THE BAND "Music From Big Pink" Debut LP - Original 1968 Capitol First Press THE BAND "Music From Big Pink" Debut LP - Original 1968 Capitol First Press

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Description ITEM SPECIFICS:
Condition:                            Pre-owned
Genre/Style:                        ROCK
Record Label:                       CAPITOL
Release Year:                       1968
Size/Duration/RPM:            12"/ LP / 33 RPM
Country/Region MFG.:         USA
Vinyl/Sleeve Grading*:        Very Good Plus (VG+) / Very Good Plus (VG+)
Artist:                                    The Band
Format:                                 Vinyl LP, Album
Special Attributes:               1st Press
Cat #:                                   SKAO-2955

* Goldmine Record Grading Standards Applied

ITEM DESCRIPTION:

Pressing Features:     Debut studio album by The Band released in 1968. 
  Front cover portrait: © B.D. 1968

"BIG PINK - A pink house seated in the sun of Overlook Mountain in West Saugerties, New York. Big Pink bore this music and these songs along its way. It's the first witness of this album that's been thought and composed right there in its walls."   Pressed By: Capitol Records Pressing Plant, Jacksonville, IL 
  First pressing without subsidiary text around label rim.

Text in black above rainbow at bottom on label reads: "MFD. BY CAPITOL RECORDS, INC. U.S.A.T:M. [CAPITAL LOGO] • MARCA REG. • U.S. PAT. NO. 2,631,859"   Manufactured by Capitol Records, Inc., Hollywood and Vine Streets, Hollywood Calif. • Factories: Scranton, PA., Los Angeles, Calif., Jacksonville, Ill. 
Printed in U.S.A.   Matrix / Runout (Side A Label): SKAO1-2955 Matrix / Runout (Side B Label): SKAO2-2955 Matrix / Runout (Side A Etched): SKAO1 2955 W4#1 O Matrix / Runout (Side B Etched): SKAO2 2955 X6#2 O         Label:                       (EX) Very clean Capitol black rainbow paper labels with no spindle marks, wear or blemishes other than some faint spotting on Side 1 label.
     
Record Grading:      (VG+/EX)
Record surface is bright and glossy with a few light hairlines and wispy sleeve scuff marks...plays excellent with minimal background or surface noise and occasional light crackle heard in quiet sections and track gaps.

Sleeve Grading:       (VG+/EX)
Fully intact, bright and glossy colorful gatefold sleeve with Bob Dylan (B.D.) artwork has light corner and edge wear; spine has small cover peel at thumb creases but fully intact and completely legible.

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