JEFF MONN Reality VG++ 1968 Vanguard VSD 79291 1ST PRESSING THE THIRD BARDO
  $   45

 


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Jan 13, 2024 Sold Date
Nov 8, 2023 Start Date
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Vinyl:  VG++ Play Graded. Sounds Great!  Has some marks that don't affect the sound quality.
Vanguard Labels are Clean and Bright.  This is the 1968 Vanguard 79291 1ST PRESSING!!!
Fresh from a stint with legendary Garage Psych band, The Third Bardo ("Five Years Ahead Of My Time"--see the Nuggets
Anthology), Jeff Monn did something rare in the fickle world of Rock:  he reinvented himself and made an
amazing piece of music.  Aided by the PDQ Bach wizard, Peter Schickele, Monn delved into the amazing
world of Baroque Pop/Psych/Rock with unique numbers like My Good Woman, Walk Around In Your Disguise and
bizarrely wonderful Soul workups of old blues songs like Jimmy Reed's Ain't That Lovin' You, Baby, and tasty versions
of Rolling Stones songs like Backstreet Girl and I'm Free.  1968 was an amazing year for Rock 'N Roll where they could
do stuff like this...Dig In...

 See Review Below!
In the Dead Wax: Matrices, stamped.  Complete Dead Wax information cheerfully provided upon request.
Cover: VG+ (see photos)  Nice gloss on cover.  Front and back of cover artwork and text are rich, clear and bright, with some shelf wear.  Seams, corners and spine are solid and clean, with some wear.  No splits.  No stickers.  Name written on back cover.  Spine print is mostly readable.   

Goldmine Standards.   I play grade every record 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.  (I also operate a Vinyl Record Cleaning business for your dusty/dirty records--if interested, send me a message).


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All records are packaged securely with the vinyl outside the jacket (to avoid seam split in transit). The vinyl and jacket are sandwiched between two cardboard stiffeners and shipped in a custom cardboard record mailer box. 
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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. 

Reality Review by Richie Unterberger

Not too many lead singers for obscure snarling garage bands got the opportunity to record solo albums in the late '60s in a more mature style. For that reason alone, Reality has some curiosity value, and musically it's not bad, though it's something of an oil-and-water project. Jeff Monn wrote most of the material on the album, leaning toward the kinds of sounds the Rolling Stones favored in their folkier 1960s moments; indeed, he tackles a couple of Rolling Stones tunes, "Backstreet Girl" and "I'm Free." Monn sometimes adopted a Mick Jagger-ish aggressive vocal, although he was also capable of more conventionally purer and sweeter tones. His somewhat unhoned talents were embellished by orchestration from Peter Schickele, aka P.D.Q. Bach, making for an odd though not grating apposition of rock and baroque. It's not too memorable, as Monn's songs are only adequate pop-folk-rock with a somewhat muted aggressive attitude. But it's not a bad curiosity, not sounding like too many other recordings of its era.


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