Doors – Strange Days - RARE ORIG 1967 1st PRESS - MINT

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Oct 2, 2011 Sold Date

Sep 25, 2011 Start Date

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GOOD LUCK BIDDERS! Here is the accurate info you need to make a well considered bid offer:

Doors – Strange Days (orig 1967 1st Press!) Jim Morrison at his best!!

This is a "Straight Up" Auction

No hidden reserve

This album is an Original Elektra Records EKS 74014, First Press Tan label.

1967 UNIQUE FIRST PRESS Variation of 'tan' Elektra label. Label variation for this entry:
'Stereo' appears both left and right on label. Label side names placed to the right. "Recording first published in october 1967" in one unbroken line.

This album is ORIGINAL USA DOORS FIRST PRESSING!. There is no evidence of spindle wear, and the LP is THICK, HEAVY vinyl beautifully preserved "SHE'S A VIRGIN" - MINT condition, showing no telling evidence of being played. Labels are GORGEOUS clean.

Original thick cardboard cover (American style) which is nearly perfect - rate as NM.

Includes the original Elektra gold advertising inner sleeve from 1967 first release date.

Matrix Number (A): EKS-74014A (AL-1)
Matrix Number (B): EKS-74014B (AL-1)

Engineered at Sunset Sound Recorders, Hollywood.
Mastered at Madison Sound, New York.

"Strange Days" was released in 1967 and is the first track on the album of the same name. According to a review at Allmusic by Tom Maginnis, the song seems to find lead singer Jim Morrison "pondering the state of the then emerging hippie youth culture and how they are perceived by mainstream or 'straight' society." A visit to New York City by The Doors inspired Jim Morrison to write "Strange Days" and other songs on the Strange Days album, the band's second.

According to No One Here Gets Out Alive, "Strange Days" finds Ray Manzarek recording "one of the earliest examples of the Moog synthesizer in rock." The synth was hooked up with the help of Paul Beaver.

Two music videos were made for the song. The first featured footage of the band backstage and onstage, as well as Jim Morrison driving his car into a hole in sand and jumping on the hood in frustration. The ending is considered by some to be quite violent. The second features the same circus performers on the Strange Days cover photo, who would explore New York City. It also included footage of various people, which was made "swervy" and distorted to fit in with the strange theme of the song. All of this new footage was mixed with footage of the old video, and re-released as a re-mixed video.

"CLASSIC ROCK" AT ITS BEST.

This is a RARE FIND & wonderful quality addition to your CLASSIC ROCK collection. The fact of this being a f FIRST PRESSING USA - MINT/NM makes nearly impossible to find in this kind of excellent condition after 44 years. My Cousin Kenny never took this album to parties!

Here's the reality: THIS IS A GORGEOUS MINT DOORS FIRST PRESS OCTOBER 1967 ORIGINAL. How often can you really get this? There are 55 other versions out on Strange Days - none of which ARE THIS ORIGINAL LP HERE!

The only way to obtain this QUALITY ORIGINAL would be to invent a time machine and fly back to Hollywood, CA 1967 record store...OR...BID AND BUY THIS ONE HERE!

This one is the Real Deal Original in beautiful shape.

Go back and visit a better time gone past; by bringing in the real music of the day in the original format.

Private seller, not a "record store." My Cousin Kenny left these to me as his muscial legacy and all listings are the very Original Pressings, carefully preserved for 4 decades until now!

A1 Strange Days 3:05 A2 You're My Lost Little Girl 3:01 A3 Love Me Two Times 3:23 A4 Unhappy Girl 2:00 A5 Horse Latitudes 1:30 A6 Moonlight Drive 3:00 B1 People Are Strange 2:10 B2 My Eyes Have Seen You 2:22 B3 I Can't See Your Face In My Mind 3:18 B4 When The Music's Over 11:00