George Harrison Concert For Bangladesh 1st Press 1971 Factory Sample (Demo) Ex

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Artist or Band: George Harrison

Album Title: Concert For Bangladesh (Box Set)

Producer(s): George Harrison & Phil Spector

Cat Number: STCX 3385

Label/Format: Apple 

Country of Manufacture: UK

Track list: Side 1: George Harrison/Ravi Shankar; Bangla Dhun.

Side 2: Wah-Wah; My Sweet Lord; Awaiting On You All; That's The Way God Planned It.

Side 3: It Don't Come Easy; Beware Of Darkness; Introduction Of The Band; While My Guitar Gently Weeps.

Side 4: Medley (Jumpin Jack Flash and Young Blood); Here Comes The Sun.

Side 5: A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall; It Takes A Lot To Laugh/It Takes A Lot To Cry; Blowin' In The Wind; Mr. Tambourine Man; Just Like A Woman.

Side 6: Some Thing; Bangladesh.

Matrix Nos: Disc 1: STCX-1-3385-2 & STCX-6-3385-3; Disc 2: STCX-2-3385-3 & STCX-5-3385-3; Disc 3: STCX-3-3385-3 & STCX-4-3385-1

Stamper Codes: Disc 1: (Side 1) A & 1G (Side 6) 3 & J Disc 2: (Side 2) A & 3  (Side 5) C & 1G Disc 3: (Side 3) A & G (Side 4) 25

Other Etchings: Side 2: Has Pecko and Side 4: has Porky etched into the runout grooves.

Musicians: George Harrison: Vocals, Electric and Acoustic Guitars, Backing Vocals. Ravi Shankar: Sitar. Bob Dylan: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Harmonica. Leon Russell: Piano, Vocals, Bass, Backing Vocals. Ringo Starr: Drums, Vocals, Tambourine. Billy Preston: Hammond Organ, Vocals. Eric Clapton: Electric Guitar. Ali Akbar Khan: Sarod. Alla Rakha: Tabla. Kamala Chakravarty: Tambura

"The Band" Jesse Ed Davis: Electric Guitar. Klaus Voormann: Bass. Jim Keltner: Drums. Pete Ham: Acoustic Guitar. Tom Evans: Twelve-String Acoustic Guitar. Joey Molland: Acoustic Guitar.Mike Gibbins: Tambourine, Maracas. Don Preston: Electric Guitar, Vocals (on "Jumpin' Jack Flash"/"Young Blood" and "Bangladesh" only). Carl Radle: Bass (on "Jumpin' Jack Flash"/"Young Blood" only).The Hollywood Horns.

Brief Artist & Album Info:  "CONCERT FOR BANGLADESH" is a live triple album by George Harrison and celebrity friends, released on Apple Records in December 1971 in America and January 1972 in Britain. The album followed the two concerts of the same name, held on 1 August 1971 at New York's Madison Square Garden, featuring Harrison, Bob Dylan, Ravi Shankar, Ali Akbar Khan, Ringo Starr, Billy Preston, Leon Russell and Eric Clapton. The shows were a pioneering charity event, in aid of the homeless Bengali refugees of the Bangladesh Liberation War, and set the model for future multi-artist rock benefits such as Live Aid (1985) and the Concert for New York City (2001).

Co-produced by Phil Spector and featuring the latter's signature Wall of Sound in a live setting, the fundraiser album was delayed for three months due to protracted negotiations between Harrison and two record companies keen to protect their business interests, Capitol and Columbia/CBS. Besides the main performers, the musicians and singers on the recording include Badfinger, Jim Horn, Klaus Voormann, Alla Rakha, Jim Keltner, Jesse Ed Davis and Claudia Linnear. The box set's original packaging included a 64-page book containing photos from the concerts; the album cover, designed by Tom Wilkes, consisted of an image of a malnourished child sitting beside an empty food bowl.

On release, The Concert for Bangladesh was a major critical and commercial success, topping albums charts around the world, and went on to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in March 1973. Together with the 1972 Apple concert film directed by Saul Swimmer, the album gained Indian classical music its largest Western audience up until that time. The album was reissued in 2005, in remastered form, featuring a new cover.

Among the many words of acclaim that have been written about The Concert for Bangladesh since its release, author Tom Moon describes it as an album to play "whenever your faith in the power of music begins to wane". Sales of The Concert for Bangladesh continue to benefit the George Harrison Fund for UNICEF, which raised $1.2 million for children in the Horn of Africa, in a 2011 campaign marking the album's 40th anniversary.

is a Triple Album by George Harrison. Recorded and released in 1970, the album was George's first solo album since the break up of The Beatles in April that year, and his third solo album overall. It includes the hit singles "My Sweet Lord" " and "What Is Life", as well as songs such as "Isn't It A Pity" and the Title track that had been turned down for inclusion on releases by The Beatles. The album reflects the influence of Harrison's musical activities with artists such as Bob Dylan, The Band, Delaney & Bonnie and Billy Preston during 1968–70, and his growth as an artist beyond his supporting role to former bandmates John Lennon and Paul McCartney. All Things Must Pass introduced Harrison's signature sound, the Slide Guitar, and the spiritual themes that would be present throughout his subsequent solo work. The original vinyl release consisted of two LP's of songs and a third disc of informal jams, titled Apple Jam. Several commentators interpret Barry Feinstein's album cover photo, showing Harrison surrounded by four garden gnomes, as a statement on his independence from the Beatles.

Production began at London's Abbey Road Studios  in May 1970, with extensive overdubbing and mixing continuing through October. Among the large cast of backing musicians were Eric Clapton and Delaney & Bonnie's Friends band – three of whom formed Derek & The Dominos with Clapton during the recording – as well as Ringo Starr, Gary Wright, Preston, Klaus Voorman, John Barham, Badfinger and Pete Drake. The sessions produced a double album's worth of extra material, most of which remains unissued. 

During the final year of his life. George oversaw a successful reissue campaign to mark the 30th anniversary of the album's release. Following This reissue in March 2001, the set was certified six-times Platinum by the "Recording Industry Association Of America". Among it's appearances in "Critics' Best Album" lists All Things Must Pass was ranked 79th on "The Times" "The 100 Best Albums Of all Time" in 1993, while "Rolling Stone" currently places it 443rd on the magazine's "500 Greatest Of All Time". In January 2014, All Things Must Pass was inducted into the "Grammy Hall Of Fame"..

CONDITION

LABELS:

The  Six Apple Labels are ALL in SUPERB condition with Hardly any spindle wear or spider mark. There is No writing and All six labels are Unfaded.I would easily grade these as Excellent!!!!

VINYL:

All Six side play throughout absolutely brilliant with no Pops, Clicks or Jumps. The records still contains that glossy sheen though there are several very minimal surface to be seen, these in NO way interfere with the superb sound quality. This Album plays up to and  beyond its high visual grading with hardly anything of note to fault. It offers strong, distortion-free sound, all frequencies are sharp and clear – sound quality is very high with a wide dynamic range and very detailed sound. A typical polished production from George Harrison & Phil Spector. Minimal surface sound and no tracking issues. This play-grade proved a real pleasure when playing this fast disappearing Apple album, this being the first example I have had for some time, and possibly the best all-round one for me yet. It will prove quite difficult to find a significantly better copy and merits a very strong recommendation. I would grade both sides as Very Good++/Excellent!!!!

COVER: 

The album's packaging was designed by Camouflage Productions partners Tom Wilkes and Barry Feinstein, the same team responsible for All Things Must Pass, rock music's first boxed triple album. Along with Alan Pariser, both Wilkes and Feinstein had taken stills photographs at Madison Square Garden, at the soundcheck on 31 July and during the concerts the next day, the results filling the 64-page full-colour booklet accompanying the original album. Also used as the Concert for Bangladesh movie poster, the album-cover photograph, the "haunting" image of a malnourished young child sitting naked behind a wide, empty food bowl, author Bruce Spizer writes was a still taken from news agency film footage and airbrushed extensively by Wilkes. Having created the provocative, headline-filled picture sleeve for Harrison's "Bangladesh" single earlier in the year, Wilkes was keen to capture "real human compassion" in this cover and poster image.

The booklet's back-cover picture showed an open guitar case filled with food and medical supplies, below a copy of the cheque for the Madison Square Garden box-office takings. Wilkes intended this image to convey a sense of hope, signifying the completion of the task that the participants had set out to achieve for the refugees from East Pakistan.

The three vinyl LPs and booklet were housed inside a deep orange-coloured box. The 1991 CD release placed the cover photo on a white background, however, replicating the front of the original album booklet. As commentators noted in 1991, the necessary downsizing to CD dimensions meant that much of the effectiveness of the booklet photography was lost, not least because the contents had also been trimmed down to just 36 pages.

Further changes to Camouflage's design concept occurred for the 2005 CD remaster and DVD release. In 1971, Capitol executives had been concerned that the cover image was too "depressing" and uncommercial, according to Jon Taplin, who served as production manager at the Madison Square concerts; Harrison had been resolute, however, and so Wilkes's design was used. In October 2005, four years after Harrison's death, the remastered Concert for Bangladesh releases appeared with a photo of him on the cover, although the special-edition DVD retained the original image.

The Boxed Set has the all important Factory Sample sticker attached to the top right had side of the Front.

The Boxed Outer has absolutely no Rips or Writing anywhere. The Box is Very Clean with hardly any signs of Aging. All Four corners are in Perfect order with No edge wear. The Spine is Perfect with all of the Printing readable. The Only things that spoil this is that there is a tiny Split (Not Tear)to the Top left edge, there is also a very small Tear to the bottom edge. Also there are a couple of Creases (Not Splits) to the Front and Several more to the Rear. Inside the Box is in Perfect order. This Box Set is incredibly difficult to find in Ex++ condition simply because of it's design and age. However I would be happy enough to grade it as Very Good++!!!!

COVER SUMMARY: Not seen often, this one is in lovely condition with only gentle clues of age, any blemishes mostly light. This classic Box Set should please many collectors.

INNER SLEEVE: The Three Correct inners that came with this Album have  hardly any creasing and all edges are unsplit I would grade these sleeves as Very Good++/Excellent !!!!

All 1st Pressings had came with a 64 page Book with Pictures from the Concert and printed in the USA. The Book is Unmarked. All of the Pages are in place as are the Original staples holding it together. I would grade this Book as Very Good++/Excellent!!!!

Album Played For Grading: I play/grade ALL records I offer before submitting, I also play them in their entirety unless clearly stated otherwise. I do NOT play snippets or joining grooves to check for sound quality and quietness. I play from the beginning to end. I use a Linn LP12 Sondek turntable with Ittok Mk II arm and Ortofon Quintet Black moving coil cartridge and Linn Lingo, with my Linn system and Forest Totem Speakers. This system is guaranteed  to pick up any distortion or interference within the sound.

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