CROSBY, STILLS, NASH & YOUNG Déjà Vu SCARCE ORIG UK 1971 EX++ ATLANTIC PLUM LP.

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Artist or Band: CROSBY, STILLS, NASH & YOUNG

Album Title: Déjà Vu

Producer(s): David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash and Neil Young.

TRACK LIST:

Side 1: Carry On; Teach Your Children; Almost Cut My Hair; Helpless; Woodstock.

Side 2: Déjà Vu; Our House; 4.20; Country Girl; Everybody I Love You.

Label/Format: Atlantic – original red and maroon (‘plum’) format with matt, very gently textured surfaces.

Label Conditions: Both very clean, fresh and attractive with any spindle traces very few, equally light and faint. This record appears hardly played and sound quality is impressive.

Catalogue Number: 2401001

Mode / Speed: Stereo / 33.3 rpm.

Warps: Few vintage records are ever perfectly ‘flat’, so some slight or very gentle arm movement is normal. If any record I offer has more than that, I will mention it, and it can be assumed all I offer should track without issues, even on budget turntables.

Weight of Record: 114 grams.

Country of Manufacture: England

Rarity: Moderately scarce as a first issue. This has the UK-made cover, many included the imported American version and are different.

Original Year of Release: 1970

Matrix Nos: 2401001 A ? 1 1 3 1 3 / 2401001 B ? 1 1 4 1

Musicians: David Crosby – vocals, rhythm guitar; Stephen Stills – vocals, guitars, bass, percussion; Graham Nash – vocals, keyboards, rhythm guitar, percussion; Neil Young – vocals, guitars, keyboards, harmonica. Dallas Taylor – Percussion; Gregory Reeves – bass; Jerry Garcia – steel guitar; John Sebastian – harmonica.

Brief Info: The term ‘beautiful album’ was never more appropriate than for this timeless masterpiece. I can hardly believe this album is now fast approaching 50 years old. After the success of Crosby, Stills & Nash, Neil Young joined the trio and instantly became a superstar, the quartet equally so, if only for only a brief time. Déjà Vu sold well, making the top spot in the US and a very healthy 5 in the UK. All four members excel with their own self-written titles, my personal favourites are Young’s delicately sensitive ‘Helpless’, Nash’s beautiful ‘Teach Your Children’ and Crosby’s post-hippy anti-establishment tour de force ‘Almost Cut My Hair’, probably the most powerful song he ever wrote. The album features wonderful harmonies and sublime songs and no album collection should ever be without a copy. Very difficult to find clean examples however, the cover especially is so prone to wear, which is a shame for such a lavish design – this has some edge rubbing, but the record appears hardly played and is impressive.

Cover Grade and Format: VERY GOOD: it could be argued better still for one of the most intolerant and unforgiving covers of its time, most rubbing confined to the edges, especially the storage lower ones. But the main areas are really very nice indeed and would grade near excellent on their own. An unlaminated gatefold with matt surfaces. The front and back are beautifully, and heavily textured, the inside is smooth. Gold leaf is applied to the front and spine, this lightly embossed. The front picture panel is a paste-on sheet, again delicate. Printed and made in England by the E. J. Day Group. The Philips-style inner sleeve is date-coded 0571 (May 1971).

Cover Front: ‘Difficult’ hardly covers this one – a very dark brown textured surface, with gold block embossed text and a shaped paste-on graphic picture. Firstly, the embossed gold text and details are little short of perfect with fresh shine and nothing eroded or lost at all. The same goes for the graphic panel is virtually pristine as seen in close-up. Most of any rubbing on the folds and corner tips which is patchy and with only modest visibility with full front-on viewing. Only gentle traces of speckle on the raised edges that few can hope to escape totally, and three light surface marks near the bottom edge that have not broken the ink, hence modest visibility – I am reasonably sure these are gripper marks in manufacture are they are replicated in the same place on the back – so a natural trait and almost certainly nothing to do with ‘wear’. The lack of creasing and sticker issues is a plus. Overall, this front is still attractive.

Cover Back: The impossibly wear-prone virtually solid dark brown surface is very similar again to the front and generally impressive again. The lack of ugly penetrating ring wear, heavy rubbing and creasing on both main outer surfaces is best news possible, but again some patchy rubbing seen on the tips and folds.

Cover Inner Gatefold: Clean and attractive again, the only blemish of note being a small darkened adhesive smear from manufacture just above Crosby’s head, also directly opposite on the left where it sits when closed, this being lighter there. A common trait seen on gatefold insides.

Top Edges: Both straight and flat with light to moderate fairly patchy rubbing.

Bottom Edges: Again straight with more consistent moderate, less patchy rubbing. These dark storage edges seldom escape rubbing with normal shelf storage.

Right Edge(s), and Type: Mostly sharp with any thickening little and light. Record enters on the back edge, the front is closed and factory machine cut (e.g. it has a white edge).

Spine and Text: Overall, a splendid spine, but with a fairly small rub, any others are few, small and light. Solid, straight with minimal compression, any tilt only light. Folded close to square, so the edges meet up closely together but not quite parallel. More unusually, the gold block text is still present and superb unworn – the American version did not include the spine text.

Corners: At least moderate tip rubbing on the right corners, lesser on the spine ends. Reasonably fine shape retained however with no knocks.

Cover Summary: The edge folds apart, still a strong example of this immensely fragile 1970’s cover, one that could still prove difficult to find much better. Any example of this one with no wear is a very rare indeed. This attractive item should please many collectors, but not for purists who want perfection at any cost.

The Inner Sleeve: NEAR EXCELLENT: the Philips style polylined inner that is date coded 20 0571 (May 1971). Both window circles undamaged and neat, the lining still reasonably clear. The paper lightly aged with the usual discolouration of the seam area adhesive, but has very little creasing with all edges naturally intact.

Vinyl Condition/Visual Grading: EXCELLENT(++): arguably better. A superb visual copy that is very clean with equally fine shine and solidly pressed. The cover may have some wear, but record is very impressive and appears hardly played with any surface traces very few, equally light and faint as seen critically under bright light. No penetrating stylus scratches, viewed in average room light, hardly anything even registers. Visually a super record that should please many, if not most collectors.

Album Played For Grading: Yes. [I play ALL records I offer before submitting to Ebay, also the record is played in its entirety unless clearly stated otherwise. I do NOT play snippets or joining grooves to check for sound quality and quietness – I play from the beginning to end via clinically revealing equipment, all listed further down.]

Sound Quality and Audio Grading: This classic album plays to it’s high visual grading with little to fault. Offering strong, distortion-free sound, all frequencies are sharp and clear – sound quality is very high with a wide dynamic range and very detailed sound. Any surface sounds are minimal indeed – and this does have some quiet songs and passages, so the odd minor contact sound blemish is immensely difficult to avoid totally. But this is a very clean pressing with no tracking issues* or inherent pressing noises. Few available copies will outperform this very early first pressing I feel sure. Both channels are clean and sharp, I am certain this record has been played only lightly and carefully handled. Nothing of any real note spoilt my pleasure when play-grading this lovely record and it will prove very difficult to find significantly better. If the very good cover is acceptable, the record and copy can be highly recommended.

* As played-graded on a high-end Linn LP12 Sondek turntable with Ittok Mk II arm and Ortofon Quintet Black moving coil cartridge tracking at 2 grams. Records are a ‘contact’ format, and few will avoid the odd minor sound blemish.

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