LEEDS STONES THE FLAMIN’ GROUPIE Rolling Stones Bootleg LP 1971

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LEEDS STONES THE FLAMIN’ GROUPIE Rolling Stones Bootleg LP 1971

This is an auction of collectible vinyl long-playing records. This particular auction includes a single copy of LEEDS STONES THE FLAMIN’ GROUPIE a live recording by THE ROLLING STONES made on September 14th, 1971 at Leeds University. The album is one of two releases by “Speed Records,” and appears to have been made within a few months of the iconic Leeds performance. There have been numerous unauthorized versions of the concert released; this is said to have good sound quality but shuffles the order of songs and cuts their original transitions.

Both the vinyl and the cardboard outer sleeve appear to be in Very Good condition; the record is enclosed in a generic paper sleeve, which has some wrinkles.

Track list:

          A1     Dead Flowers

          A2     Stray Cat Blues

          A3     Love in Vaine [sic]

          A4     Midnight Rambler

          A5     Bitch

B1     Honky Tonk Woman

B2     Satisfaction

B3     Little Queene

B4     Brown Sugar

B5     Street Fighting Man

B6     Let it Rock

The record has been unplayed and protected inside a polyvinyl bag for more than 20 years. 

I am selling this record on behalf of my friend John D. Berry, who writes: “I bought this collection in the late 1900s from John Ellison, a friend who was working (as I was) as a technical editor at Microsoft. John and his partner Lesley Link were starting a small publishing house, Broken Moon Press, and wanted to raise money to fund this endeavor. John had been a Rolling Stones fan and a devoted record collector, but he decided to sell his collection as part of the publishing effort. I was not especially a Stones fan, but I was willing to buy the collection to help the cause, figuring that I could always re-sell it later, probably for more than I paid.

“John was a very serious collector. Most of these vinyl disks have never been played, and many of them are extremely rare. They all date from no later than the mid-1980s; many of them are from the 1970s or 1960s. Quite a few are bootlegs, unauthorized but tolerated iterations of particular recording sessions or performances. For many years, these bootlegs could not be sold, even when they were approved by the artists; these days, however, that worry seems to be a dead letter, and lots of bootlegs show up on eBay and other selling sites.”

Payment through Paypal preferred. Buyer pays actual postage from Seattle, WA. I’ve done my best to anticipate the weight of safe packing materials for these extremely rare vinyl recordings, but if you are overcharged at any point, I will refund your overpayment. I welcome bids from buyers outside the U.S., and I am especially happy to combine several items to save on international or domestic postage.