CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & THE MAGIC BAND, Doc At The Radar Station PROMO USA Exc- LP

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  Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band – Doc At The Radar Station Label: Virgin – VA 13148 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Speciality Pressing Country: US Released: Sep 1980 Genre: Rock, Blues Style: Alternative Rock, Avantgarde Tracklist Hide Credits A1 Hot Head 3:21 A2 Ashtray Heart Drums – Drumbo, John French Drums – Drumbo, John French 3:26 A3 A Carrot Is As Close As A Rabbit Gets To A Diamond 1:37 A4 Run Paint Run Run 3:38 A5 Sue Egypt 2:57 A6 Brickbats 2:40 B1 Dirty Blue Gene 3:50 B2 Best Batch Yet 5:00 B3 Telephone 1:33 B4 Flavor Bud Living Guitar – Gary Lucas Guitar – Gary Lucas 5:08 B5 Sheriff Of Hong Kong Bass, Drums – Drumbo, John French Bass, Drums – Drumbo, John French 6:32 B6 Making Love To A Vampire With A Monkey On My Knee 3:10 Companies, etc. Phonographic Copyright ? – Virgin Records, Inc. Record Company – Virgin Records, Inc. Published By – Singing Ink Music Distributed By – Atlantic Recording Corporation Recorded At – Soundcastle Mixed At – Soundcastle Mastered At – CBS Studios, New York Pressed By – Specialty Records Corporation Credits Art Direction, Design – Michael Hollyfield Drums – Robert Arthur Williams Engineer – Glen Kolotkin French Horn – Gary Lucas Guitar, Slide Guitar [Nerve Guitar] – Jeff Moris Tepper Guitar, Slide Guitar, Marimba – Drumbo, John French Mastered By – Stanley Kalina* Photography By – Michael Kent Rothman Synthesizer, Bass, Mellotron, Grand Piano, Electric Piano – Eric Drew Feldman Trombone – Bruce Lambourne Fowler* Vocals, Gong [Chinese Gongs], Harmonica, Soprano Saxophone, Bass Clarinet – C.B.*, Don Van Vliet Written-By, Producer, Arranged By, Painting, Illustration – Don Van Vliet  

USA PROMO STAMPED FIRST PRESSING VINYL ALBUM WITH ORIGINAL WHITE INNER SLEEVE.

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

DISC: 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, the music tends to sound more ‘alive’ and vibrant and you 'hear' what the mixing and mastering engineers wanted you to hear when they first recorded the music.  

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