801 - 801 Live - White Hot Stamper

801 - 801 Live - White Hot Stamper801 Live ranks near the top of the list of my all time favorite albums a Desert Island Disc if ever there was one. I stumbled across it decades ago and have loved it ever since. (It started when a college buddy played me the wildly original "Tomorrow Never Knows" from the album and asked me to name the tune. Enos take is so different from The Beatles version that I confess it took me an embarrassingly long while to catch on.) This vintage UK pressing

But the thing that impresses us most is how much life there is in the performances

which ought to tell you something

We’re always trying and all too often coming up short

purchased elsewhere of course as we have no interest in selling records that don't have the vintage analog magic of these wonderful originals

Fingers is as good as it gets for Airto on LP

King record to find nowadays in audiophile playing condition

What really makes this music work on the better copies was the result of two qualities we found were in fairly short supply:

Gordon Lightfoot

The sound is cleaner

It's precisely what the best vintage analog pressings do brilliantly

but I can't imagine how that could be

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