BLACK SABBATH, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath [with insert] USA 1st pressing LP
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Black Sabbath – Sabbath Bloody Sabbath Label: Warner Bros. Records – BS 2695 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Terre Haute Press Country: US Released: 1974 Genre: Rock Style: Hard Rock, Heavy Metal Tracklist A1 Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath 5:35 A2 A National Acrobat 6:20 A3 Fluff 4:10 A4 Sabbra Cadabra 5:55 B5 Killing Yourself To Live 5:35 B6 Who Are You? 4:10 B7 Looking For Today 5:00 B8 Spiral Architect 4:40 Companies, etc. Produced For – Excellency Productions Mastered At – Customatrix Pressed By – Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Terre Haute Made By – Warner Bros. Records Inc. Designed At – Pacific Eye & Ear Published By – Rollerjoint Music Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Warner Bros. Records Inc. Copyright © – Warner Bros. Records Inc. Record Company – Warner Bros. Records Inc. Credits Acoustic Guitar – Tony* (tracks: A3, B3, B4) Arranged By [The Phantom Fiddlers] – Black Sabbath (tracks: B4), Wil Malone (tracks: B4) Bagpipes, Electric Guitar – Tony* (tracks: B4) Bass – Geezer* Coordinator – Mark Forster (2) Design Concept [Album] – Pacific Eye & Ear Drums, Percussion – Bill* Electric Guitar, Organ, Flute – Tony* (tracks: B3) Engineer – Mike Butcher Guitar – Tony* Handclaps – Bill* (tracks: B3), Geezer* (tracks: B3), Ozzy* (tracks: B3), Tony* (tracks: B3) Illustration – Drew Struzan Management [Direction] – Patrick Meehan Mastered By – CR* Mellophone – Geezer* (tracks: B2) Other [Nose] – Geezer* (tracks: B4) Photography By – Shepard Sherbell Piano – Tony* (tracks: A3, A4, B2) Piano, Synthesizer – Rick Wakeman (tracks: A4) Producer – Black Sabbath Steel Guitar, Harpsichord – Tony* (tracks: A3) Strings – The Phantom Fiddlers (tracks: B4) Synthesizer – Geezer* (tracks: B2), Ozzy* (tracks: B1, B2), Tony* (tracks: B1) Tape Op – Frank Silvagni, George Nicholson, Les Martin Timpani – Bill* (tracks: B2, B4) Vocals – Ozzy* Written-By, Arranged By – Black Sabbath Notes ℗ © 1974 Warner Bros. Records Inc.
USA FIRST PRESSING VINYL ALBUM WITH LYRIC INSERT AND ORIGINAL COMPANY INNER SLEEVE.
SLEEVE: VERY GOOD+, SOME SHELF, CORNER, EDGE AND RING WEAR. TWO INCH TOP RIGHT SEAM SPLIT. INSERT VERY GOOD+, INNER SLEEVE HAS SEAM SPLITS.
DISC: VERY GOOD+. NO SCRATCHES BUT SOME PLAY SCUFFS AND FINGERPRINTS. 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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