Vinyl:  VG+  Play Graded.  Sounds Great!  Reprise Labels are Clean and Bright.   This is the audiophile acclaimed Reprise R2180 1ST PRESSING!!   This is the second of Neil's Ditch Trilogy, the expression he offhandedly referred to on his Decade retrospective where he referenced having left the middle of the road (Heart Of Gold) and "headed for the ditch", meaning the three releases that contained some of the best insights into hard drugs and also gave us some of the hottest rock n roll of the era:  Time Fades Away, On The Beach and Tonight's The Night...with help from members of The Band, Crosby, Nash and Crazy Horse, references to Manson, the oil shortage, Ticketron...take a Deep Dive!!   ...allmusic gives it 5 stars! 

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In The Dead Wax:  Matrices on both sides, etched.  Also on both sides:  1A.  Complete Dead Wax information cheerfully provided upon request.

Cover: VG+ (see photos)  Includes the Photo/Credits Inner Sleeve.  Front and back of cover artwork and text are rich, clear and bright, with some ring wear.  Seams, corners and spine are solid and clean, with some minor wear.   No splits.  No writing.  Spine print is crystal clear. 

Goldmine Standards.   I play grade every record 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.  (I also operate a Vinyl Record Cleaning business for your dusty/dirty records--if interested, send me a message).

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All records are packaged securely with the vinyl outside the jacket (to avoid seam split in transit). The vinyl and jacket are sandwiched between two cardboard stiffeners and shipped in a custom cardboard record mailer box. 
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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.  
On the Beach Review

by William Ruhlmann

Following the 1973 tour, wrote and recorded an Irish wake of a record called and went on the road drunkenly playing its songs to uncomprehending listeners and hostile reviewers. Reprise rejected the record, and went right back and made , which shares some of the ragged style of its two predecessors. But where was embattled and mournful, was savage and, ultimately, triumphant. "I'm a vampire, babe," sang, and he proceeded to take bites out of various subjects: threatening the lives of the stars who lived in L.A.'s Laurel Canyon ("Revolution Blues"); answering back to , whose "Sweet Home Alabama" had taken him to task for his criticisms of the South in "Southern Man" and "Alabama" ("Walk On"); and rejecting the critics ("Ambulance Blues"). But the barbs were mixed with humor and even affection, as seemed to be emerging from the grief and self-abuse that had plagued him for two years. But the album was so spare and under-produced, its lyrics so harrowing, that it was easy to miss 's conclusion: he was saying goodbye to despair, not being overwhelmed by it.