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          SUPER RARE *MONO* 1967 FIRST PRESSING

          360 SOUND COLUMBIA COLLECTIBLE

     ADVANCED RELEASE PROMOTIONAL COPY!!!

          

                                                                                                

                  BOB DYLAN

         JOHN WESLEY HARDING

                

                              

            

\                    USA - Columbia Records 360 Sound - CL 2804 = MONOPHONIC (PROMO)

 

SUPER RARE in MONO even more rare as a ADVANCED RELEASE PROMOTIONAL COPY!!!.... 1967 first printing with original printed inner sleeve

Issued in very limited quantity in MONO format in the last month of 1967 ...

INVESTMENT ITEM ....very few copies were released in MONO and are highly sought after as a result - and clean copies, prime example here - are valued, and sell for triple figures. All major label record companies had all but phased out the mono format by 1967...it's really special to find a MONO pressing of this album, there weren't that many made 45 years ago and far less survived ...

The rare mono release offers different song mixes from the stereo release, as well as a different bold and warm punch in the playback that also differs from the stereo...

Again, super rare 1967 *MONO* collectible on the famously collectible 360 Sound Columbia label of the sixties in CLEAN condition...extremely rare to find the 45 year old album in mono THIS clean ...

Everyone has their own favourite lesser known Dylan album, this is ours.
And a lot better than the very good but flagrantly overrated "Blood On The Tracks".

THEE nighttime Dylan listening LP, it seems cheerfully innocous at first but there is a definite sinister and fatalistic tone just stirring beneath the surface.

For almost the whole duration, the subjects, characters and stories are unremittingly cryptic, dark, bare and have a strange quiet creepiness to them.
The stories are all about Hoboes, Immigrants, Loners, Monks, Gamblers, Murderers, Evil Women, Prisoners, Outlaws and Bandits. See an emerging theme here?

For starters, theres no choruses anywhere, on the whole album.
It's another record with a Dylan cadence that would never be used again, sounds like a mixture of Freewhelin' talking blues with hints of his rural croon, but all done very subtly and quietly.
The sonics too, are superficially pleasant backround but have that strong sense of unease about them. The strange pitter-patter drumming here may actually the most prominent sound, with Dylans guitar being the counter-rhythm, glued together with a nearly inaudible bass. Theres something almost subliminal in the it's simplicity coupled with the weird drums.
Oh, and almost forgot, it contains Bobs best harmonica playing he's ever done. Not something that usually comes to mind when Dylans mentioned but here all the playing is gorgeous, spare and never exists just to fill out the song. The opening Harmonica solo for "As I Went Out One Morning" is stunningly beautiful, with no hyperbole or bullsh*t. The track itself is very haunting with it's strange cryptic story and lovely melody.

After three enormously popular and rocking Electric works, Dylan goes back to-basics in big way. At the time, 1967, the year psychedelic excess was at it's giddy extreme, this record must have sounded impossibly out-of-touch, Dylan really didn't (Doesn't) give a hoot.
It's the most subtly unsettling album to that point heard. It's also a grower, being the most cryptic and sparse albums Dylan ever recorded as well one of the most personaly revealing with "Another Side Of".

A:

John Wesley Harding

As I Went Out One Morning

I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine

All Along the Watchtower

The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest

Drifter's Escape

B:

Dear Landlord

I Am a Lonesome Hobo

I Pity the Poor Immigrant

The Wicked Messenger

Down Along the Cove

I'll Be Your Baby Tonight

 

CONDITION: The cover: is strong and solid = front is near M- with unique promotional song titles stri[p at bottom cover ...back cover is VG++ light shelf wear starting ... all said, given extreme rarity, a final collection copy with NO delete marks, no split seams, no writing, no bends .... final collection copy!!!

The vinyl: is glossy on both sides, rated "EX" (excellent) only a couple visual soft scuffs on side two...total lp: expect to easily plays clean. Potentially an album we would keep in our own collection. Both MONO 360 Sound labels are clean

            

      A cool addition to anyone's music library!

 

SEE: SELLERS OTher items for similar cool sounds for "head" people...

 

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