Deep Purple: Shades of Deep Purple. German early 80’s? Odeon/EMI Electrola

	£		25
	$		34

Deep Purple:  Shades of Deep Purple. German early 80’s? Odeon/EMI Electrola, re-issue Vinyl album.

EMI/Odeon/ RTB: Cat No.  1C064-04 175

Difficult to establish exact release date but has the feel of  a late 70’s/early 80’s issue.

Our chums at Discogs noted the following:

Companies, etc.

• Pressed By – EMI Electrola
• Printed By – 4P Nicolaus GMBH

Credits

• Engineer – Barry Ainsworth
• Producer – Derek Lawrence

Notes

Dedicated to Bobby, Chris, Dave and Ravel.

(p) 1968
The writer credits at B4 are obviously wrongly credited to Deep Purple.
Version with the classic blue label design, so not to be confused with the later version with the same cat#, but green labels that state Made in ECC at the perimeter text.
EMI textured logo on the back.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Label Code: LC 0287
• Rights Society: GEMA
• Matrix / Runout (Side A runout stamped): 04175-A-1
• Matrix / Runout (Side B runout stamped): 1C062-04175-B-1

When originally bought (pre-loved for country/label variant) played once (10.7.89) to check audio quality which was noted as:

A.   VG (-).

B.   VG (-).

just filed away, only to now surface.

Sleeve. Overall, very good condition with just lightest of edge and corner scuffs, light peripheral pinches.

Main obvious issues are:

Rear some peripheral grubbiness., very slight ring wear in the white areas, so not particularly noticeable.

Front top right hand corner, me adhesive rede and pen indentations (no print loss) where former price label remove.

Discs: Looks overall, very good with bright glossy lustre, however, see audio rating above.

Only real visual indicator for this appears to be a light  through ‘prelude’, otherwise visually would normally have graded as EX. I can only assume, as memory banks empty, that the overall grading related to a noisy pressing?? as no mention made by your scribe of specific scratches.

Starting bid reflects this.

Selling on behalf of my Dad (who supplied all the info) from his personal collection, from the olden days when he collected vinyl.

I aim to use recycled packaging when appropriate.

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A few words about the vinyl grading.

I try to be as honest as possible, but all grades are based upon an experienced but ultimately subjective visual inspection, trying to identify and highlight obvious issues.

Back in the day whilst my Dad purchased much of the vinyl new, as he expanded his collection, (eventually running into a few thousand discs) hence many only played once, inevitably he was drawn to second hand (pre-loved) copies of certain discs, including the rarer original 1970’s issue boots.

As you will appreciate, otherwise you wouldn’t be reading this or looking at the listing, the nature of many of these live/unofficial recordings meant that original production standards were not necessarily a top priority, with occasional mastering/pressing faults occurring.

Similarly with any second hand vinyl which in some cases is almost 50 years old they will potentially exhibit aural signs of having been played, sometimes a fair bit..these are not mint, new unplayed discs (unless stated).

The attraction for my Dad was either obtaining the different variations of an issue or otherwise unavailable rare recordings…its called collecting!

When playing vinyl my Dad had a Technics SL1800 turntable with Ortfon cartridge, so no thrashing and grinding on an old  fidelity UA4! (early 70’s starter bedroom lo-fi, crank it up ?).

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