FRANK ZAPPA Mothers Of Invention FREAK OUT 1st Press 1966 w/MAP BLURB Psych 2LP

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PHASE ONE of a large group of Vintage 60s & 70s PSYCH LPs in this Auction series.
from 50+ years collection of decades-long radio DJ, Record Store associate and dedicated Vinyl Collector. MORE (Phase 2 and Phase 3) to be listed in the coming weeks.
These AUCTIONS are Long Overdue! Medical issues got in the way over the last few months, but Back on track now with many Highly Sought obscure Rarities, Classic Cornerstone LPs and Faves finally here for you! My apologies to any and all loyal collectors and past buyers who have waited so long.  .
All Auctions in this series start at 99¢ opening bid!
...everybody should have a good chance at taking a few of these treasures home.
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Mostly 1st PRESSINGS, including a number of PROMOs and UK Imports.
Many still in Shrink wrap, some Still Sealed. Most of these LPs are in strong VG+ to NM Condition.
Quite a few STERLING, MASTERDISK, ARTISAN and BELL SOUND Masters and MONARCH Pressings  in the mix!
Hard Psych, Acid Psych, Garage Psych, Folk Psych, Fuzz Psych, Hippie Psych, Guitar God Psych, Mod Psych, Mad Psych, Experimental Psych, Popsike, San Francisco Flower Power Psych, Texas Psych, UK Psych, Blues Psych, Private Psych, Stoner Psych, Punk Psych, Proto-Punk-Folk Psych, Dark Psych, Baroque Psych, Underground Psych, Prog Psych, Unknown Psych, Regional Psych ... and solid batches of multiple Captain Beefheart, Frank Zappa, Love and The Grateful Dead in this 1st Phase. HAVE FUN!
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This listing is for:
The Mothers of Invention
FREAK OUT!

VERVE Records V6-5005-2 Original 1966 issue Stereo 2LP
w/HOT-SPOTS Map Offer FIRST PRESSING
VINYL is VG+ / EX
Clean, High Gloss Vinyl all 4 Sides. SIDE 1 is VG+. SIDES 2, 3 and 4 are EX. Labels are bright and clean all 4 sides, with some light spindle trails visible at angle to light.
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COVER is VG+
Extremely clean inside and out; vibrant, unfaded color with mild shelf rub and a few soft corner, edge creases; lightly bumped (still sharp) corners. No writing, age toning or soil. Inside gatefold is snapping bright and spanking clean - showing some manufacture ripple to gatefold slick at bottom of center fold. All edges straight, all corners sharp. Seams and flat, even spine are completely intact with no splits. Spine titles are crisp and legible. 


STRICT CONSERVATIVE GOLDMINE GRADING
NM / EX(VG++) / VG+ / VG


The incredible 1966 L.A. Underground DEBUT Masterpiece  by Frank Zappa's newly formed Mothers Of Invention.
One of the most ambitious debuts in rock history, FREAK OUT! was a seminal concept album that somehow foreshadowed both art rock and punk at the same time. 
One of the very first double rock albums and one of the very first concept albums. A true rock milestone of the 1960’s and one of the very best albums overall of the 60’s. Definitely one of Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention's very best records.

Zappa would spend much of his career developing and exploring ideas -- both musical and conceptual -- first put forth here. FREAK OUT! contains at least the rudiments of almost everything that followed, and few of Zappa's records can match its excitement over its own sense of possibility.
For me, still the greatest of all Frank Zappa albums
...there are so many great ones over the years -with and without the Mothers -certainly we can all agree that FREAK OUT! is the most historic.
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FIRST PRESSING -with
"PLANNING ON VISITING L.A. THIS SUMMER?" 
FREAK-OUT HOT-SPOTS Map promo BLURB 
printed Inside Gatefold.

This is the highly regarded WEST COAST Pressing from H.V. WADDELL in Burbank, CA.
(This was the FZ preferred west coast pressing plant.)

DEEP GROOVE pressing ring on labels.
Recorded 1966 at Sunset-Highland Studios T.T.G.
Pressed by H.V. Waddell Co., Burbank, CA
℗,© 1966 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc.
Arranged and Conducted by Frank Zappa
Published by Frank Zappa Music / Third Story Music Co.
Engineer, Supervised by Val Valentin
…featuring Kim Fowley on the Hypophone

FIRST PRESS Typographic errors present here:
• Track C1 appears as "Trouble Comin' Every Day" on the label / “Trouble Every Day” on the cover.
• Side D (The Return of The Son of Monster Magnet) title uses "Tableaus" spelling on label and "Tableaux" spelling on cover.
• The HOT-SPOTS MAP Blurb on cover has incorrect spelling of “BIDO-LITO’s”, should be BIDO-LIDOS.

Original VERVE Company inner sleeves included,
*Discs inside separate anti-static lined inner sleeves, to protect both the Vinyl and the original inners.

MATRIX NUMBERS
SIDE ONE: V-65005-2 S̶E̶-̶4̶3̶9̶2̶-̶2̶ V-6-5005-2 SIDE-1 MGS-296
SIDE TWO: V6-5005-2 SIDE-2 MGS-297-REV
SIDE THREE: V6-5005-2 SIDE-3 MGS-298-REV
SIDE FOUR: V6-5005-2 SIDE-4 MGS-299-REV
*NOTE: the “REV” on Sides 2, 3 & 4 are on ALL original USA 1st Pressings,
See DISCOGS to easily VERIFY if you are not already aware of this point.
…the thing to watch out for, on some early, but not FIRST pressings
(even a few pressings still with the HOT-SPOTS Blurb)
is any added “Re” in the Matrix on any of the sides.

This original issue WADDELL pressing simply bursts with power. 
"TROUBLE COMIN’ EVERY DAY" will eat your speakers for lunch and spit out the bones... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The original Mothers of Invention:
Frank Zappa, Ray Collins, Roy Estrada, Jimmy Carl Black, Elliot Ingber.
Track Listing
SIDE ONE
Hungry Freaks, Daddy
I Ain' t Got No Heart
Who Are The Brain Police?
Go Cry On Somebody Else's Shoulder
Motherly Love
How Could I Be Such A Fool

SIDE TWO
Wowie Zowie
You Didn't Try To Call Me
Any Way The Wind Blows
I'm Not Satisfied
You're Probably Wondering Why I'm Here

SIDE THREE
Trouble Comin' Every Day
Help, I'm A Rock
It Can't Happen Here

SIDE FOUR
The Return Of The Son Of Monster Magnet

FREAK OUT!'s four LP sides deconstruct rock conventions right and left, eventually pushing into territory inspired by avant-garde classical composers. Yet the album is sequenced in an accessibly logical progression; the first half is dedicated to catchy, satirical pop/rock songs that put into question all previous assumptions about pop music, setting the tone for the radical new directions of the second half. Opening with the nonconformist call to arms "Hungry Freaks, Daddy", FREAK OUT! quickly posits the Mothers of Invention as the antithesis of teen-idol bands, often with sneering mockeries of the teen-romance songs that had long been rock's commercial stock-in-trade. 

Despite his genuine emotional alienation and dissatisfaction with pop conventions, though, Frank Zappa was actually an extremely skilled pop composer; even with the raw performances and his stinging guitar work, there's a subtle sophistication undeniably apparent in his unorthodox arrangements and tight, unpredictable melodicism. 

After returning to scathing social criticism on the first song of the second half, the explosive, spot-on perceptive Watts riot protest "Trouble Comin' Every Day", Zappa exchanges pop song structure for experiments with musique concrète, amelodic dissonance, shifting time signatures, and studio effects. Experience one of the first widely distributed albums containing psychedelic rock in terms of the 8:37 "Help I'm A Rock" and the side long epic "The Return Of The Son Of Monster Magnet" -- they virtually explode the limits of what can appear on a rock album, and effectively demonstrate FREAK OUT!'s underlying principles: acceptance of differences and free individual expression.
...and of course, we get introduced to SUZY CREAMCHEESE. 

Zappa would spend much of his career developing and exploring ideas -- both musical and conceptual -- first put forth here; Freak Out! contains at least the rudiments of almost everything that followed, and few of Zappa's records can match its excitement over its own sense of possibility.

It's all right here in its infancy, filling its diapers for you, boys and girls! _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Vinyl inside anti-static lined inner sleeves
Album kept in a protective, poly outer-sleeve

Please see my other listings for more MOTHERS and ZAPPA, more Rare Vintage Collectible PSYCH and related Vintage 1960s and 70s Rock LPs.

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From an utterly vast and deep record collection, from my life-long best friend
who was a DJ at the Radio Station I co-founded in the 1970's - and who worked for me at my California record store in the '70s and '80s.
Sadly he has now finally left this mortal coil, bequeathing me his deep Vinyl Mine.
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Several thousand records (mostly LP's, but also hundreds of 45's), several hundred collectible and Rare, Out of Print CDs and Box Sets, plus posters and other memorabilia will all eventually be listed.

Truly a great (and enormous) collection! _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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