BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD Last Time Around RARE ORIG UK 1969 EX+ ATCO LP, GREAT SOUND.

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Artist or Band: BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD

Album Title: Last Time Around

Producer(s): Jim Messina

TRACK LIST:

Side 1: On the Way Home; It’s So Hard to Wait; Pretty Girl Why; Four Days Gone; Carefree Country Day; Special Care.

Side 2: The Hour of Not Quite Rain; Questions; I Am a Child; Merry-Go-Round; Uno Mundo; Kind Woman.

Label/Format: ATCO original format with matt, gently textured surfaces.

Label Conditions: Both very clean, fresh and attractive with only two or three very light spindle traces and no wear around the hole area. This splendid record appears hardly played.

Catalogue Number: 228024

Mode / Speed: Stereo / 33.3 rpm.

Warps: Assume all records I offer have no warping of any significance and all tracking is easy and effortless and should play on all turntables and even ‘budget’ decks.

Weight of Record: 146 grams.

Country of Manufacture: England

Rarity: Scarce, not a major seller in the UK and seldom seen as a first issue. It is arguably the rarest UK example of their three albums.

Original Year of Release: 1969

Matrix Nos: 228024 A//2 1 1 ? / 228024 B//2 1 1 2

Musicians: Stephen Stills – guitar, piano, organ, bass, vibes, percussion, background vocals, vocals; Neil Young – guitar, harmonica, piano, background vocals, vocals; Richie Furay – guitar, vocals; Dewey Martin – drums; Jim Messina – bass, vocals; Bruce Palmer – bass. With: Buddy Miles – drums; Jimmy Karstein – drums; Gary Marker – bass; Jeremy Stuart – harpsichord, calliope, bells; Rusty Young – pedal steel guitar; Richard Davis – bass.

Brief Info: The third and final Buffalo Springfield album, issued after the band had split. Nonetheless, a very fine set with excellent contributions from all the principle members. However, it failed to sell well and largely went unnoticed in the UK. Thus any UK pressing is hard to find, and superb first pressings even more so. Buffalo Springfield were a massively important band that launched the careers of Neil Young and Stephen Stills – two giants of rock. This album has been described by critics as “A Beautiful Farewell”.

Cover Grade and Format: EXCELLENT(+): and rarely seen as such. An unlaminated gatefold format with matt, smooth surfaces, the front is single thickness card, hence its fragility. Printed and made in England by MacNeill Press, includes the Philips style 1969 date-coded inner sleeve.

Cover Front: A very impressive front that is prone to all forms for wear. This has barely any rubbing at all and remains fresh and attractive. A gentle crease near the top right area shows little with no breakage of the ink, also a tiny faint surface crease near the lower left corner, there is little else. Any surface marks few and faint and the lack of sticker issues to this intolerant surface is also great news. This unforgiving front will never prove easy to find better.

Cover Back: Small tip rubs and little else, this actually better than the front with barely a crease to be seen. The lack of ring wear is always great news on these type of covers.

Cover Inner Gatefold: Any blemishes to the right side minimal and faint, again this is very impressive. The left side has only gentle traces of set-off where dark ink rests upon white when close, a common trait for such covers and near impossible to avoid unless any owner foresaw this and put a sheet of paper inbetween. Let’s be honest – who would ever have done so? This is probably as light as it ever gets and a natural blemish only. This apart, there is little else to fault, and even the fragile single thickness spine card is neat and unsplit.

Top Edges: Both straight and flush, any rubbing to the fold minimal and light. Any thickening of the card also light.

Bottom Edges: Generally, similar to above.

Right Edge(s), and Type: All three edges are still quite sharp with no feathering of the fragile front single thickness front. Record enters on the back edge.

Spine and Text: Still quite solid with a little tilt to right, most of these will be totally flat and crushed, so this has fared quite well. Still straight with minimal actual compression and folded square, so the edges meet up very closely together and parallel. Some mild rubbing on the lower fold in the central area, but this has avoided all the text which is fully intact and strong. These style of spines are more often seen threadbare and damaged, this is still in very fine condition as seen.

Corners: Mild tip rubbing, the right ones with hardly any, very fine and mostly excellent shape retained with no knocks.

Cover Summary: A very strong all-round example of this highly wear-prone dark cover, one that will prove difficult to find much better. This attractive item should please many collectors.

The Inner Sleeve: EXCELLENT(+): a Philips style polylined inner that is date-coded 1/069 (June 1969) and is British patented. Both window circles neat and undamaged, the lining still clear and intact. Only very gentle discolouration of the paper, barely creased with all edges naturally intact.

Vinyl Condition/Visual Grading: EXCELLENT(+): a very fine visual copy that is very clean with equally fine shine and very solidly pressed by Philips. A copy with minimal plays on all the evidence with any surface marks mostly very light, wispy and faint as seen critically under bright light. Just one minor fine scuff that does nothing at all. No penetrating stylus scratches, viewed in average room light, hardly anything even registers. Visually a super record that should please many collectors.

Album Played For Grading: Yes. [I play ALL records I offer before submitting to Ebay, also the record is played in its entirety unless clearly stated otherwise. I do NOT play snippets or joining grooves to check for sound quality and quietness – I play from the beginning to end via clinically revealing equipment, all listed further down.]

Sound Quality and Audio Grading: This rare original final album plays even above it’s high visual grading with hardly anything to fault. Offering strong, distortion-free sound, all frequencies are sharp and clear – sound quality is very high with a wide dynamic range and very detailed sound. Any surface sounds are minimal indeed and this is a very clean pressing with no tracking issues* or inherent pressing noises. Few available copies will outperform this early first pressing I feel sure. Both channels are clean and sharp, I am certain this record has been played very lightly and has been generally well stored and carefully handled with in a non-smoking environment. Nothing spoilt my pleasure when play-grading this lovely record. It will prove very difficult to find significantly better and can be strongly recommended.

* As played-graded on a high-end Linn LP12 Sondek turntable with Ittok Mk II arm and Ortofon Quintet Black moving coil cartridge tracking at 2 grams. Records are a ‘contact’ format, and few will avoid the odd minor sound blemish.

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Deck: Linn LP12/Hercules/Cirkus with Ittok Mk II arm and Ortofon Quintet Black moving coil cartridge (tracks at 2 grams). Amps: Naim Supernait 2 with Project USB phono stage and Tellerium Black interconnects. Speakers: B&W 805 Nautilus (bi-wired with Tellurium Black terminated cable) with REL subwoofer. All records I offer on Ebay are cleaned on a professional Nessie vacuum machine before play-grading for the cleanest and best possible sound and will include a brand new lined inner and protective cover too. Pictures taken with a Nikon D7500 DSLR Camera.

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