THE WAY WE LIVE - CANDLE FOR JUDITH 1st UK PRESS 1971 DANDELION PINK FLOYD

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THE WAY WE LIVE -

A CANDLE FOR JUDITH

1st UK PRESS 1971

DANDELION DAN 8004

                                  Machined Matrices: A1  B1

In the early days, the main marketing tool of unsigned hopeful bands was to send demo tapes. Accordingly, a tape was sent by John Brierley to Elektra Records part of the CBS group. Clive Selwood was the CBS UK operations manager and he listened to the tape and liked what he heard. He and his partner DJ John Peel signed the band to their Dandelion Records label. Peel had a fondness for Rochdale, having worked in a cotton mill there before becoming a DJ. Clive Selwood came to Rochdale to sign up the band.[1]

The group was booked into London's Spot Studios and finished the sessions within two days, and in January 1971 the band's debut album, A Candle for Judith was released, credited to The Way We Live. The release, named after Clayton's then girlfriend, later wife, earned immediate critical acclaim "...impeccable in both technique and emotion"... Al Clark writing in Time Out in London in 1971.

Meanwhile, Peel bought the band recording equipment and a stereo PA system. He also convinced the band to change their name. Looking out of his kitchen window at Peel Acres in Suffolk, he spied a tractor in the fields adjacent to his house and recommended it as a name to them. Tractor's first release after the name change from The Way We Live was a 7-inch maxi single – "Stoney Glory"/"Marie"/"As You Say"—for Dandelion. They also backed up another Dandelion act – Beau—on his Creation album (1971). All of this recording was done in an attic and bedroom studio of a terraced house in Edenfield Road Rochdale, which John Peel named Dandelion Studios, Rochdale to tie in with his record label Dandelion Records.

Vinyl: VG+ to EX.  I'm very happy to be able to present this Canterbury gem. It has a few very wispy hairlines on each side. The audio is simply sublime played on my Technics deck with Linn Sondek cartridge and through my Rotel amp and B&W speakers.  Just some very light static on the beginning of side 1 for about 10 seconds or so. This vinyl sounds out of this world, a majestic album that showed that really went largely under the radar. Why ...? 

  I played this through in full and thoroughly enjoyed it, indeed my most intensive listen for this week. I was even tempted to keep this as it will be very hard to find this again, it is indeed mega rare now in this kind of condition.  Needless to say NO jumps, skips or sticks. 

 Sleeve: VG++ to EX.  Fantastic looked after matt gatefold sleeve with beautiful rich colours and without any creases.  It sits superbly flat and has light edge storage wear. It is the correct first press sleeve with DAN 8004 printed to the rear and spine. Sometimes the second press with the "K" cat. number is sold as if it were a first press. This album is the real genuine first press of this rarity. The spine is 80% legible. The corners have light "micro" bumps.   A beautiful original sleeve and still in a great condition.The winner will be very pleased indeed!! No marks, no seam splits or tears.  Please see the pictures. This will be an upgrade for most psych and prog collectors.

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