MINTY 1970 ORIG SMALL FACES FIRST STEP RONNIE WOOD ROD STEWART 1st LP TOP

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  CLEAN 1970 first pressing CLASSIC = FIRST STEWART/FACES LP GROOVES

                    THE SMALL FACES

              FIRST STEP                 

                    USA -  olive green Warner brothers 1851

CLEAN....Original 1970 first pressing on the old olive green Warner Brothers label and a thick gatefold cover ...the 'revamped' Small Faces with Ron Wood & Ron Stewart who came over from the mighty Jeff Beck Group...

"First Step" is one of their best ... featuring the phenomenal "FLYING", "WICKED MESSENGER", "THREE BUTTON HAND ME DOWN" "PLYNTH" and more ... rocked-out to the maximum... 

The drums! This album is all about the drums. Kenny Jones was let loose on this 10 song album in a way that he never would be again. If you only heard the drum work, you might think you were listening to The Who, Cream, or the Jimi Hendrix Experience.

Wicked Messenger - A Bob Dylan-penned fable with heavy organ (think Emerson, Lake and Palmer) starts the album off with a literal bang. Quite fine and quite audible bass work from Ronnie Lane, Ron Wood on the lead guitar, and Kenny pounds the drums until the very last of the 4:08. Good to the last beat!

Rod the Mod does such a great job as "the voice" that he could have made a career out of covering Dylan songs. Oh, and, yes, the arrangement does sound like Hendrix' cover-arrangement of Bob Dylan's All Along the Watchtower. Once the last drum beat hits, its obvious that Martin Birch did an A to A+ job of engineering.

Devotion - This ballad about family ("It's so good to be with the people that know you/ It's good to hear the things they say/ At times when you are with them...") This is the first of two songs on First Step that sounds like Handbags and Gladrags on The Rod Stewart Album - meant and intended as a compliment. Wood picks in circles like Dave Mason on this one. Kenny kicks the drums right before the end.

Shake, Shudder and Shiver - It starts off with a heavy lead guitar opening riff isolated on the right channel before the rest of the band drops in on the left. Kenny pushes the band like a locomotive barreling down the tracks. There's more than a trace of Cream's Sunshine of Your Love in the lead and bass rhythm. This is one of those hard rock tracks that, heard live, would cause fans to light their Bics in tribute.

Stone - this Ronnie Lane vocal goes on for all of 5:43 - about twice the length needed. As a short throwaway, it might have seemed cute. The positive is hearing Rod as a not so bad (and barking) back-up singer.

Plynth - This was the band's live show stopper and with good reason. Peter Green Fleetwood Mac meets Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck. Absolutely brilliant stereo production - it's moving in stereo - and Wood has never played a crisper lead. The drums are so clean and clear you feel like you're sitting under the kit.

The second side is along the lines, juust as good -- as this first side and contains possibly the best ever Small Faces track in the shining "Flying" with its ultra catchy melody, really timeless this is...the album ends on one of The Small Faces banging cookers "Three Button Hand Me Down" in which they'd rock the balls off in concert... all in all, told you - great stuff !

Wicked Messenger
Devotion
Shake, Shudder
Stone
Around The Plynth
Flying
Pineapple And The Monkey
Nobody Knows
Looking Out The Window
Three Button Hand Me Down

CONDITION: The cover: gatefold cover is predominately clean and solid near "EX" (excellent)  just a mere trace of...not wear but careful use over the past 41+ years...

The vinyl: is very glossy clean M- looks TOPS playing smooth and clear = enjoyable (!!!) 

keeper!

A GREAT ADDITION TO ANYONE'S COLLECTION !

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All imperfections are noted both cover & record