Sold Date: April 26, 2020
Start Date: February 10, 2020
Final Price: $17.99 (USD)
Seller Feedback: 1246
Buyer Feedback: 19

Vinyl:  NM- Play Graded. Sounds Great!  Olivia Labels are Clean. This is the 1977 Olivia 1ST PRESSING!!  LF915.  This is a very Rare and dynamic anthology of San Francisco Bay Area/Northern California Lesbian folk music of the 1970s and some nice Latin/Rock 'n Roll/Jazz Fusion music to boot.    The music collective that was Olivia records was a model for grassroots record companies that approached equanimity in their business practices and so, in that respect, this is a very historic record, with a couple of great inserts that have information on the formation of Olivia Records, bios for Linda Tillery (of the psychedelic 60s group The Loading Zone), Lesbian Folk Innovator Meg Christian, Cris Williamson, and many others.
In the Dead Wax:  side 1:  a glyph that looks like a buttercup flower followed by 32455 LF 915A - RE - 1     #8 Side 2:   32455915-BS   OPEN OTHER END  AZ
Cover: EX+ (see photos)  Includes the Lyric/Photos poster which also has an essay on Lesbianism, about Olivia Records and various other commentary.  There is also an insert offering Olivia Records products, like shirts, records, songbooks.  Also has a few Bios on Olivia artists.
Goldmine Standards.    I play test every album that I sell on eBay as I have found you can't rate an LP accurately by just visually inspecting an album.  I wipe the dust off of every cover with clean, unscented baby wipes.  I professionally clean the vinyl.
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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.