THE YARDBIRDS/JIMMY PAGE LIVE YARDBIRDS INSANELY RARE SEALED WITHDRAWN' ORIG LP

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·  THE YARDBIRDS featuring JIMMY PAGE - LIVE YARDBIRDS - ULTRA-RARE WITHDRAWN ORIGINAL 1971 EPIC RECORDS STEREO LP E30615

·       ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING

*** INSANELY RARE STILL SEALED GUARANTEED ORIGINAL WITHDRAWN FIRST PRESSING ***

·       GUARANTEED ORIGINAL YELLOW EPIC LABEL WITH BLACK PRINT, MID-TO-LATE ‘60s STYLE , SUCH AS THE ONE SHOWN ABOVE, FROM OUR PREVIOUS AUCTION

·       PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS NEITHER A BOOTLEG PRESSING WITH BLACK AND WHITE COVER; NOR THE BUDGET PRESSING ON THE RED "COLUMBIA SPECIAL PRODUCTS" LABEL; THIS IS ONE AND ONLY REAL THING!

·       THE THICKNESS OF THE VINYL, THE APPEARANCE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE COVER, LABEL’S LOGO AND OTHER PERIPHERAL ELEMENTS OF THE COVER, ARE ALL PERFECTLY CONSISTENT WITH THE ORIGINAL, FIRST PRESSING OF THIS TITLE.

·       TWO “BREATHE” (AIR) HOLES NOTED ON THE SHRINK WRAP

·       THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST U.S. PRESSING; THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.

·       ORIGINAL, THICK CARDBOARD COVER (AMERICAN STYLE)

·       FAIRLY THICK VINYL PRESSING On the scale from 1 to 10 (1 being the least, and  10 being the most severe), we assess the thickness of the vinyl as 7.

·       This album has been out of print and unavailable on Compact Disc or in any other format for many years (much like the original LP album, the 2000 compact disc was withdrawn from circulation after Jimmy Page served a court injunction to stop the commercial release). In 2017, Jimmy Page finally - after years of whining, legal objections and litigation - allowed the remastered and significantly repackaged release to go ahead - BUT! - with (URRRRGH!!!) resequenced and re-edited program, with strange fades which truncate some of the songs and eliminate concert banter, and with the completely retitled and redesigned artwork. So, again, if you wish to own the REAL THING, the original LP album is the one and only way to go.

(►PLEASE SEE THE IMAGE OF THE COVER, LABEL OR BOTH, SHOWN BELOW)

(Note: this is a REAL image of the ACTUAL item you are bidding on. This is NOT a "recycled" image from our previous auction. What you see is what you’ll get.  GUARANTEED!)

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Arguably the most famous lost live album in history, Live Yardbirds Featuring Jimmy Page, cut at the Anderson Theater in New York on March 30, 1968, has been issued twice on vinyl legitimately (only to be suppressed by legal action) and innumerable times since as a bootleg. Page's guitar (which goes out of tune several times) is the dominant instrument here, alternately crunchy and lyrical, but always loud and dexterous; the roughness of Keith Relf's singing is also more apparent, but his shortcomings don't really hurt the music. The performance also reveals just how far out in front of the psychedelic pack the Yardbirds were by the spring of 1968; Page had pushed the envelope about as far as he could, in terms of high-velocity guitar pyrotechnics. Ironically, this album isn't quite as strong as the contemporary Truth album by Jeff Beck, mostly because the Yardbirds were still juggling three sounds: the group's progressive pop/rock past, the psychedelia of 1968, and a harder, more advanced blues-based sound. It's clear that they had few places left to go with the first two; "Dazed and Confused," by contrast, represented something new, a slow blues as dark, forbidding, and intense as anything that the band had ever cut -- it showed where Page, if not this band, was heading.

 (EXCERPT FROM AN ONLINE REVIEW BY STEVE HUEY, ALL MUSIC GUIDE  /ALLMUSIC.COM/)

All albums by Yardbirds, the first-ever supergroup (which included at different times Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page on solo guitar) are extremely coveted and highly collectable, especially in good condition, such as the copy of this classic Yardbirds album we are offering here - BUT THIS ONE IS PARTICULARLY HARD TO FIND. Withdrawn at Jimmy Page's insistence and as a result of contractual dispute, this album only saw two (almost) clandestine releases, of which we offer the VERY FIRST pressing here. The album is remarkable for the inclusion of "I'm confused" - which was to become "Dazed and Confused" on Led Zeppelin's first album --- this album amply illustrates the evolution of the track from the white electric blues rave-up to the acid-blues in the Led Zep version.  Finding a still sealed original copy?!?! Forget it – MISSION IMPOSSIBLE!

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·                               CONDITION:

·                               RECORD

 (IMPORTANT NOTE: unless otherwise noted, ALL records are graded visually, and NOT play-graded!; we  grade records under the strong, diffuse room light or discrete sunlight)

(a)          THE ALBUM IS STILL FACTORY SEALED AND IS BELIEVED TO BE PERFECTLY MINT. Please note: sealed items are assumed to be mint and are sold as-is, as we have no way of inspecting them. For our policy on still sealed records ►click here (PLEASE READ BEFORE PLACING A BID).

(b)            The record is  apparently pressed on a RELATIVELY  thick, inflexible vinyl. This is NOT a thin, flimsy ('dynaflex' type),  vinyl, but not the thickest, most rigid vinyl, either.

(c)           Of course, this is a full-bodied ANALOG recording, and not an inferior, digital recording!!!

·                               THE COVER

COVER IS NEAR MINT, STILL SEALED AND COVERED IN ITS ORIGINAL ►SHRINK WRAP  (A SMALL PIECE OF SHRINK WRAP IS MISSING)

(PLEASE NOTE: THE SHRINK WRAP HAS SEPARATED ALONG ABOUT 25% OF THE OPENING SIDE, BUT THE ALBUM IS STILL VISIBLY SEALED)

The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:

-        Cover has a few tiny wrinkles along the top seam  (nothing significant)

-         Cover has two corners slightly worn / frayed / bent (just a beginning of the split seam)  (nothing significant)

-         Cover has a minor wrinkle (crease) in the cardboard base on the back panel  (a minor cover construction flaw)

NO OTHER VISIBLE FLAWS OR IMPERFECTIONS ON THE  COVER

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