NRBQ: The best pressings - recommendations wanted

How can you tell? Mine is a 360 press...

 

I think most (all?) have a DJ timing strip on the front cover - but not all with the strip are mispressed lps. I forget what they sound like...Johhny D?
Dave

 

I haven't listened to my copy in a long time, but on the misspressed early copies of the first lp, all of the songs have either instruments or vocals that are missing. I think the problem was caused by a misaligned pressing machine.
I'll try to get the matrix number for the defective copies.

 

Well, I've played mine and I'm fairly sure i would remember something like that!

 

You definitely would have noticed if you had one of the bad pressings. Fortunately, there aren't a lot of them.

 

Actually, I'd like to hear it...

 

I've got a promo copy of the 1st & it's the only I know or have heard. So maybe it's a bad one. Overall sound pretty good though. Will check matrix later & report back. Someone must have details of which to avoid.

 

My mispressing is at my mom's house. Next time I'm out there, I'll try to find it. I've also asked a friend if he has access to his mispressed copy. I'm pretty sure some of the missing things on Side One are vocals, so if you had a bad copy, you'd know it.

 

One other thing about the first album. I don't think the band was ever completely happy with it. I think at the start of the CD era they wanted to remix it, but the multi-track tapes were gone. Strangely enough, considering that the first album was recorded independently by Eddie Kramer and then sold to Columbia, the second album--recorded in Columbia studios--sounds a lot better. (Kudos to Columbia engineer Pete Weiss.) And I don't mean to blame Kramer either. I think the band wasn't sure how to approach recording in the studio at first and and weren't open to doing retakes, which made it hard to get a good sound. Once the band had matured a bit, they made 2 of their best albums (Scraps & Workshop) with Kramer.