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The Doobie Brothers – What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits Label:Warner Bros. Records – W 2750, Warner Bros. Records – W2750 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Pitman pressing Country:US Released:1974 Genre:Rock Style:Soft Rock, Classic Rock Tracklist 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 Track4:15 B4Another Park Another Sunday4:27 B5Daughters Of The Sea4:29 B6Flying Cloud2:00 Companies, etc. Record Company – Warner Bros. Records Inc. Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Warner Bros. Records Inc. Copyright © – Warner Bros. Records Inc. Pressed By – Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Pitman Recorded At – Warner Bros. Recording Studios Recorded At – The Burbank Studios Published By – Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp. Published By – Lansdowne Music Published By – WB Music Corp. Designed At – Lotus (6) Credits Arranged By [Horns] – Andrew Love, The Memphis Horns, Wayne Jackson Art Direction, Design [Album] – Chas Barbour Autoharp – Arlo Guthrie Congas, Timbales – Eddie Guzman Coordinator [Production] – Benita Brazier Drums – Michael Hossack Engineer – Donn Landee Engineer [Additional] – Lee Herschberg Keyboards – Bill Payne Management – Bruce Cohn Marimba, Pandeiro, Tabla – Milt Holland Pedal Steel Guitar – Jeff "Skunk" Baxter* Photography By [All Photos] – Dan Fong Piano – James Booker (tracks: B3) Producer – Ted Templeman Viola – Novi* Written-By – Patrick Simmons (tracks: A4, B1, B2, B5), The Doobie Brothers (tracks: A6), Tiran Porter, Tom Johnston (tracks: A1 to A3, A5, B3, B4) Notes Pressing variation Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Pitman. W2750 on spine W 2750 on back sleeve & label Recorded at Warner Bros. Studios, No. Hollywood and at the Burbank Studios, Burbank Included a 11.5" x 23" color foldout poster with live band images.  

USA FIRST PRESSING VINYL ALBUM WITH POSTER AND ORIGINAL COMPANY INNER SLEEVE.

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

DISC: EXCELLENT MINUS. NO SCRATCHES, JUST A FEW VERY LIGHT HAIRLINES. 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, 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.