ELTON JOHN, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road USA 1st pressing Excellent- 2LP

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Elton John – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road  Label: MCA Records – MCA2-10003 Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Album, Gloversville Pressing, Roll-fold Country: US Released: 1973 Genre: Rock Style: Pop Rock A1 Funeral For A Friend (Love Lies Bleeding) 11:08 A2 Candle In The Wind 3:50 A3 Bennie And The Jets 5:23 B1 Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Guitar [Leslie] – Davey* 3:14 B2 This Song Has No Title 2:23 B3 Grey Seal Congas – Nigel* 3:58 B4 Jamaica Jerk-off Vocals [Interjections] – Prince Rhino 3:59 B5 I've Seen That Movie Too 5:59 C1 Sweet Painted Lady Tambourine – Nigel* 3:52 C2 The Ballad Of Danny Bailey (1909-34) 4:24 C3 Dirty Little Girl 5:01 C4 All The Girls Love Alice Backing Vocals – Kiki Dee Effects [Car Effects] – Nigel* Tambourine – Ray Cooper 5:08 D1 Your Sister Can't Twist (But She Can Rock 'n Roll) Slide Guitar – Davey* 2:42 D2 Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting 4:54 D3 Roy Rogers Steel Guitar – Davey* 4:08 D4 Social Disease Banjo – Davey* Saxophone – Leroy Gomez 3:44 D5 Harmony 2:45 Manufactured By – MCA Records, Inc. Pressed By – MCA Pressing Plant, Gloversville Copyright © – MCA Records, Inc. Phonographic Copyright ℗ – This Record Co. Ltd. Published By – Dick James Music, Inc. Recorded At – Strawberry Studios, France Remixed At – Trident Studios Acoustic Guitar – Davey* (tracks: A3, B5, C1, D3, D5) Arranged By [Orchestra] – Del Newman (tracks: B1, B5, C1, C2, D3, D5) Art Direction – David Costa Art Direction, Illustration [Inside Cover Illustration] – David Larkham, Michael Ross (3) Backing Vocals – Davey* (tracks: A2, B1, C2, D1, D5), Dee* (tracks: A2, B1, C2, D1, D5), Nigel* (tracks: A2, B1, C2, D1, D5) Bass – Dee* (tracks: A1 to A3, B1, B3 to D5) Coordinator – Steve Brown* Drums – Nigel* (tracks: A1 to A3, B1, B3 to D5) Electric Guitar – Davey* (tracks: A1 to A3, B3 to B5, C2, C3 to D2, D4) Electric Piano – Elton* (tracks: B2, B3) Engineer – David Hentschel Engineer [Assistant] – Andy Scott Illustration ["Harmony" & "Saturday Night" Illustrations] – David Scutt Illustration [Outside Cover Illustration] – Ian Beck Lyrics By – Bernie Taupin Mellotron – Elton* (tracks: B2, B3, C3) Music By – Elton John Organ – Elton* (tracks: A3, B4) Organ [Farfisa] – Elton* (tracks: B2, D1) Piano – Elton* (tracks: A1 to A3, B1 to B3, B5 to C2, C4 to D5) Piano [Leslie] – Elton* (tracks: C3) Producer – Gus Dudgeon Remix [Assistant Engineer] – Peter Kelsey Synthesizer [A.R.P.] – David Hentschel (tracks: A1, C4) Written-By – Toots Taupin* (tracks: B4), Elton John & Bernie Taupin, Reggae Dwight* (tracks: B4) Tri-fold cover, Lp's housed in plain sleeves.

USA DOUBLE VINYL ALBUM IN TRI-FOLD SLEEVE WITH ORIGINAL WHITE INNER SLEEVES.

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

DISCS: EXCELLENT MINUS. NO SCRATCHES, JUST A FEW LIGHT HAIRLINES. 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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