Solomon Burke Soul Alive! (Quiex 2xLP, Masterdisk BK)
Original 1984 Rounder Records gatefold issue pressed on translucent QUIEX virgin vinyl. Mastered by Bill Kipper, mastering engineer at Masterdisk NY (MASTERDISK BK in dead wax run-outs).
Vinyl (2) has a few faint surface sleeve scuffs/hazing just barely holding grade back from NM-, nothing I can feel. Labels are excellent. Gatefold cover has top right corner cut, dinged corners, edgewear mostly along bottom edge, light ringwear, and a small price sticker on front cover.
If you’re not familiar with Quiex, it's like this: As CDs began coming on the scene in the 1980s, record companies started pressing Quiex II LPs for primarily for radio stations. The idea was to show that vinyl was still king and sounded as good--or better--than CDs. MOST Quiex pressings were marked as Quiex that were shipped to radio. But if too many were pressed, they were packaged as regular LPs and those lucky enough to unknowingly buy them were then blessed with clearer sound! This translucent brown Audiophile beauty IS one of those pressings.
Genre: Funk / Soul / R&B
Condition: VG++
Cover Condition: VGLabel: Rounder Records
Reference Number: 2042/2043
Date: 1984
Country: US
SKU: 19492
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