Big Brother & The Holding Company CHEAP THRILLS Orig.1968 JANIS JOPLIN Psych LP

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Big Brother & The Holding Company CHEAP THRILLS Orig.1968 JANIS JOPLIN

  Description: Large Group of RARE 1960's and PSYCH LP Listings this series
                                   ...hopefully more than 150, if I can get them all done
Several FIRST PRESSINGS, PRIVATE ISSUES and PROMOS included.
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A wide variety of vintage Psych, Folk-Rock, Garage, Beat, '60s and British Rock.
A few choice Folk, Surf, Soul and 60's oddities included!
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All opening bids in the auction series begin at only $0.98
Being the middle of summer, I know that many of these will sell way too low, as so many bidders are away now.
So everybody here has a good shot at taking some of these beauties home! GOOD LUCK ALL!!
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Each auction features full, edge-to-edge, High Resolution Photos.
Many with multiple sound-clips taken directly from the LP on auction.
I simply didn't have enough time to create / add sound-clips to ALL of the auctions.
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Most of the vinyl is in EX to NM condition -a few VG+
Condition Details / Specifics for this LP listed below.
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This auction is for:
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CHEAP THRILLS
Big Brother and The Holding Company
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COLUMBIA Records KCS-9700
Original 1968 issue • Stereo LP
VERY EARLY PRESSING (1B / 1B)
R. CRUMB  COVER ARTWORK
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VINYL is EX
Full gloss vinyl has a few very light hairlines and one short spindle scuff on Turtle Blues, that are 100% inaudible. LP plays NM throughout. 1st issue Columbia 360 STEREO labels are pristine both sides.
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COVER is VG(+)
Bright, vivid cover is super clean on front; R. Crumb's cover artwork is very nice indeed. Back has some pale tan marks (my photo lighting makes it look worse than it is) -from possibly coffee or tea? Otherwise very nice with only a touch of faint wear.Inside gatefold has light wear; very minor. Sharp corners all around; no writing or creases; seams and spine are very strong with a mere touch of wear. No splits.
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STRICT, CONSERVATIVE GOLDMINE Grading
NM / EX (VG++) / VG+ / VG
VERY EARLY PRESSING
MATRIX NUMBERS
SIDE ONE: XSM 13735 -1B
SIDE TWO: XSM 13736 -1B
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Very scarce original "KCS" 360 SOUND STEREO issue with GREAT sound!

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Original COLUMBIA Company inner sleeve included.
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Disc inside separate poly inner sleeve to protect both the original inner & the vinyl.
Album kept in a protective, poly outer-sleeve.

Side One
1.      Combination of the Two
2.      I Need a Man to Love
3.      Summertime
4.      Piece of My Heart

Side Two
1.      Turtle Blues
2.      Oh, Sweet Mary
3.      Ball and Chain

Cheap Thrills, the major-label debut of Janis Joplin, was one of the most eagerly anticipated, and one of the most successful, albums of 1968.

Joplin and her band Big Brother & the Holding Company had earned extensive press notice ever since they played the Monterey Pop Festival in June 1967, but it would be nearly another year before this LP would appear, to satisfy the hungry fans.

Big Brother spent March, April, and May in the studio with producer John Simon and, miraculously, emerged with something that was as exciting as anything they'd done on-stage. When Cheap Thrills appeared in August 1968 -- sporting a Robert Crumb cover on its gatefold jacket that constituted the most elaborate album design ever lavished on a rock album from Columbia Records, as well as a pop-art classic rivaling the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's jacket -- it shot into the charts, reaching number one and going gold within a couple of months, and "Piece of My Heart" became a Top 40 hit and helped to propel the LP to over a million sales.

Janis Joplin, with her ear- (and vocal cord-) shredding voice, was the obvious standout. Nobody had ever heard singing as emotional, as desperate, as determined, or as loud as Joplin's, and Cheap Thrills was her greatest moment. Not that everything was done full out -- there were relatively quiet moments on the album that were as compelling as the high-wattage showcases; her rendition of George Gershwin's "Summertime" was the finest rock reinterpretation of a standard done by anybody up to that time; and Joplin's own "Turtle Blues" showed that she and the band could turn down and do credible acoustic blues, in something like an authentic period Bessie Smith (or, more properly, Memphis Minnie) sound.

Big Brother's backup, typical of the guitar-dominated sound of San Francisco psychedelia, made up in enthusiasm and tonal sonics what it lacked in precision. But everybody knew who the real star was, and Joplin played her last gig with Big Brother while the album was still on top of the charts. Neither she nor the band would ever equal it. Heard today, Cheap Thrills is a musical time capsule and remains a showcase for one of rock's most distinctive singers.

In one of the interviews, Sam Andrew, original guitarist of BB&H/Co. characterized their music on this LP as "crazy, raw sh!t". Fair enough. I can't think of a single less polished and more crude, emotionally charged white electric/psychedelic blues album of the 1960's.

And then, of course, there's that glorious voice of Janis Joplin. The lady sings her heart and guts and everything else out. The almost 9 minute long "Ball and Chain" with its torrents and mudslides of fuzz, feedback and all kinds of guttural sounds made by Janis Joplin is itself worth the price of admission.

This is the defining moment of the Psychedelic Sixties and the one of first (only "Surrealistic Pillow" and "Are You Experienced" had managed before) full-out psych albums to ever reach the #1 spot on Billboard's top list of albums. To this day, the sound of the original vinyl pressing remains the best and unsurpassed document. Much better than the 24-bit mastered CD version that Columbia/Legacy issued about a year ago.

If you are a sixties person and don't have this album, you are not REALLY a sixties person. And, oh…did I forget to mention the timeless, groundbreaking R. Crumb cover artwork? ...that is still, 44 years later, a pure joy to behold.
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Please see my other auctions for more
Collectible, Vintage 1960's Psych LPs.

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