Sticky Fingers - Original Master Recoding - MFSL MINT-

$ 34

$ 34 Sold For

Jul 11, 2010 Sold Date

Jul 1, 2010 Start Date

$ 25 Start price

5 Number Of Bids

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Description

The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers

Note: item #160448895633 sold for more than $50 and is not in better condition. This thing is beautiful!

Cover = Excellent - Has been stored in original protective plastic.

Vinyl = Near Mint Has been played but shows no visible signs of play, shiny. (vinyl is so pure you can see through it!)

Insert = Very Good + Has a crease that occurred during packaging.

Has a cardboard fold-over that accomodates the plastic anti-static record jacket and maintains rigidity.

This item has been in my collection for nearly 30 years and kept in a non-smoking environment.

This is arguably the best Rolling Stones album ever made. Certainly, they were at their creative peak. And, what a lineup of talent.

Side one No. Title Length 1. "Brown Sugar" 3:48 2. "Sway" 3:50 3. "Wild Horses" 5:42 4. "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" 7:14 5. "You Gotta Move" (Fred McDowell/Gary Davis) 2:32

Side two No. Title Length 6. "Bitch" 3:38 7. "I Got the Blues" 3:54 8. "Sister Morphine" (Jagger/Richards/Marianne Faithfull) 5:31 9. "Dead Flowers" 4:03 10. "Moonlight Mile" 5:56

Personnel

The Rolling Stones

Mick Jagger – lead vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, percussion
Keith Richards – electric guitar, 6 & 12 string acoustic guitar and backing vocals
Mick Taylor – electric, acoustic, and slide guitar
Charlie Watts – drums
Bill Wyman – bass guitar, electric piano

Additional musicians

Paul Buckmaster – string arrangement
Ry Cooder – slide guitar
Jim Dickinson – piano
Rocky Dijon – congas
Nicky Hopkins – piano
Bobby Keys – saxophone
Ronnie Lane – vocals
Jimmy Miller – percussion
Billy Nicholls – vocals
Jack Nitzsche – piano
Billy Preston – organ
Jim Price – trumpet, piano
Ian Stewart – piano
Pete Townshend – vocals

Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab (MFSL) is a California-based company that specializes in high quality reissues of key, often highly successful, popular albums. MFSL was still in business until 1999.

MFSL began issuing albums in 1977, during the height of the dissatisfaction over the sound of (mainly US) pressings of albums. Most of the decade had been spent by collectors decrying how poor the album pressings had become in the 1970s. There were several reasons contributing to this sense that sound quality had gone downhill.

First, collectors noticed that the Japanese pressings, and in many cases the UK pressings, of albums were quieter than US pressings. This was mainly due to better vinyl quality. Many US albums at the time were pressed using recycled vinyl to some extent, as opposed to "virgin vinyl" which had never been recycled. Second, many of the highly successful albums were being mastered from "master tapes" which were second, third, or higher generation copies of the mixdown masters, not the original mixdown masters themselves. Third, mass production in the 1970s, especially in the US where record sales were at an almost undreamed-of height, had certainly resulted in a drop in quality control. Defects such as warpage were much more common than had previously been tolerated.

MFSL tried to answer these problems in the marketplace with a high-quality reissue that, although priced at about double the price of a standard album, would appeal to those buyers who were quality-conscious about the factors which led to high sound quality. From MFSL's catalogs, the way they put it was as follows:

What distinguishes an Original master Recording LP from any other record?

1. Original Master Recordings are exclusively transferred from the original stereo master tape that the musicians recorded in the studio (not from a second, third, or fourth generation copy of that master tape).

2. Each Original Master Recording employs Mobile Fidelity Sound lab's exclusive half-speed mastering process, thus capturing every nuance of sound from the master tape.

3. Quality, not quantity, is the overwhelming consideration in the creation of each Original Master Recording. The number of pressings is strictly controlled. These limited editions assure you that the quality of the last pressing matches the quality of the first.

4. Original Master recordings are custom pressed overseas by the Victor Company of Japan (JVC). Super Vinyl, an exclusive compound far superior to even so-called 100% virgin vinyl, is utilized to achieve maximum clarity and startling quietness.... Super Vinyl also bestows unsurpassed durability to each Original Master Recording LP, achieving a "playing lifespan" at least five times longer than mass- produced records.

5. Each Original Master Recording is ultra-packaged to maintain flatness and prevent warpage.