Rainbow – Difficult To Cure Label: Polydor – PD-1-6316 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Keel Mfg. Corp./HRM Press Country: US Released: 1981 Genre: Rock Style: Hard Rock A1 I Surrender Written-By – Russ Ballard 4:01 A2 Spotlight Kid Written-By – Blackmore*, Glover* 4:52 A3 No Release Written-By – Airey*, Blackmore*, Glover* 5:20 A4 Magic Written-By – B. Moran* 4:05 A5 Vielleicht Das Nachster Zeit = Maybe Next Time Written-By – Airey*, Blackmore* 3:20 B1 Can't Happen Here Written-By – Blackmore*, Glover* 4:55 B2 Freedom Fighter Written-By – Turner*, Blackmore*, Glover* 4:30 B3 Midtown Tunnel Vision Written-By – Turner*, Blackmore*, Glover* 4:31 B5 Difficult To Cure (Beethoven's Ninth) Arranged By – Blackmore* Written-By – Airey*, Glover* 5:55 Recorded At – Sweet Silence Studios Mixed At – Sweet Silence Studios Manufactured By – PolyGram Records, Inc. Marketed By – PolyGram Records, Inc. Phonographic Copyright ℗ – PolyGram Records, Inc. Copyright © – PolyGram Records, Inc. Mastered At – Sterling Sound Pressed By – Keel Mfg. Corp. – Hauppauge Record Manufacturing Ltd. Bass – Roger Glover Drums – Bob Rondinelli* Engineer – Flemming Rasmussen Engineer [Assistants] – Clay Hutchinson, Thomas Brekling Guitar – Ritchie Blackmore Keyboards – Don Airey Lacquer Cut By [Runout Etch] – GC* Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals – Joe Lynn Turner Mastered By – Greg Colby* Photography By – Hipgnosis (2) Producer – Roger Glover

USA VINYL ALBUM WITH ORIGINAL POLY INNER SLEEVE.

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

DISC: 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, the music tends to sound more ‘alive’ and vibrant and you 'hear' what the mixing and mastering engineers wanted you to hear when they first recorded the music.  



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