Simply Vinyl 180 Test Pressing Bob Dylan Planet Waves

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Simply Vinyl SVLP331 Bob Dylan Planet Waves Ultra rare 180 Gram LP Test Pressing  in M- or better condition.  There is a one inch split on the top cover seam.  I have been grading LPs for many years (check the feedback).  It looks unplayed under a harsh light.  LP label looks like the cover and does have the proper catalog numbers in the LP trailoff.  It is very likely that only 3-15 of these exist in the world.

Reteaming with the Band, Bob Dylan winds up with an album that recalls New Morning more than The Basement Tapes, since Planet Waves is given to a relaxed intimate tone ? all the more appropriate for a collection of modest songs about domestic life. As such, it may seem a little anticlimactic since it has none of the wildness of the best Dylan and Band music of the '60s ? just an approximation of the homespun rusticness. Considering that the record was knocked out in the course of three days, its unassuming nature shouldn't be a surprise, and sometimes it's as much a flaw as a virtue, since there are several cuts that float into the ether. Still, it is a virtue in places, as there are moments ? "On a Night Like This," "Something There Is About You," the lovely "Forever Young" ? where it just gels, almost making the diffuse nature of the rest of the record acceptable.

Acetates and Test Pressings are the prototypes and test models of a recording. Before a record is mass produced, it is tested to see if it meets both artistic and technical approval.

The first pressings to be run off the mother are test pressings. It is after this second approval that the record is then mass produced... first promotional copies are pressed, then retail copies. Most test pressings are labeled... some are not.

Several masters can be cut and plated for manufacturing at several plants or to accommodate subsequent stamps. The first pressings of a new stamp are technically better than following pressings, and because test pressings and promotional copies are pressed on a limited run, they usually are more desirable and valuable.

Simply Vinyl manufactures a high quality LP pressed on Virgin Vinyl. The LP sound is unbelievable.

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