ONEADAYRECORDS – Simply Delivering Quality Music to the World in Quality, Safe Packing.

Postage: UK £4.95. Europe (including Russia) £12.95 (£1 per extra record). Rest of World £19.95 (£2 per extra record). All my records are sent in boxes and the price of them has increased over time and these are my first price increases for nearly 10 years. Royal Mail prices have also gone up again. I will never compromise on 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: IRON BUTTERFLY (with Pinera & Rhino)

Album Title: Metamorphosis

Producer(s): Richard Podolor

TRACK LIST:

Side 1: Free Flight; New Day; Shady Lady; Best Years of Our Life; Slower Than Guns; Stone Believer.

Side 2: Soldier in Our Town; Easy Rider (Let the Wind Pay the Way); Butterfly Bleu.

Label/Format: ATCO, original format with matt, quite smooth surfaces.

Label Conditions: Both very clean, fresh and attractive with only light, fine and faint spindle marks and no wear around the hole area.

Catalogue Number: 2401003

Mode / Speed: Stereo / 33.3 rpm.

Warps or Lateral Movement: Assume all records I offer have no significant warping or lateral movement to cause sound or tracking issues. All should play fine even on budget turntables.

Weight of Record: 120 grams.

Country of Manufacture: England

Rarity: Quite scarce as a UK original, no major sales here for this one.

Original Year of Release: 1970

Matrix Nos: 2401003 A//1 1 1 3 & 2401003 B//1 1 1 2 (machine punched, error corrected)

Musicians: Doug Ingle – organ, vocals; Mike Pinera – guitar, vocals; Larry Reinhardt – guitar; Lee Dorman – bass guitar; Ron Bushy – drums. With: Richard Podolor – sitar, twelve-string guitar; Bill Cooper – twelve-string guitar.

Brief Info: The fourth album by the heavy psych American rock band Iron Butterfly. A reasonably successful album in America, but no major sales here in the UK. An album with mainly shorter songs with just the final track ‘Butterfly Bleu’ clocking in at just over 14 minutes. Personally, I regard this as one of their finest sets, and it was one of the very first albums to use the talk box vocal effect. This a very clean, lightly/carefully played example with impressive sound throughout.

Cover Grade and Format: NEAR EXCELLENT: (because, as per usual, the outer faces have darkened over time). But with little real wear as such. A very delicate and wear-prone unlaminated gatefold format with matt, heavily textured outer surfaces, the inside is smooth. Printed and made in England by the E. J. Day Group, includes the 1970 date-coded Philips style inner sleeve.

Cover Front: I have very rarely, if indeed ever seen a UK-made copy of this cover without some grubbiness or darkening to the rough textured front surface. This quite obviously, mostly seen on the white wide borders left and right of the coloured graphic. In terms of actual wear apart, this has little else to fault, being hardly rubbed or creased with no sticker issues.

Cover Back: The back has a superb graphic which with common sense would have made a much more interesting and spectacular front for this cover as it includes more information of what is on offer and with a lovely graphic. This looks very impressive indeed and all is pretty much as per the front with the discolouration only seen on the narrow white box border areas. The lack of ring wear on this is the best news possible on a cover that that seldom avoids it as the paper is quite soft and rarely wears well.

Cover Inner Gatefold: Apart from a little adhesive smearing on the very top area purely in manufacture, this inside has little else to fault and remains clean and fresh.

Top Edges: Both straight, flat and flush with any rub evidence sparse, again some discolouration of the white surfaces.

Bottom Edges: Similar to above with less discolouration.

Right Edge(s), and Type: Mostly sharp with any thickening traces few, very little and light. Record enters on the back edge, the front is closed and factory cut (e.g. with a white edge).

Spine and Text: Again, this has discolouration with some moderately mild rubbing, but being mostly a plain white surface, this registers less. Still solid, quite straight with mild compression in the central area. Folded square, so the edges meet up very closely together and parallel. The text is largely intact with a couple of letters eroded and a small few partially clipped as-seen. Clearly a fragile area of this cover and this, the discolouration apart, probably better than many seen.

Corners: Any tip rubs small and light, overall these have fared well with very fine to excellent shape retained with no knocks.

Cover Summary: A difficult and challenging cover, and this one, although avoiding the usual rubbing, creasing and ring wear, does have some discolouration seen on the white areas of the outer surfaces. So quite politely aged, but still a strong example of this quite elusive 1970’s cover. One that could prove difficult to find much better. This still mainly attractive item (the back especially so), should please many collectors.

The Inner Sleeve: EXCELLENT(+): the Philips style polylined inner sleeve is date-coded B 1/0370 (March 1970) with the two patent credits: 800513 & 973939. Only mildly discoloured with two neat untorn window circles, the lining still quite clear, the paper with minimal creasing and all edge folds naturally intact.

Vinyl Condition/Visual Grading: EXCELLENT(+): a very fine visual copy that is very clean with equally fine shine and solidly pressed. A copy with minimal plays on all the evidence with any surface marks very light, wispy and faint as seen critically under bright light. No penetrating stylus scratches, viewed in average room light, hardly anything even registers. Visually a super 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 quality heavy psych-rock album plays even above it’s high visual grading with little to fault. 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 first UK pressing I feel sure. Both channels are clean and sharp, I am certain this record has been played very lightly and has been carefully handled with nothing of note spoiling my pleasure when play-grading. It will prove very difficult to find significantly better 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.