Sold Date: May 6, 2020
Start Date: April 20, 2020
Final Price: $40.00 (USD)
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This is a very good original U.S. pressing copy (1A/1B matrix #s) of the sole LP by the United States of America, released in 1968.  The brain child of electronics wunderkind Joe Byrd, the L.A.-based group produced one of the landmarks of late '60s experimental rock, an LP that mixes rockers with ferocious fuzz guitar, ethereal numbers (notably an adaptation of an A.A. Milne poem), and an extended concluding experimental piece, the whole liberally admixed with Byrd's electronics.  Byrd would form a new group, the Field Hippies, for a similar LP the following year, and subsequently recorded periodic solo records in the 1970s and beyond.  The jacket has a cut corner, and several other mostly minor flaws: spine and top seam wear, light ring wear, mostly light creasing along the spine and top seam, light rippling in the front cover slick along the bottom seam, and light sticker residue on the front cover (VG+).  The disc has a small cluster of stains on side 1 that causes several static-y dull pops.  It otherwise looks good with some scraping and scuffing, and plays in the EX range with some light surface noise -- overall VG+.  The record does not have the brown paper wrapper (which only came with initial copies, per Discogs).

I’m in the process of selling off a large personal collection amassed over two decades. All discs have been stored in plastic lined inner sleeves separate from their jackets. The jackets have been stored in plastic sleeves. I have play graded (spot checked) discs except where otherwise noted.

If you'd like to order multiple items, I'll happily combine them so that you won't have to pay multiple shipping charges.