The Doobie Brothers ‎– What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits Label: Warner Bros. Records ‎– W4 2750, Warner Bros. Records ‎– WS4 2750 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Quadraphonic  Country: US Released: 1974 Genre: Rock, Folk, World, & Country Style: Soft Rock, Classic Rock, Acoustic, Blues Rock, Hard Rock Tracklist Hide Credits A1Song To See You Through4:06 A2Spirit3:15 A3Pursuit On 53rd St.2:33 A4Black Water4:17 A5Eyes Of Silver2:57 A6Road Angel4:49 B1You Just Can't Stop It3:28 B2Tell Me What You Want And I'll Give You What You Need3:53 B3Down In The Track Piano – James Booker 4:15 B4Another Park Another Sunday4:27 B5Daughters Of The Sea4:29 B6Flying Cloud2:00 Companies, etc. Mastered At – JVC Cutting Center Pressed By – Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Terre Haute Credits Art Direction, Design [Album Design] – Chas Barbour Autoharp – Arlo Guthrie Congas, Timbales – Eddie Guzman Drums – John Hartman, Michael Hossack Engineer – Donn Landee Keyboards – Bill Payne Lacquer Cut By – Tadashi Hyakkan Marimba, Pandeiro, Tabla – Milt Holland Mastered By – Darrell Johnson Producer – Ted Templeman Saxophone – Andrew Love Steel Guitar [Pedal] – Jeff Baxter Viola – Novi*  Vocals, Bass – Tiran Porter Vocals, Guitar – Patrick Simmons, Tom Johnston Notes With fold out poster. Recorded at Warner Bros. Studios, No. Hollywood and at the Burbank Studios, Burbank Catalog number appears as W4 2750 on spine and back cover and WS4 2750 on disc labels. Barcode and Other Identifiers Matrix / Runout: WS4-2750 | S40759 - QUAD 1A TH Matrix / Runout: WS4-2750 | S40760 - QUAD 1B TH  

USA QUADRAPHONIC VINYL ALBUM WITH POSTER AND ORIGINAL COMPANY INNER SLEEVE.

SLEEVE: VERY GOOD+, JUST LIGHT SHELF, CORNER, EDGE AND RING WEAR.  POSERT AND INNER SLEEVE VERY GOOD+ WITH NO SEAM SPLITS.

DISC: EXCELLENT MINUS. NO SCRATCHES, JUST A FEW FINGERPRINT SPOTS. CLEAN LABELS.

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.  

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