Elton John - Honky Château - 1972

Toshiba EMI Ltd IFP-80566, Japan LP (1st pressing)

LP, Vinyl Rip, 24/96, FLAC (tracks+.cue)

Rip by aksman

Side one

 01 - "Honky Cat" – 5:13
 02 - "Mellow" – 5:32
 03 - "I Think I'm Going to Kill Myself" – 3:35
 04 - "Susie (Dramas)" – 3:25
 05 - "Rocket Man (I Think It's Going to Be a Long, Long Time)" – 4:45

Side two

 06 - "Salvation" – 3:58
 07 - "Slave" – 4:22
 08 - "Amy" – 4:03
 09 - "Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters" – 5:00
 10 - "Hercules" – 5:20

All songs written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin. 

Personnel:
 Elton John - acoustic and electric pianos, organ
 Davey Johnstone - guitars, banjo, mandolin
 Dee Murray - bass
 Nigel Olsson - drums, congas, tambourine

Additional musicians

 Davey, Dee, and Nigel - backing vocals (tracks 3, 5, 6, 8, 10)
 Ivan Jullien (fr.) - trumpet (track 1)
 Jacques Bolognesi (fr.) - trombone (track 1)
 Jean-Louis Chautemps & Alain Hatot - saxophones (track 1)
 Jean-Luc Ponty - electric violin (tracks 2 and 8)
 "Legs" Larry Smith - tap dance (track 3)
 David Hentschel - A.R.P. synthesizer (tracks 5 and 10) (credited as "David Henschel" on sleeve)
 Ray Cooper - congas (track 8)
 Gus Dudgeon - rhino whistle & backing vocals (track 10)
 Madeline Bell, Liza Strike, Larry Steel, Tony Hazzard - additional backing vocals

Technical Log

 RCM Hannl 'limited' with "Rotating Brush"
 Music Hall MMF 9.1 Turntable
 Tonearm: Pro-Ject 9cc evo with Pure Silver Wires
 Cartridge: Nagaoka MP-500
 Brocksieper Phonomax (Tube Phono PreAmp)
 E-MU 0404 external USB 2.0 Audiointerface
 Interconnections : Silent Wire NF5
 WaveLab 6 recording software
 iZotope RX Advanced 2.00 for resampling and dithering

 Vacuum cleaning > TT > Brocksieper Phonomax > E-MU 0404 > WaveLab 6 (24/192) > manual click removal >
 analyze (no clipping, no DC Bias offset) > converted to 24/96 (16/44.1) with iZotope RX Advanced 2.00
 > split into individual Tracks > FLAC encoded (Vers. 1.21)

 No silence been removed, please burn gapless to match original tracklayout.

Ripping Note

 This wonderful record comes in a very exclusive structured fold-out cover. Only the OBI strip was missing..... Unfortunately the pictures didn't show how nice this one is made. The condition of the record is a clear mint, maybe played a couple times. After a the obligatoric standrad washing procedure on my RCM the record plays extremly quite and virtually without any clicks. (Though I found a few which I removed)