Lot 26ROLLING STONES-STILL LIFE-1982-FIRST PRESS UK-ROLLING STONES-NMINT/NMINT

SECOND HAND-DEATH MAY BE YOUR SANTA CLAUS-1971-FIRST PRESS FRANCE-2C062-92660. A very rare French original of the second album of the top progressive British band Second Hand. In 1970, they recorded their second studio album, Death May Be Your Santa Claus, at Mushroom Studios and invited Second Hand to release their album there. The album was released in April 1971 with a supporting single titled "Funeral", featuring "Hangin' On An Eyelid " (track 2 from the album) as the B-side. This album was much more successful than the previous one, using a heavy symphonic rock style that clearly influenced the vocal style of Arthur Brown(Rob Elliott was a big fan of them). ...more

MANFRED MANN'S EARTH BAND-SOLAR FIRE-1973-FIRST PRESS UK-BRONZE-ILPS9265. Matrix A-2/B-1U Stamper 1RT/2AM . A rare British original. Solar Fire is the fourth studio album by the British rock band Manfred Mann's Earth Band, released on 30 November 1973 by Bronze Records (the band's first album to be released by this label) in the United Kingdom and by Polydor Records in the United States. Rose to #96 on the Billboard 200. ...more

GOV'T MULE-DEJA VOODOO (2LP'S) - 2004-FIRST PRESS 2008 GERMANY-BLUE ROSE-BLUE LP0430. A very rare short-run original of the famous blues band. Déjà Voodoo is the sixth studio album by blues - rock jam band Gov't Mule . The album was released on September 14, 2004 by ATO Records . It was the first Gov't Mule album to feature Andy Hess, and the first studio album to feature Danny Louis. It was also the first album that Gov't Mule did not play live before its release. ...more

AARDVARK-AARDVARK-1970-FIRST PRESS UK (PROMO) - DERAM NOVA-SDN17. Mega rare British original hard-prog-blues cult band. Aardvark ‎– (1970) The one-album English band took as their name a term denoting a representative of the tropical fauna-the African anteater. In the late 60s and early 70s, during the musical rock boom, a huge number of bands released one or two albums. Many of these groups often imitated already known artists, a number of groups tried to experiment with sound, but due to the lack of professionalism and talent, their music was of little interest to anyone... But still, many were not deservedly forgotten, as the material released by these teams was sometimes very interesting, and often did not concede or even surpass in quality, the then monsters from rock... One of these teams was the Aardvark group. On July 11, 1969, Aardvark, Blodwyn Pig and The Good Earth, along with THE Soft Machine, participated in Midnight Rave No. 3 at the Classic Theatre.  Prior to recording the only album produced by David Hitchcock, the band featured keyboardist Paddy Coulter, who was replaced by multi-instrumentalist Steve Milliner. Around the same time, Milliner helped create the album Barbed Wire Sandwich (1970 Nova) by Simon Kirke and Paul Kossoff's Black Cat Bones.The main burden in the band, which worked without a guitarist, fell on the shoulders of keyboardist Steve Milliner. His inventive playing with bassist Stan Aldous is one of the obvious advantages of the disc, which was released in March 1970 on the branch of Deram Records Nova. The combination of organ, bass guitar and percussion evokes the Aardvark band Egg and anticipates the future compositions of Emerson, Lake , Palmer - The Greencap. On the disc, Copper Sunset stands out with a great, wrong bass part and the epic blues thing Many Things To Do, as if it came here from the Cream storerooms, but the best is the old-fashioned Once Upon A Hill with spectacular celesta parts.Subsequently, vocalist Dave Skillin discovered another talent. He took up writing the lyrics, and from his pen came the lyrics of the album Alchemist - 1973 CBS band Home. The further fate of the musician is covered with the darkness of time. ...more

  The album was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America on August 15, 1984, and is ranked # 428 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All time. ...more