve with 4 page insert. Sleeve has track timings and is printed in Germany, but spiral inner sleeve states Made In England. 6360 071 D on top rear of sleeve.

First issue with Spiral labels/inner and 4 page photo booklet inside gatefold sleeve.

On the label the title appears as 'Black Sabbath Vol. 4'.

An Excellency Production
We wish to thank the great COKE-Cola Company of Los Angeles.

? 1972

In June 1972, Black Sabbath reconvened in Los Angeles to begin work on their fourth album at the Record Plant Studios. The recording process was plagued with problems, many due to substance abuse issues. In the studio, the band regularly had large speaker boxes full of cocaine delivered. While struggling to record the song "Cornucopia" after "sitting in the middle of the room, just doing drugs", Bill Ward feared that he was about to be fired from the band. "I hated the song, there were some patterns that were just horrible", Ward said. "I nailed it in the end, but the reaction I got was the cold shoulder from everybody. It was like 'Well, just go home, you're not being of any use right now.' I felt like I'd blown it, I was about to get fired".

However, the seeds were planted for what would eventually be the demise of the classic Sabbath line-up. As bassist Geezer Butler told Guitar World in 2001: "Yeah, the cocaine had set in. We went out to L.A. and got into a totally different lifestyle. Half the budget went on the coke and the other half went to seeing how long we could stay in the studio... We rented a house in Bel-Air and the debauchery up there was just unbelievable." In the same interview, Ward said: "Yes, Vol. 4 is a great album, but listening to it now, I can see it as a turning point for me, where the alcohol and drugs stopped being fun."



Vinyl: VG+. Stunning deep glossy and heavy vinyl. This has had only little play. A beautiful glossy vinyl with just one long hairline scratch on side A "Snowblind" which results in a few low level ticks. Under a strong light just some wispy retraction paper hairlines can be seen. These are  invisible in normal light. I subjected the record to a detailed listen on my high end system and it sounded really nice. Lovely channel separation without any distortion and barely any crackle. Played on my Linn Sondek/Arcam/B&W set up. Of course NO skips, NO jumps, NO sticks etc.


Gatefold sleeve: VG+.  As seen in Discogs (above), this version has the German outer sleeve with D to the rear with the catalogue number. 
Without doubt one of the hardest gatefolds to still find intact!! A great matt sleeve with colours that are still rich and deep. Any storage wear is only very light. There is an amount of waviness. The spine is still fully legible even though there is light storage wear visible. The opening is  crisp. This still has the inner photo booklet intact and attached. There is no writing anywhere. NO sticker tears, NO seam splits etc. NO writing. The sleeve sits nice and flat and is all square. The pictures give you some impression of the quality at hand in this auction. 
Comes in a white plain inner sleeve.



This is a unique investment opportunity!!! The next prog album to go completely through the roof. Finding this album in any condition at all is nearly impossible so late in the day. Get this while you still can. This value of the album is only going to go one way ... up and up ... until it will be totally unavailable at all for a reasonable price.

 

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This an excellent investment opportunity!!! Any questions please ask me and I will try to answer soon.

 

Though there are rarely ever any problems with my items, I always try my very best to describe everything exactly!  PLEASE REMEMBER to contact me FIRST,  if you have any problems at all, before you leave feedback and star ratings, so I get a chance to turn any negative experience into a positive one!  I can always happily sort anything out for you, if you let me know you have a problem!  This way no one has to leave Negative/Neutral feedback - and we both walk away happy! Similarly with the amount of stars, anything less than a full 5 * rating is effectively detrimental to a seller's rating as lower ratings will incur higher Final Value Fees  and lower priority in the bidlists eventually making it unattractive to list items on Ebay at all. I know of at least one major previous Ebay seller who has decided not to list via Ebay again. Please do NOT bid if you cannot give me at least 1 chance to sort everything out to your FULL satisfaction in the unlikely event of a problem.  Thanks again!!

 

 

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