so I'm heading up to the costa mesa show this saturday with my copy in hand. I'm gonna try and grab thes and clear this up for sure. will post results when I have them!
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EP
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EP
Joined: Mar '05
Posts: 113Posted 15 years ago #Also, here is a (albeit crappy phone) picture of my copy. It also has the black color shift that you guys noticed in the above photos if you look closely at the bottom right (however, as a designer, I'm pretty sure that this is just a result of color correction/re-touching done after scanning/photographing the album artwork for that site)
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EP
Joined: Mar '05
Posts: 113Posted 15 years ago #ok here it is, from the man thes himself.
There were re-pressings made with the picture cover. For the original pressing, Thes had to open mine up to check the run out grooves. But before he got to the run out grooves, he already could tell that it was a re-pressing because it has white in the background of the labels. That means that the original pressing must have come in a picture sleeve a yellow background for the labels.
If anyone has this record and can post the run-out grooves in here, that would help.
I guess back to my search! Thes did feel really bad that it didn't end up being an OP so he gave me a pair of the slipmats and a still sealed copy of Mithai for free! So awesome!
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P fan #1
Joined: May '10
Posts: 577Posted 15 years ago #Now that you mentioned it I had seen those white labels before, if only on 12"es...
Hope you weren't too disappointed when your sealed copy turned out to be the reissue. Gotta love Thes generosity in compensating you with those other goodies though
Fecam and YoYoPo already posted the runout grooves on the first page of this thread (or were you looking for additional pictures?) Just out of curiosity: do the rounouts on your copy match those?
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EP
Joined: Mar '05
Posts: 113Posted 15 years ago #Good to know yoyopo and fecam were right!
My runouts are labeled as:
OM1-036VLPA
OM1-036VLPB
OM1-036VLPC
OM1-036VLPDarchived for posterity!
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P fan #1
Joined: May '09
Posts: 600Posted 15 years ago #Yeah! Some Swedish fella sold me NM OG of this for 15 e. Pumpin' it
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The Architect
Joined: Feb '05
Posts: 3,618Posted 15 years ago #zerosignal said:
It also has the black color shift that you guys noticed in the above photos if you look closely at the bottom right (however, as a designer, I'm pretty sure that this is just a result of color correction/re-touching done after scanning/photographing the album artwork for that site)No, the black shift is actually on the cover. I think less so on the re-pressings, but is very clear on the OG and The Cat.
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EP
Joined: Mar '05
Posts: 113Posted 15 years ago #No, the black shift is actually on the cover. I think less so on the re-pressings, but is very clear on the OG and The Cat.
Yea, I know its actually on the cover, thats what I was pointing out! I was saying that the reason you can see it on one of the pressings and not the other on that german site is due to the color correction and adjusting the levels for a continuous tone. Its clear on the OG and also visible on the re-press, just that both pressings look different from the processing done to those images by the people running the german site (hell, they may have just pulled them from google where they have a wide range of varying tones).
:)
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P fan #1
Joined: May '10
Posts: 577Posted 15 years ago #
You guys are really getting into details now... (Or perhaps it's just a misunderstanding.)
zerosignal is absolutely right in stating that those photos are mainly for reference, could come from pretty much anywhere and are not necessarily 100% exact. In fact there's even 2 pictures of the repress on that same site that look different (sealed/mint and sealed/bent corner).What YoYoPo initially pointed out is that (at least on the OG pressing) the photo on the cover is not spread over the entire sleeve (perhaps b/c it had the wrong size/format or couldn't be blown up to 12x12 inches for whatever reason at the time). So instead the bottom of the cover (from roughly the middle of the first line of writing on down) is a matte black. That same black shift does not seem to appear on CDs and is (at the very least) less visible or nonexistent on the re-pressings also.
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The Architect
Joined: Feb '05
Posts: 3,618Posted 15 years ago #Sorry, yes, what Twelve said is what I meant. Was tired when I wrote that, didn't mean to sound like a dick. I get what you're saying about the photos zero. I forgot about the white labels - definite sign of a repress if there's none of that pimp yellow on the label!
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The Architect
Joined: Feb '05
Posts: 3,618Posted 15 years ago #here's an original with picture sleeve (the same guy is also selling a copy of The Next Step)
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P fan #1
Joined: Aug '09
Posts: 1,427Posted 15 years ago #ya i have represses of Questions and Next Step...i need FUN DMC on wax...that one has eluded me for a bit
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