GEORGE HARRISON Living In The Material World VG++1973 Apple SMAS3410 1ST PRESS

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Vinyl:  EX  Play Graded.  Sounds Excellent!  Has some marks that don't affect the sound quality.  Apple Photo Labels are Clean and Bright.  This is the Original 1973 Apple 1ST Pressing!  SMAS 3410.  This is the audiophile acclaimed pressing, Mastered at The Mastering Lab and pressed at Capitol's Winchester, PA Pressing Plant!  A Minor Masterpiece, showcasing Harrison's Spiritual refinement as well as how he managed to incorporate his able bluesy guitar and slide guitar work into his lofty spiritualyl leaning songs... Ringo, Gary Wright, Klaus Voorman and Nicky Hopkins are here, amongst others... allmusic gives it 4 stars!!

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In the Dead Wax:  Side 1: SMAS-1-3410 Z-4 #3  HARE KRSNA   T.M.L.  ((Mastered at The Mastering Lab, Hollywood, CA))    ((The glyph for Capitol's Winchester, PA Pressing Plant))
Side 2:  SMAS-2-3410 Z-3 #3  HARE RAMA   T.M.L.  ((Mastered at The Mastering Lab, Hollywood, CA))    ((The glyph for Capitol's Winchester, PA Pressing Plant))

Cover: EX  (see photos)  Gatefold.  Includes the Poster which is in beautiful condition. The poster has the song lyrics on one side and Krishna and Arjuna fighting the heathen critics on the other.   Also includes the Original gold inner sleeve.  High gloss on cover. Front and back of cover artwork and text are rich, clear and bright, with a few minor creases and minimal ring wear.  Seams and spine are solid and clean, with some wear.  No splits. No writing.  Spine print is readable with some wear. 

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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.   On first and early pressings, the music tends to sound more ‘alive’ and vibrant.  The physics of sound energy is hard to clarify and write about from a listening perspective, but the best we can describe it is to say that you can 'hear' what the mixing and mastering engineers wanted you to hear when they first recorded the music.  

AllMusic Review by Bruce Eder  [-]

How does an instant multimillion-selling album become an underrated minor masterpiece? George Harrison's follow-up to the triple-disc All Things Must Pass (which had been comprised of an immense backlog of great songs that he'd built up across the last years of his time with the Beatles), Living in the Material World was necessarily a letdown for fans and critics, appearing as it did two-and-a-half-years after its predecessor without that earlier album's outsized songbag from which to draw. And it does seem like Harrison narrowed his sights and his vision for this record, which has neither the bold musical expansiveness nor the overwhelming confidence of its predecessor. And while there are still some beautiful and delightfully lyrical, charming moments throughout, few of the melodies are as instantly memorable and compelling as those of most of the songs on the earlier record, and some of the most serious songs here, such as "The Light That Has Lighted the World," seem weighed down with their own sense of purpose, in ways that All Things Must Pass mostly (but not entirely) avoided. What Living in the Material World does show off far better than the earlier record, however, is Harrison's guitar work -- unlike the prior album, with its outsized contingent of musicians including Eric Clapton and Dave Mason on guitars, he's the only axeman on Material World, and it does represent his solo playing and songwriting at something of a peak. Most notable are his blues stylings and slide playing, glimpsed on some of the later Beatles sessions but often overlooked by fans.

"Don't Let Me Wait Too Long" is driven by a delectable acoustic rhythm guitar and has a great beat. The title track isn't great, but it does benefit from a tight, hard, band sound, and "The Lord Loves the One (That Loves the Lord)," despite its title, is the high point of the record, a fast, rollicking, funky, bluesy jewel with a priceless guitar break (maybe the best of Harrison's solo career) that should have been at the heart of any of Harrison's concert set. Vocally, Harrison was always an acquired taste, and he isn't as self-consciously pretty or restrained here, but it is an honest performance, and his singing soars magnificently in his heartfelt performance on "The Day the World Gets Round," a song that resembles "Beware of Darkness" and also, curiously enough, "Across the Universe." Perhaps a less serious title would have represented the album better, but nobody was looking for self-effacement from any ex-Beatle except Ringo (who's also here, natch) in those days. Even in the summer of 1973, after years of war and strife and disillusionment, some of us were still sort of looking -- to borrow a phrase from a Lennon-McCartney song -- or hoping to get from them something like "the word" that would make us free. And George, God love him, had the temerity to actually oblige, to the extent of painting a few signs here and there suggesting where he'd found it and where we might, all with some great playing and some laughs. And it wasn't all serious -- there are pointed moments of humor throughout, especially on the title song; and "Sue Me, Sue You Blues" was a follow-up to Beatles-era tracks such as "Only a Northern Song," dealing with the internal workings and business side of his lingering involvement with the group, in this case the multiple, overlapping, sometimes rotating lawsuits that accompanied the breakup of their organization. And one track, "Try Some, Buy Some," which he'd given away to Ronnie Spector at the time, actually dated back to the All Things Must Pass sessions.