Great album...finally with a proper transfer to CD.
I bought the original CD release. It was, in fact, one of the first CDs I ever purchased, back when they were a new thing. That CD was horrible. The audio was transferred from something other than master tapes. It was a bad multi generation copy of a tape. On the original CD, there was a lot of crackling sounds in the high end. And the lows were considerably thinner than on the original LP version. However, this version (with hologram cover)...is a massive improvement! Its a great time capsule of an album. Many bands of this ilk, in the 60s, made singles...and would then piece together an album with those singles and some lackluster filler material, usually covers. But Iron Butterfly made a strong album from beginning to end. The songs are all good, the playing is good, and the mix is good. Bands were just starting to get into experimenting in the studio...but this CD sounds like the band was essentially running through the songs live. Its very straight ahead rock and roll. Yet it still sounds ultra trippy and psychedelic. Anyway... with the discovery of a first generation master tape... the quality has been improved beyond measure.
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