KISS, Alive [with booklet] ROBERT LUDWIG USA 1st pressing Excellent- 2LP
  $   149

 


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Mar 23, 2024 Sold Date
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Kiss – Alive! Label: Casablanca – NBLP 7020-798 Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Album, PRC First Pressing. Gatefold Sleeve Country: US Released: Sep 10, 1975 Genre: Rock Style: Hard Rock, Glam A1 Deuce Written-By – Simmons* 3:32 A2 Strutter Written-By – Simmons*, Stanley* 3:12 A3 Got To Choose Written-By – Stanley* 3:35 A4 Hotter Than Hell Written-By – Stanley* 3:11 A5 Firehouse Written-By – Stanley* 3:42 B1 Nothin' To Lose Written-By – Simmons* 3:23 B2 C'mon And Love Me Written-By – Stanley* 2:52 B3 Parasite Written-By – Frehley* 3:21 B4 She Written-By – Simmons*, Coronel* 6:42 C1 Watchin' You Written-By – Simmons* 3:37 C2 100,000 Years Written-By – Simmons*, Stanley* 11:52 C3 Black Diamond Written-By – Stanley* 5:21 D1 Rock Bottom Written-By – Frehley*, Stanley* 3:08 D2 Cold Gin Written-By – Frehley* 5:21 D3 Rock And Roll All Nite Written-By – Simmons*, Stanley* 3:37 D4 Let Me Go, Rock 'N Roll Written-By – Simmons*, Stanley* 5:09 Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Casablanca Records Pressed By – PRC Recording Company, Richmond, IN Design – Dennis Woloch Mastered By – RL* (tracks: for Variants 2 and 3) Performer [Kiss] – Ace Frehley, Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Peter Criss Photography By – David Spindel, Fin Costello, John Kelly (15), Mike Martineau, Phillipe Morgan, Stephen Levy Producer, Engineer, Mixed By – Eddie Kramer First PRC pressing (identified by 'PRC' in runouts) denotes PRC Recording Co., Richmond, IN pressing Blue "Bogart" label with silver text. "Manufactured and distributed by Casablanca Records, Inc. / Made in U.S.A." along label perimeters. Recorded live during the Dressed To Kill tour. Overdubbed and mixed at Electric Lady Studios, NYC, NY, August 1975. Comes with an 8-page booklet insert featuring color photos of the band. Casablanca "The Image Is Getting Clearer" inner sleeves. No barcode. Spine reads "NBLP 7020-798". Front cover title "Alive!" does not have "2 Record Set" printed underneath like other versions. The band's previous albums with their catalog numbers are pictured on the right inner gatefold panel. 
Matrix: NBLP-7020-1-1-11 STERLING RL PRC / NBLP-7020-2-1-11 PRC / NBLP-7020-3-1-1-11 STERLING RL PRC / NBLP-7020-4-1-1-1 PRC.

USA FIRST PRESSING DOUBLE VINYL ALBUM IN GATEFOLD SLEEVE WITH ORIGINAL PRINTED INNER SLEEVES AND COLOR BOOKLET.

SLEEVE: VERY GOOD+, SOME SHELF, CORNER, EDGE AND RING WEAR. INNER SLEEVES CLEAN NO SEAM SPLITS.  BOOKLET EXCELLENT MINUS.

DISCS: EXCELLENT MINUS. NO SCRATCHES, JUST A COUPLE OF 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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