PAUL McCARTNEY McCartney EX+ 1970 Apple STAO 3363 1ST PRESS RAREST VARIATION
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Vinyl: EX+ Play Graded. Sounds Excellent! NO BARCODE! Apple photo labels are clean and bright. Side 1 has a price sticker that doesn't obscure any of the print on the label. This is the 1970 Apple STAO 3363 1ST PRESSING, Mastered by Lee Hulko at Sterling Sound, NYC, and Pressed at Capitol's Los Angeles, CA Pressing Plant! Capitol's LA pressings are renowned for their clarity and sound quality as they limited the number of copies duplicated from each Master lacquer.
This was Paul's "divorce" album from The Beatles and as such it's his own emancipation proclamation, much in tune with George and John's statements of purpose from this tumultuous Beatle year of 1970. Inside is a fascinating collection of Paul's studio inventions, many in the vein of Singer-Songwriter style that would define much of the most popular music of the 1970s. Paul presents it, though, in a fascinating Proto-DIY style that presages the way music would go more than 10 years after Paul's effort here. He sets the tone for Independent Do-It-Yourself individuals and bands, especially on songs like Junk, OO You, Kreen-Akrore, Momma Miss America...And of course, one of his finest Love songs is here, Maybe I'm Amazed...a Crucial album. Released April 20, 1970. allmusic gives it 4 stars!!!
See Review Below!
IN THE DEAD WAX: Matrices, etched. Also, LH STERLING and the * glyph ((Mastered by Lee Hulko at Sterling Sound, NYC and Pressed at Capitol's Los Angeles, CA Pressing Plant)). Complete Dead Wax information cheerfully provided upon request.
The 1st pressing has 2 cover variations. The more common variation has the Apple Records address in Hollywood, CA on the back cover. This copy for sale has the other back cover variation and is the RAREST of them all. It has the 3-line credits reading "Manufactured by APPLE RECORDS INC. 1700 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10019 Printed in U.S.A." Nice high gloss on cover. Front, Gatefold and back of cover artwork and text are rich, clear and bright with minor shelf wear. Seams, corners and spine are solid and clean, with some wear. Photos and layout by Linda McCartney, making this a beautiful copy of a Linda McCartney print! Spine print is crystal clear.
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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. McCartney Review
by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
[-]Paul McCartney retreated from the spotlight of the Beatles by recording his first solo album at his home studio, performing nearly all of the instruments himself. Appropriately, McCartney has an endearingly ragged, homemade quality that makes even its filler rather ingratiating. Only a handful of songs rank as full-fledged McCartney classics, but those songs -- the light folk-pop of "That Would Be Something," the sweet, gentle "Every Night," the ramshackle Beatles leftover "Teddy Boy," and the staggering "Maybe I'm Amazed" (not coincidentally the only rocker on the album) -- are full of all the easy melodic charm that is McCartney's trademark. The rest of the album is charming, especially if it is read as a way to bring Paul back to earth after the heights of the Beatles. At the time the throwaway nature of much of the material was a shock, but it has become charming in retrospect. McCartney has, with time, increased in prestige and is uncannily "modern" in the DIY sense, impressive, considering when it was released, at a time when the direction in popular music, and Rock, in general were headed for a "back to the roots" style.
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