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EMERSON LAKE & PALMER Brian Salad Surgery 1973 1st US/UK PRESSING NEAR MINT EMERSON LAKE & PALMER
Brian Salad Surgery

1973 MANTICORE (MC 66669 FIRST UK/USA PRESSING
This is the first UK release of the album, pressed in the USA by Atlantic Records
This 1st pressing was released on November 19, 1973 in both the US and the UK at the same time
US copies have -F stampers on both sides, UK copies have G- stampers on both sides (this one)
the first sleeves also have the Manticore logo on the back of the cover, "Manticore" misspelled "Manicore" which was corrected for the 1974 100% UK pressing
AN EXCEPTIONAL ORIGINAL COPY WHICH LOOKS UNPLAYED AND SOUNDS LIKE NEW

MATRIX: ST - MC - 732991 - G AT / ST - MC - 732992 - G AT
HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL H.R. Geiger FOLD-OUT COVER PRINTED IN THE UK
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL DIE-CUT SIX PANEL POSTER ALSO PRINTED IN THE UK
AND PLAIN WHITE DIE-CUT INNER SLEEVE WITH UK PATENT NUMBER AND "MADE IN ENGLAND" PRINTED IN GREY

Emerson, Lake & Palmer's most successful and well-realised album and their most ambitious as a group, as well as their loudest, Brain Salad Surgery is also their most electronic sounding one.
The main focus, thanks to the 30 minute three-part "Karn Evil 9," is sci-fi rock, approached with a volume and vengeance that stretched the art rock audience's tolerance to its outer limit, but also managed to appeal to the metal audience in ways that little of Trilogy did.
Indeed, "Karn Evil 9" is the piece and the place where Keith Emerson and his keyboards finally matched in both music and flamboyance the larger-than-life guitar sound of Jimi Hendrix.
Pete Sinfield's lyrics, while not up to his best King Crimson-era standard, were better than anything the group had to work with previously, and Greg Lake pulled out all the stops on his heaviest singing voice in handling them, coming off a bit like Peter Gabriel in the process.
The songs (except for the throwaway "Benny the Bouncer") are also among their best work -- the group's arrangement of Sir Charles Hubert Parry's setting of William Blake's "Jerusalem" manages to be reverent yet rocking, while Emerson's adaptation of Alberto Ginastera's music in "Toccata" outstrips even "The Barbarian" and "Knife Edge" from the first album as a distinctive and rewarding reinterpretation of a piece of serious music and Greg Lake's "Still...You Turn Me On" is his last great ballad

Side One:
Jerusalem (2:44)
Toccata (7:23)
Still... You Turn Me On (2:53)
Benny The Bouncer (2:21)
Karn Evil 9 (1st Impression - Part 1) (8:44)
Side Two:
Karn Evil 9 (1st Impression - Part 2) (4:47)
Karn Evil 9 (2nd Impression) (7:07)
Karn Evil 9 (3rd Impression) (9:03)

LABELS: MINT
An immaculate set of labels - no spindle traces or any sign the record has ever been played
VINYL Visual: NEAR MINT
Both sides shine like new with nothing but the normal in-vinyl pressing blemishes of North American pressings and a couple of light and inconsequential brush marks
VINYL Audio: NEAR MINT
A superb, practically untouched copy which plays like new with nothing but the (very) occasional low-level background tick, absolutely nothing really
SLEEVE: EXCELLENT
An exceptionally clean, fresh example of the fold out cover.
Slight storage rub on the edges and a bump to the bottom corner but the fold-out sections are crisp and sharp
POSTER: MINT
Practically untouched and undamaged on any of the die-cut windows

POST & PACKING:
A PROTECTIVE POLY SLEEVE, NEW ANTI-STATIC LINERS, QUALITY BOX (NOT ENVELOPE) MAILER AND AMPLE STIFFENERS ARE ALWAYS USED TO ENSURE THAT YOUR RECORD ARRIVES SAFELY
UK: £5.00 (Recorded Delivery)
EUROPE: Airmail: £15.00 (International Signed For delivery)
INTERNATIONAL: Airmail: £20.00 (International Signed For delivery)
DUE TO THE CURRENT CIRCUMSTANCES I WILL ONLY BE POSTING ONCE A WEEK ON FRIDAY

Combined Post: Additional records £1 (UK) £2 (Europe including Russia) £3 (International)
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