STEELY DAN, The Royal Scam USA EXCELLENT- LP Larry Carlton Bernard Purdie

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  Steely Dan ?– The Royal Scam Label: ABC Records ?– ABCD 931, ABC Records ?– AB 931 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Terre Haute/Pitman Pressing  Country: US Released: 1976 Genre: Jazz, Rock Style: Pop Rock Tracklist A1 Kid Charlemagne 4:38 A2 The Caves Of Altamira 3:33 A3 Don't Take Me Alive 4:18 A4 Sign In Stranger 4:22 A5 The Fez 3:59 B1 Green Earrings 4:05 B2 Haitian Divorce 5:30 B3 Everything You Did 3:54 B4 The Royal Scam 6:31 Companies, etc. Phonographic Copyright (p) – ABC Records, Inc. Copyright (c) – ABC Records, Inc. Engineered At – ABC Recording Studios Engineered At – A&R Studios Pressed By – Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Terre Haute – Side 1 Pressed By – Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Pitman – Side 2 Credits Art Direction, Design – Ed Caraeff Artwork [Cover Art] – Charlie Ganse, Zox (3) Backing Vocals – Clydie King, Michael McDonald, Sherlie Matthews, Tim Schmit*, Venetta Fields Bass – Chuck Rainey Design [Typographic Design] – Tom Nikosey Drums – Bernard Purdie, Rick Marotta Engineer – Elliot Shiner* Engineer [Mix Down] – Barney Perkins Engineer, Engineer [Mix Down] – Roger Nichols Guitar – Dean Parks, Dennis Dias*, Elliot Randall*, Larry Carlton Guitar, Bass – Walter Becker Horns – Bob Findley, Jim Horn, John Klemmer, Plas Johnson, Slyde Hyde Horns, Arranged By [Horns] – Chuck Findley Keyboards – Don Grolnick, Paul Griffin, Victor Feldman Keyboards, Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals – Donald Fagen Other [Nurse] – Karen Stanley Percussion – Gary Coleman, Victor Feldman Producer – Gary Katz Technician [Techno] – Bob DeAvila, Stuart Dawson*, Warren Wallace Written-By – Griffin* (tracks: A5) Written-By, Arranged By, Horns – Donald Fagen, Walter Becker Notes Terre Haute pressing side 1, Pitman pressing Side 2. Printed lyric inner sleeve. Label has Side designation and "Stereo" on the left, Catalog numbers on the right, All tracks underneath the center hole ABCD 931 on spine, AB 931 on labels. 

USA PRESSING VINYL ALBUM WITH ORIGINAL PRINTED INNER SLEEVE.

MATRIX:  SIDE A:  T1 AB-931-A 7 /  SIDE B: P ABCD-931-B 4  R.

SLEEVE: VERY GOOD+, JUST LIGHT SHELF, CORNER, EDGE AND RING WEAR.   INNER SLEEVE[S] VERY GOOD+ WITH NO SEAM SPLITS.

DISC[S]: EXCELLENT MINUS. NO SCRATCHES, JUST A FEW 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.

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.  

     
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