BOB DYLAN, Highway 61 Revisited MONO USA 1st pressing with misprinted sleeve LP

$

93

Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited Label: Columbia – CL 2389 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Pitman pressing Country: US Released: Aug 30, 1965 Genre: Rock Style: Folk Rock, Blues Rock Tracklist Hide Credits A1 Like A Rolling Stone Producer – Tom Wilson (2) Producer – Tom Wilson (2) 5:59 A2 Tombstone Blues 5:53 A3 It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry 3:25 A4 From A Buick 6 3:06 A5 Ballad Of A Thin Man 5:48 B1 Queen Jane Approximately 4:57 B2 Highway 61 Revisited 3:15 B3 Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues 5:08 B4 Desolation Row 11:18 Companies, etc. Mastered At – Customatrix Published By – M. Witmark & Sons Pressed By – Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Pitman Credits Bass – Harvey Goldstein, Russ Savakus Drums – Bobby Gregg Guitar – Charlie McCoy, Michael Bloomfield* Guitar, Harmonica, Piano, Sounds [Police Car Sounds] – Bob Dylan Liner Notes – Bob Dylan Organ, Piano – Al Kooper Photography By [Cover] – Daniel Kramer (2) Piano – Frank Owens Piano, Organ – Paul Griffin Producer – Bob Johnston Written-By – B. Dylan* Notes "Nonbreakable" under A & B-side label catalogue nos "CL 2389" #7 jacket has mistake "meaningful" on rear which was later changed to "Meaningless" in next to last paragraph of text.  

USA MONO FIRST PRESSING VINYL ALBUM IN MISPRINTED TYPO SLEEVE WITH ORIGINAL WHITE INNER SLEEVE.

MATRIX:  SIDE A: 0 XLP110638-1A P A ? /  SIDE B: 0 XLP110639-1A P.

SLEEVE: VERY GOOD, SOME GENERAL SHELF, CORNER, EDGE AND RING WEAR. TOP SCUFFING, PEN MARK ON FRONT, RED STAMP ON REAR.  INNER SLEEVE HAS SEAM SPLITS.

DISC: VERY GOOD. NO SCRATCHES, BUT CLEARLY A PLAYED COPY WITH PLAY SCUFFS, HAIRLINES AND SPINDLE WEAR. DISC PLAYED WITHOUT SKIPS OR JUMPS BUT SOME TICKS IN PLACES.  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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