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·       THE ROLLING STONES – START ME UP –1981 ROLLING STONES RECORDS MONO / STEREO SINGLE  – ULTRA RARE ORIGINAL MONO VERSION OF THIS CLASSIC ROLLING STONES ROCKER!!! – ROLLING STONES MONO/STEREO SINGLE RS-21003 (ON THE PICTURE SLEEVE) / RS-40243-SP (ON THE LABELS)

 

·       ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING

 

·       SPECIAL TWO SIDED PROMOTIONAL-ONLY MONO AND STEREO SINGLE (SAME SONG ON BOTH SIDES) WITH ULTRA-RARE MONO VERSION OF THE SONG ON ONE SIDE – UNKNOWN TO EXIST ANYWHERE ELSE  - AND REGULAR STEREO VERSION ON THE OTHER SIDE    

 

 

·       *** WHITE LABEL PROMO ***

 

 

·       ORIGINAL ROLLING STONES RECORDS LABEL (WHITE LABEL PROMO ON THE MONO SIDE, PALE BLUE PROMO ON THE STEREO SIDE)

 

·       SPECIALTY RECORDS, OLYPHANT, PA  PRESSING.

 

·       The bidders should note that this is a rare Bob Ludwig-mastered “hot pressing” of this album, with his initials “RL” (Robert Ludwig) etched in the trail-off vinyl of the disc. All the wonderful elements of Bob Ludwig’s trademark mastering style are here: incredible clarity and balanced channel separation, vivid and spacious “ambience” sound, as well as wide dynamic and frequency range of the sound spectrum.  As is almost always the case with Bob Ludwig’s masterings, the Bob Ludwig-mastered pressings of this album are CONSIDERABLY rarer than the regular, non-Ludwig copies of this album.

 

·       THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST U.S. PRESSING; THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.

 

·       INCLUDES ORIGINAL PICTURE SLEEVE

 

·       NOTE: CONTENTS OF THE SINGLE DOES NOT FULLY CORRESPOND TO THE LISTING ON THE PIC SLEEVE (THIS IS A STOCK SLEEVE (PROMO PIC SLEEVES DO NOT EXIST) AND B-SIDE OF THE STOCL PRESSING (”NO USE IN CRYING”)  IS NOT ON THIS ACTUAL PROMO SINGLE

 

·       CLEAN, WEAR-FREE LABELS

 

·       THE RECORD HAS A 'MASTERDISK' STAMP IN THE TRAIL-OFF VINYL (DEAD WAX) AREA, WHICH IS GENERALLY CONSIDERED A PROOF OF AUTHENTICITY OF THE FIRST PRESSING.

 

·       MONO version of this classic Stones song has NEVER been available on legitimate Compact Disc or in any other digital format.

 

(►PLEASE SEE THE IMAGE OF THE COVER, LABEL OR BOTH, SHOWN BELOW)

(Note: this is a REAL image of the ACTUAL item you are bidding on. This is NOT a "recycled" image from our previous auction. What you see is what you’ll get.  GUARANTEED!)

 

 

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There were hits after "Start Me Up," but at this remove, it's undeniable that this 1981 single was the last great Rolling Stones song. That is, it's a riff-rocker in the tradition of "Honky Tonk Women" or "Satisfaction," a tough little rock & roll song powered by one of Keith Richards' trademark riffs and a solid Charlie Watts backbeat. The riff and the backbeat are so good, in fact, that it's easy to ignore the fact that, really, the song doesn't actually go anywhere: other than the repeated "You make a grown man cry" bridge, the verse (that is, riff plus backbeat) is the entire song. Although the whole thing is over in a concise three and a half minutes, the song is so static that it feels much longer; the extended fade, over which Mick Jagger awkwardly ad-libs a few more lines including the immortally dorky "You make a dead man come," doesn't help. As one of the most beloved Rolling Stones songs, "Start Me Up" is particularly ripe for parody, the most perfect being the deadpan folk singalong that the Folksmen (Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, and Harry Shearer) perform on A Mighty Wind: The Album; Shearer's spoken word recitations of Jagger's poesy, delivered in his Principal Skinner voice from The Simpsons, are particularly priceless.

 

 (EXCERPT FROM AN ONLINE SONG REVIEW BY STEWART MASON, ALL MUSIC GUIDE  /ALLMUSIC.COM/)

 

Wanna get a clue how The Stones’  classic 1981 "Start Me Up” album would have sounded had it been recorded and released in mono?  Well, you can get yourself one right here and now: This giga-rare version of the title track appears here in glorious MONO. Unheard of!!! Rare in any condition.

 

What we have here technically DOES NOT EXIST and is not supposed to exist. To our best knowledge, the existence of this PROMO-ONLY mono version of this great song has never been substantiated, and none of the price books and guides currently in print make any reference to its history or background. According to both Tim Neely and Neil Umphread price guides (multiple editions), there is no such thing… The historical importance of this item cannot be overestimated: this is an equivalent of discovering a long-lost animal or plant species!!!.

 

The WHITE LABEL PROMO, RADIO STATION-, AUDITION OR DEMONSTRATION COPIES AND RELEASES (such as the one we have here) were routinely distributed among the radio stations before the record was released to the public, sometimes as much as 4 months ahead. These records are generally considered to be the "first among equals", which is to say the VERY FIRST generation and the VERY FIRST pressings of the particular title

 

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·       CONDITION:

 

·       45-RPM SINGLE RECORD:

 

(IMPORTANT NOTE: unless otherwise noted below, ALL records are graded visually, NOT play-graded!)

 

(a)          THE RECORD IS  (WEAK) NEAR MINT. Some MICROSCOPIC  abrasions  are visible, but are for all practical purposes inaudible,  and do not affect visual integrity or beauty of the vinyl. The original luster is very much intact, and the vinyl shines and sparkles almost like new.

 

(b)            White Label Promo-only MONO/STEREO version of this title is much rarer that a regular, commercially released, version of this title. We estimate that stock copies of this album outnumber promo copies by a ratio of at least 300:1.

 

(c)           PLEASE NOTE:  This - of course - is an ANALOG recording, and not an inferior, digital, newly mastered recording!!!

 

 

·       PICTURE SLEEVE

 

THE SLEEVE IS NICE --- ABOUT EXCELLENT OR VERY GOOD+++.

 

-        Sleeve has  light wrinkling along the edges

 

-         Sleeve has a partially split bottom seam (between 1 and 2 inches  / 2.5 to 5 centimeters)

 

-         Sleeve has JUST A HINT of ring wear (nothing significant); On the scale from 1 to 10 (1 being the least, and  10 being the most severe), we assess the severity of ring wear as 1.

 

 

NO OTHER VISIBLE FLAWS OR IMPERFECTIONS ON THE SLEEVE

 

 

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