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WARHORSE-WARHORSE-1970-THE FIRST UK PRESS-VERTIGO SWIRL-6360015. A mega rare original of the first album by the iconic British prog band.  Warhorse is a band formed by ex-Deep Purple bassist Nick Simper. The band existed from 1970 to 1974 (partial reunions in 1985, 2005). The band's sound was close to the style of the early Deep Purple.  After his forced departure from Deep Purple, Nick Simper started organizing a new band. Initially, he planned to involve well-known musicians Albert Lee and Mick Underwood in the collaboration, but this alliance did not take place. The new band was based on guitarist Jed Pack and drummer Mac Poole, musicians who played with Simper in the accompanying Marsha Hunt line—up. The new band also includes vocalist Ashley Holt and keyboardist Rick Wakeman. The band received the name "Iron Horse", which was soon changed to "Warhorse". Wakeman proved to be an unreliable partner and left the band in April, before the band had even made any recordings. Instead, keyboardist Frank Wilson was recruited into the band, with whom the debut demo "Miss Jane" was made. In 1970, the band signed a contract with Phonograms, a division of Vertigo Records, and began recording their debut album. The Warhorse album was released in November 1970. The song "St. Louis" (a cover of "Easybeats") was released as a single and was most popular with the public. The album itself was also a success, but mostly in continental Europe, in particular in Germany. The band toured extensively for the next year and a half. ...more

HENDRIX, JIMI-LIVE AT BERKELEY (2LP'S+BOOK) -1970-FIRST PRESS 2003 (LIMITED EDITION) UK/EU - MCA-B0001159-01. A very rare limited edition and numbered British original. Live at Berkeley is a live album by American rock musician Jimi Hendrix. It documents his second performance at the Berkeley Public Theater on May 30, 1970, and was released by MCA Records on September 16, 2003. Hendrix performed in Berkeley about a month after his The Cry of Love tour with bassist Billy Cox and drummer Mitch Mitchell. The setlist was pretty typical for the tour - a mix of popular tunes and some new material. "Hey Joe", "Foxey Lady", "Purple Haze" and "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" have been in Hendrix's concert repertoire since he first recorded them."Machine Gun" was released two months earlier on the live Band of Gypsys album, and "Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)" was in development for his planned fourth studio album. Excerpts of some of these songs were included in the 1971 concert film Jimi Plays Berkeley. ...more

TRAFFIC-JOHN BARLEYCORN MUST DIE-1970-FIRST PRESS UK-ISLAND- ILPS-9116 Matrices A/2 UAS 5504 A 6.3.70 RC sterling ,B/2 UAS 5504 B 6.3.70 AM sterling (A Dream!) A very rare British original of the iconic album. John Barleycorn Must Die is the fourth studio album by the British rock band Traffic, recorded between February and April 1970 and released in July of the same year by Island Records in the UK, United Artists Records in the USA and Polydor Records in Canada. It reached #5 on the Billboard 200 and received gold status (the band's first "golden disc"). The single "Empty Pages" from this album reached #74 on the Billboard Hot 100. In the musicians' homeland, in the UK, the album reached #11 on the UK Albums Chart. ...more

BLUE CHEER - BC#5 THE ORIGINAL HUMAN BEING- 1970-THE FIRST USA PRESS-PHILIPS-PHS-600347. A very rare American original of the cult prog-blues-psycho band. The Original Human Being is Blue Cheer's fifth album. It was released in 1970 and shows Blue Cheer exploring more psychedelic and laid‑back rock and roll with musical sections in several songs. There is a very unusual song for Blue Cheer in this album: "Babaji (Twilight Raga)", which makes extensive use of sitar and synthesizer. ...more

BENNY GOODMAN QUARTET MADE IN JAPAN -1965-THE FIRST UK-CAPITOL-T2282 PRESS. A rare British original of the iconic album.  In 1962, he toured widely in the USSR, gave concerts with his jazz band in Moscow (twice), Leningrad, Kiev, Tbilisi, Tashkent. In an interview, he told reporters that he was glad that the ban on jazz in the USSR had been lifted. The first performance took place on May 30 and, as a result of this trip, the Benny Goodman concert album was released in Moscow. In 1963, the RCA Victor studio hosted a reunion of the legendary Benny Goodman quartet of the 1930s (Goodman himself, Gene Krupa, Teddy Wilson and Lionel Hampton), and a year later the album recorded by them (called "Together Again!") again became one of the most popular albums and gave impetus to new ones on tour to Asia.  The album Made in japan was the result of these tours.  Recordings of some works of academic music (in particular, sonatas for clarinet and piano by Francis Poulenc together with Leonard Bernstein, as well as music by Bernstein himself, Johannes Brahms, Aaron Copland and Claude Debussy) belong to the same period of creativity. ...more