GIRLS TOGETHER OUTRAGEOUSLY Permanent Damage VG+ w Booklet Zappa Miss PamelaA1B1

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Vinyl: VG+ Play Graded. Sounds Great!  Side 1 track 2 and track 4 have a soft repeating tick sound for about a minute each.  Straight Labels are Clean.   This is the 1969 U.K. Import 1ST PRESSING!  The GTO's Opus!  If you're uninitiated, do yourself a favor and study up on this fascinating bevy of beauties from the latter days of the Swingin' Sixties!  Super cool grooves, sexy cute pop confections and a Stone Blues Groove or two courtesy of the likes of Frank Zappa, Lowell George, Rod Stewart, Davy Jones (!) and various Mothers and Groupie Acolytes! allmusic gives it 4 1/2 stars!!! See Review Below!
In the Dead Wax:  Both sides have the following stampers:  Side 1:  STS 1059-A1  Side 2:  STS 1059-B1  There are also 3 dots forming a triangle on both sides.
Cover: VG+ (see photos; name written small on inside of gatefold)  Gatefold...one of the greatest inside Gatefolds Ever!  The Girls give shout-outs, pouts and pleasures!   Includes the Rare Booklet...sing along with the Girls Together Outrageously!!!!!  :)
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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.

AllMusic Review by Lindsay Planer  [-]

This 17-track aural document is arguably more sociological than musical in nature. Frank Zappa's insatiable curiosity into human behavior -- especially with regard to all manner of sexual deviance and the so-called "lunatic fringe" -- became the subject of several releases on his ironically titled Straight Records vanity label. However, Permanent Damage (1969) is additionally unique for including an interesting aggregate of late-'60s musical talent, ranging from Monkee Davy Jones to Lowell George. The moniker G.T.O.'s stands for "Girls Together Outrageously," which describes the ragtag group whose stated primary directive was to bed as many pop and rock stars as they possibly could. Such is the subject matter of the vast majority of both the spoken word and musical numbers on the album. As is the case with most Zappa-related projects, the results vacillate wildly between the ridiculous "Miss Christine's First Conversation With the Plaster Casters of Chicago" and "Miss Pamela's First Conversation With the Plaster Casters of Chicago" to the comparatively sublime "Captain's Fat Theresa Shoes," a tribute to Captain Beefheart's odd choice of footwear. Concurrent Mothers of Inventionkeyboardist Don Preston also contributes a darkly beautiful musical arrangement on "TV Lives." Additionally, there are a few non-musical inclusions, such as "Wouldn't It Be Sad if There Were No Cones?" and "Moche Monster," both of which provide a unique, if not somewhat inspired, perspective into the young ladies' social interactions. While a majority of the G.T.O.'s garnered no further significant successes, the most infamous member to have come through the ranks is Miss Pamela (aka Pamela des Barres), whose tell-all novel I'm With the Band (1987) was an international bestseller.