TOE FAT - RS511 Rare Earth MINTY FIRST PRESS NM

	£		31
	$		40

Toe Fat

Rare Earth

RS 511

1970

STOP-PRESS-STOP-PRESS-STOP-PRESS!!!!!!!!

!!!Sensational MUSEUM QUALITY Copy!!!

Progressive delight!!!

Without a shadow of a doubt one of the best condition highly collectable albums I have come across for the last few years!!!! This album is close to MINT!!!!! It is absolutely UNMARKED and I might have been the very first person to have played this copy in its entirety!!! Even under a strong light there is not any mark to be seen. ASTONISHING!!!! 

  The audio is breathtakingly sublime!!!! This album in this fantastic condition rarely comes up for sale and in my opinion it will be IMPOSSIBLE to better this. As such it is the ultimate KEEPER/VAULT copy and a mighty good investment!!!

This beautiful glossy slab of vinyl is pure quality!!!!! The vinyl looks pristine and I played it all the way through, it sounds STUNNING !!!! Re-issues do just not measure up to the depth of the sound. This is just awesome!!! NO jumps, NO pops and NO skips. NO background crackle!!!! This album is playgraded on a Linn Sondek/ Rotel/ B&W set-up. The audio is simply MINDBLOWING!!!! It would be a very tough task to still upgrade from this copy. It has to be the very best one available!!!!

The sleeve is the American version with the nude couple replaced by a sheep. This is the hard cardboard with original colour inner Motown sleeve. The condition o the sleeve is again OUTSTANDING!!!! It will be hard to better this ever. NO CREASES AT ALL!!!! Rare Earth was of course the Motown label for more left of centre, progressive bands. Minimal cut-out of 1 mm width to the top right of the sleeve, this was done at the time in the 70's to export albums, still find that very odd, but there it is. No creases, tiny miniscule edge "bumps". Band picture to the back.

This album is still like it first was when it was sold over the counter of a 1970 record shop. It will be impossible to find a better copy than this!!!!

Labels are NM without any spindle mark!!! SENSATIONAL!!! Slightly scuffed edge of label side 2, this looks like it happened in the production process, very minimal hardly noticeable.

Toe Fat was an English rock music band active from June 1969 to 1971, notable for including two future members of Uriah Heep.

Formed in June 1969, the band was fronted by former Rebel Rouser Cliff Bennett and in the course of its two-year, two-LP career, featured lead guitarist,keyboards Ken Hensley, bassist John Glascock (erroneously billed as John Konas on LP sleeve, some confusion with Gods guitarist Joe Konas) drummer Lee Kerslake, and replacements (after the first LP), Brian Glascock (drums), Alan Kendall (guitar).

The band was founded by Bennett, a former pop star, after the dissolution of the Cliff Bennett Band. He teamed with former Gods keyboard player Hensley, who drafted in fellow ex-Gods members Kerslake and Glascock. The name was decided over dinner when Bennett and his manager attempted to create the most disgusting band name possible.

Toe Fat was quickly signed by Motown's progressive rock label, Rare Earth in the US. In Britain, the band signed with EMI, who released their first album on the Parlophone label and the second on Regal Zonophone.

The eponymously titled first album flopped commercially, but gained considerable critical praise.  The album was also notable for its cover designed by the recently formed graphic art company Hipgnosis, who went on to do most of the covers for Pink Floyd. The cover shows a beach scene with four people who have large toes superimposed over their heads. For the U.S. release, a man and a topless woman in the background were replaced by the image of a sheep!!!!!

Hensley quit the band to form the successful Uriah Heep (Bennett himself admitted in the sleeve notes of his re-released Rebellion album that he "probably should have joined them" when asked). Kerslake left to join the National Head Band before also joining Uriah Heep in 1971. Bassist Konas was replaced in the down time between records, with John Glascock (also formerly of The Gods and who later joined Jethro Tull) replacing him. Another ex-Gods man, Brian Glascock, became the new drummer. Alan Kendall replaced Hensley, adding more heavy licks to the new record, simply titled Toe Fat Two.

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