CROSBY, STILLS, NASH & YOUNG Four Way Street RARE FINAL UK PLUM PRESS EX/INSERT.

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	$		68

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Artist or Band: CROSBY, STILLS, NASH & YOUNG

Album Title: Four Way Street

Producer(s): David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, Neil Young

TRACK LIST:

Side 1: Suite: Judy Blue Eyes; On the Way Home; Teach Your Children; Triad; The Lee Shore; Chicago.

Side 2: Right Between the Eyes; Cowgirl in the Sand; Don't Let It Bring You Down; 49 Bye-Byes/America’s Children; Love the One You’re With.

Side 3: Pre-Road Downs; Long Time Gone; Southern Man.

Side 4: Ohio; Carry On; Find the Cost of Freedom.

Label/Format: Atlantic, original red and maroon (‘Plum’) format with matt, gently textured surfaces.

Label Conditions: All clean, fresh and attractive with only few and light spindle marks on the first record, more moderate on the second. All four sides play very well.

NOTE: This late Plum album includes the new Kinney cover that includes the K60003 Atlantic sticker inside and this number is also printed on the cover as well. So this is a reprint cover made by Gothic Print Finishers Ltd, but includes the final run of Plum original records to use existing stock. When using original records under a new publisher (which is not so unusual to finish stock), a sticker was obliged to be put on the new cover as the catalogue numbers are not the same.

Catalogue Number: 2657004 (the original number seen on the plum labels). Then changed to K60003, as per the newly printed record sleeve.

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 Records: 140 / 138 grams.

Country of Manufacture: England (for all). This album was often issued in imported American-made covers.

Rarity: A relatively late album on the plum label format, hence moderately scarce. Soon to be changed to the new Kinney format. Hence, ‘transition’ copies surface sometimes.

Original Year of Release: 1971

Matrix Nos: 2400132 A?1 1 2 1 / 2400132 B//2 1 1 4 / 2400133 C?1 1 1 3 / 2400133 D?1 1 1 ?

Musicians: David Crosby – vocals, guitar; Stephen Stills – vocals, guitar, piano, organ; Graham Nash – vocals, guitar, piano, organ; Neil Young – vocals, guitar; Calvin ‘Fuzzy’ Samuels – bass; Johnny Barbata – drums.

Brief Info: A brilliant double live album that proved to be their last under this name until 1988. Well-received and recorded, the superb performance hid the tensions within the band and they did not record together again for some time. The fall-out is even mentioned by Frank Zappa on the Mothers ‘Fillmore East’ album which is described as ‘fighting’. This a full UK-made copy – the cover a second print with the new Kinney number and Atlantic sticker inside, but both records are first issue pressings with the prized plum labels, the gatefold insert sheet is also included. Both records plays very well and I regard this as one of the greatest live albums from this time.

Cover Grade and Format: EXCELLENT: with most of any wear on the bottom storage edges. An unlaminated gatefold format with matt, smooth surfaces. Printed and made in England by the Gothic Print Finishers Ltd with the new K60003 catalogue number and Atlantic sticker inside as seen in close-up. The gatefold lyric insert is included along with the new plain white inner sleeves.

Cover Front: A challenging dark matt cover that often wears badly. This front is still attractive with little wear and minimal fine creasing. The lack of ring wear and sticker issues always good news on such covers.

Cover Back: Similar again, even better if anything. I have rarely seen any version of this cover with so little rim impression and lack of ugly ring wear, any traces being very gentle and faint. Double sets with such dark artwork seldeom escape so lightly.

Cover Inner Gatefold: Little to fault on these clean surfaces, the Kinney sticker barely aged at all, its ends crisp and neat.

Top Edges: Both straight and flat with any rub traces little, faint and very patchy indeed.

Bottom Edges: Light to moderate quite patchy rubbing.

Right Edge(s), and Type: Both ends open for storage, any thickening little and light.

Spine and Text: A superb spine (for a change), one that actually retains all its text with minimal wear to its dark surface. Solid, straight with barely any compression and folded quite square, so the edges meet up closely together and parallel.

Corners: Tip rubs are quite light (most) to moderate (bottom right) with very fine and mostly excellent shape retained with no knocks.

Cover Summary: This second print Kinney numbered (and stickered) cover remains unusually attractive and should please many collectors.

The Inner Sleeves: Both NEAR EXCELLENT: two solidly plain white unlined inners with the ‘PATENT Nos. 1,125,555’ text. Any creasing little and light with all edges naturally intact. Any discolouration or ageing to the paper mild.

The Lyric Insert: EXCELLENT(++): a gatefold matt lyric sheet printed one side only on quality textured and watermarked paper (see under light). Clean, still fresh with any creasing gentle and faint with no hard creases by the manufactured fold. Crisp and untorn, this often elusive and missing altogether.

Vinyl Condition/Visual Grading: EXCELLENT(+) / EXCELLENT(–): a very fine and fine visual copy that is very clean with equally fine shine and very solidly pressed. A pair with modest plays on all the evidence with any surface marks very light, wispy and faint as seen critically under bright light, record one has minimal traces at all, thus the higher grading. No penetrating stylus scratches, viewed in average room light, littleg even registers. Visually nice records 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 classic live double album plays even above it’s high visual grading with little 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 does have some quiet passages – overall a clean pressing with no tracking issues* or inherent pressing noises. Few available copies will outperform these first issue plum pressings. Clearly one of the last sold before the new colour labels were used. Little of any spoilt my pleasure when play-grading these fine records. They could prove 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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