Anything But Regular Joe (Black) Vinyl..

Amen Doug...Jani says it's about time for a Denver trip...
 
Yep.....we donts run out around here or NOBODY is happy if Mama ain't happy...dig??
 
62vauxhall said:
One I don't have any more (I think my room mate at the time took it) was the initial release in 1970 of Alice Cooper - Love it to Death. For all the world and for the longest time, it seemed to be just a black vinyl record. Until you hit it with black light which made it "explode" into multi-color. I have never spoken with any collector or dealer who's heard of such a version and Google searching gets a blank. Anyone here heard of it?
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I'm glad to know that I wasn't hallucinating during those years- at least not while playing records...

Yes- on the Warner Brothers "Boulevard" label. Have a quick look at any of your USA pressings of Black Sabbath LPs from the same era. Warner Brothers knew that we pot smokers had black lights in our roach dens and dyed their vinyl accordingly. My 1974 copy of Todd Rundgren's Utopia is also black- light reactive (Bearsville BR 6954- manufactured by Warner Brothers).

In the deadwax of the Utopia LP:
Side A: BR-6954 31824-ID STERLING RL
Side 2: BR-6954 31825-IC
 
BLS - Stronger Than Death



Even busted out the 2M Blue to rock this one.
 
Black Label Society, The Blessed Hellride.



and a shot of the Blue on the SH-4 Blue.

 
Sweet discs Ben !

Seeing them both has me down with a strong hankerin' for a creamsicle. :happy2:
 
I found a "glowie"

Cleaning a stack of LPs in the spin clean, I walked to the back door to inspect the vinyl in daylight. I noticed a bit of splattering in Bachman Turner Overdrive II- so I knew I had one of those black light splatter vinyls.

1973, A1 in both sides of deadwax. A Goodwill thrift shop find for $1, one scratch on side 1 track 1- otherwise EX condition.

 
MarkWComer said:
Cleaning a stack of LPs in the spin clean, I walked to the back door to inspect the vinyl in daylight. I noticed a bit of splattering in Bachman Turner Overdrive II- so I knew I had one of those black light splatter vinyls.

1973, A1 in both sides of deadwax. A Goodwill thrift shop find for $1, one scratch on side 1 track 1- otherwise EX condition.

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I posted about something similar a year or so ago. Did not know they were called "glowies".

In 1970 my roommate bought Alice Cooper - Love It To Death. Looked like any other black vinyl record until it was under a black light which were all the rage at parties back then. I happened to be under the influence of psychedelics the first time it was "black lit" and definitely did a double take at the turntable.

No collector I've spoken to knew of such a thing but it is interesting to hear that other records were pressed from similar vinyl.
 
Todd Rundgren's Utopia. 1974, Bearsville Records (Warner Brothers), Robert Ludwig / Sterling Sound in deadwax.
Despite all that, and the cool UV effect, the music actually sucks out loud. Looks like regular ol' black vinyl under normal light!



 
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