NEW MFSL AMERICAN BEAUTY by THE GRATEFUL DEAD NUMBERED 2 LPs SEALED MOFI 45 RPM

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For sale is the numbered,  FACTORY SEALED  MOBILE FIDELITY 180 GR 2 LP of AMERICAN BEAUTY by THE GRATEFUL DEAD!

It is without rips or tears.

Please review all photos thoroughly! Please ask if you wish to have additional photos! If you look very closely at the photos you may be able to see a line of very small holes in the shrink-wrap.  These are now part of factory packaging to prevent moisture buildup underneath the shrink-wrap.

This is a new, factory sealed item that is UNCIRCULATED! It has never been in a store! This LP is shipped in a heavy duty box for protection.

This is a SERIAL NUMBERED ITEM that continues to climb in vlaue! It is NOT recommended that it be unsealed for playing as the value will be adversely affected. If you wish this item for a collection and for listening pleasure, then it is recommended that a already opened item be purchased for that particular purpose or one that does not have a serial number.

Serial Number 002926!

*REPRINTED WITH WRITTEN PERMISSION*

The Grateful Dead American Beauty Numbered Limited Edition 180g 45rpm 2LP 

*Mobile Fidelity MFSL MOFI 180g 45rpm LP* (2LP)

Item Number: MFSL 2-45429

Numbered, Limited Edition 180g 45rpm 2LP set! Mastered from the Original Master Tapes!

Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - Rated 261/500! 

Rolling Stone 2015 Readers' Poll: The 10 Best Jam Bands: The Grateful Dead Rated 1st!

The Most American Folk-Rock Ever Made: Indelible Harmonies, Spare Playing, and Gorgeous Textures Surround Masterfully Crafted Songs

Close Your Eyes As the Dead Serenade You in Your Room: MOFI Edition of American Beauty Epitomizes Realistic Space, Vocals, Instrumentation, and Ambience.

Includes “Truckin’,” “Sugar Magnolia,” “Friend of the Devil,” “Ripple”

American Beauty is the most perfectly realized, superbly played, and openly natural folk-rock record ever released. They don’t make albums like this anymore, but thankfully, Mobile Fidelity’s extraordinary 180g 45RPM 2LP set allows you to experience this 1970 masterpiece with unrivaled intimacy, realism, detail, and perspective. The Dead might as well be sitting on a Persian carpet right in your living room.

The pinnacle of the Dead’s studio output, American Beauty lives up to its name—as well as that of the “American Reality” ambigram on the iconic cover. Airy vocal harmonies blow like fresh breezes. Strummed acoustic guitars amicably intermingle with plaintive percussive beats. Warmth, relaxation, and poignancy envelop the performances and create sensations of bliss, peace, and honesty. Songs flower with majestic melodies and emotionally direct lyrics. It’s a rare album that invites and makes you feel, restores one’s faith, and renews one’s appreciation for all life offers.

Mastered from the original master tapes and pressed on 180g LP at RTI, this deluxe analog set possesses seemingly limitless dynamics, reference-grade presence, and expansive soundstages. The seamless, effortless integration of the group’s vocals has always been a high point of American Beauty, and when you hear it here, you’ll want every record you own to sound half as good. Every member’s distinctive singing resounds with tube-like clarity; the intended expressionism is as plain as day. Instruments, too, resonate in glorious Technicolor. The supple tension of Phil Lesh’s bass lines, charismatic timbres of Jerry Garcia’s pedal-steel fills, and interwoven dialogue between the pianos and percussion are rendered with lifelike scale and tone.

Made just months after its companion release, Workingman’s Dead, the San Francisco legends’ second 1970 masterpiece furthers the former work’s close-knit relationship between country and folk while adding extra rock and bluegrass currents. Understated amplified passages, graceful melodies, layered singing, and old-time string flavors—including mandolin work from masterful guest David Grisman—bestow the material with easygoing, comfortable vibes. Again taking advantage of the best songwriting of Robert Hunter’s career, the Dead turns in its most collective studio performance, with every individual contributing equally and focusing on nothing but the songs at hand.

Indeed, Garcia doesn’t even indulge in a single guitar solo on the record. A majority of fare lacks any significant instrumental breaks. The Dead recorded the foundations (drums, bass, acoustic guitars) of nearly every track live, which helps explain why American Beauty sounds so powerfully rich and clear. Coupled with the band’s personal reflections of the circumstances surrounding them—Bob Weir’s parents had died, Garcia’s mother and Lesh’s father were in the process of passing, Ron “Pigpen” McKernan’s health was in decline—these characteristics combined to yield a purity of heart that exceeds that managed by Dead peers (and roots revivalist leaders) The Band and Bob Dylan.

From Garcia’s breathtaking gospel-laden homage to his mother (“Brokedown Palace”) to Lesh’s healing salve in the form of the groove-based “Box of Rain,” from Weir’s jaunty and free-wheeling summer escape “Sugar Magnolia” to McKernan’s eloquently simple homespun plea “Operator,” all the way to the closing autobiographical anthem “Truckin’,” American Beauty feels like the warm, spirit-infusing embrace of a loved one after a long journey away. Welcome home.

Features:

• Numbered, Limited Edition

• 45rpm Speed Edition

• Mastering by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab

• Specially Plated and Pressed on 180 grams of High Definition Vinyl

• 2LP Set

• Special Static Free - Dust Free Inner Sleeve

• Heavy Duty Protective Packaging

• Mastered from the Original Master Tapes

• Pressed at RTI

Selections:

 LP 1 - Side 1:

 1. Box of Rain

 2. Friend of the Devil

LP 1 - Side 2:

 1. Sugar Magnolia

 2. Operator

 3. Candyman

 LP 2 - Side 3:

 1. Ripple

 2. Brokedown Palace

 3. Till the Morning Comes

LP 2 - Side 4:

 1. Attics of My Life

 2. Truckin’ 

*REPRINTED WITH WRITTEN PERMISSION* 

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