Led ZePPelin LIVE ON BLUEBERRY HILL Orig.BLIMP 1st PRESS Rare 1970 Tour 2LP

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Hundreds of Psych, Garage & '60's rock vinyl LPs over next few weeks.
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Most are EX+ to NM+ condition.

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Led ZePPelin
Live on Blueberry Hill
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BLIMP Records EV 666
Original 1970 issue • Double LP
FIRST PRESSING

VINYL is VG+
Strong. Extremely clean vinyl and labels. Mostly only light surface scuffs / hairlines between the 4sides, viewed in hard bright light; 1 side with two close, short barely feelable scuffs near edge -all entirely inaudible. LP plays superbly clean throughout. No spindle marks on 1st issue 2-tone Blue, BLIMP labels.
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COVER is NM
Still in the completely intact (open) original Shrink Wrap. Powder blue cover-stock and yellow insert titles-sheet are pristine -like the day it came into the shop. No creases, bends, ring impression, dings or bumped corners.

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

Fantastically rare original BLIMP issue -pre TMOQ??
one of the first rock boots to ever be released

Recorded Live at the Los Angeles Forum, September 4, 1970

MATRIX NUMBERS
?Side One: EV-666-A-1
?Side Two: EV-666-B-2
Side Three: EV-664-A-3
?Side Four: EV-664-B-4

"Blueberry Hill was originally issued by Ken and Dub before the inauguration of the TMOQ label, so the very first pressings were on Blimp Records."

"It was later reissued on TMoQ innumerable times and on several different colored pressings of vinyl. Colored wax in the early days was (usually) a good indication of a title being an early pressing of a boot*** (and therefore having better sound than a boot*** of a boot***), though it is not always the case, some first editions of boots are on black wax while later pressings are on colored wax and are mistaken for original pressings."??
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I had a record store here in California in the 1970's -and had a good relationship with the purveyors of these and other limited live recordings. We were able to pick up 10 of these in 1973 from our Los Angeles connection who swore they had a few of the last true BLIMP issues. I opened one for myself right away (the one for sale here) - and sure enough it was the original Blimp labels, in the cool (now TMOQ) printed sheet covers. Most of the Blimps had been packed in separate plain blank white sleeves - with NO info on covers; VERY hard for the store to deal with. Since they had a few extra copies still around, they put them in their new FARM PIG Logo TMOQ covers. This one on auction is the only one I have left. The others sold-out quickly at the store, and we were only able to get TMoQ labeled copies after that.

I imagine there are extremely few still to be found like this anywhere, anymore.

 ~~~~~ ~•~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~•~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~•~ ~~~~ Led Zeppelin perform a powerful set of songs comprised of heavy blues numbers and a dense onslaught of rock & roll ...their own songs and some surprising covers.  Of particular note is the earliest and best recording of one of the few known live performances of "Out on the Tiles", a track from their about-to-be released "Led Zeppelin III".

The set is dominated by three outstanding folk/blues rock medleys: "From the Midnight Sun" (later titled "Immigrant Song") and "Heartbreaker"; "Communication Breakdown", "Good Times Bad Times", "For What it's Worth", and (not listed) "I Saw Her Standing There"; and Zeppelin's signature blues rock medley, comprised of "Whole Lotta Love", "Let that Boy Boogie Woogie", "I'm Movin' On", "Think it Over" and "Lemon Song". The bass and guitar transitions between the tunes on the "Communication Breakdown" medley are funky, and the explosive renditions of Stephen Stills' "For What it's Worth" and Lennon/McCartney's "I Saw Her Standing There" are priceless in their inventive approach.

Live on Blueberry Hill also features fresh performances of "What Is and What Should Never Be" (with a pleasantly coarse Page guitar); an exhilarating, ultimately exhausting "Moby Dick" and John Paul Jones' freaky "Organ Improvisation". "Since I've Been Loving You" is the peak performance of the evening. In the course of eight minutes, Plant's wails and screams, Page's raw electric guitar, and Bonham's deep, thundering drums generate music that could accompany the damned to hell. The piece is representative of the evening, as their repertoire is comprised of music that's consistently dense, forceful, and epic in length. It's impressive and appealing.

Led Zeppelin performed Fats Domino's "Blueberry Hill" as a final encore -hence the album's title.

PRIME PIECE OF ROCK HISTORY HERE!
don't sleep on this one...

Vinyl inside anti-static lined inner sleeves
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Even though still in the original shrink-wrap
This LP is kept in a protective, clear poly outer-sleeve
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Please see my other auctions for more
Collectible, Vintage Led ZePPelin
and other 1960's / Psych LPs.
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