BLACK SABBATH featuring TONY IOMMI, Seventh Star USA EXCELLENT- LP

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  Black Sabbath Featuring Tony Iommi ?– Seventh Star Label: Warner Bros. Records ?– 9 25337-1, Warner Bros. Records ?– 1-25337 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Club Edition  Country: US Released: 1986 Genre: Rock Style: Hard Rock TracklistHide Credits A1 In For The Kill 3:48 A2 No Stranger To Love Bass – Gordon Copley 4:28 A3 Turn To Stone 3:28 A4 Sphinx (The Guardian) 1:12 A5 Seventh Star 5:20 B1 Danger Zone 4:26 B2 Heart Like A Wheel 6:36 B3 Angry Heart 3:06 B4 In Memory... 2:36 Companies, etc. Record Company – RCA Music Service – R-144077 Manufactured By – RCA Music Service Licensed To – RCA Music Service Phonographic Copyright (p) – Warner Bros. Records Inc. Copyright (c) – Warner Bros. Records Inc. Recorded At – Cheshire Sound Studios Mastered At – Artisan Sound Recorders Credits Art Direction, Design – Steve J. Gerdes* Bass – Dave "The Beast" Spitz* Drums – Eric Singer Engineer [Assistant] – Scott Church Guitar [All Guitars] – Tony Iommi Keyboards – Geoff Nichols* Lyrics By [Additional] – Geoff Nichols*, Glenn Hughes, Jeff Glixman Management [World Representation, Jet Management] – David Arden (3), Don Arden Mastered By – Greg Fulginiti Mastered By [Originally Mastered At Artisan Recorders, Hollywood] – Greg Fulginiti Music By, Lyrics By – Tony Iommi Photography By – Kevin Stapleton (2) Photography By [Additional] – Kevin Stapleton (2) Producer, Engineer – Jeff Glixman Vocals – Glenn Hughes   

USA RECORD CLUB PRESSING VINYL ALBUM WITH ORIGINAL PRINTED INNER SLEEVE.

SLEEVE: VERY GOOD+, JUST LIGHT SHELF, CORNER, EDGE AND RING WEAR.  CORNER BUMP.  INNER SLEEVE HAS MIDDLE SEAM SPLITS.

DISC[S]: EXCELLENT. NO MARKS OR SCRATCHES. 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.

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.  

     
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