NEW RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE S/T VG++ PLAY GRADED 1971 1ST PRESS Jerry Garcia

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Vinyl:  VG++ Play Graded. Sounds Great!  Columbia Labels are Clean.  This is the 1971 Columbia 1st Pressing!  C30888.  This is the Superior version, Mastered at Artisan Sound Recorders.   Alt Country, eat your heart out!! These cats were the real deal!  Super fun and easy to sing along to!  Instant 420 Party!  And Jerry Garcia, Mickey Hart, Commander Cody and Spencer Dryden along for the ride!  Dig it!  allmusic gives it 4 1/2 stars!!! See Review Below!
In the Dead Wax:  Side 1:  PAL 30888 - 2    2-B   B7   XS   the UFO-looking glyph for Artisan Sound Recorders  and the "O" glyph for the Jacksonville, IL Capitol Pressing Plant. Side 2:  PBL  30888 - 2   2-A  the glyph for Artisan Sound Recorders  A12   S1   and the "O" glyph.
Cover: VG+ (see photos; initials, written lightly, top right front cover) Textured Cover.  Groovy.
Goldmine Standards.   I play test every album that I sell on eBay as I have found you can't rate an LP accurately by just visually inspecting an album.  I wipe the dust off of every cover with clean, unscented baby wipes.  I professionally clean the vinyl.

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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  [-]

Anyone who enjoyed the Grateful Dead's Workingman's Dead or American Beauty and wanted more, then or now, should get the New Riders of the Purple Sage's eponymous release and follow it with the Riders' next two albums. With Jerry Garcia and Mickey Hart in tow, and Jefferson Airplane's Spencer Dryden playing what drums Hart didn't, plus Commander Cody at the piano, New Riders of the Purple Sage is some of the most spaced-out country-rock of the period. Even ignoring the big names working with John Dawson, David Nelson, and Dave Torbert, however, this is a good record, crossing swords with the Byrds, the Burrito Brothers, and even Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and holding its own. Maybe a few of the cuts (especially "Henry") are predictable at times, but mostly, New Riders of the Purple Sage was full of surprises then (the amazingly sweet, brittle guitars, in particular) and has tunes that have held up well: "Portland Woman," "Whatcha Gonna Do," "I Don't Know You," and "Louisiana Lady," not to mention the eight leisurely paced minutes of acid-country found in "Dirty Business." There are no added notes, but they'd hardly be vital -- the album is an open book.