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THE GODZ - CONTACT HIGH WITH THE GODZ - ULTRA-RARE ORIGINAL 1966 ESP RECORDS STEREO LP ESP-1037
ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING
PRESTIGE RECORDS, BERGENFIELD, NJ PRESSING.
ORIGINAL CUSTOM ESP LABEL WITH THE HAND IMPRINT POSITIVE IMAGE ON ONE SIDE, NEGATIVE REVERESELY POSITIONED IMAGE ON THE OTHER
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
VERY THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING
CLEAN, WEAR-FREE LABELS
PLEASE SEE THE IMAGE OF THE COVER, LABEL OR BOTH, SHOWN BELOW
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Clocking in at a hair over 25 minutes, Contact High is an unholy mess of a record. Opening with the track White Cat Heat, which consists of clumsily strummed acoustic guitars, arhythmic percussion, and Jim McCarthy and Larry Kessler screeching like a couple of, uh, cats in heat, it gets weirder. Best tracks are 1 1 Equals ? and the hilarious Lay in the Sun total lyrics: All I want to do is lay in the sun . For those who like their rock on the cutting edge, begin here and don t turn back.
EXCERPT FROM AN ONLINE REVIEW BY JOHN DOUGAN, ALL MUSIC GUIDE /ALLMUSIC.COM/
In the 2001 poll by the Mojo magazine, The Godz, the obscure psych/garage band from the mid-to-late 1960 s, were voted out one of the seminal top-200 cult bands of all time. The Magazine specifically attributed the Godz s influence and surprisingly sparse, austere guitar-driven sound to such later bands as Sonic Youth and Nirvana. This extremely rare FIRST Godz album from 1967, was recorded for the legendary experimental/radical/ vanguard ESP label. The music will shake your speakers off their stands. The Godz were one of the most rudimentary, primitive and crude, but at the same time most authentic, of all 1960 s psych/garage bands. Hearing is believing. If you wish to experience the sixties in one of their more radical and extreme embodiments, try this.. This real bit of Psych/Garage history does not show up all that often.
CONDITION:
THE RECORD
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a WE GRADE THE VINYL AS EXCELLENT. This is one of those albums that are somewhat difficult to grade. It is somewhere between VG and NEAR MINT, just a notch below NEAR MINT. A few light abrasions ARE visible, but they are extremely shallow, superficial and only moderately visually distracting nothing significant .For the most part, the vinyl looks impeccable without any MAJOR visual flaws or imperfections. Much of the original luster is intact, and the vinyl shines and sparkles almost like new.
b The record is 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
THE COVER IS NICE --- ABOUT VERY GOOD VG .
The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:
- Cover has some light ring wear 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 3
- Back cover has circular tarnish grayish, dust-covered sections, which closely follow the contour of the record , probably caused by friction or by rubbing against other covers during the storage. The tarnish is similar in appearance to a common ring wear, but, UNLIKE ring wear, these grayish areas may be possible to clean up with a minor effort and with a right cleansing solution.
- Cover shows some light yellowing on back side, apparently from aging nothing significant
- Cover has some tiny, faint writing on its back side a microscopic price code written in one corner
- The cover has a small 1 razor-like line cut on the back panel, as if someone attempted to cut away the shrink wrap with a razor, but inadvertently left the mark on the cover as well. The paper slick is intact and no part is missing, but the razor line is visible.
- Visible shelf wear noted on the top and bottom seams.
- Cover has a partially split top seam less than 1 inch / 2.5 centimeters
- The cover has a few tiny scratch marks on the front side
NO OTHER VISIBLE FLAWS OR IMPERFECTIONS ON THE COVER
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