DOORS, The Doors MONO USA 1st pressing LP Light My Fire/Break On Through

$

150

 Label: Elektra – EKL-4007 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Allentown Record Co. Inc. Country: US Released: 1967 Genre: Rock Style: Psychedelic Rock, Blues Rock, Art Rock A1 Break On Through (To The Other Side) 2:25 A2 Soul Kitchen 3:30 A3 The Crystal Ship 2:30 A4 Twentieth Century Fox 2:30 A5 Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar) Written-By – Brecht*, Weill* 3:15 A6 Light My Fire 6:50 B1 Back Door Man Written-By – C. Burnett*, W. Dixon* 3:30 B2 I Looked At You 2:18 B3 End Of The Night 2:49 B4 Take It As It Comes 2:13 B5 The End 11:35 Pressed By – Allentown Record Co. Inc. Copyright © – Nipper Music Published By – Witmark Art Direction, Design – William S. Harvey Directed By [Production Supervisor] – Jac Holzman Drums – John Densmore Engineer – Bruce Botnick Guitar – Robbie Krieger* Organ, Piano, Bass – Ray Manzarek Photography By [Back Cover] – Joel Brodsky Photography By [Front Cover] – Guy Webster Producer – Paul A. Rothchild Vocals – Jim Morrison First Allentown pressing Features: "(Weill-Brecht, Witmark ASCAP)" publishing credit on Side One label below Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar). Words & Music to all songs by The Doors (unless otherwise indicated) © Copyright Nipper Music ASCAP

USA MONO FIRST PRESSING VINYL ALBUM WITH ORIGINAL COMPANY INNER SLEEVE.  The faint BG squiggle in the run-offs might indicate a Bernie Grundman mastering but we cannot confitm this.

MATRIX:  SIDE A: EKL 4007A (A) ARC 1/30/67 BG; SIDE B: EKL 4007B (A) ARC 6/17/7 BG.

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

DISC: VERY GOOD+. NO SCRATCHES, BUT THERE ARE SOME PLAY SCUFFS, FINGERPRINTS AND HAIRLINES. SMALL PEN MARKS ON BOTH LABEL SIDES.

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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