THEM w/out VAN MORRISON NOW & THEM INSANELY RARE SEALED* ORIG'67 TOWER STEREO LP

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·       THEM (WITHOUT VAN MORRISON) – NOW AND THEM - ORIGINAL 1967 TOWER RECORDS STEREO LP ST-5104

·       ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING

*** STILL SEALED GUARANTEED ORIGINAL FIRST PRESSING ***

·       IMPORTANT NOTE: WE ARE SELLING THIS ALBUM AS STILL SEALED DESPITE THE FACT THAT WE HAD A LITTLE MISHAP WHILE SNAPPING A PHOTO FOR THIS AUCTION: WE DROPPED THE RECORD, CAUSING THE SHRINK WRAP “SEAL” (WHICH WAS  THREADBARE AND PARTIALLY SEPARATED TO BEGIN WITH) TO SNAP OPEN ALONG THE ENTIRE LENGTH OF THE COVER'S SPINE AND THE BOTTOM -- A CLASSIC EXAMPLE OF MURPHY’S LAW AT WORK. WE GUARANTEE THAT THIS RECORD HAS NEVER BEEN TOUCHED BY HUMAN HAND (NOT EVEN OURS, AS WE DIDN’T WANT TO DISTURB THE RECORD INSIDE) SINCE IT LEFT THE FACTORY 51 YEARS AGO, AND THAT  WINNING BIDDER WILL BE THE FIRST PERSON TO PULL THIS VIRGIN RECORD OUT OF ITS COVER.  THE WINNING BIDDER CAN REQUEST, AND WILL RECEIVE, A CERTIFICATION FROM US GUARANTEEING THAT THIS RECORD IS BRAND NEW, UNUSED VINTAGE RECORD, EVEN WITH THE COMPROMISED SHRINK WRAP.  WE HAVE NEATLY REATTACHED  THE SHRINK WRAP WITH A TINY PIECE OF SCOTCH TAPE WHICH CAN BE EASILY REMOVED, THUS (ALMOST) RETURNING THE ALBUM TO ITS ORIGINAL CONDITION. THE PHOTO YOU SEE BELOW HAS BEEN TAKEN AFTER THE MISHAP AND FAIRLY AND ACCURATELY ILLUSTRATES THE CURRENT CONDITION OF THE RECORD

·       GUARANTEED ORIGINAL REDDISH-BROWN TOWER RECORDS LABEL WITH BLACK “T” LOGO , SUCH AS THE ONE SHOWN ABOVE, FROM OUR PREVIOUS AUCTION

·       THE THICKNESS OF THE VINYL, THE APPEARANCE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE COVER, LABEL’S LOGO AND OTHER PERIPHERAL ELEMENTS OF THE COVER, ARE ALL PERFECTLY CONSISTENT WITH THE ORIGINAL, FIRST PRESSING OF THIS TITLE.

·       TWO “BREATHE” (AIR) HOLES NOTED ON THE SHRINK WRAP

·       THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST U.S. PRESSING; THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.

·       ORIGINAL, THICK CARDBOARD COVER (AMERICAN STYLE)

·       THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING

(►PLEASE SEE THE IMAGE OF THE COVER, LABEL OR BOTH, SHOWN BELOW)

(Note: this is a REAL image of the ACTUAL item you are bidding on. This is NOT a "recycled" image from our previous auction. What you see is what you'll get.  GUARANTEED!)

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The '60s rock fan should be aware of this vital fact about Now & Them right away: This is not the version of the band that is most familiar, with Van Morrison on lead vocals. In fact, Morrison does not appear at all on this album, the first of the obscure LPs recorded by a reorganized Them after Morrison's departure for a solo career. For that simple reason, it cannot be compared to Them's previous recordings, either in quality or in style. Perhaps because this was recorded in Hollywood (where Them was based at the time), it has a surprisingly American sound in many places. Yet their new sound, whatever it was, didn't coalesce, and the record seemed almost the work of several bands rather than one. There was fairly hard-nosed British R&B in the cover of John Mayall's "I'm Your Witch Doctor," American-styled blue-eyed soul on the cover of Timi Yuro's "What's the Matter Baby," bubblegummy psych-pop on "Truth Machine," echoes of the Monkees and the Association on "You're Just What I Was Looking for Today," a muted "Gloria" rewrite on "Dirty Old Man (At the Age of Sixteen)" (whose Strawberry Alarm Clock-like harmonies dilute the original arrangement, cut by the group slightly earlier on a non-LP single), disposable jazz-blues on "Nobody Loves You When You're Down and Out," Standells-styled garage rock on "Walking in the Queen's Garden," and an inferior cover of "I Happen to Love You" (done better by both the Myddle Class and the Electric Prunes). The big problem, however, was that the group simply did not have a lead singer miles within Van Morrison, nor did they write original material miles within what Morrison penned for the earlier Them records. For all that, it does contain one nice, lengthy, haunting raga rock piece, "Square Room," undoubtedly the most original work on the record, and the album's highlight.

 (EXCERPT FROM AN ONLINE REVIEW BY RICHIE UNTERBERGER, ALL MUSIC GUIDE  /ALLMUSIC.COM/)

When Van the Man robbed the bank in 1967 with “Brown Eyed Girl” he moved quickly to establish himself as a successful solo artist. Alas, that meant that “Them” was doomed as an active recording unit. Van Morrison left the band and his former buddies for dead.

The remaining group members had two choices: either to disband – or to establish a separate niche for themselves. The group struggled valiantly, against considerable odds,  for more than five years, ultimately giving up in 1972 – but not before releasing no less than four albums, extremely coveted today by both garage- and psychedelic era collectors. Indeed, the four albums the band released between 1966 and 1971 are now probably more sought after than the two albums the group recorded with Van Morrison – which, mind you, are  major collectible rarities in their own right.

So what happens when Morrison leaves the band to go solo?  As it happened, the remaining members of Them permanently located themselves in California, won a record contract with Tower Records, and soldiered on without Van.  Although a fair comparison between the Van-era Them and the later, Tower-era Them is probably impossible simply considering how different the group’s two incarnations were, the group’s latter-day material has an indubitable quality of its own, and some psychedelic fans swear that Them made some of their best records without Van.  Now and Them was their first album after Morison’s departure and their Tower debut, and it shows the band coping and evolving at the same time.

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·                               CONDITION:

·                               THE RECORD

(IMPORTANT NOTE: unless otherwise noted, ALL records are graded visually, and NOT play-graded!; we  grade records under the strong, diffuse room light or discrete sunlight)

(a)          THE ALBUM IS STILL FACTORY SEALED AND IS BELIEVED TO BE PERFECTLY MINT. Please note: sealed items are assumed to be mint and are sold as-is, as we have no way of inspecting them. For our policy on still sealed records ►click here (PLEASE READ BEFORE PLACING A BID).

(b)          The record is  apparently pressed on a beautiful, thick, inflexible vinyl, which was usually used for the first or very early pressings. Usually, the sound on such thick vinyl pressings is full-bodied, vivid, and even dramatic. Do not expect to obtain such a majestic analog sound from a digital recording!

(c)           Of course, this is a full-bodied ANALOG recording, and not an inferior, digital recording!!!

·                               THE COVER

COVER IS (WEAK) NEAR MINT, STILL SEALED AND COVERED IN ITS ORIGINAL ►SHRINK WRAP  (A LARGE PIECE OF SHRINK WRAP - ABOUT 15% - IS MISSING)

(PLEASE NOTE: THE SHRINK WRAP HAS SEPARATED ALONG ABOUT 60% OF THE OPENING SIDE AND  70% OF THE BOTTOM LENGTH, BUT THE ALBUM IS STILL VISIBLY SEALED)

The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:

-        Cover has some light ring wear in one small area not covered by the shrink wrap (nothing significant); On the scale from 1 to 10 (1 being the least, and  10 being the most severe), we assess the severity of ring wear as 2.

-         Cover shows JUST A HINT of yellowing on both sides, apparently from aging.

-         Cover has a visible wrinkle (crease) in the cardboard base on the front panel (a minor  cover construction flaw)

-         Cover has a partially split bottom seam (less than 1 inch / 2.5 centimeters)

-         Visible shelf wear noted on the bottom seam

NO OTHER VISIBLE FLAWS OR IMPERFECTIONS ON THE  COVER

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