RAINBOW, Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow USA 1st pressing EXCELLENT- LP

Sold Date: March 17, 2021
Start Date: March 12, 2021
Final Price: $39.99 (USD)
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  Rainbow ‎– Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow Label: Polydor ‎– PD 6049 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Gatefold  Country: US Released: 1975 Genre: Rock Style: Classic Rock, Heavy Metal Tracklist  A1Man On The Silver Mountain4:38 A2Self Portrait3:16 A3Black Sheep Of The Family3:20 A4Catch The Rainbow6:40 B1Snake Charmer4:30 B2The Temple Of The King4:46 B3If You Don't Like Rock N' Roll2:36 B4Sixteenth Century Greensleeves3:35 B5Still I'm Sad3:53 Companies, etc. Distributed By – Polydor Incorporated Manufactured By – Polydor Incorporated Copyright (c) – Deep Purple (Overseas) Ltd. Phonographic Copyright (p) – Deep Purple (Overseas) Ltd. Manufactured By – Deep Purple (Overseas) Ltd. Lacquer Cut At – Kendun Recorders Mastered At – Kendun Recorders Pressed By – PRC Recording Company, Richmond, IN Recorded At – Musicland Studios Published By – Owl Music Ltd. Published By – Armchair Music Credits Backing Vocals – Shoshana*  Bass – Craig Gruber Cover [Prepared By] – Agi (4) Drums – Gary Driscoll Guitar – Ritchie Blackmore Illustration – David Willardson Photography, Cover, Coordinator – Fin Costello Piano, Mellotron, Clavinet, Organ – Mickey Lee Soule Producer, Mixed By – Martin Birch Vocals – Ronnie James Dio Notes 2391 190 printed on either side of disc just below cat #.  "The Wasp" is hand-etched in the dead wax on Side 1, a reference to Martin (The Wasp) Birch  Printed In U.S.A.  ©1975 Reprinted by permission  All rights reserved  

USA FIRST PRESSING VINYL ALBUM IN GATEFOLD SLEEVE WITH ORIGINAL WHITE INNER SLEEVE.

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

DISC: EXCELLENT. NO MARKS OR SCRATCHES. 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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