Procol Harum, "A Salty Dog," 2017 MOFI Ltd Ed #2354 of 3000, Play Graded--Mint
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Dr. John's Spin Factory invites you to experience one of the iconic art-blues-rock albums of the 1960s. It's Procol Harum's, A Salty Dog. The copy up for sale is the 2017 Mobile Fidelity remaster, which sold a Limited Edition run of 3000 copies. This one bears the number, 2354. To be sure, this album is both rare in the used market (as people who've bought it tend to keep it), and, in the opinion of many, this album represents the zenith of Procol Harum's musical powers. Meaning, if you wanted to own the best Procol Harum had to offer, then A Salty Dog is clearly it.
Cleaned using the Kirmuss Audio Ultrasonic Cleaning System, this disc sounds particularly excellent on my moving coil, all-tube, electrostatic speaker system. I am confident if this is the music you seek, then this copy could easily be your very best option for the very best playback quality. (Because, of course, you never know what you're going to get when a record is sealed.)
One relatively small "exception" to the vinyl's NM to M condition, over the last 20-25 seconds of the last song on side one, as the song is fading out, there is a small scratch that sounds. FWIW, that scratch came from the factory at no extra charge...
Here is a short and well written review of this classic, 1969, progressive rock album:
This album, the group's third, was where they showed just how far their talents extended across the musical landscape, from blues to R&B to classical rock. In contrast to their hastily recorded debut, or its successor, done to stretch their performance and composition range, A Salty Dog was recorded in a reasonable amount of time, giving the band a chance to fully develop their ideas. The title track is one of the finest songs ever to come from Procol Harum and one of the best pieces of progressive rock ever heard, and a very succinct example at that at under five minutes running time -- the lyric and the music combine to form a perfect mood piece, and the performance is bold and subtle at once, in the playing and the singing, respectively. The range of sounds on the rest includes "Juicy John Pink," a superb piece of pre-World War II-style country blues, while "Crucifiction Lane" is a killer Otis Redding-style soul piece, and "Pilgrim's Progress" is a virtuoso keyboard workout.
BTW, within four years of this album's original release, which was in 1969, Robin Trower, the blues-rock guitarist who was much of the glue that held Procol Harum together (and made A Salty Dog shine with so many musical styles), had left the group to pursue a solo career, which went quite well for him in the 1970s and 80s. (Check out Trower's excellent album, Bridge of Sighs.)
Good luck! And may every day gift you with music that you'll want to hear again and again and again...Dr. John
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