Non-urgent vinyl questions (READ OP!)

scandinavian-assault · Tue Oct 19, 2010 3:49 pm

TheMetalMan wrote:
DaN wrote:
TheMetalMan wrote:
I'm pretty sure the early ones were green w/ black lettering. The camo ones came later...

I think the camouflage grey appeared only in 1987. But the camo. green i don´t know. Because Possessed "seven churches" from 1985 got the green one and the camo. green, it was a second press?[/quote

Early Combat-pressings all have green labels, and later pressings have the camouflage grey-labels.

I have only seen 2 releases with camouflage green labels FORBIDDEN's "Twisted Into Form" and DEATH's "Spiritual Healing".

gauze · Post by **gauze** » Thu Oct 21, 2010 6:28 am

anyone know what the deal is with the various variations of Jag Panzer-Death Row 7" picture disks? how many were made of this thing?

here's mine ...

From_the_Fjords · Post by **From_the_Fjords** » Sat Oct 23, 2010 3:00 pm

I have two different shapes of this single (monster and black square);
I know these shapes exist; I don't know if exist some more shapes.
If someone have any other info, please post here.

Also exists some different inserts...

I made this collage with the info I have, and I'll put on my website when I can update it (some problems... sorry).

From_the_Fjords · Post by **From_the_Fjords** » Sat Oct 23, 2010 3:07 pm

Also I have two different shaped picture of the US RUTHLESS EP ; and I know exist a third shape of this one...
if interested I can post the photo or Ruthless

Azra catalogue was incredible... Many of these shaped are cuts from the ordinary 12", with an image glued on one side of the record (you can see the groove in the corners under the image!!); not the usuals shaped picture disc... Really home made, so I think some are really made in low quantities.
Some others are regular shaped picture(liege lord, Intruder, Sabotage...). Crazy!
paolo

tbieri · Post by **tbieri** » Sat Oct 23, 2010 6:36 pm

I have made 2 lists about this subject here ;
http://rateyourmusic.com/list/tbieri/the_azra_shapes
http://rateyourmusic.com/list/tbieri/th ... ture_discs
Help for extending/completing this would be apreciated !
I still need many scans and infos !

From_the_Fjords · Post by **From_the_Fjords** » Sat Oct 23, 2010 8:18 pm

Great pages! very delailed catalogue.

I think the DEATHROW (from Jag Panzer) different shape are all in these pages,

I have a different Ruthless and a different Mordor;
give me some days and I'll send to you a photo of these

tbieri · Post by **tbieri** » Sat Oct 23, 2010 8:30 pm

Sadly some Death Row shapes are still missing. The 2 tombstone shapes, the heart shape and the diver shape (only 2 existing copies!).

Would be really cool if you could send me these photos ! Do you also have the backsides of them ?

From_the_Fjords · Post by **From_the_Fjords** » Sat Oct 23, 2010 8:32 pm

yes; I have these in my collection, so I'll send to you also the back
paolo

From_the_Fjords · Post by **From_the_Fjords** » Sat Oct 23, 2010 8:33 pm

tbieri wrote:Sadly some Death Row shapes are still missing. The 2 tombstone shapes, the heart shape and the diver shape (only 2 existing copies!).

Would be really cool if you could send me these photos ! Do you also have the backsides of them ?

really?? other shapes? never seen! really a few made I think.

Azra was awesome!

Warepire · Post by **Warepire** » Sat Oct 23, 2010 9:23 pm

Most of the Azra heart-shapes are only test-pressings (this applies to most of their shaped releases)

Post by **DaN** » Sat Oct 23, 2010 9:37 pm

Warepire wrote:Most of the Azra heart-shapes are only test-pressings (this applies to most of their shaped releases)

...though these "test pressings" were also used as promos, so you can't really discern which pressings are "proper" ones and which aren't. As I understand it, Dave Richards worked at the Erika Records pressing plant and pressed & cut all of these aberrations himself during off-hours..

Warepire · Post by **Warepire** » Sat Oct 23, 2010 9:46 pm

DaN wrote:
Warepire wrote:Most of the Azra heart-shapes are only test-pressings (this applies to most of their shaped releases)
...though these "test pressings" were also used as promos, so you can't really discern which pressings are "proper" ones and which aren't. As I understand it, Dave Richards worked at the Erika Records pressing plant and pressed & cut all of these aberrations himself during off-hours..

I count everything with the generic Azra label, handwritten band name and the song titles only readable in the matrix as test-pressings... Never seen a heart-shape with a more proper label on it... Unless someone can prove me wrong of course.

gauze · Post by **gauze** » Sun Oct 24, 2010 2:34 pm

WOW YOU GUYS REALLY CAME THROUGH!
I had no idea there were that many EPs like that, I remember seeing a few in some fanzine with Erica Records/Azra ads in them in the mid80s but I never saw them in stores and this was right at the beginning of when I was mail ordering stuff and don't recall seeing a lot of that stuff for sale even then.

From_the_Fjords · Post by **From_the_Fjords** » Sat Oct 30, 2010 7:33 am

These are two pictures of the Ruthless shaped picture in my collection; I'll send better quality photos for your internet pages

Label signed by D.T. Richards (#1 of 25 made)

Keir · Post by **Keir** » Tue Nov 02, 2010 3:22 am

I have a question about Hawaii - One Nation Underground. I don't actually own the LP, but I was comparing a friend's rip to the Reborn Classics bootleg and both of them sounded rather lousy. Is the original record like that?