Omayyad
S1: ONEONE (STUDIO)/FINGALS CAVE (STUDIO)/INTERSTELLAR OVERDRIVE (LIVE)*
SQ: EXCELLENT
COMMENTS: POSSIBLY THE FIRST AMERICAN PINK FLOYD BOOTLEG. ORIGINALLY ISSUED BY TMOQ (1). LATER COPIED BY TMOQ (2) AND MANY OTHERS.
FIRST PRESSING: (MATRIX PF 515) PLAIN WHITE OR COLOURED RUBBER STAMPED SLEEVE. & FARM PIG STICKER ON ONE SIDE AND PAPER INSERT WITH FARM PIG LOGO AND "LECOR PRODUCTIONS 1972" CREDIT ON THE OTHER. PRESSED ON COLOURED VINYL WITH LARGE 1 & 2 ON LABELS. AS THIS ALBUM WAS RELEASED IN THE FIRST HALF OF 1972, THE YEAR IN WHICH TMOQ STARTED USING THE FARM PIG LABEL ON ALL OF THEIR RELEASES, IT IS ONLY THE EARLIEST PRESSINGS WITH THE 1 & 2 LABELS.
SECOND PRESSING: (PF 515) AS ABOVE, WITH RUBBER STAMP, PIG STICKER AND INSERT AND WITH FARM PIG ON LABELS. PRESSED ON COLOURED VINYL.
LATER TMOQ(1) PRESSINGS: (1830) AS ABOVE, WITHOUT RUBBER STAMP OR PIG STICKER AND WITH FARM PIG ON LABELS. BLACK OR COLOURED VINYL. THIS IS THE ROGUE PRESSING WHICH APPEARS TO MIX TMOQ(1) LABELS WITH TMOQ(2) PLATES (SEE ‘COMMENTS’).
GENERIC SLEEVE ISSUE: (PF 515) IN 1973 THE TMOQ PEOPLE DECIDED TO ISSUE A GENERIC COVER FOR SOME OLDER TITLES (AND ONES WHICH THEY DIDN'T EXPECT TO SELL MANY COPIES OF) AND USED A DESIGN CREATED BY THE GREAT ARTIST WILLIAM STOUT. THE COVERS FEATURED THE FAMOUS TMOQ SMOKING PIG IN HIS BOOTLEG WAREHOUSE AND HAD A DIE CUT SLEEVE THROUGH WHICH THE LABELS WERE VISIBLE (THIS ARTWORK WAS LATER USED BY 'THE SWINGIN' PIG' FOR THEIR INNER SLEEVES). ONE LABEL HAD A LARGE FARM PIG LOGO WITH THE ALBUM TITLE AND THE TRACKLISTING ON THE OTHER. NOT MANY OF THESE WERE MADE AND ALTHOUGH A SLIGHTLY LATER PRESSING THESE ARE NOW QUITE SOUGHT AFTER.
TMOQ(2) ISSUE: (1830 A/B) KEN’S VERSION OF THIS BOOTLEG FROM THE 1830 PLATES. FIRST PRESSING WAS IN A PLAIN (OFTEN COLOURED) SLEEVE WITHOUT A RUBBER STAMP OR STICKER AND WITH A PAPER INSERT WITH FARM PIG LOGO AND LECOR PRODUCTION CREDIT REMOVED AND ‘MAMMARY PRESENTATIONS’ LOGO ADDED IN THE BOTTOM LEFT CORNER. PRESSED ON BLACK OR COLOURED (USUALLY BLUE) VINYL WITH THE SMOKIN' PIG LOGO ON LABELS. LATER PRESSINGS WITHOUT A LOGO ON THE INSERT AND PRESSED ON BLACK VINYL WITH SMOKIN’ PIG OR PLAIN WHITE LABELS.
PICTURE DISC RE-ISSUE: RE-RELEASED AS ‘PINK FLOYD – LIVE VOL.1’ ON A FULL COLOUR PICTURE DISC FEATURING THE 'WYWH' LOGO WITH MATRIX NUMBER 'APF 515 A/B', PRESSED FROM THE ORIGINAL TMOQ PLATES. (SQ: POOR).
SPLASH VINYL & MCV ISSUES: AT ONE POINT, TMOQ EXPERIMENTED WITH PRESSING A FEW TITLES ON MULTICOLOURED AND B&W SPLASH VINYL (SEE EXAMPLES BELOW). THIS WAS DONE WITH THE GRATEFUL DEAD (HOLLYWOOD PALADIUM PART ONE), DAVID BOWIE (IN AMERICA), DEEP PURPLE (PURPLE FOR A DAY), JETHRO TULL (MY GOD - ATHAPASKAN RECORDS) & BOB DYLAN (TALKIN' BEAR MOUNTAIN MASSACRE PICNIC BLUES) AND A FEW LED ZEPPELIN & ROLLING STONES TITLES. THIS WAS AN EXPERIMENT ONLY - ALTHOUGH A FEW COPIES DID GET OUT - AND THESE PRESSINGS WERE ASSIGNED UNIQUE AND SEQUENTIAL MATRIX NUMBERS. THERE MAY BE OTHERS BUT OVER 30 YEARS LATER, THESE ARE ALL THAT ARE KNOWN. RECENTLY, PICTURES OF 'OMAYYAD' HAVE APPEARED ON THE NET (& EVEN EBAY) WHICH APPEAR TO BE A PART OF THIS SERIES OF EXPERIMENTS, ONE SHOWING THE GREEN TMOQ 'GENERIC' OMAYYAD LABEL (SHOWN ABOVE). THEY ARE HOWEVER, A MIXTURE OF WISHFUL THINKING AND ADOBE PHOTOSHOP !!! - SEE ALSO, ENTRY FOR PINK FLOYD "LIVE" (TMOQ).
RARITY RATING: *****(CV) ***(BLACK VINYL) ****(GENERIC SLEEVE) **(PIC DISC) *(BLACK VINYL LATE RE-ISSUE WITHOUT TMOQ LABELS)
SOURCE: ZABRISKIE POINT OUTTAKES ROME DECEMBER '69
EXCEPT * CIVIC CENTRE SANTA MONICA CALIFORNIA 1.5.70.
(TMOQ 71040 PF 515 – 1830)
S2: CRUMBLING LAND (STUDIO - LONG VERSION)/RAIN IN THE COUNTRY (STUDIO)/EMBRYO (LIVE)*
EARLY CV PRESSINGS ARE SOUGHT AFTER AND EXPENSIVE. LATER BLACK VINYL COPIES ARE MUCH MORE COMMON. SOME LATER PRESSINGS HAVE PLAIN WHITE LABELS. THIS RECORD HAS HAD MANY PRESSINGS ON THE TMOQ LABEL AND THE ORDER OF THEM SHOWN BELOW IS THE LOGICAL ORDER FROM THE PRESSINGS KNOWN TO THE AUTHOR. HOWEVER AFTER THE SPLIT BETWEEN THE LABELS ORIGINAL PARTNERS ‘DUB’ & ‘KEN’, TRYING TO IDENTIFY THE DIFFERENT PRESSINGS IS SOMETHING OF A MINEFIELD AND INVOLVES SOME EDUCATED GUESSWORK. WHAT CAN BE SAID WITH CERTAINTY IS THAT THE FIRST PRESSING IS CORRECT AND THE TWO SETS OF PLATES USED (PF515 & 1830) HAVE BOTH APPEARED WITH FARM PIG LABELS. THIS WOULD SUGGEST THAT BOTH SETS OF PLATES WERE MADE BY DUB & KEN WHEN THEY WERE STILL IN PARTNERSHIP - EITHER THAT OR KEN USED DUB’S LABELS FOR ONE OR TWO RUNS AFTER THE SPLIT - AND ‘1830’ WAS USED BY KEN FOR ALL OF THE TMOQ(2) ISSUES.
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