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Postage: UK £4.75 (£1 per extra record). Europe (including Russia) £12.50 (£2 per extra record). Rest of World (including ALL parts of the USA) £19.99 (£3 per extra record). Postage to U.S.A. has increased since August, I was told by the Post Office due to policy there, so sorry, that is out of my control. All boxes signed for in quality, safe packaging – I NEVER use mailing envelopes that offer virtually no protection at all, and records WILL arrive damaged in them at some time as most record buyers will already know. Here, you get what you pay for – SAFE PACKING in BOXES using 7mm DOUBLE-WALL STIFFENERS including full side protection and bubble wrap, the records removed from the covers of course. All this very safe packing means I lose money on every box I post, but safe delivery is, and will always be paramount. You WILL see the difference when my packet arrives. Also, I will pay for insurance on any record that sells for over £100 at NO extra cost – that is UK and abroad. Also I aim to post the very same day after payment is received if possible. PLEASE NOTE: I will NOT send any item, no matter what its value without a Royal Mail or courier tracking number. ALL my items must be signed and trackable to comply with Ebay delivery rules. Please do NOT ask me to make any exceptions to this rule as no country offers 100% reliable service without it.

Posting to Russia: Yes, I do post to Russia. But delivery can take longer from the UK. So please be patient. I will submit a tracking number to the winning bidder, and when the packet arrives there it can be followed online using the Russian post website.

ALSO: I now apply the Ebay ‘2-day’ rule for non-payment to keep things moving – cash-flow is important for any small business.

ANY ITEM or ITEMS TO BE PAID WITHIN A MAXIMUM OF 6 DAYS or they will be cancelled – NO EXCEPTIONS.

FINALLY: Late payers, non-payers and ‘0’ bidders will now be blocked or cancelled at my discretion, as will any bidder who cancels a bid. Please only bid on my items if you want them.

Artist or Band: MC5

Album Title: Back in the U.S.A.

Producer(s): Jon Landau.

TRACK LIST:

Side 1: Tutti Frutti; Tonight; Teenage Lust; Let Me Try; Looking at You.

Side 2: High School; Call Me Animal; The American Ruse; Shakin’ Street; The Human Being Lawnmower; Back in the U.S.A.

Label/Format: Atlantic – original red and maroon (‘Plum’) format with matt, gently textured surfaces.

Label Conditions: Both very clean, fresh and attractive with only a few quite light and faint spindle marks. This elusive and rare record plays superbly throughout.

Cat Number: 2400016

Mode / Speed: Stereo / 33.3 rpm.

Warps: Assume all records I offer have no warping of any significance and all tracking is easy and effortless and should play on all turntables and even ‘budget’ decks.

Weight of this Record: 140 grams. .

Country of Manufacture: England.

Rarity: Very scarce as a first UK pressing on the Plum label, with next to no demand for this back in 1970 in the UK, few would have even been pressed initially. Like similar American acts like The Stooges, MC5 were largely ignored when first issued. Most that surface are later pressings on the second Kinney Atlantic format with the red-brown and green labels. I regard this as one of the rarest rock albums on this most collectable ‘Plum’ format label and is seldom seen or offered, especially with a record playing this clean.

Original Year of Release: 1970

Matrix Nos: 2400016 A//1 1 2 1 & 2400016 B//1 1 1 3

Musicians: Rob Tyner – vocals; Wayne Kramer – guitar, backing vocals; Fred ‘Sonic’ Smith – guitar, backing vocals, lead vocals; Michael Davis – bass; Dennis Thompson – drums. With: Danny Jordan and Pete Kelly – keyboards.

Brief Info: The first studio album by this pioneering American protopunk band, the music less thrashy than the live debut ‘Kick Out the Jams’, now being a more straightforward hard rock album, with a few quieter songs. Audiences at the time were dismissive and this sold even fewer copies than ‘Jams’, but time has reassessed this album with opinion now far more favourable for the new more straight rock sound. Most of the songs are self-written, but open and end with rock n roll standards, the final one being the title song written by Chuck Berry. A highly elusive album as a UK first-press original, this one appears quite modestly played and sounds very clean and impressive. The cover is fully laminate with some reasonably light creasing and mild ageing, but also with the correct first print catalogue number, this is just as rare as the first issue record. Only the second copy of this I have ever had and first for several years and a rare opportunity.

Cover Grade and Format: EXCELLENT(–): a single fully laminated format, printed and made in England by MacNeill Press. Includes the original date-coded Polydor inner sleeve.

Lamination – Front & Back: The laminate retains fine shine and clarity with quite modest dulling seen more under light. Some quite fine, mostly spine edge lifting is largely inconspicuous on the front, but seen more on the back with its darker backdrop. Creasing is light to moderate with most near the edes and little detracts from the famous front band front graphics. A couple of tiny entrance area nicks have barely broken the card, and I do emphasise tiny. Still a fine example and not one you will find much better too often – just finding the original first print alone is difficult enough.

Top Edge: Straight and hardly worn with full laminate retention.

Bottom Edge: Largely the same again.

Right Edge(s), and Type: Clean, still mostly sharp with any thickening little and light. Just the two tiny surface nicks from a fingernail I suspect, which truly are very minor indeed. Record enters on this edge.

Spine and Text: This has fared quite well overall with just three or four super fine surface creases. Still solid, straight with any compression patchy and light, the ends are pinched in manufacture. All text is perfect and unworn.

Corners: Any corner wear or creasing light with fine to very fine shape retained without any heavy knocks.

Cover Summary: A difficult cover to fine, its rarity as a first print should never be underestimated. This has some laminate creasing but hardly major – enough to polite remind of age – however, still a quite attractive original cover. Not for perfectionists, but it should please many collectors.

The Inner Sleeve: EXCELLENT(–): the original Philips inner has also aged a little with some corner crinkle and fairly mild creasing. Both window circles are neat and undamaged, the polylining still quite clear. The edges are intact after a neat edge split was repaired by myself to stop it potentially widening in future, it hardly even registers. This includes the 1170 (November 1970) date-code.

Vinyl Condition/Visual Grading: EXCELLENT(–): a fine visual copy that is clean with equally fine shine and solidly pressed. A copy with modest plays on all the evidence with any surface marks motly very light, most wispy and faint as seen critically under bright light. No penetrating stylus scratches, viewed in average room light, little even registers. The really good news is, it plays superbly. Visually a fine record that should please many collectors.

Album Played For Grading: Yes. [I play ALL records I offer before submitting to Ebay, also the record is played in its entirety unless clearly stated otherwise. I do NOT play snippets or joining grooves to check for sound quality and quietness – I play from the beginning to end via clinically revealing equipment, all listed further down.]

Sound Quality and Audio Grading: This protopunk classic album plays even above it’s high visual grading with hardly anything to fault. Visually excellent minus, but to my ears, plays a whole grade better still. Offering strong, distortion-free sound, all frequencies are sharp and clear – sound quality is very high with a wide dynamic range and very detailed sound. Any surface sounds are minimal indeed and this is a very clean pressing with no tracking issues* or inherent pressing noises. Few available copies will outperform this early, genuine first pressing I feel sure. Both channels are clean and sharp, I am certain this record has been played modestly and has avoided any ruinous mishaps or audio issues. Nothing spoilt my pleasure when play-grading this lovely record. It will certainly prove very difficult to find significantly better for audio quality and can be strongly recommended.

* As played-graded on a high-end Linn LP12 Sondek turntable with Ittok Mk II arm and Ortofon Quintet Black moving coil cartridge tracking at 2 grams. Records are a ‘contact’ format, and few will avoid the odd minor sound blemish.

I am one of the most established sellers on Ebay, trading since 2001 and offering the finest records I can find. I pride myself on offering a variety of genres to keep my site as interesting as possible. I will rarely offer any record that falls below a true Excellent grading, unless its of a certain rarity which will justify offering a lesser grade. I try, to the best of my ability to describe as accurately and as honesty all elements of the items I offer for sale. You may notice I only submit records quite sparingly on Ebay as I Play-Grade every record I offer in their entirety – also on higher-end equipment – not just bits to guess a grade – visuals alone do not always tell a true story. I will try to mention any defects or flaws no matter how small that I notice to be fair as possible to any interested collector – I am very fussy and my buyers have the right to be too. Every record I offer, whether it be a common or rare item deserves the same respect as far as I am concerned and will be treated the same – just because an item is rare does not always mean it’s good. I get just as much pleasure offering a relatively common record in near mint condition as the real rare items. All the pictures I use for your guidance are the item being offered with no digital enhancements. Room light factors can make things vary sometimes, that is hard to control, especially in winter. I hope the item below is to your liking – any questions can be emailed and I will do my best to answer you. I am enthusiastic, and have a fair degree of knowledge about many genres and I promise quality items. Please assume all records I offer have NO jumps, sticks, major warps or writing on covers or labels unless clearly stated to the contrary. Thanks for your interest and Good luck – MIKE.

Equipment Used for Play-Grading: I now play-grade ALL the records I offer (unless clearly stated to the contrary) on the following equipment:

Deck: Linn LP12/Hercules/Cirkus with Ittok Mk II arm and Ortofon Quintet Black moving coil cartridge (tracks at 2 grams). Amps: Naim Supernait 2 with Project USB phono stage and Tellerium Black interconnects. Speakers: B&W 805 Nautilus (bi-wired with Tellurium Black terminated cable) with REL subwoofer. All records I offer on Ebay are cleaned on a professional Nessie vacuum machine before play-grading for the cleanest and best possible sound and will include a brand new lined inner and protective cover too. Pictures taken with a Nikon D7500 DSLR Camera.

PACKING – THIS IS WHAT YOU GET.

What You Get: To confirm to the strict Ebay rules on shipping, I must now send ALL my packets ‘Signed-For’ with NO exceptions. Both buyers and sellers want their packets to have a safer journey and this is not a bad thing.

PLEASE NOTE: I now exercise my right to open a dispute after the Ebay rule of TWO days if no payment is received. I will then cancel the dispute to end the bid, again after the mandatory FOUR days and then offer the item to the runner-up or relist. The non-payer will also be blocked from my Ebay site as will any suspicious bids or bid bid retractions. Small businesses need prompt payment to trade and these strict rules WILL be applied.

Payment Conditions:

I prefer PayPal from­ winning bidders. I only accept PayPal from overseas bidders or direct payment into my bank account.

Potential Bidders: I will cancel any bids I feel are time-wasters. A maximum 2 days for communication and 7 days for payment to arrive – if not I will relist the item or offer to the runner-up.

My Guarantee: If any winning bidder is not satisfied with their purchase I will offer a complete refund if the item is returned in the same condition is was sent e.g. as per the listing pictures.

SOME GENERAL GUIDES TO WEAR AND CONDITIONS TO HELP YOU DECIDE

My Use of Description Terminology: Surface Marks = Superficial, usually light marks, hairlines or light scuffs that rarely sound. Scratch = a needle mark that goes below the record’s surface, some will sound, some will not, my play-grade will inform. Original = a record that has been pressed with the first label design which does NOT necessarily mean a very first pressed record. First Pressing = A record that I believe or know to be a genuine very first pressed record. I do not claim to always know for sure, and that’s why I state the stamper and matrix numbers if at all possible, for those who claim to know what they all mean, the information is there for the collector to decide. I prefer to use terms like ‘Early Copy’ rather than ‘First Pressing’ if I am not totally sure. Surface Sound = Mild, light sound, usually light crackle or similar. Distortion = Break up of the actual sound caused by groove wear or damage from a chipped stylus – the most undesirable form of unwanted sound, vintage mono records were the most prone to this happening but not exclusively so. The symptoms of distortion are high frequency clipping, moderate constant crackle or an echo type sound quality. Violin, piano and vocals are most prone to groove-wear distortion. Feathering = Fraying or softening of the entry edge of a cover. Covers with feathered entrance edges are more likely to have had the actual record inserted and removed more than a non-feathered, sharp-edged cover which are always far more attractive. Set Off, a printer’s term for dark ink leaving mild residue on pale or white ink when rested upon. e.g. when a gatefold cover has black ink closed against white, this can leave some black residue on the pale area – this is mostly unavoidable or course.