Sold Date: December 1, 2019
Start Date: November 24, 2019
Final Price: £380.00 (GBP)
Bid Count: 33
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PINK FLOYD -

A Saucerful of Secrets

Columbia SX 6258

1ST UK PRESS machined matrices

XAX 3633-1 / 3634-1

Mother stampers :  "M" and "R"

The Gramophone Co. rim wording

THE FIRST THING TO POINT OUT IS THAT THERE IS NOT ONE JOT OF DISTORTION AT ANY POINT AND THUS NO GROOVE WEAR. CLEARLY PLAYED ON A SYSTEM THAT HAS A CORRECTLY WEIGHTED AND UNWORN STYLUS

A CRISP CLEAN MONO SOUND THAT IS JUST PURE FIRST PRESS

NO BACKGROUND CRACKLE WHATSOEVER, AND CERTAINLY NO LOUD CLICKS

THE MONO REPRODUCTION IS JUST MAGNIFICENT, AND THERE IS JUST THE OCCASIONAL LIGHT BIT OF STATIC LIKE VINYL NOISE HERE AND THERE, HEARD ONLY IN THE QUIETEST OF SPOTS.

I CAN'T SAY THAT I HEARD ANY MORE THAN A COUPLE OF RANDOM LITTLE DUST POPS THROUGH THE ENTIRE PLAY

I AM MORE THAN HAPPY TO GRADE THIS INCREDIBLE VINYL'S AUDIO AS EXCELLENT TO NEAR MINT!!!  

Thick, heavyweight vinyl regarded as the 'finest' and most true encapsulation of this historical recording was used for the first pressings - they were pressed direct from the original master plate. As a result of them coming straight from the masters, nothing even gets close to them today. They play with a deep clear warmth and the sound has to be heard to be believed! The detail and clarity is nothing short of stunning.

 PINK FLOYD - A SAUCERFUL OF SECRETS – STUNNING - 1st EVER ORIGINAL UK PRESSING and 1st EVER ORIGINAL UK 'BLUE/BLACK LABELS

  Great Playing Record! Great Audio and Cover. Original UK PRESS A fantastic 1st ever Complete Pressing in Superb investment condition throughout!!!

With ORIGINAL ULTRA RARE 1st Press Flipback sleeve also  retains its original advertising inner sleeve!!!

Matrix Press - SX 6258  XAX 3633-1 and XAX 3634-1 earliest EVER matrix version. 

This is a rare and hugely collectable 1st ever UK press of their classic second psychedelic album with Syd still present on a few tracks. These mono pressings were the 1st ever variant and taken off the market almost immediately, being released in extremely small numbers. Finding this album in this wonderful condition is very rare indeed and makes this a very special chance to own a genuinely rare collectors pressing in TOP condition. This also comes with its original 1st Press  inner sleeve.

A brilliant package, and an ultimate collectable, getting rarer by the day!

 HOLY GRAIL PSYCH/PROG LP  ESPECIALLY IN THIS GREAT CONDITION!  PLAYS AWESOME ON EACH SIDE!!! AS YOU CAN SEE THE COVER IS IN GREAT CONDITION, SEE PICS!  TRY TO FIND ANOTHER COPY LIKE THIS ONE!!!  A FANTASTIC COLLECTOR'S COPY! COMES WITH THE ORIGINAL 1968 INNER SLEEVE IN EX CONDITION!

Vinyl: EX. A super copy!!! I have played this in full> There are NO jumps, NO clicks and NO sticks!!! It still retains a beautiful glossy sheen. Even under an intense light it looks great with only a few wispy hairline traces. The audio is stunning all the way and this album sounds fantastic. All tracks play with strong gusto and the channel separation is just awesome! It totally went under the radar and is now extremely scarce especially as a first issue on the extremely collectable blue/black Columbia label. This is the best I have seen or heard ever!!  

 I've always regarded A Saucerful of Secrets to be a classic psychedelic rock album, with a lot of variety of sounds and writing approaches, and a very progressive album structure. There's "Jugband Blues", another totally unique Syd Barrett song that sounds almost nothing like anything on The Piper At the Gates of Dawn, the opening "Let There Be More Light", with its exciting ride cymbal and bass propulsion that gives way to a laid back, stony verse/dramatic blast chorus alternation, "Corporal Clegg", a Waters song that shows he had a penchant for wittily and effectively speaking out against war early on, two very memorable Wright songs ("Remember a Day" and "See-Saw") that both serve as great examples of his sombre, and vivid style that always seemed to vary just slightly with each song, and the title track, a highly spacey instrumental, and the beginning of a long string of extended compositions by the band that would merge improvisational atmospheres with deceptively complex writing structures that probably served as wonderful accompaniments to head trips for many new to the psychedelic scene in the 60's and early 70's. I would imagine they'd probably still serve as that today as well. David Gilmour's guitar style has evolved very gracefully through Pink Floyd's and his solo career, and at this point, he sounds very much like Syd Barrett, employing chillingly similar delay and reverb shapes and spacey slide freak-outs, as he was supposedly meant to be a direct replacement for him on stage and learned all the orginal parts for the songs on the first album, but there are some places where he sounds like no one else, including himself on any other albums, like the extremely loud wailing explosions in "Corporal Clegg," and legendarily speaking, both Gilmour and Barrett played on the hypnotic and suspense fully quiet "Set the Controls For the Heart of the Sun." Rick Wright had also grown as a keyboardist, adding delicate and symphonic piano runs and some very cool warped effects to some of the organ parts. Norman Smith's excellently psych production heightens the experience of all of these sounds, and even though the band is said to resent the space rock label often given to them, their second album is one of the greatest in the genre. It is also here that Pink Floyd start to make use of their supply of multiple lead vocalists, a strength that would be a defining characteristic for them for the duration of their discography. (review from: progarchives.com)

 Sleeve: EX. Front laminated sleeve with flipbacks. This is of course the original  sleeve with the mono cat. number, not the later stereo that is often married to the vinyl by dealers!!! In lovely condition really considering that this sleeve is so very prone to extensive wear,  the opening is still nice and crisp and is a strong indicator that this LP has not been handled much and has been well preserved in its protective polythene sleeve. The opening is super crisp and shows it has been looked after very well. The edges have only light storage wear, the pictures tell all. The spine is 100%. A couple of tiny creases as per the pictures.

Labels: EX. No writing, only light spindle traces.

This is a unique investment opportunity!!! This album hardly sold at all. Finding this album in any condition at all is nearly impossible so late in the day. Condition is what counts and this album really delivers, an upgrade for most collectors. A very hard album to find in any condition these days, leave alone in this EX condition. This album is only going to go one way ... up and up ... until it will be totally unavailable at all for a reasonable price. How many would be left??? But in this great condition ....? Golddust!!

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