DEEP PURPLE Deep Purple 1969 UK HARVEST 1st PRESS A1/B1, 1/G 1/G MINT
DEEP PURPLE Deep Purple 1969 UK HARVEST 1st PRESS A1/B1, 1/G 1/G MINT
DEEP PURPLE
Deep Purple
1969 UK Harvest (SHVL 759) FIRST PRESSING
BEAUTIFUL COPY AND FINAL UPGRADE (another one from the selection I am listing, all from the same original owner. All are in barely played condition and have been carefully stored in a record box for the past 50+ years. Better copies you couldn't wish for and collections like this are now becoming almost impossible to find)
PRESSED WITH THE FIRST HARVEST LABELS, NO EMI BOX AND "THE GRAMOPHONE CO. LTD." RIM TEXT
MATRIX: SHVL 759 A-1 / SHVL 759 B-1
MOTHERS/STAMPERS: 1/G 1/G (one of the first off the press)
HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL OUTER LAMINATED GATEFOLD COVER “Printed and made by Ernest J. Day & Co. Ltd., London”
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL PLAIN WHITE INNER SLEEVE
Deep Purple is highly prized by fans of progressive rock, and for good reason. The group was going through a transition -- original lead singer Rod Evans and bassist Nick Simper would be voted out of the lineup soon after the album was finished (although they weren't told about it until three months later), organist Jon Lord and guitarist Ritchie Blackmore having perceived limitations in their work in terms of where each wanted to take the band. And between Lord's ever-greater ambitions toward fusing classical and rock and Blackmore's ever-bolder guitar attack, both of which began to coalesce with the session for Deep Purple in early 1969, the group managed to create an LP that combined heavy metal's early, raw excitement, intensity, and boldness with progressive rock's complexity and intellectual scope, and virtuosity on both levels.
On "The Painter," "Why Didn't Rosemary?," and, especially, "Bird Has Flown," they strike a spellbinding balance between all of those elements, and Evans' work on the latter is one of the landmark vocal performances in progressive rock. "April," a three-part suite with orchestral accompaniment, is overall a match for such similar efforts by the Nice as the "Five Bridges Suite," and gets extra points for crediting its audience with the patience for a relatively long, moody developmental section and for including a serious orchestral interlude that does more than feature a pretty tune, exploiting the timbre of various instruments as well as the characteristics of the full ensemble. Additionally, the band turns in a very successful stripped-down, hard rock version of Donovan's "Lalena," with an organ break that shows Lord's debt to modern jazz as well as classical training. In all, amid all of those elements -- the orchestral accompaniment, harpsichord embellishments, and backward organ and drum tracks -- Deep Purple holds together astonishingly well as a great body of music.
This is one of the most bracing progressive rock albums ever, and a successful vision of a musical path that the group might have taken but didn't
Side 1:
Chasing Shadows(5:32)
Blind(5:21)
Lalena(5:02)
Fault Line - The Painter(5:34)
In Need(7:53)
Side 2:
Why Didn't Rosemary?(5:00)
Bird Has Flown(5:25)
April(12:20)
LABELS: NEAR MINT
Clean, unmarked labels which show very little sign of use
VINYL Visual: NEAR MINT
Both surfaces shine like new with just one superficial mark on Track One Side One but this no effect on the sound
VINYL Audio: MINT
Plays perfectly throughout with nothing to fault
SLEEVE: MINT
The gatefold cover is as crisp, clean, sharp and fresh as the day it was made
POST & PACKING:
A PROTECTIVE POLY SLEEVE, 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 Tracked)
INTERNATIONAL: Airmail: £25.00 (International Tracked)
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Combined Post: Additional records £2 (UK) £3 (Europe) £5 (International)
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