ROKY ERICKSON The Holiday Inn Tapes VG+ RARE 1987 Fan Club 13TH FLOOR ELEVATORS

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Vinyl:  VG+ Play Graded. Sounds Great!   Fan Club Labels are Clean.  This is the Original 1987 Fan Club 1st Pressing! FC 030.   The great Roxy Erickson, here goes acoustic with surprisingly affecting results.  He presents a warm, surprisingly touching song-set...plus, he reprises "Will The Circle Remain Unbroken", a 13th Floor Elevators song. See Review Below!
In the Dead Wax:  Side 1: FC 030 A  MPO T Side 2:  FC 030 B
Cover:  VG+  (see photos; has a strip of clear tape on cover's top edge) Includes the custom inner sleeve with a nice reflection from "P.M.", the person who recorded him in The Holiday Inn.  Also, Rocky's original handwritten lyrics for The Singing Grandfather" are included.
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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 Richie Unterberger  [-]

Listeners primarily familiar with Erickson via his deranged vocals and compositions with the 13th Floor Elevators and as a solo act may be shocked by the low-key, acoustic intimacy of this album. Recorded on December 1, 1986 at the Holiday Inn Red River in Austin, TX, Erickson's acoustic guitar and vocals are the whole show on this ten-song performance. Going easy on the horror/monster/mystical imagery, Erickson reprises a couple of Buddy Holly classics, traditional folk tunes, and the Elevators' "May the Circle Remain Unbroken." Just to remind you that this is Roky Erickson, "The Singing Grandfather" (different versions of which open and close this album) begins with the line "The singing grandfather will saw off your head." Sound (played into a portable recorder) is fair but quite listenable, and Erickson's plaintive, yearning vocals are quite touching. His acoustic picking isn't bad either, although he stumbles or loses the beat once in a while (and for Erickson, once in a while is quite an acceptable margin of error). This doesn't deliver the outrage that many have come to expect from Erickson, but shows a glimpse of the man behind the madness.