In Celebration Of The Comet
(TAKRL 1903)
S1: BREATHE/ON THE RUN/TIME/BREATHE (REPRISE)/THE GREAT GIG IN THE SKY
S2: MONEY/US AND THEM/ANY COLOUR YOU LIKE/BRAIN DAMAGE/ ECLIPSE
SQ: EXCELLENT STEREO
COMMENTS: US BOOTLEG WITH PLAIN COVER AND PAPER INSERT. THE FIRST AND MOST COMMON TAKRL PINK FLOYD RELEASE. TAKRL DID NOT INTRODUCE THEIR CUSTOM LABELS UNTIL THE RELEASE AFTER THIS (CAT STEVENS TAKRL 1904) SO THE FIRST PRESSINGS HAVE PLAIN LABELS. RE-PRESSED MANY TIMES, SOME WITH CUSTOM LABELS AND BACK INSERT. SOME WITH TRI-COLOURED INSERT. RE-ISSUED IN 1978 WITH DELUXE BLACK & WHITE COVER (PRINTED BOTH SIDES).. COPY OF 'BEST OF TOUR 72'. ALL ORIGINAL US TAKRL ISSUES HAD A ‘TOUR 1903 A/B’ MATRIX NUMBER. SOME LATER COPIES (ON THE DESSIE RECORDS LABEL) HAD ‘DESSIE A/B GR L29708’ MATRIX NUMBERS AND ANOTHER RE-ISSUE HAD 'P1 532A/B LL789' MATRIX NUMBERS. YET ANOTHER RE-ISSUE WAS PRESSED FROM THE 'ECLIPSED' PLATES WITH A MATRIX NUMBER OF 'ECL SIDE 3/4' AND PLAIN WHITE LABELS.
NOTES FROM TAKRL: ‘COPIED DISC-TO-DISC FROM AN ENGLISH UNDERGROUND GENERALLY UNAVAILABLE IN THE USA IN THAT DAY. COVER MARKS THE ARRIVAL OF ARTIST ROY N. OAK TO THE ANYTOWN SHORES. 2000 COVERS SAY ‘THE PASSING OF THE COMET’ INSTEAD’.
RARITY RATING: *****(‘PASSING’ COVERS) ***(TRI COLOUR AND/OR BACK INSERT AND/OR CUSTOM PRINTED LABELS) *(ALL OTHERS)
SOURCE: THE RAINBOW THEATRE LONDON 20.2.72.
KNOWN LABEL VARIATIONS: PLAIN TAKRL - CUSTOM TAKRL - SPINDIZZIE - DESSIE RECORDS - SERIOUS MUSIC LTD - RED VERZYL (& OTHER) COMIC LABELS - SKY KINGDOM (NO PIC) - PLAIN LABELS (VARIOUS COLOURS).
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