ORIGINAL 1984 METALLICA RIDE THE LIGHTENING ON BANZAI BRC 1909 NM
Sold Date:
September 9, 2024
Start Date:
September 5, 2024
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$225.00
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You are bidding on METALLICA RIDE THE WHITE LIGHTENING .
This is the original 1984 first pressing on the rare Banzai BRC 1909 Canadian issue.
Cover is near mint.
Visually vinyl is near mint ( looks like a sealed copy that was opened and played perhaps once or twice .
Rarest copy of this LP that rarely comes up for auction in this condition .
Buyer pays $13 shipping to the US or $25 overseas ( except for SA, China and Australia which would be $40.00.
Check my other auctions for more near mint heavy metal during the next few weeks.
Banzai Records was a canadian record label active in the '80s. They were mainly licensing heavy metal albums that weren't domestically available in Canada. So most of what was on Metal Blade / Megaforce Records, Neat Records, Noise Records, Roadrunner, etc, would be released in Canada thru Banzai Records, via Polygram distribution. Michel Meese, founder and president of Banzai Records, had an immense knowledge of the metal scene, and a great feel for the canadian market. By seeing which imported albums were good sellers, the ones he chose to release on Banzai were always well recieved.
Artists represented by Banzai Records included Venom, Anthrax, Metallica, Voivod, Raven and Slayer, to name a few.
Although the label had the rights to distribute most of the albums, a few are believed to be bootlegs. First pressed at 1000 copies, re-prints were ordered depending on popularity. Very few ever made it past 10,000 copies. But many of them were sold as cassettes, since it was the medium of choice back then, in the golden age of walkmans! A notable exception is Metallica. Both of thier Banzai releases reached gold status in Canada, at 50,000 copies each. A feat also accomplished by Venom's Canadian Assault.
Banzai's business address, 1238 Crescent Street, Montreal, was also the home of the biggest heavy metal record store in Montreal called Rock en Stock. Banzai stopped their activities at the end of the '80s, and Rock en Stock closed shop at the end of the '90s, after a raid on bootlegged cds.
