1969 Orig ROLLING STONES BLEED + POSTER Brian Jones

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                      1969  CLEAN ORIGINAL   

COMPLETE WITH CUSTOM INNER SLEEVE And GROUP POSTER

   THE ROLLING STONES

           Let It Bleed

\                              USA - (blue w/silver lettering) London Records - NPS 4

CLEAN...Original 1969 first pressing vinyl, complete with custom pink inner sleeve and:

         > > > cool large STONES poster included 

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The album's opener, "Gimme Shelter," with its insinuating guitar introduction, leads us decisively out of Flower Power and into a world where rape and murder are "just a shot away," and the Devil of BANQUET is very much alive and taking names. There's a nod to seminal influence Robert Johnson, whose "Love in Vain" is a mandolin-accompanied highlight. “Midnight Rambler” is one of the hardest songs the Stones has ever done. Great song about the Boston Strangler in the early '60s. One of the last songs with Brian Jones. Great guitar work and autoharp. You got to love it. The climax arrives in the form of "You Can't Always Get What You Want," bearing references to the fallout of the Swinging London era. LET IT BLEED finds the Stones brimming with musical confidence and artistic inspiration.

Although they had begun the recording of "You Can't Always Get What You Want" in May 1968, before Beggars Banquet had been released, recording for Let It Bleed began in earnest in February 1969 and would continue sporadically until November. Brian Jones performs on only two tracks, playing the autoharp on "You Got the Silver" and guitar on "Midnight Rambler". His replacement, Mick Taylor, plays guitar on two tracks, "Country Honk" and "Live With Me". Keith Richards, who had already shared vocal duties with Mick Jagger on "Connection", "Something Happened to Me Yesterday", and "Salt of the Earth", sang his first solo lead vocal on a Rolling Stones recording with "You Got the Silver".

The album has been called a great summing up of the dark underbelly of the 1960s. Let It Bleed is the second of the Stones' run of four studio LPs that are generally regarded as among their greatest achievements artistically. The other three albums are Beggars Banquet (1968), Sticky Fingers (1971), and Exile on Main Street (1972).

The album is often thought to be a response to Let It Be by The Beatles; though the Beatles would not release either the song or the album of that name until 1970, the major recording sessions had taken place in January 1969, prior to the majority of the Let It Bleed sessions, and it was generally known that the project existed. Theories vary as to whether the title was making fun of the Beatles' misplaced optimism and inability to complete their own album, or was an expression of solidarity with a recording process that had been just as taxing as the Stones'.

Released in December, Let It Bleed reached #1 in the UK (temporarily knocking The Beatles' Abbey Road out of the top slot) and number 3 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart in the US, where it eventually went double platinum.

Let It Bleed

Love In Vain

Midnight Rambler

Gimme Shelter

You Got The Silver

You Can't Always Get What You Want

Live With Me

Monkey Man

Country Honk

CONDITION:

The cover: strong and stiff all over..."EX" (excellent) other than a little 'ding' in one corner it's still a top rated artifact from '69 in great collectible condition with no shelf wear, no bends, no writing and no split seams.

The vinyl is all glossy clean on both sides "EX" (excellent) to M- plays clean ...both London labels are clean....

Poster is minty clean...no pin or tack holes and crisp!

      A cool addition to anyone's music library!

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All imperfections are noted both cover & record