Lot 54VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR-VITAL LIVE-1978-FIRST PRESS UK-CHARISMA-NMINT/NMINT

BOWIE, DAVID-STAGE (2 LP'S)-1978-FIRST PRESS UK-RCA- PL02913(2) A rare double concert by a British legend. Stage is the second live album by English musician David Bowie, recorded during the Isolar II Tour and released on RCA Records in 1978. The recording was made at concerts in Philadelphia, Providence, and Boston, USA, in late April and early May 1978. It mainly included material from Bowie's last studio albums at that time, "Station to Station", "Low" and "Heroes" (both 1977), but also contained five songs from "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars" (1972). In addition to Bowie's main band, consisting of Carlos Alomar, Dennis Davis and George Murray, the band included former Frank Zappa member Adrian Belew on guitar, Simon House from Hawkwind on electric violin, Roger Powell, best known for working with Todd Rundgren in the band Utopia, on keyboards and Sean Mays on piano, string ensemble and backing vocals. They all reunited the following year on Bowie's next studio album Lodger (1979). Stage was a commercial success. In the UK, she took 5th place in the charts and subsequently received a gold certificate from the British Phonogram Producers Association (BPI). It also reached number 44 on the US charts. ...more

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

STING-NOTHING LIKE THE SUN (2LP)-1987-FIRST GERMANY PRESS-A&M - 393912-1. ...A very rare original  Nothing Like the Sun is the second Studio album by British rock musician sting, was issued October 13, 1987. The name of the album was inspired by a line from the 130th sonnet of William Shakespeare "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun" Album won in the category "Best British album" at the Brit Awards in 1988. ...more

MILES DAVIS-AT CARNEGIE HALL-1962-THE FIRST PRESS (MONO) UK-CBS-BPG62655 . Matrices A-1L2/B-2L1. A very rare British original of an iconic jazz album  In this live performance, Davis performs with his permanent quintet, accompanied by Gil Evans and his 21-piece orchestra. The orchestra and the quintet perform excerpts from "Miles Ahead" and "Sketches of Spain" together, while the quintet itself performs both Davis originals and standards by Sonny Rollins and Ahmad Jamal, among others.  Although Davis and Evans have recorded several albums together, there have only ever been two live performances with both a quintet and an orchestra. To add to the album's rarity, the Carnegie Hall recordings feature several unique recordings: the only recording of the intro to "So What" orchestrated by Gil Evans and a version of "Spring Is Here" arranged by Evans. ...more

AC/DC-DIRTY DEEDS DONE DIRT CHEAP-1976-1977 ORIGINAL PRESS AUSTRALIA ALBERT PRODUCTIONS room APLP020. Very rare second press of iconic Australian group. The album blew the music market in Australia finishing in 4th place ,and in the US Billboard 200 - the 3rd place. ...more