Item Description
ONEADAYRECORDS Simply Delivering Quality Music to the World in Quality, Safe Packing.
Postage: UK 4.75 1 per extra record .
Europe including Russia 12.50 2 per extra record .
Rest of World including ALL parts of the USA 16.50 3 per extra record .
All boxes signed for in quality, safe packaging I NEVER use mailing envelopes that offer virtually no protection at all in fact I think these things should be banned as records WILL arrive damaged in them at some time.
Here, you get what you pay for SAFE PACKING in BOXES using 7mm DOUBLE-WALL STIFFENERS.
Full details nearer the end of the listing.
Posting to Russia: Yes, I do post to Russia.
But delivery can take up to 4 to 6 weeks from the UK.
So please be patient.
I will submit a tracking number to the winning bidder, and when the packet arrives there it can be followed online using the Russian post website.
ALSO: I now apply the Ebay 2-day rule for non-payment to keep things moving cash-flow is important for any small business.
I will always keep my P P prices as low as possible, and even after yet another Royal Mail price hike from April this year, I have NOT raised my prices and will never compromise on solid, safe packing that is invariably heavier than most you will get.
My P P offers probably the best value-for-money for vinyl records available, and I even will pay for full insurance on any record that sells for over 100 at NO extra cost that is UK and abroad.
Also I aim to post the very same day after payment is received.
You WILL see the difference when my packet arrives.
FINALLY: Late payers, non-payers and 0 bidders will now be blocked or cancelled at my discretion.
As will any bidder who cancels a bid.
I do not like this practice as it is most often used to phish out the price to beat.
Ebay does not approve and neither do I so only bid on my items if you want them.
Artist or Band: GRAVY TRAIN
Album Title: Gravy Train
Producer s : Jonathan Peel
TRACK LIST:
Side 1: The New One Dedication to Syd Coast Road Enterprise.
Side 2: Think of Life Earl of Pocket Nook.
Label/Format: Vertigo original large swirl format with matt, smooth surfaces.
Label Conditions: Both very clean, fresh and attractive with only light, mainly fine and faint spindle marks and no wear around the hole area.
These mostly as seen viewed under angled light.
The main areas of side two are supebly white and showing no toning or dulling and barely any traces of handling.
This is a lovely rare Swirl that plays superbly.
Cat Number: 6360023
Mode / Speed: Stereo / 33.3 rpm.
Warps: Assume all records I offer have no warping of any significance and all tracking is easy and effortless and should play on all turntables and even budget decks.
Weight of this Record: 135 grams.
A very good solid weight for this label.
Country of Manufacture: England
Rarity: Very Scarce: another poor-selling early Swirl, not seen or offered often.
Original Year of Release: 1970
Matrix Nos: 6360023 A 1 1 1 6 6360023 2Y 3 1 5
Musicians: Norman Barratt guitar, lead vocals J.
D.
Hughes keyboards, vocals, flute, alto and tenor saxophones sometimes played together Lester Williams bass, vocals Barry Davenport drums.
Brief Info: An early signing to Vertigo, they made two albums on the Spiral label, then to others when they left.
Critically well received but another low-selling album.
Their follow-up Ballad of a Peaceful Man faired still worse and hastened their departure from Vertigo.
Both albums are scarce, Ballad the rarer of the two, but neither show up often.
Gravy Train have elements of Jethro Tull with a blues-based sound, but more progressive with jazzy breaks as well.
Side two really takes off with the long improvised Earl of Pocket Nook .
This is my first copy of this album for Ebay and the record plays superbly.
The cover is strong as well a little wear and a little edge enhancement from a previous owner.
But not glaringly obvious, this is still an impressive cover which, as-per-usual, is very prone to all forms of wear and damage.
Look at my pictures, I think this real nice and finding one substantially better will prove very difficult.
I like this album a lot, and for some time it has been popular with Swirl fans and collectors, I would be more than happy with this in my collection but the cover is not for perfectionists.
Cover Grade and Format: EXCELLENT : but it can be argued it looks better.
An unlaminated gatefold format with matt surfaces that have a lovely texturing.
Printed and made in England, uncredited.
Cover Front: A striking and vibrant front cover that is impressively clean and fresh, also lacking the usual rubbing the soft textured card usually attracts.
This, and other similar types usually seen with sticker tears and spotting to the raised dot type texturing.
Most rubbing on the bottom left corner, lesser on the opposite right and mere traces on the very bottom edge.
The main surface is superb really given just how delicate this one is.
There is a moderate crease to the centre of the spine edge, any of the very few others being very fine and light.
A gentle dull line near the spine edge hardly shows with normal full-on viewing, and indeed could be a mild manufacture blemish from machine grippers, this less positive compared to some covers where I know they are certain.
I consider this a lovely looking front, not perfect few ever will be but considerably above average for one so fragile.
Cover Back: The back has a couple of vertical surface scuffs: one near the top on the pale sky area hardly shows, unless viewed angled, this gentle and faint with barely any real disturbance to the ink.
The other is near the right spine edge with a quite fine abrasion to the surface, so this one does show a little with the odd tiny tip-in as well which is reasonably subtle.
But this perilous back that is massively prone especially to ringwear has hardly a trace.
The lack of rubbing on the very critical darker surface is also a major plus, as is the lack of creasing of which there is very little at all.
So a few mainly light surface marks and blemishes, but nothing really serious, and little detracts from this difficult and still very fine looking back.
As stated further up, not the purist or highly discerning, but it sets quite high standard and there to be beaten.
Cover Inner Gatefold: A little small edge chipping apart, this inside looks superb with little else to fault, the surfaces are both textured in the same tiny dot style as the outer areas.
Top Edges: Both straight and flush, a little patchy mild rubbing and a very small chip on the back that may have been re-adhered.
I will mention all I see however small.
Bottom Edges: The front edge has light to near moderate patchy rubbing.
The back appears to have little wear, but I am not ruling out some neat and reasonably discrete enhancement.
The more particular owners often wanted their covers to look as attractive as possible and some did touching in to achieve that.
Not a practice I did myself, but I can at least the logic why some did.
If done neatly and without being too obvious, I personally have not great issue with it.
Right Edge s , and Type: The front has a real tucked and folded real edge that has little wear.
The odd small rub or chip only and still quite straight and neat.
The back edges are clean, mostly sharp with little wear.
Any thickening or burring quite minimal and light as seen viewed end-on.
Record enters on this edge that is guaranteed untrimmed or enhanced.
Indeed these are not absolutely flush in manufacture but close on this one as is so often the case, which emphasises the fact.
Spine and Text: Largely solid, straight with minimal compression and folded square, so the edges meet up very closely together and parallel.
A little rubbing to the ends and possibly the odd small tip-in likely, but again quite discrete.
A little rubbing to the bottom fold in places, nothing heavy and the odd small chip here-and-there.
However, most of text is present and largely unworn which on covers like this, can be considered a significant plus.
Corners: Moderate tip rubbing with fine shape retained without any knocks.
Cover Summary: A strong all-round example of this considerably wear-prone early 1970 s cover, one that could prove difficult to find much better.
Some mildish wear to the edges and corners, few will avoid it being honest, and some blemishes for sure.
But with the main areas all looking quite, to near very impressive, this has more positives than negatives I feel.
So not for the connoisseurs who want perfection at any cost, but this still highly attractive scarce Spiral cover will please many collectors.
The Inner Sleeve: EXCELLENT : a lovely swirl inner with an 1/0470 April 1970 date code.
I am sure these inners were printed in batches and are the dates an exact science? But the information is there anyway.
This is very clean, fresh and attractive.
Two crisp and neat window circles and the polylining quite clear.
Light semi-creased right corners only with all edges unsplit with no repairs.
Unusually, this shows minimal seam adhesive darkening, thus appears much lighter aged than most seen.
These original Swirl inners are now becoming scarce in their own right, now with many modern reproductions in circulation to prove the point.
Vinyl Condition/Visual Grading: EXCELLENT : and arguably better.
A very impressive visual copy that is very clean with equally fine shine and very solidly pressed.
A copy with minimal plays on all the evidence with any surface trace marks very few, equally light and faint as seen critically under bright angled light.
A quality record that appears hardly played and visually a super record that should please many, if not most collectors.
Album Played For Grading: Yes.
I play ALL records I offer before submitting to Ebay, also the record is played in its 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 via clinically revealing B W speakers that include the legendary tweeter from their awesome Nautilus range that reveals every blemish or minuscule sound present on any record.
Sound Quality and Audio Grading: This very impressive and early original Swirl album plays up to, and most-all even above it s high visual grading with hardly anything of note to fault.
Offering strong, distortion-free sound, all frequencies are sharp and clear - sound quality is very high with a wide dynamic range and very detailed sound.
Any surface sounds are minimal indeed and this is an exceptional clean pressing with no tracking issues .
Few copies will outperform this early pressing significantly I feel sure.
Both channels are clean and sharp, I am certain this record has been played very lightly and has been reasonably well stored and carefully handled, almost certainly in a non-smoking environment.
Brilliantly recorded, produced and engineered, this images very well and this copy does it high justice.
Nothing of any note spoilt my pleasure when play-grading this wonderful record.
It will prove very difficult to find significantly better and can be strongly recommended.
As played-graded on a high-end Linn LP12 Sondek turntable with Ittok Mk II arm and Ortofon Quintet Black moving coil cartridge tracking at 2.2 grams.
Now one of the most established sellers on Ebay and still offering the finest and most accurately described and graded records I can find.
I pride myself on offering a variety of genres to keep my site as interesting as possible.
I will rarely offer any record that falls below a true Excellent grading, unless its of a certain rarity which will justify offering a lesser grade.
I try, to the best of my ability to describe as accurately and as honesty as I can all items I offer for sale with all the relevant information I can think of to help any potential bidder and collector.
You may notice I only submit records sparingly on Ebay as I Play-Grade every record I offer in their entirety also on higher-end equipment not just bits to guess a grade - visuals alone do not always tell a true or full story.
I will mention any defects or flaws no matter how small that I notice to be fair as possible to any interested collector I am very fussy and my buyers have the right to be too.
Every record I offer, whether it be a common or rare item deserves the same respect as far as I am concerned and will be treated the same - just because an item is rare does not always mean it s good.
I get just as much pleasure offering a relatively common record in stunning near mint condition as the real rare items.
All the pictures I use for your guidance are taken with a digital camera or scanned - they are NOT improved, cleaned-up or made better looking than they are with camera trickery or enhancing with digital programmes.
Room light factors can make things vary sometimes, that is hard to control, especially in winter.
If any picture I take looks more flattering than the actual item for any reason, I will clearly state the fact in the advert and vice-versa.
I hope the item below is to your liking - any questions can be emailed and I will do my very best to answer you.
I am enthusiastic, and have a fair degree of knowledge about many genres and I promise quality items - bid with confidence - excellence comes as standard and so does Near Mint regularly.
Please assume all records I offer have NO jumps, sticks, warps or writing on covers or labels unless clearly stated to the contrary.
Thanks for your interest and Good luck MIKE.
Deck: Linn LP12/Hercules/Cirkus with Ittok Mk II arm and Ortofon Quintet Black moving coil cartridge tracks at 2.2 grams .
Amps: Naim Supernait 2 with Project USB phono stage and Tellerium Black interconnects.
Speakers: B W 704 Floorstanding 3-way Monitors bi-wired with Tellurium Black terminated cable .
All records I offer on Ebay are cleaned on a professional VPI-17 vacuum machine before play-grading for the cleanest and best possible sound and will include a brand new lined inner and protective cover too.
Pictures taken with a Nikon D5000 SLR Digital Camera.
PACKING - THIS IS WHAT YOU GET.
What You Get: To confirm to the strict Ebay rules on shipping, I must now send ALL my packets Signed-For with NO exceptions.
Both buyers and sellers want their packets to have a safer journey and this is not a bad thing.
I now offer the fastest possible posting, often the very next day after payment is received or within two to three days maximum unless on holiday .
I only use FIRST-CLASS Mail.
The record s cover will be placed within a BRAND NEW soft protective sleeve and the actual record will be professionally cleaned on my new VPI-17 Pro vacuum system to give ultimate clean grooves and playing surfaces and the best possible looks and ultimate sound quality.
You will NOT get tired, dull looking, dust infested records inside worn and foggy covers with tatty inners from this seller and that s a promise and guarantee.
All records are posted in professional boxes NOT Mailers, these do not offer any real protection .
The record s are REMOVED from their main cover to avoid edge splits and placed within a brand new polylined inner.
The record s original inner will be included if available.
The boxes are then reinforced with at least TWO, ULTRA THICK stiffeners for maximum extra protection these are FOUR TIMES thicker than commercial stiffeners and are custom-made for oneadayrecords.
Really rare and expensive albums will even be Double Boxed if deemed necessary and possible.
When larger boxes are used, the thick record and stiffener sandwich is then thickly embedded into bubble-wrap to bulk out the record inside the box to centre the item inside to reduce the risk of damage still further.
Printed address labels are used for clarity as well as a sender label.
Customers requests or special needs for P P will be respected if at all possible but Signed-For posting is NOT an option anymore.
I do not profit on posting, better quality packaging costs, I offer probably the best-value and safest shipping possible for ultimate confidence.
The boxes and ultra thick double-wall stiffeners make a near impregnable fortress for safe shipping and this is used inland and overseas for ALL my records, not just the rare and expensive.
I will invoice any winning bidder as soon as possible after the auction ends.
My loss or damage rate is minuscule in over 14 years of Ebay trading and I consider that pretty exceptional.
The only damage rate acceptable for this seller is ZERO and I think my packets will offer just that.
It would take a vicious postman or postal service to damage these for sure.
Oneadayrecords is a MAILER-FREE ZONE they offer next-to-no-protection, and should be banned, no professional should consider using them in my opinion.
I discount of course for multiple purchases with a maximum of FIVE records per box one double can sometimes be included subject to total weight .
All postage costs are below and at the top of the listing.
NOTE: First Time Bidders: Please ask me first.
PLEASE NOTE: I now exercise my right to open a dispute after the Ebay rule of TWO days if no payment is received.
I will then cancel the dispute to end the bid, again after the mandatory FOUR days and then offer the item to the runner-up or relist.
The non-payer will also be blocked from my Ebay site as will any suspicious bids or bid withdrawals.
Small businesses need prompt payment to trade and these strict rules WILL be applied.
SHIPPING COSTS CONDITIONS THESE comply with EBAY S RULES - PLEASE READ CAREFULLY:
Posting Packing: UK CHANNEL ISLANDS all now sent via Recorded Delivery:
1 LP FIRST-CLASS Recorded Delivery with Standard Royal Mail Insurance Signed For 4.75
1 LP Special Delivery with Standard 500 Maximum Insurance Signed For, Next Day 7.50.
this includes insurance of 500 .
Add 1 per extra LP.
Posting Packing: EUROPE SCANDINAVIA.
Airmail Only :
1 LP Small Packet Signed For with Standard Royal Mail Insurance 50 maximum 12.50 enhanced Royal Mail insurance is an optional extra 3 .
Add 2 per extra LP.
Posting Packing: ALL OVERSEAS non-European e.g.
USA ANY PART OF South America New Zealand Australia Canada Japan and other Far East Airmail Only: I NEVER use Surface Mail :
1 LP Small Packet Signed For with Standard Royal Mail Insurance 50 maximum 16.50 17.50 for double sets .
Add 3 per extra LP.
enhanced Royal Mail insurance is an optional extra 3
Payment Conditions:
I prefer PayPal or cheque from UK winning bidders.
I can accept PayPal from overseas bidders or direct payment into my bank account.
Potential Bidders: I will cancel any bids I feel are time-wasters.
A maximum 3 days for communication and 7 days for payment to arrive - if not I will relist the item or offer to the runner-up.
Fast deals get great feedback from me.
Any questions - please ask and thanks for looking.
My Guarantee: If any winning bidder is not satisfied with their purchase I will offer a complete refund.
I will not refund if any defect detail is clearly stated on the advert and missed by the buyer, so read the item description carefully.
If any overseas collector does not understand anything in my listing, please email and ask me to help.
Thank You.
SOME GENERAL GUIDES TO WEAR AND CONDITIONS TO HELP YOU DECIDE
My Use of Description Terminology: Surface Marks Superficial, usually light marks, hairlines or light scuffs that rarely sound.
Scratch a needle mark that goes below the record s surface, some will sound, some will not, my play-grade will inform.
Original a record that has been pressed with the first label design which does NOT necessarily mean a very first pressed record.
First Pressing A record that I believe or know to be a genuine very first pressed record.
I do not claim to always know for sure, and that s why I state the stamper and matrix numbers if at all possible, for those who claim to know what they all mean, the information is there for the collector to decide.
I prefer to use terms like Early Copy rather than First Pressing if I am not totally sure.
Surface Sound Mild, light sound, usually light crackle or similar.
Distortion Break up of the actual sound caused by groove wear or damage from a chipped stylus the most undesirable form of unwanted sound, vintage mono records were the most prone to this happening but not exclusively so.
The symptoms of distortion are high frequency clipping, moderate constant crackle or an echo type sound quality.
Violin, piano and vocals are most prone to groove-wear distortion.
Feathering Fraying or softening of the entry edge of a cover.
Covers with feathered entrance edges are more likely to have had the actual record inserted and removed more than a non-feathered, sharp-edged cover which are always far more attractive.
Set Off, actually a printer s term for dark ink leaving mild residue on pale or white ink when rested upon.
e.g.
when a gatefold cover has black ink closed against white, this can leave some black residue on the pale area this is mostly unavoidable or course.
The Argument for Vinyl Original sound and mix mono mixes are rarely available on CD , high quality sound on clean copies played on a hi-end dedicated analogue system breathtaking sound , beautiful, large format covers, artwork, inserts and even full size posters etc huge investment potential, and the pleasure of owning the real thing .
