Lot 35JOHN LEE HOOKER-THE HEALER-1989-FIRST PRESS UK/EU -SILVERTONE-NMINT/NMINT

VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR-THE QUIET ZONE-1977-FIRST UK PRESS-CHARISMA-CAS1131. Of The Matrix A-1/B-2. Rare original cult British prog group. The Quiet Zone / The Pleasure Dome is the eighth Studio album by the British rock band Van der Graaf Generator, released 2 September 1977. The last Studio recording until the reunification of the team in 2005. In 1976 the group left two musicians of the classic lineup of Van der Graaf Generator: Hugh Banton and David Jackson (who, however, participation in the recording of two tracks). To replace them came the former in the group until 1970, NIC Potter and Graham Smith. ...more

ARGENT-IN DEEP-1973-FIRST UK PRESS-EPIC-EPC65475. Of The Matrix A-1/B-1 Porky/Pesco. Rare British original prog band from England.In Deep is the fourth Studio album by Argent, originally released on Epic Records in 1973. It is the original full-length recording of "God Given Rock and Roll to You", which reached number 18 in the UK charts (U.S. No. 114), when it was released in edited form as a single later that year. Later it was remade by Kiss as "God gave rock and roll to you II" for the film Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey in 1991. ...more

JOHN ENTWISTLE'S 'OX'- MAD DOG-1975 - UK FIRST PRESS-DECCA-TXS-R 114. Of The Matrix A-1/B-1. Very rare British original as a complete set ( large poster 95 cm x 65 cm) bass guitarist and vocalist of the legendary band THE WHO. Mad Dog is the fourth solo Studio album from The Who bassist John Entwistle, and also his last for six years and the debut album from his band John Entwistle's Ox. ...more

NAZARETH-CINEMA-1986 - FIRST PRESS UK/EU HOLLAND-VERTIGO-830300-1. Rare original the only edition on vinyl in Europe. The sixteenth album by the Scottish rock band Nazareth, released in February 1986 on Vertigo in Europe and on A&M Records in America. In the Cinema the group can say, turned to his roots, to the good old hard rock that and fell in love with in the seventies. The album almost entirely consists of the numbers that show Nazareth this side. The material for the Cinema is half of the songs is a collective work, half from the works of Manny Charlton. This all - sturdy hard rock that does honor to Nazareth to get back to the music at the end of the 1980s almost no one did. ...more

KING CRIMSON - IN THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING-1969-ORIGINAL PRESS 1975-HOLLAND-ISLAND-88166XAT. In the Court of the Crimson King is the debut Studio album by the British band King Crimson, released in 1969. The album ranked fifth in the list of Top 25 best albums of progressive rock version Progarchives.com. This drive has had a big and unusually strong influence on the development of psychedelic rock, progressive rock and heavy metal. The album was recorded with exceptional musicality, the poetics of texts. While some rock groups (e.g., Pink Floyd) were prone to writing long songs, while others tried to hold in a rock song freedom jazz forms (Frank Zappa), in the Court of the Crimson King group used a bizarre poetry blakowski nightmares, visions, and premonitions. The group is always attributed to so-called genre of "intelligent heavy metal", and their very first album, created this genre, and also advanced music idea forward on several fronts. The album opens with the song "21st Century Schizoid Man", which is characterized by the use of heavily distorted vocals, deliberately monotonous, mechanical rhythm and piercingly loud saxophone and guitar. The rhythm is specified as the first song, suddenly gives way to a soft melodic calm "I Talk to the Wind". Air psychedelic piece "Moonchild" is completed with free form improvisation. In "Epitaph" and the title "The Court of The Crimson King" " the group used in the orchestration of the Mellotron. ...more