Orig. MELVIN VAN PEEBLES LP- AIN'T SUPPOSED TO DIE A NATURAL DEATH- A&M- EX+ ?
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Melvin Van Peebles LP - Ain't Supposed To Die A Natural Death
Label: A&M Records – SP-4223
Matrix Number: A&M-SP-4345 [& 4346]
Vinyl Wear Visual Grade: EX+
Pressing Quality: 6.5
Loudness of Vinyl: Average-
Condition of Jacket: VG++ to EX- (gatefold format with lyrics inside; interior not
pictured above, has my mother's name in red
permanent marker in upper right corner of right
side; moderate ring/edge wear, some light
creasing around edges of front & rear surfaces)
PLEASE SCROLL DOWN TO THE RED PANEL BELOW TO VIEW GRADING STANDARDS
Side One:
Side Two:
SOUND SAMPLES TAKEN FROM ACTUAL RECORD AT FLAT RESPONSE
This is an original pressing of the 1970 release "Ain't Supposed To Die A Natural Death" by Melvin Van Peebles, self-produced on the A&M Records label. It's fairly rare and doesn't come up for sale or auction very often. Melvin Van Peebles, black renaissance man: film maker, actor, director, playwright, writer, poet. It's sort of a shame that nowadays Van Peeples is better known as the father of actor Mario Van Peebles, but back in 1971 he was infamous as the daring producer, director & lead actor in his self-financed movie "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song", nowadays widely regarded by film critics as the first "blaxploitation" film ever made, though Van Peebles would disagree. Though better known for his film and theater work, it's obvious from this album that Van Peebles also has considerable gifts as a poet. He recorded another similar album before this one called "Brer Soul", which got frequent airplay on San Francisco's alternative rock FM stations (KSAN & KMPX, known then as "underground radio"), especially a track called "Lilly Done The Zampoughi Everytime I Pulled Her Coattail". Van Peebles did a theatrical production of "Ain't Supposed To Die A Natural Death" based on the record several years later. For a more detailed bio of Melvin Van Peebles, check here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin_Van_Peebles Yes, the material is bitter and harsh; at its core are the brutal racial self-hatred problems and smouldering poverty issues -- this was the Black Power era. Many other black poets (like the Last Poets) were embracing a new-found Neo-Africaness and looking to militancy for inspiration and style; at times their work could sound contrived, border-line pretentious, not to mention Pompous and Pyrotechnically Polemical (!). Van Peeples, on the other hand, while just as pissed off as his peers, simply told it like it was -- the same way rap does, in everyday street speech with no punches pulled and no Swahili -- by creating, as a film maker would, movie-like vignettes of ghetto life with a cast of slightly unhinged and desperate characters: stoned hookers and the cops who rape them, prize fight gamblers, powerless sentimental losers with cul-de-sac pipe dreams, and frantic suspects running away as fast as their aching feet will allow. I didn't want to make the sound samples I've provided take too long to load for those with slow connections, so they won't really give you a full idea of these poems: some of them are posted on Youtube, so use the tracklist above to track them down and check them out there. It is also very much to A&M's credit that they put out not just one but three of Van Peebles's albums: these were hardly going to be Top 40 hits and, hell, they might even have slightly turned off a some "important" people -- a great way in those days to get J. Edgar Hoover's attention. It's hard to imagine label chiefs Herb Alpert (so famous for his blandly enjoyable Tijuana Brass) and Jerry Moss even showing interest in projects like this, let alone sinking risky money into them, but they did. In 1970, they also gambled on reggae when nobody knew what it was, by putting out Jimmy Cliff's first U.S. album release "Wonderful World, Beautiful People". Yet the title track reached #25 on the charts and the LP contained "Vietnam", one of the best protest songs ever. Later in the decade, A&M again broke new ground by signing the Police, and today Sting is an icon.TRACK LISTING: Side One 1. Three Boxes Of Longs Please
2. You Ain't No Astronaut
3. Come On Feet Do Your Thing
4. Funky Girl On Motherless Broadway
5. Put A Curse On You Side Two
1. I Got The Blood
2. You Gotta Be Holdin Out Five Dollars On Me
3. Heh Heh (Chuckle) Good Morning Sunshine
4. Salamaggi's Birthday PERSONNEL: WARREN SMITH: Drums, Percussion, Aranger, Conductor
BROSS TOWNSEND: Keyboards
HERB BUSHLER: Bass, Electric Bass, Violin, Tambourine
CARL LYNCH: Guitar, Bass Guitar
NAT WOODWARD: Trumpet, Coronet
AL GIBBONS: Tenor Sax, Soprano Sax
GEORGE BARROW: Tenor Sax, Soprano Sax
HOWARD JOHNSON: Baritone Sax, Flugel Horn, Tuba
GENE RADICE: Engineer
This record is from my personal collection; I'm not really a buy-and-sell-or-trade type of seller. I inherited this record from my dear old radical mom, gently played it, then later recorded it to cassette and then put it back in its sleeve until now! Visually, the vinyl shows very little sign of wear. It's been wet cleaned, then both sides archived to CD by me as part of the grading process. Guaranteed free of skips when I used a tonearm lightly weighted at 1.5 grams.
PRICE: this record, in similar condition, has brought $100.00 at auction here on Ebay, but rather than put one of those annoying "secret reserves" on the price, bidding on this one simply starts at $37.99, or Buy It Now for $99.00. ATTENTION BIDDERS: Please carefully read this listing in its entirety, as I have no return policy: my record description is intended to be absolutely honest, accurate and thorough enough in the first place, so you can decide if you want to buy it AS DESCRIBED, AS HEARD in the sound samples and AS IS. RECORD GRADING STANDARDS
In grading the sound quality of a vinyl record (assuming it's been cleaned and there's no significant warpage), there are three main issues:
1.) Vinyl Visual Grade made by judging the visible wear from usage.
2.) Pressing quality after manufacture, which is the amount of surface noise such as pops/clicks/hisses/buzzes due to imperfections in the grooves of the record like small pits or bubbles. This is partially determined by vinyl quality/purity, temperature control and cleanliness of the record stamping machine. Other problems include the record being pressed off-center ("drunk") resulting in a wobbly, pitch-wavering sound.
TIP for off-center pressings: With 45's, you can compensate during playback for a drunk pressing by removing the centering "dome" from the turntable spindle, slowly turning the record by hand while observing in which direction the grooves are off center, and then pushing the record slightly off-center in the opposite direction until the grooves themselves are centered. It's an acquired skill.
3.) Loudness of Vinyl (Mastering volume) and the resulting Signal-to-Noise Ratio: how loudly ("hotly") or softly ("sleepily") the record was mastered to the stamper from the master tape of the music. With a hot pressing, the loudness of the music overpowers and masks the fainter sound of the surface noise. With a sleepy pressing, the music is dimmer and down closer to the level of surface noise; the listener has to turn up the volume, making the surface noise more audible along with the music. Other mastering problems include exaggerated tone settings and distortion, especially in high frequencies ("S" sounds) and upper midrange frequencies ("squawking" in the vocals or other tinny instruments). Too much bass and the needle will hop right out of the groove!
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Gradings for visually detectable wear on vinyl records
MINT (M) The record itself is in brand new condition with no surface marks or deterioration in sound quality. The cover and any extra items such as the lyric sheet, booklet or poster are in perfect condition. Records advertised as Sealed or Unplayed should be Mint.
NEAR MINT (NM+/-) As above, but only played a few times. The cover and any extra items such as the lyric sheet, booklet or poster are in nearly perfect condition.
EXCELLENT (EX+/-) The record shows some signs of having been played, but there is very little lessening in sound quality. The cover and packaging might have slight wear and/or creasing.
VERY GOOD (VG+/-) The record has obviously been played many times, but displays no major deterioration in sound quality, despite noticeable surface marks and the occasional light scratch. Normal wear and tear on the cover or extra items, without any major defects, is acceptable.
GOOD (G+/-) The record has been played so much that the sound quality has noticeably deteriorated, perhaps with some distortion and mild scratches. The cover and contents suffer from folding, scuffing of edges, spine splits, discoloration, etc.
FAIR (F+/-) The record is still just playable but has not been cared for properly; it may even jump. The cover and contents will be torn, stained and/or defaced.
POOR (P+/-) The record will not play properly due to scratches, uncleanable dirt etc. The cover and contents will be badly damaged or partly missing.
BAD (+/-) The record is unplayable or might even be broken, and is only of use as a collection-filler.
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RATINGS FOR PRESSING QUALITY ON A SCALE OF 10 DOWN TO 1
10: No audible surface noise (nearly impossible to achieve). Example: Classical or audiophile music pressings on "virgin" high-quality vinyl and manufactured under "laboratory" conditions, often of European or Japanese origin. Most really good pressings will only rate a 9 anyway.
9: Very few barely audible clicks. No pops at all.
8: Frequent softly audible clicks and no pops.
7: More frequent audible clicks and occasional pops.
6: Frequent audible clicks and pops.
5: Frequent noticable clicks and pops.
4: Very frequent noticable clicks and loud pops.
3: Extremely frequent loud clicks and loud pops, possibly with occasional hisses/buzzes.
2. Constant loud clicks and loud pops, with frequent hisses/buzzes
1: Virtually unlistenable, might as well've been pressed on peanut-brittle!
Go buy the re-issue of the song on CD made directly from the master
tapes.
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STANDARDS FOR RATING MASTERING VOLUME
HOT (+/-)
AVERAGE (+/-)
SLEEPY (+/-)
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HOW I GRADE RECORDS FOR SALE:
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For records with a visual wear rating between VG and NM++ , additional ratings for pressing quality and signal-to-noise ratio are included. It's entirely possible for an M or barely played NM record to sound pretty bad because it was poorly pressed in the first place.
For records with a visual wear rating below VG , it is often too difficult to tell the difference between surface noises due to wear and those due to pressing quality, so only a single condition grading is offered.
About grading integrity : it is my strict policy to grade these records as carefully and truthfully as possible. It's a common complaint that many record sellers tend to overgrade their stock: more than once, I've purchased a few "VG+" or "EX" records on Ebay, and eagerly put one on the turntable only to find it's a nearly unlistenable mess. Yuck! This is why I have no return policy: my record description is intended to be honest and thorough enough in the first place, so you can decide if you want to buy it AS DESCRIBED and AS IS.
About Shipping/Handling Fees & Seller Ratings Shipping Fees I have selected the cheapest possible shipping rates available to me for customers. Please be aware that the United States Post Office sets these prices, NOT me! Unfortunately, Ebay combines both the shipping & handling charges on the invoices that sellers send to buyers, giving the impression that the shipping rate is too high. Please keep this in mind when receiving my invoices. With 45's sent within the United States, it's actually a bit cheaper by weight to send one 45 by First Class than by Media Mail. Media Mail works better for multiple items sent in the same package and I'm very happy to combine shipping for both domestic & overseas customers. Unlike the bigger, high-volume sellers on Ebay who are rewarded substantial discounts on their fees from shippers and from Ebay, I am only a collector gradually selling off my records and thus not in a position to offer free or discounted shipping. High bidders may want to consider insuring their purchases, since even the best packed records do occasionally arrive broken, and you can only get all your money back if you fully insure your purchase.Within the continental US:
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Each additional 45 = approx. 1.2 oz.
LP in cardboard mailer = approx. 1 lb. 3 oz.
Each additional LP = approx. 8 oz.
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