1968 SITAR:LOVE IS BLUE*FREAKBEAT*PETARDS*German Only*TOP

Sold Date: December 7, 2014
Start Date: November 27, 2014
Final Price: $30.00 (USD)
Bid Count: 11
Seller Feedback: 170
Buyer Feedback: 39


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Ca. 80 LPs in my current auctions on eBay.de & eBay.com, you might have to sign in on both sites to watch all items :
Ca. 80 LPs in meinen Auktionen auf eBay.de und eBay.com, um alle Angebote angezeigt zu bekommen muss man evtl. auf beiden websites eingeloggt sein :
COSMIC DISCO (last & rarest 1990 SUPERMAX/WORLD OF TOMORROW, GANYMED, CHILLY, VENUS GANG etc) - RARE GROOVES & BREAKBEAT (INCREDIBLE BONGO BAND, HERBOLZHEIMER on ALTAXON, W.MÜLLER/STRIP GOES ON etc) – EUROJAZZ & -FUSION (HIPPOPOTAMUS, GLATTER WAHNSINN, G.BROM/POLYMELOMODUS etc) - FUNK (some rare US PRESSINGS) - SOUNDTRACKS (BONEY, GET CARTER, VAMPIROS LESBOS etc) – MPS ORGINALS (DAVE PIKE SET, G.DUKE/INNER SOURCE, M.ALEXANDER/RASS etc) – SITAR GROOVES (V.BELL/ELECTRIC SITAR, LOVE IS BLUE, G.SZABO etc) – JAPAN JAZZ (P.JACKSON/BLACK OCTOPUS, M.KIKUCHI etc) – COSMIC KRAUTJAZZ (ET CETERA, RISCHKA'S SOUL etc) - SMALL LABEL & PRIVATE PRESSINGS (SANGO, MICHAEL KULLICK, RAFFAELA RENZULLI ENSEMBLE etc) - VOCAL JAZZ (Original Press of KITTY WINTER/FEEL IT, KNEF/IM 80.STOCKWERK, N.GOTTSCHALK etc) and more...

LP : LOVE IS BLUE / V.A.

Original German stereo pressing from 1968 on EUROPA, E 307. Contains 16 tracks by “The Spots”, “The Petards” and “101 Strings”. This one is sought after for the 3 dope sitar-psych tracks: ”Blues For The Guru”, ”Karma Sitar” and ”Strings For Ravi”, all performed by the “101 Strings”. There are also some great freakbeat hammond/brass-groovers ( “Killer Joe A Gogo”, ”Kings Road Rock”, ”San Francisco Sun” ). The other tracks are more late 60ies Beat/Pop. Nice psych cover artwork with body-painted female nude. The 3 sitar-tracks are exclusively on this German-only record, there is no overlapping with the band’s release on the Alshire-label called “Astro-Sound from beyond the year 2000” ! Look for more sitar-groove in my current auctions !

Condition: side 1 looks mint-- in daylight & in normal artificial light, it looks mint-- to ex+ under a very strong halogen lamp. Side 2 looks mint- to mint-- in every light. Both sides play in mint- all of the time.

The cover is top: it's still in it's original ( open ) PVC shrink, under this front & back are top and all seams/spine are intact and without rub, slightest rub in the lower right corner, the PVC shrink has one tear on it's front ; overall mint-. The sealing PVC causes a few light-reflections on the photos, these are no damages.

Zustand: Seite 1 sieht bei Tageslicht & unter einer normalen Lampe mint-- aus, unter einer sehr hellen Halogenlampe sieht sie mint-- bis ex+ aus. Seite 2 sieht in jedem Licht mint- bis mint-- aus. Beide Seiten spielen durchgehend in mint- .

Das Cover ist top: es befindet sich noch in der originalen ( offenen ) PVC-Einschweisshülle, darunter sind Vorder- & Rückseite sehr schön und alle Kanten sind intakt und ohne Abrieb, allerleichtester Abrieb ist nur in der unteren rechten Ecke., die PVC-Hülle hat auf der Vorderseite einen Riss; insgesamt in mint-. Das PVC verursacht auf den Fotos einige Lichtreflexe, das sind keine Defekte. alle Platten habe ich professionell gereinigt und angehört (meist ganz, manchmal in Ausschnitten). Kommen mit neuer Außen- & Innenhülle !

Grading & Cleaning:

the record has been cleaned on my professional HANNL record cleaning machine

after that I playgraded it (completely or at least in parts) on my Rega Planar 9, Moving Coil cartridge by EINSTEIN:TU-3 Super Fine Line ( please consider that the playback might differ a bit depending on your own equipment )

I also visually graded the record in daylight, in normal artificial light & under a strong halogen lamp

only an unplayed record is mint, the highest grading for a used record is mint- ! My basic gradings are: mint – ex – vg

cleaned records are stored in a new pro innersleeve and they are placed in a PVC protection-sleeve

Shipping, Packing & Payment International ( = to all countries except Germany) :

IMPORTANT: pl. always wait for my personal invoice – ignore the automatic eBay invoice with wrong shipping costs !!!

your shipping costs for this normal-weight LP are : 6.00 € ( = ca. 8.20 US $ depending on the official exchange rate after the auction's end )

all shippings include: 1. priority / airmail 2. registration / tracking-number 3. full insurance for free :

I pay the complete expensive insurance from my own money - You pay only for the standard registered airmail shipping

supersafe packing with prof. recordmailers, extra-cardboard & bubblepaper (for free: I pay the complete packing-material)

speedy shipping within 2 days

paypal is accepted from everywhere, Eurobanktransfer is possible from countries with Eurocurrency

shipping-rate up to 500 Gram ( = 1 normal-weight LP ) is : 6.00 € ( = ca. 8.20 US $ )

shipping-rate up to 1000 Gram ( = 1 heavy-weight LP up to ca. 3 or 4 LPs ) is : 9.75 ( = ca. 13.30 US $ )

shipping-rate for Non-EU countries up to 2000 Gram ( = ca. 4 to 7 LPs ) is : 19.40 ( = ca. 26,50 US $ )

shipping-rate for EU countries from 1001 up to 5000 Gram ( = ca. 10 to 15 LPs, maybe a few more ) is : 16.99

Versand,Verpackung & Bezahlung BRD :

Wichtig beim Kauf von mehr als 1 LP: bitte immer auf meine persönliche Rechnung vom Tag nach Auktionsende warten bevor bezahlt wird ! eBay versendet automatische Rechnungen in denen der Portbetrag zu hoch ist !

innnerhalb der BRD kostet versicherter Schallplatten-Versand : 3,80 Euro für 1 bis 2 LPs - ab 3 LPs kostet es 4,50 Euro

die LPs werden sehr sicher mit Dämmpappen & Luftpolsterfolie verpackt und kommen in neuen & stabilen LP-Versandkartons ( keine „Warensendungs“-Kartons ) Den Materialwert von ca. 1,00 € pro Sendung trage ich, der Käufer zahlt nur den reinen Portopreis

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