AEROSMITH Classics Live! SEALED! 1986 Columbia FC 40329 1ST PRESSING! STERLING!

Sold Date: July 17, 2024
Start Date: May 20, 2022
Final Price: $64.99 (USD)
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Vinyl:  SEALED!   This is the Original 1986 Columbia FC 40329 Columbia 1ST PRESSING!  Aerosmith LIVE!  At the height of their decadent bloozy powers!  Along with some of their better-knowns, this one has some LIVE killer B-sides and rarities as well as "Major Barbra", a Super-Rare outtake from their first album!

Cover: SEALED! (see photos).   Nice high gloss on cover. Front and back of cover artwork and text are rich, clear and bright.  Seams and spine are solid and clean.  The corners have minimal wear.  No writing.  A few minor creases.  Spine print is crystal clear.  Has some sticker residue on the front cover.  The shrink has splits at the corners and there are splits in two places at the opening of the jacket, but there's enough of the shrink intact at the opening to ensure that the record has never exited the jacket--this is a new record. Mastered at Sterling Sound, NYC (credited on the back cover).

The record appears straight; when I look down with one eye down all 4 edges there's no big, ominous bow to it that would suggest that it's warped.
I will gladly accept the return of Sealed records as long as they have not been opened (i.e. as long as they are still in the condition I sent them in).  Every record has a "fingerprint" of imperfections in the seal and/or the cover and I separately photograph and keep these details to prevent fraudulently returned items...yep, there are a few rotten apples out there!)  I will not accept a previously sealed record that has been opened, even if the complaint is that the record is warped.  This is why I look down the edge of all 4 sides of the record, to assess for potential bowing.  Look for that in the description of the covers of all my Sealed items. Thanks!  By the way, I've never (knock on wood!) had a buyer complain that they received a warped Sealed record.  :)

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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 Peter Kurtz

One of the most inauspicious debuts by a major rock group, this subdued slice of country boogie might be called the missing link between  and the later, revved-up  of "Listen to the Music." Only a handful of West Coast hippies bought this record originally, but it lays the blueprint for ' future radio-friendly sound: chugging rhythm guitar, stretched-out harmonies, 's joyful R&B vocals, and ' acoustic picking. A muffled mixing job helped keep this album in the morgue, which is sad, because "Nobody" and "Greenwood Creek" rate with some of 's best tunes, and they deserve issuance on a definitive  compilation.