STEELY DAN, Pretzel Logic USA 1st pressing yellow/red labels LP Rikki Don't...

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Steely Dan – Pretzel Logic Label: ABC Records – ABCD-808 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Pitman Press, Gatefold Country: US Released: Genre: Jazz, Rock Style: Jazz-Rock, Pop Rock, Classic Rock Tracklist Hide Credits A1 Rikki Don't Lose That Number 4:30 A2 Night By Night 3:36 A3 Any Major Dude Will Tell You 3:05 A4 Barrytown 3:17 A5 East St. Louis Toodle-oo Written-By – Bubber Miley, Duke Ellington Written-By – Bubber Miley, Duke Ellington 2:45 B1 Parker's Band 2:36 B2 Through With Buzz 1:30 B3 Pretzel Logic 4:28 B4 With A Gun 2:15 B5 Charlie Freak 2:41 B6 Monkey In Your Soul 2:31 Companies, etc. Phonographic Copyright ℗ – ABC Records, Inc. Copyright © – ABC Records, Inc. Published By – American Broadcasting Music, Inc. Published By – Red Giant Music, Inc. Published By – Mills Music, Inc. Engineered At – The Village Recorder Overdubbed At – Cherokee Studios Mixed At – Cherokee Studios Pressed By – Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Pitman Credits Art Direction, Photography By [Inside Photo] – Ed Caraeff Design – David Larkham Engineer – Roger (The Immortal) Nichols* Lacquer Cut By – Az* Management [Personal] – Kudo III Orchestrated By [Orchestration By] – Jimmie Haskell Other [Security] – Karen Stanley Performer [Special Thanks] – Ben Benay, Chuck Rainey, David Paich, Dean Parks, Ernie Watts, Jeff Porcaro, Jerome Richardson, Jim Gordon, Michael Omartian, Ollie Mitchell, Plas Johnson, Tim Schmit*, Victor Feldman, Wilton Felder Photography By [Cover Photo] – Raenne Rubenstein* Producer – Gary Katz Written-By – D. Fagen* (tracks: A1 to A4, B1 to B6), W. Becker* (tracks: A1 to A4, B1 to B6) There are two different labels both came out the same year some on black labels and some, like this one, multi-colored concentric circles ABC label. Gatefold Packaging. 

USA FIRST PRESSING VINYL ALBUM IN GATEFOLD SLEEVE WITH ORIGINAL WHITE INNER SLEEVE.

• Matrix: P ABCD 808 B RE2 Az A / P ABCD 808-A RE2 Az B

SLEEVE: EXCELLENT MINUS, STILL IN OPENED SHRINK WRAP.   INNER SLEEVE IS VERY GOOD+.

DISC: EXCELLENT MINUS. NO SCRATCHES, JUST A FEW LIGHT PLAY SCUFF 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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