Sold Date: September 7, 2020
Start Date: August 25, 2020
Final Price: $19.99 (USD)
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Vinyl:  VG/VG+ Play Graded. Sounds Very Good!  There is a mark on side 1 song 2 that causes a repeating soft tick sound in the background on and off for about 3 minutes 15 seconds and another mark on Side 1 song 2 causing a repeating soft tick sound in the background for 15 seconds.  The overall feeling of listening to this album is one of vinyl bliss and joy.  I kept listening to it over and over...Warner Brothers Labels are Clean.  This is the 1970 Warner Brothers 1ST PRESSING! WS 1835.   Here's Van the Man popping with a clutch of his most renowned songs.  Each of them resonates and are emblematic of Van's legacy as one of the most gifted singer-songwriters ever...Caravan is certainly one of the greatest songs ever made...also check out Van's performance of this song with The Band on "The Last Waltz".  Epic.  Enjoy!   One of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time!!!  allmusic gives it 5 stars!! See Review Below!
In the Dead Wax:  side 1: 39621-WS-1835 A RE-1 1D   B
side 2: WS-1835 39622-1A    A    and a symbol that has an oval at its top and an upside down T bisecting it with the cross of the T at the bottom.
Cover:  VG+  (see photos)  Gatefold.  Includes the company sleeve.  Has a compelling Fable written by Van's Lady, Janet Planet, that is a fine complement to the mystic essence that's felt all over this stunning LP.  
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.     AllMusic Review by Jason Ankeny The yang to ' yin, the brilliant  is every bit as much a classic as its predecessor; 's first commercially successful solo effort, it retains the previous album's deeply spiritual thrust but transcends its bleak, cathartic intensity to instead explore themes of renewal and redemption. Light, soulful, and jazzy,  opens with the sweetly nostalgic "And It Stoned Me," the song's pastoral imagery establishing the dominant lyrical motif recurring throughout the album -- virtually every track exults in natural wonder, whether it's the nocturnal magic celebrated by the title cut or the unlimited promise offered in "Brand New Day." At the heart of the record is "Caravan," an incantatory ode to the power of radio; equally stirring is the majestic "Into the Mystic," a song of such elemental beauty and grace as to stand as arguably the quintessential  moment.