AMON DUUL ||‎ – Yeti , Liberty Germany Edit.1970y.( N.Mint ) Rare Kraut!!!

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Amon Düül II Profile: Amon Düül II was born of an artistic and political community’s scission called  (who recorded during the late sixties a long live session made around collective and free musical improvisations). The band emerged from the underground German rock scene with a very original and eccentric album called "Phallus Dei" (1969). The musicians who participated to this delirious and psychedelic experience were (among others)  (ex ), the front woman and singer ,  on the guitars... with guests as Holger Trützsch who plays tribal percussions (original member of ). Then almost with the same musicians the band recorded the seminal "Yeti" (1970). An album in a similar vein than the previous but more accomplished (with a couple of structured songs always with numerous pieces of epic improvisations). "Yeti" will launch Amon Düül II career outside Germany. The same year the bass guitarist Dave Anderson leaves the band to join . 

‎– Yeti Label: ‎– LBS 83 359/60 X Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Album, Repress
Country: Germany Released: 1971 Genre: Electronic, Rock Style: Krautrock, Psychedelic Rock Tracklist
Soap Shop Rock
A1.a Burning Sister 3:41 A1.b Halluzination Guillotine 3:05 A1.c Gulp A Sonata 0:45 A1.d Flesh-Coloured Anti-Aircraft Alarm 5:53 A2 She Came Through The Chimney 3:56 B1 Archangels Thunderbird 3:30 B2 Cerberus 4:18 B3 The Return Of Ruebezahl 1:35 B4 Eye-Shaking King 6:37 B5 Pale Gallery 2:11 C Yeti (Improvisation) 18:00 D1 Yeti Talks To Yogi (Improvisation) 6:06 D2 Sandoz In The Rain (Improvisation) Bass – *Flute – *Guitar, Vocals – * 8:55 Companies, etc. Record Company – Record Company – Printed By – Pressed By – Credits Bass – Bongos, Vocals – Composed By, Arranged By, Lyrics By – Design [Cover Design] – Drums – Engineer – * Guitar, Twelve-String Guitar, Vocals – Guitar, Twelve-String Guitar, Vocals, Violin – Musical Assistance [With A Little Help Of] – Organ – * Producer – , Vocals, Tambourine – * Notes Note: This release has LIBERTY / UA GMBH, MÜNCHEN on label rims on record 1 and UNITED ARTISTS RECORDS GMBH MÜNCHEN on record 2.

So this version is a repress, similar to , just a bit earlier.
The date is not perfectly clear, but until 1971 Liberty/UA GmbH was still used frequently.
In some cases also into 1973 and even later.

Printing date on inner sleeve indicates that this is a transitional release: 6.70 (week 6 of 1970) for sleeve 1 and 28.70 for sleeve 2

Printed in Germany by C. v. d. Linnepe, Lüdenscheid

On spine text is: AMON DÜÜL II . JETI . LIBERTY LBS 83 359/60 X
Cat# on backside of sleeve "83 359/60 X"

Released with a laminated gatefold cover

Track duration for track B4 listed on center label as 5:37 instead of 6:37 on cover Barcode and Other Identifiers Rights Society: GEMA Other (Cat.# disc 1): LBS 83 359 X Other (Cat.# disc 2): LBS 83 360 X Matrix / Runout (Label side A): LBS 83 359 A Matrix / Runout (Label side B): LBS 83 359 B Matrix / Runout (Label side C): LBS 83 360 A Matrix / Runout (Label side D): LBS 83 360 B Matrix / Runout (A-side, stamped): C 83359 A-1 Made in Germany Matrix / Runout (B-side, stamped): C 83359 B-1 Made in Germany Matrix / Runout (C-side, stamped): C 83360 A-2 Made in Germany Matrix / Runout (D-side, stamped): C 83360 B-1 Made in Germany