PLASTIC PEOPLE OF THE UNIVERSE Egon Bondy Orig 1978 CZECH PROG PSYCH LP w/ BOOK

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PLASTIC PEOPLE OF THE UNIVERSE: “Egon Bondy’s Happy Hearts Club Banned”

Label: Invisible Record S.C.O.P.A 

Label Number: SCOPA-1001

- RARE FIRST ORIGINAL PRESSING FROM 1978.

- First issue on INVISIBLE RECORD SCOPA label

- All complete issue with BOOK

- Comes housed in laminated gatefold sleeve 

- thick book is fully intact

- Archival condition!!!!

GRADING:

LP Record: Near Mint ~ …..perfect copy with hardly any signs of any play. Beautifully preserved and hard to find a better original pressing in a condition like this one

Gatefold Jacket: Near Mint - With fully readable spine, straight edges, no defects, no splits. Perfectly preserved!!!!!

BOOK: Near Mint

Some words on this issue: PLASTIC PEOPLE OF THE UNIVERSE: “Egon Bondy’s Happy Hearts Club Banned” (Invisible Record S.C.O.P.A – SCOPA-1001)  TOP Original 1978 pressing of their best and rarest LP. Taking their name from the lyrics of a Frank Zappa song, the Plastic People of the Universe were the leading band in Czechoslovakia in the 1970's and 80's The Plastics were one of many late-'60s Prague bands inspired more by the Beatles and psychedelic rock than political repression. Soon hair length, vulgarity, and English-language band names were deemed sufficiently dissident to earn persecution from the post-Dubcek government. Threatened with loss of the state support they needed to perform in public, the band chose amateur status, and in the early '70s moved to the country, where they took jobs in forestry and performed at "private" events like the weddings of friends—both before and after they were detained and brought to trial in 1976, with two Plastics eventually sentenced to prison. In response to the case, Václav Havel and others formed the human rights organization Charter 77, which seeded the resistance that would culminate in the Velvet Revolution. But the music does have the unmistakable sound of protest -- unmistakable both to the band's young fans, hungering for a Western pop experience in the late 1960's, and to the Czechoslovakian secret police, whose crackdown on the Plastics began shortly after the Soviet invasion of 1968. In 1970 the government revoked the group's license to perform professionally, and it was forced to play at secret concerts, staged in rural areas under the guise of local weddings. One such concert took place in a barn on the country estate of the playwright Vaclav Havel, a Plastic People fan who was inspired partly by the band's plight to establish the human rights movement Charter 77, which contributed to the downfall of Communism in Czechoslovakia. The LP documents the often psychedelic, yet also Dadaist in approach, fumed up with free-jazz and avant-garde elements. Bone-chilling great and invigorating listening experience.

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Our grading scale: Mint/ Near Mint/ Excellent/ VG++/. We don’t sell anything below VG++. VG++ grade is basically that the record has some scuffs and has wear. Excellent: record has hardly no visible defects and is preserved with care and attention, the condition most collectors take pride in to file away. Near Mint: a dash below mint, just perfect. Mint: like new.

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