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A number of select Rare, Collectible Vintage PUNK, HARD CORE, POST-PUNK, NEW WAVE, SYNTH-WAVE and related VINYL LPs being listed now ...including several PROMOS, STERLING Masters and IMPORTS.

from 50+ years collection estate of decades-long Radio DJ, Record Store associate and dedicated Vinyl Collector

Some of these are Extremely Scarce and Highly Sought!
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This listing is for:
CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN 
II & III
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PITCH-A-TENT Records PITCH A TENT 01
Original 1986 issue Stereo LP
FIRST PRESSING • INCLUDES INSERT

VINYL is EX+
High Gloss Vinyl shows a few faintest small sleeve marks only, under hard bright light. Labels are pristine both sides with no spindle marks.
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COVER is VG (+)
Bright, vivid and overall very clean with a couple of small discoloration spots, l.l. corner; plus some edge-wear and chipping. No creases or shelf wear, front or back. Sharp corners all around. No splits.

*Please excuse any 'grainy' look to pictures (...from low-light photos).

STRICT CONSERVATIVE GOLDMINE GRADING
NM / EX(VG++) / VG+ / VG

SCARCE FIRST PRESS with light pebble-textured screen-printed cover

THE VERY FIRST LP released by PITCH-A-TENT Records. with the original 1025 BROADWAY, SANTA CRUZ CA 95062 address on back.

All titles ℗ & © 1986 Camper Van Beethoven Music
except A5 ℗ & © 1985 Rough Trade Music Mastered By John Golden at kdisc Distributed by Rough Trade

with original Lyrics, Info, Credits, Graphics 8 1/2" x 11" INSERT (printed both sides). INSERT has tear on one edge, otherwise clean with no creases or other marks. SEE LAST PHOTO.
...Insert inside protective clear mylar sheath with stiff backing card to protect against any further tears.

Side 1 is listed as "Side 2" and Side 2 is listed as "Side B" on Back Cover and as "2" and "B" on labels.

MATRIX NUMBERS (etched, except kdisc stamped)
SIDE ONE: FP-V-50669-1    11486   Kdisc JG   TEAR THE WALLS IF YOU CAN GET A GRIP
SIDE TWO: FP-V-50669-2    11486   Kdisc "JG" for lacquer cut by John Golden
TRACK LISTING SIDE ONE
        Abundance    1:50       
        Cowboys From Hollywood    1:40
        Sad Lovers' Waltz    4:10
        Turtlehead    1:20
        I Love Her All The Time    2:10
        No Flies On Us    1:45
        Down And Out    1:50
        No Krugerrands For David    2:25
        (Don't You Go To) Goleta    1:30
        4 Year Plan    1:55        SIDE TWO
        (We're A) Bad Trip    2:45
        Circles    2:50
        Dustpan    1:50
        Sometimes    2:35
        Chain Of Circumstance    2:25
        ZZ-Top Goes To Egypt    3:05
        Cattle (Reversed)    2:50
        Form Another Stone    2:15
        No More Bullshit    3:05

NOT A REISSUE - 1986 FIRST PRESSING
GREAT Sound Quality throughout.

Vinyl inside anti-static lined inner sleeve
Album kept in a protective, poly outer-sleeve

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At the time of their 1985 debut, Camper Van Beethoven's merging of punk, folk-psych, ska and world musics was truly a revelation. Self-described as "surrealist absurdist folk," the band formed in Santa Cruz, CA, at UCSC, after singer-songwriter David Lowery, with his dry humor, and boyhood friends Chris Molla and Chris Pedersen disbanded Box of Laffs. Victor Krummenacher was added on bass and soon they were joined by Greg Lisher (guitar) and Jonathan Segel (violins, keyboards, mandolin). It was Segel's violin that would prove to be the band's hallmark at a time when alternative rock had yet to be invented, and indie-rock was still shy of roots music or traditional instruments.

The 1986 re-release of their 1985 debut Telephone Free Landslide Victory made the Top 10 in the 1986 Village Voice annual Pazz and Jop Poll, as did their second album, II & III, and Camper Van Beethoven, both released in 1986. On II & III, they went for a purer indie-rock sound with touches of country, as evidenced in their "Sad Lovers Waltz" and their cover of Sonic Youth's "I Love Her All The Time." The band deftly switched modes from punk to ska to rock on alternate takes, but by this time Molla had left the fold. The third album, simply - and confusingly - titled Camper Van Beethoven, continued the thread, but the outstanding tracks, like "Joe Stalin's Cadillac," were all in the more straight-ahead indie-rock vein.

However, the band would consistently blow people's minds by tossing around things like a reverent version of Pink Floyd's "Interstellar Overdrive." For their Virgin Records debut, subsequent with the label's U.S. re-launch in 1988, the band took a more serious tack for Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart, and the band who had once been confined to low budgets and small studio facilities stretched out aggressively. ___________________________________________________________________________

Please see my other listings for more Rare Vintage Collectible CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN,
PUNK, HARDCORE, POST-PUNK, NEW WAVE, SYNTH-WAVE and related LPs.
___________________________________________________________________________ From an utterly vast and deep record collection, from my life-long best friend
who was a DJ at the Radio Station I co-founded in the 1970's - and who worked for me at my California record store in the '70s and '80s. . Sadly he has now left this mortal coil, bequeathing me his deep Vinyl Mine.
We had very similar tastes - so numerous prime duplicates are being listed.
Many PROMOS, IMPORTS and 1st PRESSINGS are included
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Several thousand records (mostly LP's, but also hundreds of 45's), several hundred collectible and Rare, Out of Print CDs and Box Sets, plus posters and other memorabilia will all eventually be listed.

Truly a great (and enormous) collection! _______________________________________________________________________
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