Styx Equinox Canadian-only AUDIOPHILE half-speed mastered 1978 RARE NEAR MINT
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Description
Styx
Equinox
Limited Edition Canadian Half-Speed Mastered Audiophile
A&M Records SPJ-4559 1978 12" 33 rpm (Canada)
Equinox is the fifth album by Styx, released in December 1975.
The album was the band's first release for A&M Records (with whom they signed earlier in 1975, after the unexpected success of the single "Lady").
The album also marked the final appearance of original Styx guitarist John Curulewski who left the band abruptly following the release of Equinox. The band went into a frantic search to find a replacement for their upcoming tour to support Equinox. Soon after, they found Tommy Shaw.
The album's biggest hit was the track "Lorelei", which was Styx's second US Top 30 hit. Another well-known song in the album was "Suite Madame Blue" (the title of which has a play on the word "sweet" to refer to the musical term of "suites", i.e. unrelated instrumental successions) which was written about the upcoming Bicentennial of the US. The track became a staple for all Styx tours with Dennis DeYoung. It's a rare example of a Styx song that (briefly) requires four voice parts; during the Return to Paradise tour, the "America" bridge would be sung by DeYoung, Shaw, James Young and the usually silent Chuck Panozzo.
Tracklist
A1 Light Up 4:12
A2 Lorelei 3:20
A3 Mother Dear 5:23
A4 Lonely Child 3:49
B1 Midnight Ride 4:18
B2 Born For Adventure 5:10
B3 Prelude 12 1:17
B4 Suite Madame Blue 6:32
Manufactured By – A&M Records Of Canada Limited
Distributed By – A&M Records Of Canada Limited
Bass, Vocals – Chuck Panozzo
Drums, Percussion, Vocals – John Panozzo
Guitar, Vocals – James Young
Guitar, Vocals, Synthesizer – John Curulewski
Keyboards, Vocals, Synthesizer – Dennis DeYoung
Audiophile Series pressed in Japan
Condition: 12" LP is NEAR MINT in plastic inner sleeve in a picture sleeve in EXCELLENT condition in a plastic protector
A Note About Shipping To The U.S.We are located in Canada, but have registered ourselves on eBay.com instead of eBay.ca because it gives us significantly better global exposure. The problem with this is that eBay wants us to charge shipping appropriate to US, where media mail and other options make for fairly reasonable delivery costs. We tried it for a while but ended up losing money on shipping or having to cancel the orders because we couldn't afford to ship for those rates. To manage this we have set the US shipping to run a calculator based on an American location (we chose Plattsburgh as fairly close) and charging according to UPS pricing. This avoids the cancellation issue, but appears to the buyer to be a prohibitive shipping cost and misrepresents the shipping as being only expedited. If you give us your postal code we will see if we can offer a more reasonable option, but generally we can get a single LP by air to most places in the continental US for $11, a few bucks less for ground.
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Jeff Green, e-sales
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