BOZ SCAGGS, Silk Degrees MASTERSOUND half-speed USA LP [Lowdown/We're All Alone]

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  Boz Scaggs ?– Silk Degrees Label: Columbia ?– HC 43920 Series: CBS Mastersound –  Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Half-Speed Mastered  Country: US Released: 1981 Genre: Rock Style: Pop Rock Tracklist Hide Credits A1 What Can I Say Soloist [Tenor Saxophone] – Plas Johnson 2:59 A2 Georgia 3:54 A3 Jump Street Guitar [Slide] – Les Dudek 5:10 A4 What Do You Want The Girl To Do Backing Vocals – Boz*, Maxine Green, Pepper Swanson Written-By – A. Toussaint* 3:49 A5 Harbor Lights Soloist [Flugelhorn] – Chuck Findley 5:55 B1 Lowdown Synthesizer [Mini-moog, Arc] – David Paich 5:15 B2 It's Over Backing Vocals – Boz*, Maxine Green 2:48 B3 Love Me Tomorrow Timbales – Jeff Porcaro 3:14 B4 Lido Shuffle 3:40 B5 We're All Alone Acoustic Guitar – Louie Shelton 4:10 Companies, etc. Recorded At – Davlen Sound Studios Recorded At – Hollywood Sound Recorders Phonographic Copyright (p) – CBS Inc. Copyright (c) – CBS Inc. Mastered At – CBS Studios, New York Manufactured By – Columbia Records Credits Arranged By, Keyboards – David Paich Backing Vocals – Augie Johnson (tracks: A1, B1), Carolyn Willis (tracks: A1, B1), Jim Gilstrap (tracks: A1, B1), Marty McCall* (tracks: A1, B1)  Bass – David Hungate Concertmaster – Sid Sharp*  Design – Nancy Donald, Ron Coro Drums, Percussion – Jeff Porcaro (tracks: A1, A3, A4, B3)  Engineer – Tom Perry Guitar – Fred Tackett (tracks: A1, A2, B3, B4), Louie Shelton (tracks: A4 to B1, B3, B5)  Horns – Bud Shank (tracks: B3), Chuck Findley, Dick Hyde, Jim Horn (tracks: A4), Paul Hubinon, Plas Johnson (tracks: A1, B3), Tom Scott, Vincent DeRosa Mastered By – Doug Sax Mastered By [Half Speed] – Vlado Meller Photography By – Moshe Brakha Producer – Joe Wissert Written-By – B. Scaggs* (tracks: A1 to A3, A5 to B2, B4, B5), D. Paich* (tracks: A1, A3, B1 to B4)  Notes Recorded at Davlen Sound Studios and Hollywood Sound.  Columbia half-speed mastered edition. Spine, labels HC 43920.  

USA MASTERSOUND HALF SPEED VINYL ALBUM WITH INSERT AND ANTI-STATIC INNER SLEEVE.

SLEEVE: VERY GOOD+, JUST LIGHT SHELF, CORNER, EDGE AND RING WEAR.  INSERT AND INNER SLEEVE VERY GOOD+ WITH NO SEAM SPLITS.

DISC[S]: EXCELLENT MINUS. NO MARKS OR SCRATCHES, JUST A FEW FINGERPRINTS. CLEAN LABELS.

Why buy a first or early pressing and not a re-issue or a ‘re-mastered’ vinyl album?

First and early pressings are pressed from the first generation lacquers and stampers. They usually sound vastly superior to later issues/re-issues (which, in recent times, are often pressed from whatever 'best' tapes or digital sources are currently available) - many so-called 'audiophile' new 180g pressings are cut from hi-res digital sources…essentially an expensive CD pressed on vinyl.  Why  experience the worse elements of both formats?  These are just High Maintenance CDs, with mid-ranges so cloaked with a veil as to sound smeared.  They are nearly always compressed with murky transients and a general lifelessness in the overall sound.  There are exceptions where re-masters/re-presses outshine the original issues, but they are exceptions and not the norm.

First or early pressings nearly always have more immediacy, presence and dynamics. The sound staging is wider.  Subtle instrument nuances are better placed with more spacious textures. Balances are firmer in the bottom end with a far-tighter bass. Upper-mid ranges shine without harshness, and the overall depth is more immersive.  Inner details are  clearer.

On first and early pressings, the music tends to sound more ‘alive’ and vibrant.  The physics of sound energy is hard to clarify and write about from a listening perspective, but the best we can describe it is to say that you can 'hear' what the mixing and mastering engineers wanted you to hear when they first recorded the music.  

     
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