BLACK WIDOW 'SACRIFICE' ORIG UK HEAVY PROG '70

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Aug 22, 2015 Sold Date

Aug 15, 2015 Start Date

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Black Widow

'Sacrifice'

CBS, UK, 1970

63948

ORIGINALLY PASSED off as a wannabe Sabbath but that couldn't be further from the truth. Black Widow, despite sharing a sinister name, are a far more erudite band than Sabbath focussing their musical agility on period progressive rock with a theatrical bent. Imagine Arthur Brown fronting Rare Bird and you might have some idea of where they are coming from.

The emphasis here is on not so much complex arrangements but more on their largely unstructured free form musicality. Of course their best known track 'Come To The Sabbat' is featured on side one which is actually more Edgar Broughton Band than Sabbath with side two featuring just three songs - a prog rock smorggersboard of differing moods, inflections and arrangements. The super long title track is a magnificient piece of music with a galloping rythm section, lashings of Hammond organ and great flute accompaniment ala Jethro Tull

Produced by Patrick Meehan (engineered by Roy Thomas Baker) who, rather ironically, would later go on to pick up Black Sabbath for management and also sign them to his production company WWA Records. Always liked the drummers name - Clive Box!

This auction is part of a fantastic collection of seventies rock which I was lucky enough to acquire. Most of these records were stored with the utmost care and sparsely played. Some were possibly never played or may have been for just a handful of times.

Pressing: CBS, UK, 1970- orig red label

Vinyl: Nice clean and shiny condition. A few spindle marks and only light signs of any other use. Grades as Ex+

Cover: Only minor signs of use. Issued in a beautifully illustrated matt finish gatefold cover. Sharp corners (slightly rubbed), no dings, no bends, faint ring wear, no split seams and no creases. Displays a little storage and handling wear. Spine is straight and uncrushed. Grades as Ex+

Inserts: None

Matrix:

1st Pressing

Side One: S - 63948 - A1

Side Two: S - 63948 - B1

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