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This short post is just following up on early U.S. copies of the
DARKNESS LP (
JC 35318) that are pressed at the
Keel manufacturing factory, located in
Hauppauge, New York. Two months ago, I won a domestic auction of vinyl collection sold as "junk records," consisting of early six LP titles (five official and one bootleg albums; total eight discs). Although the seller did not provide any information on these records, especially on the official releases such as countries of origin, I was tempted to join the auction (and did so) because I knew that this kind of auction would usually not cost high (It actually cost me 300 JPY per disc, which exceeded a little bit my expectation, though). Another reason was that this volume contained one of the all-time classic bootlegs with an original orange slick insert. Finally, in a small picture displayed on the auction page, I spotted
a gold stamp on the upper left corner of the rear sleeve of
DARKNESS. Normally, it would be a "promo" stamp but I just couldn't read what was stamped exactly. Having received these records, I found that all but
BORN TO RUN (which was a Japanese reissue missing an obi) were U.S. pressings, with
DARKNESS originating from the
Keel plant. The remaining were second pressing copies for
GREETINGS ... in the postcard gate-fold sleeve (
PC 31903) and
THE WILD ... with the yellow/cream cover title (
PC 32432), and an original
THE RIVER from the
Pitman factory (
PC 36854).
