Great 1970's rock and look at that Gibons Byrdland! Damn what a fine instrument and it sounds so good...
Ted Nugent - Free For All
Epic Records
Cat# ELPS 3786
1976
Gatefold cover is in very good condition, no tears, no writing, with very light edge wear from handling. There is an overall light yellowing to the front cover and light mildew marks inside the gatefold but nothing too bad - sterilised and stabilised. Rear cover also has some light marks from general handling but again, nothing too bad.
New plastic inner sleeve
Vinyl is in very good - good condition, inspected under a white halogen light source and I can see quite a few light scratches on each side and one which looks a bit more serious on Side 1 from the end of track 1 through to the beginning of track 3.
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I then played the entire album - underlying surface noise is not a significant issue most of the time but as expected we have the "click click click" issue at a low - medium level from towards the end of Free For All, Dog Eat Dog and the beginning of Writing On The Wall. The scratch tapers away as it gets to track 3 so it is not very audible at the beginning of track 3 but it is still there.
I also noticed a bit of surface noise (clicks/pops of a low level) on Side B, track 2 in particular as this song is fairly low level anyway and the music is competing against the underlying surface noise. The other tracks on Side B are fine, mainly because the hard rock "buries" the surface noise.
AT NO TIME DOES ANY TRACK MISTRACK!
Overall, bar this scratch (which looks to have been caused by careless handling of the tonearm) and the surface noise on a quiet track ... this is still very playable and one very good 70's rock album from Ted.
New outer protective sleeve
Tracks: Free For All, Dog Eat Dog, Writing On The Wall, Turn It Up, Street Rats, Together, Light My Way, Hammerdown, I Love You So I Told You A Lie
