SOFT MACHINE "Third" UK orig CBS orange label 2LP set

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27

LABEL: CBS

LABEL no.: S 64079

COVER: VG+.  Soft gatefold cover printed by MacNeil Press, London.  Cover is solid and clean, with some light creases, sticker price on front, slight ring and corner wear.

VINYL: VG++/VG++.  Vinyls are very shiny and clean, however there is some visual pressing staining on the vinyls, which barely, if any, effects the sound, even in the quiet parts!!!

LABEL CONDITION: ALL orange CBS labels are very clean with NO spindle marks.

MATRIX nos.: S-66426-A1/B1/C1/D2

YEAR: 1970.

MONO/STEREO: STEREO

COMMENTS: UK original 2 album set. After a couple of psychedelic albums influenced by the great Kevin Ayers, Soft Machine transformed into a more progressive/jazz fusion album for Third!!!   Now led by the keyboards of Mike Ratledge, along with sax from Elton Dean, Hugh Hopper on bass, and Robert Wyatt on the drums, Third was a magnificent double album consisting of 4 side-long improv pieces.  Tracks include Facelift, Slightly All the Time, Out Bloody Rageous, and The Moon in June, and they were performed on several other "live" albums during this time period of the band.  The album became a forerunner in the prog/fusion genre of music, and remains an important piece even today, 45 years later!!!!    A MASTERPIECE!!!!

This is my 15th year of successfully selling records on eBay!!  I take extreme care in buying and selling ONLY vinyl that is NEAR MINT, or very close to it.  My goal is to keep the dream alive for the art of collecting and selling PROMOTIONAL albums, from the 60's and 70's in jazz and rock n' roll.  PROMO albums are usually 1st pressings, they get released prior to the stock copies, and are generally as close to the master tape as the listener can obtain. They are pressed in extremely limited quantities, many get trashed by radio stations, but collecting them in top quality has been my specialty for many years. I also sell some hard to find ORIGINAL stock US, UK and Canadian pressings LP's.  AND AS ALWAYS...ALL records are from MY OWN PERSONAL collection of over 50 years and....NO JUNK!!! 

ALL my vinyl is visually graded and then PLAY graded on a REGA P3 turntable, through a McINTOSH MA6300 Integrated Amplifier which pushes (4) original JBL Century 100 speakers!!!

I clean all my records with a PROFESSIONAL Nitty Gritty record cleaning machine and pack ALL records carefully!!   FIRST, the records are cleaned, then placed in the inner sleeve outside of the record cover and inserted into a clear plastic outer record sleeve. SECOND, albums are bubble wrapped for safety and mailed in a STRONG cardboard record mailer box!!

SHIPPING:

FOR U.S. - $3.99 USPS media mail shipping or $9.99 USPS priority mail.

FOR INTERNATIONAL - DUE to the significant INCREASE in USPS international shipping costs, IT NOW COSTS $18.00 USPS First Class International to Europe/Asia for 1 album, $23.00 for 2 albums!!!!!  

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