JETHRO TULL THICK AS BRICK ULTRA-RARE ORIG '72 UK CHRYSALIS WHITE "I" LABEL MINT

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·       JETHRO TULL - THICK AS A BRICK - ULTRA-RARE TRUE FIRST, ORIGINAL BRITISH PRESSING ORIGINAL 1972 CHRYSALIS (UK), DISTRIBUTED BY ISLAND STEREO LP CHR-1003

·       ORIGINAL U.K. PRESSING

·       UK CHRYSALIS (CHR 1003) FIRST PRESSING (March 1972) OF JETHRO TULL'S PROG MASTERPIECE "Thick As A Brick"

·       STUNNING COPY - POSSIBLY NEVER BEEN PLAYED

·       PRESSED ON HEAVYWEIGHT VINYL WITH THE FIRST ISSUE GREEN CHRYSALIS, 'WHITE 'I' ISLAND LOGO (ISLAND'S LOGO IN WHITE CAPITAL LETTER ON TOP OF THE GREEN CHRYSALIS LABEL WITH RED 'BUTTERFLY' LOGO)

·       MATRIX STAMPS: CHR 1003 A-3U (etched 'PORKY') / CHR 1003 B-2U (etched 'PECKO')

·       MOTHER/STAMPERS: 1/0 and 2/GM

·       THE RECORD IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL DELICATE, OUTER TEXTURED, 12 PAGE NEWSPAPER SLEEVE "Printed and made by the E. J. Day Group, London and Bedford"

·       COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL PLAIN WHITE INNER SLEEVE WITH UK PATENT NUMBER AND "MADE IN ENGLAND" TEXT PRINTED IN GREY

·       ORIGINAL 'GIMMICK' (“FOLDED NEWSPAPER”) GATEFOLD COVER, UNIQUE TO THIS TITLE.

·       The original LP cover was designed as a spoof of a 12-by-16-inch (305 by 406 mm) multiple-paged small-town English newspaper, entitled The St. Cleve Chronicle and Linwell Advertiser, with articles, competitions, adverts, etc., lampooning the parochial and amateurish local journalism that still exists in many places today. "There are a lot of inside puns, cleverly hidden continuing jokes (such as the experimental non-rabbit), a surprisingly frank review of the album itself [written by Anderson under a pseudonym]. The "newspaper", dated 7 January 1972, also includes the entire lyrics to "Thick as a Brick" , which is presented as a poem written by an 8-year-old literary prodigy, Gerald "Little Milton" Bostock, whose disqualification from a poetry contest is the focus of the front page story.

·       THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST U.K. PRESSING; THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.

·       THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING

·       CLEAN, WEAR-FREE LABELS

·       MACHINE-STAMPED MATRIX NUMBER IN TRAIL-OFF VINYL (DEAD WAX) OF THE RECORD

(►PLEASE SEE THE IMAGE OF THE COVER, LABEL OR BOTH, SHOWN BELOW)

(Note: this is a REAL image of the ACTUAL item you are bidding on. This is NOT a "recycled" image from our previous auction. What you see is what you’ll get.  GUARANTEED!)

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Jethro Tull's first LP-length epic is a masterpiece in the annals of progressive rock, and one of the few works of its kind that still holds up 43 years later. Mixing hard rock and English folk music with classical influences, set to stream-of-consciousness lyrics so dense with the imagery that one might spend weeks pondering their meaning — assuming one feels the need to do so — the group created a dazzling tour-de-force, at once playful, profound, and challenging, without overwhelming the listener. The original LP was the best sounding, best engineered record Tull had ever released, easily capturing the shifting dynamics between the soft all-acoustic passages and the electric rock crescendos surrounding them

(REVIEW REPRINTED COURTESY OF BRUCE EDER, ALL MUSIC GUIDE  /ALLMUSIC.COM/)

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·       CONDITION:

·       RECORD

 (IMPORTANT NOTE: unless otherwise noted, ALL records are graded visually, and NOT play-graded!; we  grade records under the strong, diffuse room light or discrete sunlight)

(a)          WE GRADE THE VINYL AS STRONG NEAR MINT (APPEARS UNPLAYED, POSSIBLY PLAYED ONCE). The original luster is very much intact, and the vinyl shines and sparkles almost like new.

(b)          The record is believed to come in its original stock inner sleeve.

(c)             The record is pressed on a beautiful, thick, inflexible vinyl, which was usually used for the first or very early pressings. Usually, the sound on such thick vinyl pressings is full-bodied, vivid, and even dramatic. Do not expect to obtain such a majestic analog sound from a digital recording!

(d)          Of course, this is a full-bodied ANALOG recording, and not an inferior, digital recording!!!

·       COVER (THIS IS THE ORIGINAL “NEWSPAPER' GIMMICK COVER)

THE COVER IS NEAR MINT !

The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:

-        Cover has a few tiny wrinkles along the spine (nothing significant)

-         Minor shelf wear noted on the opening side (nothing significant);  (VISIBLE ON BACK SIDE ONLY)

-         Minor yellowing noted on the INSIDE pages of the "newspaper" (and ONLY on the inside pages -- absolutely NO yellowing on the external panels of  the sleeve

NO OTHER IMPERFECTIONS ON THE COVER:

-        No split seams

-        No ring wear

-        No cut-out (drill) holes.

-        No cut-out corners

-        No saw-marks or indents

-        No dirt/dust rubbing stains (friction marks caused by rubbing against other covers)

-        No writing

-        No stamps

-        No tearing: no chips, dents or nicks on the seams

-        No peel-off marks

-        No stains

-        No mold or mildew spots

-        No stickers or labels

-        No water damage

-        No razor marks, scratches, pressure marks, lines, streaks, or  cuts.

-        No warping

-        No wax, glue, paint or liquid drops on the cover

-        No glue traces or wax residue.

-        No bar codes

-        No RIAA stamps or stickers. 

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