One of my more popular posts in terms of visits and comments has been my post on the Jimmy Page soundtrack to Kenneth Anger’s film Lucifer Rising. The post contains the full soundtrack that I uploaded to a dependable site and it should be downloadable but may require a little patience and I think a full veriosn of Quicktime. If that is too much to figure out then the soundtrack is actually available on line with a little searching and here is a working Rapidshare link to get the full album. I just tested it and the link seems to be okay:

Jimmy Page’s Lucifer Rising Soundtrack at Rapidshare

I recently got a comment form reader Karl and was stunned to discover that he actually had a copy of the album and was kind enough to share some scans of the cover art and a little story of how he happen to acquire a copy. As legend has it there were only 666 copies of the blue vinyl version ever made it is a rare thing indeed. I really like this soundtrack and have listened to it in it s entirety several times. It is a very special thing to have had someone who owns a copy contact me and share he experience and now I will share it you as I posted his story below. Thanks Karl for the scans of the booklet and a picture of the actual blue vinyl itself with the label. I believe  that the album was to be played at 45 rpm and each side was about 11 minutes long. Some people online believe the existence of the album is myth and that the recordings were only recently salvaged from old tapes. I think we can put that belief to rest now.

Karl’s story of how one day the dark gods bestowed upon him a coveted copy of Jimmy page’s soundtrack to Lucifer Rising:

In the mid to late 80’s I use to hang out at a music store in Orangevale, California just outside Sacramento. The music store was called “The Gold Mine” from the Door’s song “Weird Scenes Outside the Goldmine”. One day when I was at the store, this guy came in to look; and engaged in a conversation with the owner (Teresa) and myself. He said he owned Boleskine House Records in the next town over (Carmichael).

He told us about a movie that Jimmy Page did with Anger called Lucifer Rising, and that other members of Led Zeppelin (Robert Plant, if I recall correctly) was upset about the release of the move due to the nature of the topic. A court order to secure the movies release was granted and he had already begun production of the sound track. He only had a few hundred done and was not able to continue the production of the albums. He said he sold copies to two people, one being Ozzy and another to Steve Tyler.

He offered to sell one to Teresa and one to me. I was not sure if he was “taking us for a ride” but I figured it was a Jimmy Page album so it would be cool anyway. He sold us the albums for $50 bucks a piece which was not bad for a kid in High School with a job (gas was only .79 a gallon still). He hand numbered the sleeves when he gave them to us. Again I was not sure if it was for show but I was getting it anyway.

Thanks to the internet today, I found that I may have made a good purchase. I have only listened to the record once and taped it when I did so I did not need to play the album again. I included two pieces of paper (one was double sided) that were in the album jacket, I had forgot they were in there because I have not it opened in many, many years.

The scans of the books that were in side the album should print out well enough to read but do better if you open the image and just enlarge it.  I had to sharpen them up and reduce the size a bit as there is an upload limit for image  files to my hosting  server but I think they should still be legible. Some parts are blurry but I cannot fix that. They have the appearance of having been originally printed on a Xerox machine or something.

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