Odd Sampler LP w/ side 1 of BLACKBERRY WINTER album + side 1 of BOLA SETE Ocean

Description: • Artist: Blackberry Winter / Bola Sete • Album Title: Sampler Record Only • Format: LP • Label: Fidelatone Manufacturing Co. • Country and Year of Release: USA, 1975? • Cover/Record Grade: Ex/Ex+ (side 1)/VG+ (side 2) (The record has a warp that affects the second side more than the first side, but the record plays as graded.) • Other Info: This is a strange one. The labels simply say “Sample Record Only” and the first side of the album contains, in its entirety, the first half of the self-titled LP by Blackberry Winter, an awesome, sought-after rock record released on the obscure Chamus label in 1975. The second side of this album contains the first half of Bola Sete’s Ocean LP, a wonderful solo acoustic guitar record released on Tacoma Records in 1975 and produced by none other than John Fahey. These albums have nothing in common, so you may well wonder how half of each of them ended up on a sampler released by Fidelatone Manufacturing. Fidelatone was a record pressing plant, and it’s my theory that they released this LP to give out to potential customers so they could hear the quality of their pressings. If this is true, then Fidelatone was almost certainly the company that pressed the Blackberry Winter and Bola Sete records when they were released. Cover is in shrink wrap. Payment and Shipping Information U.S. Customers: Click on the Shipping and Payments tab above to find the correct price. Package insured upon request. Yes, I do combine shipping so if you purchase more than one item, you WILL save on postage! I do not gouge on postage and packaging costs. I send your items to you carefully packaged in a strong, OVERSIZED LP mailer (to avoid damage to the cover) with sturdy cardboard squares (to protect the record and the cover), but I make sure to only charge the amount needed to cover my actual costs. If you have any questions about this item, feel free to contact me. International Customers: Please do not use the Checkout (Pay Now) option if you are paying for more than one item, or you may end up paying more for postage than is necessary, as eBay tends to calculate shipping and handling on the high side. Instead, wait for me to send you an invoice with the correct total amount due. I will do my best to contact you within one day of the auction’s end. To find the price for shipping/handling to your country for this item, go to the Shipping and Payments tab above and select your country from the list. Yes, I do combine shipping so if you purchase more than one item, you WILL save on postage! I do not gouge on postage and packaging costs. I send your items to you carefully packaged in a strong, OVERSIZED LP mailer (to avoid damage to the cover) with sturdy cardboard squares (to protect the record and the cover), but I make sure to only charge the amount needed to cover my actual costs. If you have any questions about this item, feel free to contact me. Grading Information With very few exceptions, I play grade the records that I list. (This means that I don't go by the way a record looks, only by how it plays.) Sometimes when I have a group (or a “lot”) of LPs within a single listing, I will not play all the records, but this is fairly rare. I use Mint (M), Excellent (Ex), Very Good (VG), Good (G), Fair (F), and (heaven help us) Poor (P), and I take each of these words at their literal meaning. In other words, if I assign an LP a grade of “G,” that means to me that it really is in good playing condition, not fair or worse—for many dealers, a G (or even VG) grade is often really nothing more than a euphemism for a record that is in fair or poor condition. I also use up to three plus signs (+) and up to three minus signs (-) to indicate varying degrees within a specific grade. So, a grade letter followed by a “+” means the condition is slightly better than the grade letter by itself, and a grade letter followed by “++” indicates that the condition is yet another small step higher. For example, a grade of Ex+++ means that the record is very close to being in the Mint range, but still just shy of it. This may seem like a strange system at first glance but I use it because I feel that the standard grading systems are inadequate, as they simply don't allow for enough grades or degrees within those grades. Many don't use Excellent, for example, which means that there is a jump from Mint down to Very Good—and there are a whole lot of grading possibilities in between those two, the way I see it. Powered by SixBit's eCommerce Solution

Price: 15.99 USD

Location: Monrovia, California

End Time: 2024-12-26T01:14:23.000Z

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