BOB DYLAN HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED VERY-RARE ORIG'65 LP 1C/2E

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     The Particulars: Title : Bob Dylan - "Highway 61 Revisited" - LP Label: Columbia | 

CS 9189 Matrix: XSM110640-1C |  XSM110641-2E Year : 1965 Notes: US Stereo Pressing with the alternate 

(and better) version of "From A Buick 6."  

·       ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING

·       ORIGINAL RED & WHITE “360 STEREO” COLUMBIA LABEL (IMPORTANT NOTE: ALTERNATE VERSIONS OF THIS ALBUM ONLY EXISTS AS STEREO PRESSINGS; NO ALTERNATE VERSIONS IN MONO HAVE EVER BEEN FOUND.

·       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)

·       THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING

·       MATRIX NUMBER IN TRAIL-OFF VINYL (DEAD WAX) ENDS WITH '-1B/-2E'.  ON SOME STORE LABELS,  SUFFIX '–1' DENOTES THE VERY FIRST, ORIGINAL PRESSING) ; ON THIS TITLE, SUFFIX –1 (FOLLOWED BY ANY LETTER ON SIDE 1) SIGNIFIES THE RARE, ALTERNATE PRESSING OF THE ALBUM. 

·       MACHINE-STAMPED MATRIX NUMBER IN TRAIL-OFF VINYL (DEAD WAX) OF THE RECORD

(?PLEASE SEE THE IMAGE OF THE COVER, LABEL OR BOTH, SHOWN BELOW)

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This is the Mount Everest of Rock & Roll. The towering mountaintop of modern American music.

For its extraordinary contribution to the modern music, superb production, craftsmanship, fine musicianship, revolutionary significance and influence it exerted on numerous generations of musicians, writers and general public, or for some other innate quality, this album was voted one of top-200 albums of all time in one of the largest poll of critics, music reviewers, professionals and producers ever organized: the poll, which was conducted by Paul Gambaccini, legendary BBC Radio A&R man, surveyed more than 50 top music professionals (including Roy Carr, Jonathan Cott, Robert Christgau, Cameron Crowe, Chet Flippo, Ben Fong-Torres, Charlie Gillett, Greil Marcus, Murray the K., Lenny Kaye, Bruce Morrow (a/k/a "Cousin Brucie"), Tim Rice (of "Jesus Christ Superstar" and "Evita" fame), Lisa Robinson, Robert Shelton (who wrote liner notes for Bob Dylan's first album), Ed Ward, Joel Whitburn, Pete Wingfield, etc.). For more details, see: "Critics Choice: Top-200 albums" compiled by Paul Gambaccini, Omnibus Press, Library of Congress Catalog No.7855565 (or ? click here  for the complete album listing)

Note: it remains unclear – as is the case with most of Dylan’s musical and business decisions – why he (or someone else at Columbia) decided to, at the very last moment, replace the faster, rowdier version of the “From the Buick Six” with the slower, more mellow version which is found on regular pressings of this album. What we do know for fact is that, at a time, Dylan was involved in a feud with Tom Wilson (who produced “Like a Rolling Stone” and received a very reluctant – minor – co-producer credit on the album’s cover)  over Dylan’s musical direction and overall “feel” of his music. Dylan reportedly felt that Wilson was “electrifying” his music too much too fast and making it artificially more commercial. Needless to say, Wilson would soon – during the sessions for this album, as a matter of fact – get booted and lose his position as a Dylan’s in-house producer (hey, guys – don’t mess around with Bob D !!!) . Our assumption – which we are unable to substantiate – is that this, earlier, version of “From the Buick Six” was produced by Tom Wilson, and that Dylan didn’t like it, replacing it with a slower version produced by his next Columbia producer, Bob Johnston, who received a major credit as the album’s chief producer.  Our personal feeling is that Tom Wilson was a sheer genius, that he did a phenomenal job on “Like a Rolling Stone” (I mean, for crying out loud, according to a recent poll, it is a #1 song of all time), and that Bob Dylan made a major mistake in having him sacked. But, hey – that’s only our opinion. Who knows what actually happened? From this perspective, 43 years later, probably not even Bob Dylan can remember why the song was replaced with another version. It remains a fact that, with or without Tom Wilson, Highway 61 Revisited remains one of two or three greatest Rock albums ever recorded.

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·                               CONDITION:

·                               RECORD

 (IMPORTANT NOTE: unless otherwise noted, ALL records are graded visually, and NOT play-graded!; we  grade records under the strong, diffuse room light or discrete sunlight)

(a)          WE GRADE THE VINYL AS STRONG VG++. A few light abrasions  ARE VISIBLE, but they appear fairly  insignificant relative to the overall condition of the vinyl, and are only moderately visually distracting. For most part, the vinyl looks very nice, with only light imperfections and stickers.  Original luster is intact, and the vinyl shines and sparkles almost like new.

(b)          The record is in a perforated plastic baggy.

(c)           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!

(d)          Of course, this is a full-bodied ANALOG recording, and not an inferior, digital recording!!!

·       COVER

THE COVER IS NICE --- VERY GOOD+ (VG+).

The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:

-         Cover has no ring wear ; Cover has pen note under sticker number in upper left corner.

-         Back cover has a SMALL tape residue (yellowish discoloration from the removed piece of old and aged scotch tape)

-         Cover shows some light yellowing on both sides, from aging.

-         Tiny, almost invisible, almost completely faded/number written in one corner

-         Cover has a few tiny wrinkles along the spine

-         shelf wear noted (From being inside a box with several other old albums)

-         Cover doesn't split top seam (has a very small imperfection)

LIGHT IMPERFECTIONS ON THE COVER:

-        No cut-out (drill) holes.

-        No cut-out corners

-        No saw-marks or indents

-       Light dirt/dust rubbing stains (friction marks caused by rubbing against other covers)

-        No stamps

-        Light denting and nicks on the seam

-        No peel-off marks

-        No mold or mildew spots

-        sticker of original shop 

-        No warping

-        No wax, glue, paint or liquid drops on the cover

-        No glue traces or wax residue.

-        No bar codes

-        stamps and stickers from original shop. Please see pictures