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 ZZ Top – First Album Label:London Records – PS 584 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Waddell Press Country:US Released:1971 Genre:Rock, Blues Style:Blues Rock, Texas Blues Tracklist Hide Credits A1(Somebody Else Been) Shaking Your Tree Written-By – Gibbons* Written-By – Gibbons*2:32 A2Brown Sugar Written-By – Gibbons* Written-By – Gibbons*5:22 A3Squank Written-By – Ham*, Gibbons*, Hill* Written-By – Ham*, Gibbons*, Hill*2:46 A4Goin Down To Mexico Written-By – Ham*, Gibbons*, Hill* Written-By – Ham*, Gibbons*, Hill*3:26 A5Old Man Written-By – Gibbons*, Hill*, Beard* Written-By – Gibbons*, Hill*, Beard*3:23 B1Neighbor, Neighbor Written-By – Gibbons* Written-By – Gibbons*2:18 B2Certified Blues Written-By – Ham*, Gibbons*, Beard* Written-By – Ham*, Gibbons*, Beard*3:25 B3Bedroom Thang Written-By – Gibbons* Written-By – Gibbons*4:37 B4Just Got Back From Baby's Written-By – Ham*, Gibbons* Written-By – Ham*, Gibbons*4:07 B5Backdoor Love Affair Written-By – Ham*, Gibbons* Written-By – Ham*, Gibbons*3:20 Companies, etc. Pressed By – H.V. Waddell Co. Credits Bass, Vocals – Dusty Hill Design [Album] – Bill Narum Drums – Rube Beard* Lead Guitar, Vocals – Billy Gibbons Photography By – Frank Jaubert Producer – Bill Ham Notes London Records Inc. 539 West 25th Street, New York, N.Y. 10001  London Records label matrix suffix W = H.V. Waddell, Burbank, CA  Barcode and Other Identifiers Matrix / Runout (Label Side A): SAHS 1586 W Matrix / Runout (Label Side B): SAHS 1587 W Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, stamped (-W etched)): SAHS 1586-W Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, stamped (-W etched)): SAHS 1587-W  

USA FIRST PRESSING VINYL ALBUM IN TEXTURED SLEEVE WITH ORIGINAL PRINTED INNER SLEEVE. Only the first and early pressings of this album have the original mix on, since the CD era the album has had a different, more modern (and many might say inferior) mix.

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

DISC: EXCELLENT MINUS. NO SCRATCHES, JUST A FEW LIGHT HAIRLINES AND FINGERPRINTS. CLEAN LABELS. This is the best condition 1st pressing of this title we have seen in a long time, and they aren't getting any easier to find.

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, the music tends to sound more ‘alive’ and vibrant and you 'hear' what the mixing and mastering engineers wanted you to hear when they first recorded the music.