ROD STEWART Gasoline Alley 1972 UK VERTIGO w/SWIRL INNER SLEEVE NEAR MINT
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ROD STEWART Gasoline Alley 1972 UK VERTIGO w/SWIRL INNER SLEEVE NEAR MINT
ROD STEWARTGasoline Alley
1972 UK VERTIGO (6360 500) PRESSING
BEAUTIFUL COPY WHICH HAS SEEN LITTLE USE AND PLAYS LIKE NEW
PRESSED WITH THE VERTIGO SWIRL LABELS
MATRIX: 6360500 1Y∇1 420 11 21 / 6360500 2Y∇1 420 15 1
THE RECORD IS HOUSED IN A MATT GATEFOLD COVER “printed and made by Howards Printers (Slough) Ltd”
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL POLY-LINED VERTIGO COMPANY INNER SLEEVE
Gasoline Alley follows the same formula of Rod Stewart's first album, intercutting contemporary covers with slightly older rock & roll and folk classics and originals written in the same vein.
The difference is in execution. Stewart sounds more confident, claiming Elton John's "Country Comfort," the Small Faces' "My Way of Giving," and the Rolling Stones' version of "It's All Over Now" with a ragged, laddish charm.
Like its predecessor, nearly all of Gasoline Alley is played on acoustic instruments -- Stewart treats rock & roll songs like folk songs, reinterpreting them in individual, unpredictable ways.
For instance, "It's All Over Now" becomes a shambling, loose-limbed ramble instead of a tight R&B/blues groove, and "Cut Across Shorty" is based around a howling, Mid-eastern violin instead of a rockabilly riff.
Of course, being a rocker at heart, Stewart doesn't let these songs become limp acoustic numbers -- these rock harder than any fuzz-guitar workout. The drums crash and bang, the acoustic guitars are pounded with a vengeance -- it's a wild, careening sound that is positively joyous with its abandon.
And on the slow songs, Stewart is nuanced and affecting -- his interpretation of Bob Dylan's "Only a Hobo" is one of the finest Dylan covers, while the original title track is a vivid, loving tribute to his adolescence. And that spirit is carried throughout Gasoline Alley. It's an album that celebrates tradition while moving it into the present and never once does it disown the past.
ROD STEWART vocals
RON WOOD guitar
RONNIE LANE bass
KENNETH JONES drums
Side A:
Gasoline Alley
It's All Over Now
Only A Hobo
My Way Of Giving
Side B:
Country Comfort
Cut Across Shorty
Lady Day
Jo's Lament
I Don't Want To Discuss It
LABELS: NEAR MINT
Clean, unmarked labels with a few light spindle traces
VINYL Visual: NEAR MINT
Both surfaces shine with nothing but wispy hairlines under bright light
VINYL Audio: MINT
Plays like new with no audible issues of note
SLEEVE: NEAR MINT
Crisp, clean, sharp and fresh with nothing to fault bar some indentation marks to the front visible when the cover is angled to the light
POST & PACKING:
A PROTECTIVE POLY SLEEVE, NEW ANTI-STATIC LINERS, QUALITY BOX (NOT ENVELOPE) MAILER AND AMPLE STIFFENERS ARE ALWAYS USED TO ENSURE THAT YOUR RECORD ARRIVES SAFELY
UK: £5.00 (Recorded Delivery)
EUROPE: Airmail: £15.00 (International Signed For delivery)
INTERNATIONAL: Airmail: £20.00 (International Signed For delivery)
Combined Post: Additional records £1 (UK) £2 (Europe including Russia) £3 (International)
Guarantee: All records are unconditionally guaranteed (including sealed and/or unplayed) and I will offer a complete, no quibble refund upon return of the item should you not be pleased with it in any way 1233 (GS 8.1.1 (1233))
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