Sold Date: September 8, 2016
Start Date: September 1, 2016
Final Price: £387.00 (GBP)
Bid Count: 18
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Sweet child in time you'll see the line,
  The line that's drawn between the good and the bad.
  See the blind man shooting at the world,
  Bullets flying, taking toll.
  If you've been bad, Lord I bet you have,
  And you've been hit by flying lead,
You'd better close your eyes and bow your head,
  And wait for the ricochet.
  DEEP PURPLE: "Deep Purple In Rock" LP.  APRIL,1973 UK PRESSING, THE FIRST ISSUE WAS 12th JUNE, 1970
  AND AS I WORK MY WAY THROUGH ALL THE ORIGINAL ITEMS I WILL EXPLAIN HOW I ARRIVED AT SUCH A SPECIFIC
MONTH AND YEAR OF THE PRESSING.   FIRST ISSUED IN 1970, I  ALWAYS TRY TO GIVE  ALL RECORDS PRECISE
DATES FOR THE RELEASE WHEN POSSIBLE,  FOR THE CLOSELY CONNECTED SLIGHTLY LATER PRESSINGS,
AS CLOSE  AS I CAN PHYSICALLY GET.   I COULD JUST SAY I HAVE SOLD MULTIPLE COPIES FROM THIS YEAR
BEFORE JOINING  EBAY AND DURING OUR FIFTEEN YEARS, AFTER TWO DECADES TRADING AT  RECORD FAIRS.
THEN, I WOULD LOVE TO JUST SAY I KNOW ALL EMI PRESSINGS LIKE OLD FRIENDS AND RECOGNISE THE
SLIGHTEST CHANGES, BUT FACTS ARE NECESSARY TO NOT RELY ON A PERSONAL OPINION.


GREEN HARVEST LABEL: SHVL 777.
. 
    MAITRIX:  SHVL 777  A - 2  /  SHVL 777  B - 1
April, 1973 was not that far past June, 1970 and EMI's maitrix reflect that, the later 1970's pressing had ever increasing digits
maitrix endings, this was a continuation and re-setting the digits had yet to happen.  During those 15 years on ebay, I have sold
a few 1973 pressings of the incredible "Deep Purple In Rock," all Mint and so all the items were exactly as first issued, down to
the original inner sleeve.   From them I arrived at the approximate pressing date, mostly from the 1973 pressings, but as the new
EMI label rim text was introduced in April, 1970, some pressings were made and that is where "In Rock" originated from, in fact,
this week is the 43th anniversary of this pressing! The next item is EMI's stamping codes and a first mother on one side, really
says it all.

  EMI STAMPING CODES:  RMA 3  / RGL  1 (  4  &   5)*
Obviously this small pressing batch did not require 145 mothers!   The actual mother number was '1' and further down '4' & '5'
were just mistakes.  Even if this was a huge seller in April, 1973 and topped the UK charts, the mothers would never exceed
5 / 8 mothers, never double figures.   So no further comments are necessary when the digit at 9 o'clock is '1' on Side 2 and '3
on Side 1.  EMI records from the 1960's and 1970's decades had a fixed format for the maitricx and stamping codes, that was
exlusive until the first two years of the 1980's.  It was 1980 the changes began, the stamping code and maitrix format were
altered and by late 1982, there were no letters or digits at 3 & 9 o'clock.


THE LABEL RIMS HAVE 'EM Records Ltd.' AND NOT  'Gramophone Co. Ltd.' TEXT FOUND ON COPIES PRESSED
   BETWEEN JUNE, 1970 AND MARCH, 1973.  ONLY THE VERY FIRST PRESSINGS IN 1970, DID NOT HAVE THE BOXED
  EMI LOGO, LOCATED AT 9 O'CLOCK ON THE LABELS.
 
  YOU CAN ALSO SEE HOW RIM THE TEXT ON THESE 1973 RECORDS ALSO HAD "Made In Gt. Britain" MOVED FROM
  6  O ' CLOCK, TO APPROXIMATELY 4 O 'CLOCK, TO THE END OF THE RIM TEXT.  
 

ORIGINAL 1973, EMI INNER SLEEVE, THE 1960's TYPE WAS STILL IN USE IN APRIL, PLAIN WHITE WITH CURVED
  CORNERS AND A SHAPED TOP OPENING ON THE FRONT.   THE BOTTOM RIM OF THE FRONT HAS THE PATENT
  NUMBER AND "Made In Great Britain" PRINTED IN PALE BLUE INK.
  Unused, unsplit and unworn with a record impression and a few related light creases, a touch of natural ageing after 43 years.
THE INNER SLEEVE IS IN UNUSED, NEAR MINT CONDITION.
 

  "Garrod & Lofthouse" PRINTED GATEFOLD COVER, WITH DELUXE THICK, VERY GLOSSY LAMINATION OUTSIDE,
  EVEN THE SHAPE IS UNCHANGED SINCE 1970.   INSIDE THE GATEFOLD IS STILL THE DATE CODE FOR THE FIRST
  PRESSING COVER'S PRINTING: '7006' = 'June, 1970.'
  I was the first to open the gatefold in 43 years, I carefully eased it  open, the picture of the full outside is how comfortably
  it allowed, I never stretch as new lamination beyond the natural position. An unplayed, early 1970's "Deep Purple In Rock" is
   quite amazing and being unused, all to detail involves standing in storage for all those decades.  A picture taken of both inside
   panels demonstrates how the white background is completely unaged, astonishingly still the same pure white as the day it was
  closed in the factory all those decades ago now.
 
  Unplayed or not, nothing can stop the effect of gravity on a massively heavyweight 1973 record, inside a cardboard cover.
  A reasonably gentle record impression and a few related tiny laminated edge lines, as usual, mostly alongside the spine's meeting
  point with the front & back edges.  As they form naturally and not from use or handling, I tend to include them in text and for a
  very rare unplayed record, cannot possibly include natural formations in the grading.  The same applies to the slightest standing
  traits, light brushing to the spine ends but the other corners are absolutely perfect, a truly stunning looking cover without any
   form of fading or ageing, the deeply glossy, deluxe thick lamination is mother less than spectacular, please refer to my pictures
   to see I am not exaggerating, this really is a fantastic cover!

   Grading an unused, carefully stored gatefold cover, kept inside in a plastic outer sleeve from day one, simply has to contain
  the word, 'Mint' or this becomes no more than a farce.  43 years is a long time ago and I refuse to  drop below this when the
  condition is so staggering, plus the whole principal of grading all items, hinges on 'use', which this did not have;
  THE COVER IS IN MINT- CONDITION.

THE IMMACULATE, AS NEW LABELS DO NOT HAVE ANY SPINDLE ALIGNMENTS,  THE RECORD IS ALSO LITERALLY
  AS NEW.  WITH THAT 'JUST PRESSED' BEAUTIFUL GLOSSY SHINE AND WITHOUT ANY SCRATCHES OR MARKS,
I COULD NOT FIND A SINGLE HANDLING TRACE ON THE PRISTINE SURFACE.   WONDERFUL TO SEE A TRUE MINT
  EARLY 1970's HARVEST PRESSING OF "In Rock", AND FOR THAT AGE, I WILL RESPECT SUCH A RARITY AND
  NOT PLAY IT MYSELF.   AS USUAL, I CHECK ALL UNPLAYED RECORDS FOR ANY TRACES OF FACTORY OR RECORD
  SHOP HANDLING, I FOUND NOTHING, BUT ANY FEATHER LIGHT, NEAR INVISIBLE TRACES ARE CERTAINLY NOT
  VISUALLY OBVIOUS.  I INCLUDED A CLOSE UP PICTURE OF SIDE 1's SPINDLE HOLE AREA WITH DELICATE VINYL
  SHAVINGS, STILL UNDISTURBED BY BEING ON A TURNTABLE, THAT ALONE  FORMS THE ULTIMATE GRADING;
  THE RECORD IS IN UNPLAYED, MINT CONDITION.
SIDE 1
"Speed King"
"Bloodsucker"
"Child In Time"
"Flight Of The Rat"

  SIDE 2
"Into The Fire"
"Living Wreck"
"Hard Lovin' Man"

Ian Gillan - vocals
  Ritchie Blackmore - guitars
Roger Glover - bass
Jon Lord - keyboards
Ian Paice - drums
 
The Seven Tracks Were Recorded In London, Between August,1969 - May,1970:
a.) "Speed King", "Child In Time", "Into The Fire" & "Living Wreck" At  IBC Studios.
b.) "Flight Of The Rat" & "Hard Lovin' Man" At  De Lane Lea Studios
c.) "Bloodsucker" At Abbey Road Studios.
Produced By Deep Purple
With all the pressing details taken care of, I would like to now concentrate one of the greatest rock albums I have ever heard.
  My first encounter with Deep Purple was picking up their 1968 single, "Hush," a really great version, but I was not all that taken
with a new band who concentrated almost entirely on recording their take on other artist's material and for that, a single was
  all I bought, I never got into their early albums. Limited funds played a big part in which albums you could afford to buy, late 60's
  was an era of monumental LP's being released on a weekly basis, there were always several vital titles left outstanding.  Then in
the summer of 1970 all that changed, suddenly everyone was raving about the new Deep Purple LP that was on the same level as
  Led Zeppelin for heavy rock / blues.  I was intrigued and bought "In Rock", the second I heard just the intro to "Child In Time," it
  was something new and sensational!  Just to put a perspective onto this, because time scales can only come into the equation in
  hindsight, heavy rock was starting to emerge as an alternative to underground and progressive music, which had begun to stagnate
  and become boring.  "In Rock" was released before Black Sabbath's August,1970 "Paranoid" single, and the success from that sent
   their same titled second album surging up the LP charts, so this second line-up of Deep Purple 'Mark 2', were the first UK band to
  kick start the 1970's decade by releasing such an adrenaline fuelled heavy rock album of real substance.  Unlike Led Zeppelin, who
  were now including acoustic folk tracks on approximately half of their third album in 1970, every second of "In Rock" stayed at
  an extraordinary level of overpowering musicianship. It often happens to bands who last for decades or their splinter off-shoots,
  they wrote and recorded such a era defining album, nothing that followed ever quite hit such heights, "In Rock" simply could not
be bettered or replicated, a true masterpiece of a record.  Deep Purple were very brave to attempt this in 1970,  their previous
LP's and singles had failed to be commercially successful and unlike Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, "In Rock" did not contain
any kind of acoustic interludes, right from the opening howls of "Speed King" the scorching red hot pace never relented until the
needle left the the final grooves of the last track on Side 2, "Hard Lovin' Man."  No studio enhanced effects were necessary or
used, only the most breathtaking musicianship because the band played as inspiredly as anything ever recorded, then or today.
I regularly read how 'The Album' is no longer desirable among today's music 'lovers?', downloading/streaming has killed them off.
Is that right?  No wonder original vinyl is so desirable today, have we bred a generation only able to digest tracks individually
  instead of  enjoying a whole set of new tracks recorded by the same artists.   What a crazy situation, albums were a work of art
  in my era, that has not changed among currently genuine talent, just cramming as many tracks onto a hard drive cannot possibly
open up the various moods and variety within songwriting and production.  The 90 minutes on a cassette and 80 minutes on a CDR
were long enough for a compilation, stretching that into infinity is not an advance, but a retreat into mediocrity.   2016 has
hardly produced the inspiration and genius that propelled Deep Purple and all the amazing music being created in the 1960's and
70's, stifling artists' creativity will expose limitations and the tracks on the hard drives will only end up sounding the same.
 

The original 1968 line-up of Deep Purple had two different musicians to this second 1970 incarnation, I am not keen on calling
them 'Mark 2', a very silly title that is better left for a model of a car than such a great band, they were;
Rod Evans - vocals, Nic Simper - bass, Ritchie Blackmore - guitar, Jon Lord, organ and Ian Paice - drums.
  Three albums were released from them, initially on EMI's Parlophone label before moving onto the Harvest label, the lead vocalist
Rod Evans was replaced by Ian Gillan and the departing Nic Simper's bass was taken over by Roger Glover's.  The effect from that
was immediate and dynamite!   The impact lost all their previous flirtations with 'pop' cover versions and the orchestral enhanced
  sounds found on their debut Harvest album, "Concerto For Group And Orchestra", recorded live at the Royal Albert Hall, London in
  1969.  That did include Ian Gillian and Roger Glover but it was more like shaking off the experimental stages that were in no way
  utilising the incredible musical chemistry that was not in need of stifling and formulised arrangements. Apologies to anyone who
  is fond of that album, my descriptions are honestly given personal opinions, I do not build up albums I consider third rate with
  the superlatives I do not believe they merit.  There are dozens of examples where rock and orchestration worked superbly, but the
  material had to be original and exciting or how could the outcome be even remotely inspired?  "In Rock" was recorded with Ritchie
  Blackmore's guitar and and Jon Lord's organ unshackled by those former restraints imposed by the previous material, now the band
  co-wrote every single track and with such a commanding and an inspirational vocalist as Ian Gillan, the album caught fire and it hit
  the heady heights of No.4 in the UK charts. So by no means a rare album as a first pressing but like my original they took such heavy
  punishment, I would not even consider offering inferior graded vinyl, this is an album to blow your socks clean off, the sonic audio
  properties mastered into the heavyweight vinyl in the early 70's was colossal. Worn out is...worn out, any attempt to stretch the
  grading will not compensate for hearing "Deep Purple In Rock" as a pale shadow of it's true greatness.  I made sure all the first
  issue label details were in my main headings, the majority of copies were played incessantly regardless of being pressed in 1970
or a few years later, all true great albums were.  I love nothing better than offering a Mint first pressing, I did last year but
  it took 5 years after the previous sale on ebay, an unplayed first issue without an EMI boxed logo etc. is the toughest of all,
for records of this stature. This ultimate true Mint slightly later pressing was mastered and pressed perfectly from EMI's Master
  Tapes and I'm mightily tempted to hear the record!  "Child in Time" is my personal pick of the bunch, a track that knows no equal
for true greatness, this record will have fantastic sound and give full pleasure when listening to a masterpiece of an 'Album'.
{Roy}
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