BLIND FAITH. Blind Faith. CLASSIC 1ST ALBUM. N.MINT

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BLIND FAITH

BLIND FAITH

STEREO 33 RPM. LP. - POLYDOR - 583059 - (UK) 1969

  ORIGINAL (UK) ISSUE

MATRIX NUMBERS

SIDE ONE: (583059 A//4 420 05) / SIDE TWO: (583059 B//5 420 04)

VINYL CONDITION NEAR MINT 

UNLAMINATED SLEEVE GATEFOLD CONDITION EXCELLENT + 

 ORIGINAL UK POLYDOR PROG ROCK ALBUM,

RELEASED IN AUGUST 1969 

'BLIND FAITH' BY BLIND FAITH.

THE BANDS 1ST AND ONLY UK ALBUM RELEASE.

AN ESSENTIAL AND CLASSIC BRITISH PROGRESSIVE ROCK/BLUES ALBUM!

FROM THIS SHORT LIVED BAND.

Blind Faith were an English blues supergroup which consisted of Eric Clapton (The Yardbirds, Cream), Ginger Baker (Graham Bond Organisation, Cream), Steve Winwood (Spencer Davis Group, Traffic) and Ric Grech (Family). The group only released one album, Blind Faith, in 1969 for the UK Polydor record label. They were often seen as stylistically similar to the bands which Winwood, Baker, and Clapton had most recently participated in (Traffic and Cream). The band helped to pioneer a fusion of  Prog Rock with the blues!!!

Blind Faith's beginnings date to mid-1968, with the breakup of Cream. Rock's original supergroup had become a financial powerhouse, selling millions of records within a few years and raising the group's (and each member's) repertoire to international popularity. Despite that success, the band was crumbling from within due to frequent animosity between Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker, with Eric Clapton doing his best to mediate. In addition, Clapton had tired of being coerced into playing commercially-driven blues, and hoped to move forward with a new, experimental, less strait-jacketed approach to the genre!!!!.

Steve Winwood was facing similar problems in The Spencer Davis Group, where he had been the lead singer for three years while they produced straight-laced blues. Winwood wanted to experiment with the band's sound by infusing jazz elements, but left due to his musical differences, instead forming a new band -- Traffic -- in 1967. That band split temporarily in 1969, and Winwood, started to jam with his good friend Eric in Clapton's basement in Surrey, England. Winwood and Clapton had previously collaborated on the Eric Clapton record, "Powerhouse"!!!

The release of the album provoked controversy because the cover featured a topless  girl, holding in her hands a silver space ship designed by Mick Milligan, a jeweler at the Royal College of Art.Some perceived the ship as phallic The U.S. record company issued it with an alternative cover which showed a photograph of the band on the front.

The cover art was created by photographer Bob Seidemann, a personal friend and former flatmate of Clapton who is known primarily for his photos of Janis Joplin and the Grateful Dead.                                          

                                          TRACK LISTING

                                                               SIDE ONE

1. "Had to Cry Today" (Steve Winwood) – 8:48

2. "Can't Find My Way Home" (Steve Winwood) – 3:16

3. "Well...All Right" (Norman Petty, Buddy Holly, Jerry Allison, Joe B. Mauldin) – 4:27

4. "Presence of the Lord" (Eric Clapton) – 4:50

SIDE TWO

1. "Sea of Joy" (Steve Winwood) – 5:22

2. "Do What You Like" (Ginger Baker) – 15:18

RARELY SEEN IN THIS NEAR MINT CONDITION!

THIS RECORD HAS BEEN STRICTLY GRADED,

(R/C) STANDARDS. 

VINYL CONDITION

THE VINYL IS IN STUNNING NEAR MINT CONDITION

BRIGHT, CLEAN AND SHINNY,

RETAINING IT'S 'JUST PRESSED' LOOK,

AND ORIGINAL MIRROR SHEEN.

WHEN EXAMINED UNDER BRIGHT LIGHT

THERE ARE VERY FEW,

VERY LIGHT AND OF THE FAINTEST PAPER TRACES, SIDE TWO.

A TOP COPY!!!

THE RECORD HAS HAD ABSOLUTE MINIMAL PLAY.

LABEL CONDITION

THE LABELS ARE IN SUPERB CONDITION.

DIFFICULT TO SEE IN BRIGHT LIGHT,

THERE LOOKS TO BE ONE FAINT SPINDLE TRACE,

AROUND THE CENTRE HOLE, EACH SIDE.

SIDE ONE LABEL RETAINS IT'S ORIGINAL 'FACTORY SAMPLE' STICKER,

INDICATING A VERY EARLY PRESSING.

THE RECORD COMES IN IT'S ORIGINAL POLYLINED INNER SLEEVE,

IN EXCELLENT CONDITION.

1ST ISSUE UNLAMINATED GATEFOLD SLEEVE CONDITION

THE 1ST ISSUE UNLAMINATED GATEFOLD SLEEVE IS IN EXCELLENT + CONDITION,

THERE ARE TWO SMALL 1CM,

LIGHT CREASES ON THE LEFT HAND BORDER, FRONT OF SLEEVE.

THERE IS ONE SMALL 1CM, LIGHT CREASE, RIGHT HAND BORDER,

BACK OF SLEEVE.

THERE IS SOME LIGHT 'YELLOWING/AGE SPOTTING' INSIDE OF GATEFOLD,

NEAR THE CENTRE.

THERE IS NO 'RING WEAR', HANDWRITING OR TEARING,

 INSIDE GATEFOLD OR OUTSIDE OF SLEEVE.

THE EDGES , CORNERS AND SPINE ARE SHARP AND FINE,

WITH NO SPLITTING.

SLEEVE PRINTED BY MACNEILL PRESS UK.

DUE TO EBAY'S RULES REGARDING THE NATURE OF THE SLEEVE COVER ART,

 I HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO FULLY DISPLAY THE PHOTOGRAPH

ON THE FRONT OF THE SLEEVE.

THE FRONT OF THE SLEEVE

IS IN STUNNING EXCELLENT +/NEAR MINT CONDITION,

WITH NO MARKS.

IT'S AN EXCEPTIONAL COPY!

...IT WOULD BE VERY DIFFICULT INDEED, TO GET ANOTHER CHANCE

TO BUY THIS CLASSIC ALBUM AGAIN, IN THIS CONDITION!

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