Vinyl:  EX Play Graded. Sounds Excellent!  ABC Labels are Clean and Bright.   This is the Original 1977 ABC 1st Pressing!  AA-1006.  Arguably The Dan's Finest Hour!  Jazz Rock Fusion at its best!   allmusic gives it 4 1/2 stars!!!  One of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All-Time!!! See Review Below!
In the dead wax: Side 1:   T1  ((Pressed at Columbia's Terre Haute, IN Pressing Plant))  AA 1006 (RE-3) -A T5  
Side 2:     T1  ((Pressed at Columbia's Terre Haute, IN Pressing Plant))  AA 1006 (RE-3) -B-1 
      
Cover: VG++ (see photos) Gatefold.  Includes the Original pasteboard lyric/credits inner sleeve.  Nice high gloss on cover. Front and back of cover artwork and text are rich, clear and bright, with some creases and minor ring wear on the back cover.  Seams, spine and corners are solid and clean, with minimal wear.  No splits.  No writing.  Spine print is crystal clear.
Goldmine Standards.    I play grade 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 Stephen Thomas Erlewine 

 hadn't been a real working band since , but with ,  and 's obsession with sonic detail and fascination with composition reached new heights. A coolly textured and immaculately produced collection of sophisticated jazz-rock,  has none of the overt cynicism or self-consciously challenging music that distinguished previous  records. Instead, it's a measured and textured album, filled with subtle melodies and accomplished, jazzy solos that blend easily into the lush instrumental backdrops. But  isn't just about texture, since  and 's songs are their most complex and musically rich set of songs -- even the simplest song, the sunny pop of "Peg," has layers of jazzy vocal harmonies. In fact,  ignores rock on , preferring to fuse cool jazz, blues, and pop together in a seamless, seductive fashion. It's complex music delivered with ease, and although the duo's preoccupation with clean sound and self-consciously sophisticated arrangements would eventually lead to a dead end,  is a shining example of jazz-rock at its finest.