DAVID CROSBY If I Could Only Remember My Name VG/VG+ MONARCH DEAD AIRPLANE CSNY

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Vinyl:  VG/VG+ Play Graded. Sounds Great!  Atlantic Labels are Clean. This is the Original 1971Atlantic 1st Pressing!  SD-7203.   This is the Definitive version, Mastered at Artisan Sound Recorders of Pasadena, California and Pressed at Monarch Records Mfg. Corp of Los Angeles, CA!  Undeniably, Crosby's Finest Hour as a Solo Artist, bar none!  With a little help from his friends such as Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna, Santana, Joni Mitchell, CSNY...you get the idea.  And yet, it is an UNDERAPPRECIATED GEM!!!   allmusic gives it 4 1/2 stars!!!
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In the Dead Wax: Side 1:  ST-A-712107-A  MO  "MR", with a circle  ((the stamper for Monarch Records Mfg. Corp, Los Angeles, CA)  "delta"  15665  AT  W  and the glyph for the Artisan Sound Recorders of Pasadena, CA.
Side 2:  ST-A-712108-A A  MO  "MR", with a circle  ((the stamper for Monarch Records Mfg. Corp, Los Angeles, CA)  "delta"  15665-X  AT  W  and the glyph for the Artisan Sound Recorders of Pasadena, CA.
Cover: VG+ (see photos)  Original Gatefold, textured Cover.  Includes the Atlantic sleeve. 
Goldmine Standards.    I play test every album that I sell on eBay as I have found you can't rate an LP accurately by just visually inspecting an album.  I wipe the dust off of every cover with clean, unscented baby wipes.  I professionally clean the vinyl.
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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.    

AllMusic Review by Stanton Swihart  [-]

David Crosby's debut solo album, If I Could Only Remember My Name is a one-shot wonder of dreamy but ominous California ambience. The songs range from brief snapshots of inspiration (the angelic chorale-vocal showcase on "Orleans" and the a cappella closer, "I'd Swear There Was Somebody Here") to the full-blown, rambling western epic "Cowboy Movie," and there are absolutely no false notes struck or missteps taken. No one before or since has gotten as much mileage out of a wordless vocal as Crosby does on "Tamalpais High (At About 3)" and "Song With No Words (Tree With No Leaves)," and because the music is so relaxed, each song turns into its own panoramic vista. Those who don't go for trippy Aquarian sentiment, however, may be slightly put off by the obscure, cosmic storytelling of the gorgeous "Laughing" or the ambiguous (but pointed) social questioning of "What Are Their Names," but in actuality it is an incredibly focused album. Even when a song as pretty as "Traction in the Rain" shimmers with its picked guitars and autoharp, the album is coated in a distinct, persistent menace that is impossible to shake. It is a shame that Crosby would continue to descend throughout the remainder of the decade and the beginning of the next into aimless drug addiction, and that he would not issue another solo album until 18 years later. As it is, If I Could Only Remember My Name is a shambolic masterpiece, meandering but transcendentally so, full of frayed threads. Not only is it among the finest splinter albums out of the CSNY diaspora, it is one of the defining moments of hungover spirituality from the era.