BLACK SABBATH-BLACK SABBATH -1969-ORIGINAL PRESS 1970 UK-VERTIGO-VO6/847903VTY. Matrices A-1/B-1. A mega rare original of the second press of the first album, which is one of the icons in rock music. Black Sabbath is the debut album by the rock band Black Sabbath, released in the United Kingdom on February 13, 1970. On March 7, 1970, the album rose to #8 on the UK Albums Chart and to #23 on the Billboard 200. Recorded in just three days (8 hours of studio work) and costing the band only 1,200 pounds, Black Sabbath's debut album is now considered a heavy metal classic. In the IGN Music list (Top 25 Metal Albums), he is in 13th place (the band's second album, Paranoid, is second here, behind Master of Puppets (Metallica)).
Vinyl record in top condition - NMINT/ARCHIVE Matte flip cover in top condition with conditional storage traces - NMINT/ARCHIVE. Labels in top condition - NMINT/ARCHIVE.
Lot sold: 26000 ₽
BARCLAY JAMES HARVEST-OCTOBER 1976-THE FIRST UK PRESS-POLYDOR-2442144.A rare British original of the cult prog band. Octoberon is the seventh studio album by English rock band Barclay James Harvest, released in 1976. Octoberon reached number 19 on the UK Albums chart; in Germany, the album reached number 40 and stayed for 197 weeks on the German albums chart. As of 2011, it ranks 6th on the list of the longest-running albums on the German album charts. ...more
Lot sold: 2500 ₽
Estimate: 5000—6000 ₽
STEVE VAI- PASSION AND WARFARE - 1990- FIRST PRESS UK-FFT- GRUB17. A rare British original. Passion and Warfare is the second studio album by guitarist Steve Vai, released on May 22, 1990 on Relativity and Epic Records. He received a gold certificate from the RIAA. Passion and Warfare was written based on a series of episodes of dreams that Vai had when he was younger, and in the album's guitar notes book Vai summarizes it this way: "Jimi Hendrix meets Jesus Christ at a party that Ben Hur arranged for Mel Blanc." It was all recorded at Mothership Studios in his Hollywood Hills home, a 1,600-square-foot (150 m2) building that also recorded his guitar parts for Whitesnake's 1989 album Slip of the Tongue. Whitesnake frontman David Coverdale has small spoken parts on the album; Coverdale, Adrian Vandenberg and Rudy Sarzo are credited with backing vocals. Vai claims that planning for the album began back in 1982, but was postponed after joining David Lee Roth's band and was not resumed until the breakup with Roth in 1989. ...more
Lot sold: 5100 ₽
Estimate: 8000—10000 ₽