FREE, Free MONARCH USA 1st pressing Excellent- LP Paul Kossoff

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Free – Free Label: A&M Records – SP 4204, A&M Records – SP-4204 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Monarch Press Country: US Released: 1969 Genre: Rock Style: Classic Rock, Blues Rock A1 I'll Be Creepin' 3:15 A2 Songs Of Yesterday 3:31 A3 Lying In The Sunshine 4:02 A4 Trouble On Double Time 3:34 A5 Mouthful Of Grass 3:36 B1 Woman 3:45 B2 Free Me 5:37 B3 Broad Daylight 3:33 B4 Mourning Sad Morning 5:03 Published By – Irving Music, Inc. Published By – Lupus Music Lacquer Cut At – Bell Sound Studios Pressed By – Monarch Record Mfg. Co. – △13899 Design [Album Design By] – Ron Raffaelli, The Visual Thing Inc.* Lacquer Cut By – sf* Performer – Andy Fraser, Paul Kossoff, Paul Rodgers, Simon Kirke Producer – Chris Blackwell Written-By – Fraser*, Kossoff* (tracks: A4), Rodgers*, Kirke* (tracks: A4) A1, A2, A4, A5, B1, B3, B4: Irving Music, Inc. (BMI) A3, B2: Lupus Music (BMI) Catalog # on sleeve (spine, front & back): SP 4204 Catalog # on labels: SP-4204 Runouts are etched except for MR (in a circle) and Bell Sound which are stamped.

USA BROWN LABEL FIRST PRESSING VINYL ALBUM WITH ORIGINAL COMPANY INNER SLEEVE.

MATRIX:  SIDE A: SP-#4307 -3...(MR) Bell Sound sf △13899 ④; SIDE B: SP-#4308 -3...(MR) Bell Sound sf △13899-X ③.

SLEEVE: VERY GOOD+, JUST LIGHT SHELF, CORNER, EDGE AND RING WEAR.   INNER SLEEVE HAS MIDDLE BOTTOM SEAM SPLIT.

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.  

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