Neil Young COMES A TIME, Reprise TEST PRESSING (1978) Repress

$

100

Selected titles from the private collection of a music business veteran are now being made available for the first time. Titles offered by this Seller are one-owner and came directly from the pressing plant, record company warehouse, other label reps or record store unless otherwise noted. 

Grading is based on visual inspection.

Album ships in a 2 MIL poly cover sleeve and a soft poly inner sleeve.

I package records outside the cover to avoid seam splits.

New and vintage vinyl is hard to grade strictly using eBay’s system because the record and the cover are two different components. Therefore, I call a record new and mint if it is opened but has never been played.  I use the grading category to describe the cover condition.

• This version of the Test Pressing has a commercial label because there was a variation from the label copy sheet.
• This Test Pressing is for a repress because the first pressing had tracks A4 & A5 transposed on the label copy sheet and in fact it was pressed that way. That version was recalled and repressed with the correct sequence.
• This copy has the original incorrect label copy sheet with the repressed version with the correct sequencing.
• This copy has no spindle marks but there are a couple surface blemishes from having been played or handled.
• There is a scratch that covers a few grooves at the end of track 3 and track 4 on Side I. It probably is audible.
• I have included a soft poly inner sleeve.
• This is a one-owner that the Seller got from Reprise in 1978. It has been in storage for39 years.

TracklistHide Credits

Credits

• Acoustic Guitar – Bucky Barret*, Dale Sellers, Grant Boatright*, Jerry Shook, John Christopher*, Ray Edenton, Steve Gibson, Vic Jordan
• Arranged By [Strings] – Chuck Cochran, Neil Young (tracks: A1, A2)
• Art Direction – Tom Wilkes (2)
• Autoharp – Rita Fey
• Bass – Joe Osborne*, Tim Drummond
• Directed By [Direction] – Elliot Roberts
• Drums – Carl Himmel*, Larrie Londin
• Electric Guitar – J.J. Cale
• Engineer – Danny Hilly*, David Mc Kinley*, Denny Purcell, Ernie Winfrey, Gabby Garcia, Michael Laskow, Mike Porter (2), Paul Kaminsky, Rich "Hoss" Adler*, Tim Mulligan
• Fiddle – Rufus Thibodeaux
• Mastered By – Phil Brown, Stu Romain*
• Mixed By – David Briggs (tracks: A3, A5), Neil Young, Tim Mulligan (tracks: A3, A5)
• Orchestra – Gone With The Wind Orchestra
• Percussion – Farrel Morris*
• Photography By – Coley Coleman
• Piano – Spooner Oldham
• Producer – Ben Keith (tracks: A1, A2, A5 to B2, B4, B5), David Briggs (tracks: A3, A5), Neil Young,Tim Mulligan (tracks: A1 to B1, B3 to B5)
• Saxophone – Tim Mulligan
• Steel Guitar – Ben Keith
• Strings – Carl Goroditzby*, Carol Walker, Gary Vanosdale, George Binkley, George Kosmola, Larry Harvin, Larry Lasson, Martha McCrory, Marvin Chantry, Maryanna Harvin, Rebecca Lynch, Roy Christensen, Shelly Kurland*, Stephanie Woolf, Steve Smith*, Virginia Christensen
• Vocals, Bass – Billy Talbot
• Vocals, Drums – Ralph Molina
• Vocals, Guitar – Frank Sampedro
• Written-By – Ian Tyson (tracks: B5), Neil Young (tracks: A1 to B4)

Notes

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Matrix / Runout (Variant 1 Side A): MSK-2-2266-RE3-WW2
• Matrix / Runout (Variant 1 Side B): MSK-2-2266-RE3-WW3 #3
• Matrix / Runout (Variant 2 Side A ): MSK-1-2266-RE3-WW/ \S #3
• Matrix / Runout (Variant 2 Side B ): MSK-2-2266-RE3-WW3 #3
• Matrix / Runout (Variant 3 Side A): MSK-1-2266 RE-3 ww-14
• Matrix / Runout (Variant 3 Side B): MSK-2-2266 - RE3 - ww14