The three in original form (or sort of) |
According to BBTL, the first edition of HOT COALS FROM FIERY FURNACE on Hoffman Avenue Records (HAR164; the original copy of THE JERSEY DEVIL: Ragamuffin Gunner) was pressed on multicolor vinyl with picture labels and came in an orange and black slick cover. Among the three bootlegs I'm talking about, relatively detailed information is available for this old bootleg, in part because the man who made it is long publicly known, and featured and interviewed in essential readings such as BOOTLEG: The Secret History Of The Other Recording Industry (C. Heylin, 1996, St. Martin's Griffin, New York). I know slightly more than what are said about the pressing number and slick cover variation. So, this vinyl title is going to be featured on "Classic Vinyl Bootleg Revisited" sometime in the future.
As for YOU CAN TRUST YOUR CAR TO THE MAN WHO WEARS THE STAR on Singer's Original Double Disk labels (SODD 001), the original pressing had a black and orange insert cover and came on black vinyl. Although there are variations with respect to insert color and record labels (for example, see here on this blog), the white insert edition seems to be one of the earliest, as it came with the record label "World Records" which is also used for the orange insert version. Another classic bootleg.
DON'T LOOK BACK: Bruce Springsteen Collectors Items 1974-1980 on PUD Records (PUD P 4234) was released around in 1980, about 4 years later than the release of the above two classic bootlegs. For this title, BBTL describes that "Delux black and white photos with black lettering. Second pressing has blue border on cover. Extremely rare in its original form". Yes, all the releases feature black & white photos on their front and rear sleeves, but I had wondered what color was originally used on the sleeve border, because there were differently colored sleeves floating around. I've seen at least light blue, red, orange, green, white, and grey versions with light blue seemingly most widely circulated (By the way, the detail information on the variation is found in brucespringsteen.it). Then, I came to know the white border version most likely to be the first edition according to another bootleg guide: "First 100 copies had no back ground color. Later copies had light blue, blue and orange added", from The Bruce Springsteen Bootleg Bible Vol. 1 (Tony Montana, 1985, Montana Production, Inc.).
Although similarly designed, there are several minor variations on the rear sleeves. |
The grey border version actually came with the plain black sleeve on both sides of which the large stickers reproducing the original sleeve (except grayish font color) are glued. The vinyl has plain black labels on both sides with the hand-etched matrix inscriptions LL101 / LL102. Printed on the bottom of the rear sleeve sticker is the small writing "Quik-Q Records, 156 Broadway, New York, N. Y. 10115" which is not found on any other copies. The light blue border version, the first copy I got among the four, has a stamped plain white label on each side of the vinyl as shown in the last post, with the matrix codes PUD104A / PUD104B (that are hand-etched as completely different script from those of the white and green border versions). These two copies feature the vertically arranged album title that is printed on the right side of the rear sleeve.
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