DASHIELL HEDAYAT Obsolete LP Psych/Space Rock w/GONG –Textured Cover, on Shandar

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 •Artist: Dashiell Hedayat
 •Album Title: Obsolete
 •Format: LP
 •Label: Shandar
 •Country Release: France
 •Cover/Record Grade: VG++/M-- (Tiny saw cut near top left corner)
 •Other Info: Originally released on Shandar in 1971.  This is a later press, but I don’t know what year, though my guess is it’s from about 1978.  This copy has black labels, and, though it’s similar, the labels are not exactly the same as the ones shown on Discogs for the 1978 entry.  In any case, comes in a textured cover and the catalog number is SR 83 512.  This is a much-loved album by psych fans.  Here’s an excerpt from an online review that gives you a good idea of what this is all about: “Essentially [this is] Gong in all but name, with a little help from French poet Dashielle Hedayat.  Basically, imagine a more tripped out Gong with spoken poetry (in French), and this is what you get.  You still get plenty of glissando guitar work from Daevid Allen, sax from Didier Malherbe, bass from Christian Tritsch, and drums from Pip Pyle.  Even Gilli Smyth makes her appearance here.  I really wish I knew what Dashiell was saying, because of the stoned nature of the album. This album is really essential to all Daevid Allen-era Gong fans.”  I’ll just add that beat dude William Burroughs also makes an appearance.  Oh, and you can find the entire album online if you want to hear what it sounds like.  For other Gong and related LPs, see my other listings. 

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Grading Information

With very few exceptions, I play grade the records that I list.  (This means that I don't go by the way a record looks, only by how it plays.)  Sometimes when I have a group (or a “lot”) of LPs within a single listing, I will not play all the records, but this is fairly rare.

I use Mint (M), Excellent (Ex), Very Good (VG), Good (G), Fair (F), and (heaven help us) Poor (P), and I take each of these words at their literal meaning.  In other words, if I assign an LP a grade of “G,” that means to me that it really is in good playing condition, not fair or worse—for many dealers, a G (or even VG) grade is often really nothing more than a euphemism for a record that is in fair or poor condition.

I also use up to three plus signs (+) and up to three minus signs (-) to indicate varying degrees within a specific grade.  So, a grade letter followed by a “+” means the condition is slightly better than the grade letter by itself, and a grade letter followed by “++” indicates that the condition is yet another small step higher.  For example, a grade of Ex+++ means that the record is very close to being in the Mint range, but still just shy of it.

This may seem like a strange system at first glance but I use it because I feel that the standard grading systems are inadequate, as they simply don't allow for enough grades or degrees within those grades.  Many don't use Excellent, for example, which means that there is a jump from Mint down to Very Good—and there are a whole lot of grading possibilities in between those two, the way I see it.