{"id":23872,"date":"2020-01-14T01:15:18","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T09:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=23872"},"modified":"2022-08-09T16:49:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T00:49:55","slug":"23872","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=23872","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/04161c57-6eb8-4c70-9725-9238116e5c96_1.e45f5b89b4b147798df5418d60e5b8a7p.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/04161c57-6eb8-4c70-9725-9238116e5c96_1.e45f5b89b4b147798df5418d60e5b8a7p.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"424\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23903\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/04161c57-6eb8-4c70-9725-9238116e5c96_1.e45f5b89b4b147798df5418d60e5b8a7p.jpeg 550w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/04161c57-6eb8-4c70-9725-9238116e5c96_1.e45f5b89b4b147798df5418d60e5b8a7p-330x254.jpeg 330w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/04161c57-6eb8-4c70-9725-9238116e5c96_1.e45f5b89b4b147798df5418d60e5b8a7p-150x116.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 85vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As a long-term record collector, I have all of Bob Dylan&#8217;s LPs. <\/p>\n<p>In the late &#8217;80s I bucked the trend and managed to pick up many of his U.S. &#8217;60s and &#8217;70s white label promo vinyl releases in both mono and stereo (CDs were king, Dylan was out of favor, and nobody wanted LPs). I&#8217;m referring to the original vinyl on Columbia. These were the very first pressings manufactured for DJs to play on the radio.<\/p>\n<p>Of all his records, one underdog with The Band remains a personal favorite, <em>Planet Waves<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>Asylum (US) and Island Records (UK) released this one in 1974. All releases remains essential listening for me. <\/p>\n<p>Recently, Mofi (MFSL) made a hybrid SACD and LP. The original Columbia CD still sounds tops &#8211; but any copy will do&#8230;  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a long-term record collector, I have all of Bob Dylan&#8217;s LPs. In the late &#8217;80s I bucked the trend and managed to pick up many of his U.S. &#8217;60s and &#8217;70s white label promo vinyl releases in both mono and stereo (CDs were king, Dylan was out of favor, and nobody wanted LPs). I&#8217;m &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=23872\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23872"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23872"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25483,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23872\/revisions\/25483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}