Yup, I foresee a dismal future of people making their own records at home instead of making the effort to visit a proper record show.
(You can just see blimpy or shane doing this, can’t you?)
Yup, I foresee a dismal future of people making their own records at home instead of making the effort to visit a proper record show.
(You can just see blimpy or shane doing this, can’t you?)
that’s my holiday project sorted then….
not that I’d really know what to do with a copy of one side of a record that I already own.. but to faff about like wot I normally do.. yep… can see your thinking.
It’s quite amazing to think of the effort people used to go to.. I have a few Pirate records.. the Prince Black album being a case in point.. I’d got hold of it before release and then Prince or Warners pulled it, making my friend who still had 10 more copies a very happy bunny indeed.. we had a good few months partying thanks to that… obviously, if it had been released at the time I’d have got it from the record company- so they shot themselves in the foot really.
There’s a very short sequence in ‘The Harder they Come’ in a record plant in Kingston; that inspired me to visit Federal records pressing plant to see it in action. Talk about Hades, it was about 100 degrees outside plus about 20 more in the plant plus the press is heated to untouchableness, so there’s these little old ladies standing amidst the noxious fumes and swirling smoke applying a blob of vinyl to the platen and then pressing and curing it and removing the new record. To save any vinyl in ‘mistakes’ for re-use they cut around the paper label with a bandsaw and re-use it, the labels are discarded: I gathered up a bagful of that weeks pressings label discards, 3″ dia ‘beer mats’ that show all the artists and songs of that period, I still have ‘em, they show up in drawers and on high shelves from time to time.
Tres cool GF.
We had an RCA record factory in our town and my best friend’s mate was the manager and took one copy of everything they pressed. This was in the mid-70′s andhe’d been doing it for a decade at least.
What a collection …….. of mostly crap!
To save any vinyl in ‘mistakes’ for re-use they cut around the paper label with a bandsaw
Those generic old ladies needed some quality control when it came to the bandsaw. I bought at least one album in the 70′s that had a bit of paper sticking out of it, I think it was classical.