Do you remember the days when double albums were pressed with sides one and four on the same disc and sides two and three on the other? This was to facilitate sequential playing on those old turntables where one could stack records. My dad had one of those cabinet stereos with an eight track player. Sometimes, the records would skip, and so we would tape a penny to the top of the cartridge and probably ruined a good many records in the process.
Anyway, records were pressed like that for a reason. When side one finished, there was no need to flip it to hear side two, because side two (on record two) would drop on top of record one, if you had stacked them. Then, you could flip both records and hear sides three and four in proper sequence. Of course, modern records are not pressed that way.
I am convinced that many scratches on records are from the plastic arm that held the stack of records level. I remember trying to remove records form the platter without moving that damn arm out of the way, and I may have scratched a few records.
Sides one and four (comprising one record) of this release are the live concert album, while sides two and three (comprising the other record) is a 12" EP worth of live tracks. Side two of the record (or side one of the EP) contains an epic jazz-infused, pseudo prog rock track that clocks in a over 9 minutes. It's pretty cool.
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