I've owned the Island pink rimmed U.S. pressing: "o.k."
I've owned a japanese pressing from late 70's: "better"
I have the mofi pressing: BEST!
What IS IT with all this MOFI BASHING? These are darned good records with very good detail, sense of space, lack of distortion, and dead quiet vinyl.
Having said that, I have original "pink-eye" Island U.K. pressings of some titles (John Barleycorn, Tull's Stand Up, Tull's Benefit, and U.K. pink-rim of Jade Warrior titles, King Crimson titles) and can see the point of the immediacy and presence or fowardness of these 1st pressings. I have been trying for some time to obtain the 1st Traffic album on an original U.K. pink pressing but darn! those auctions run up into the hundreds$$$!
I've owned a japanese pressing from late 70's: "better"
I have the mofi pressing: BEST!
What IS IT with all this MOFI BASHING? These are darned good records with very good detail, sense of space, lack of distortion, and dead quiet vinyl.
Having said that, I have original "pink-eye" Island U.K. pressings of some titles (John Barleycorn, Tull's Stand Up, Tull's Benefit, and U.K. pink-rim of Jade Warrior titles, King Crimson titles) and can see the point of the immediacy and presence or fowardness of these 1st pressings. I have been trying for some time to obtain the 1st Traffic album on an original U.K. pink pressing but darn! those auctions run up into the hundreds$$$!