May 31, 2011 Long Strange Trip - Part 2

So how exactly did Chris Trip save my ass you ask? The Most Precious Blood demo of course! I didn't even realize he was doing both 7"s at the same time. UGGHH damn I screwed up. But Chris had my back and all is good. The man definitely took care of me. It's ridiculous how man different types of pressings he did. The Unrestrained/Incendiary split was like 10 versions alone I think. And this one on top of that, and at the same time. I'd be interested in knowing if United got all the colors right. Here's the pressing info for the demo, as noted in his store

150 OPAQUE RED VINYL (STAMPED AND HAND NUMBERED/MAILORDER ONLY)
300 CLEAR/BLACK HAZE VINYL
550 BLACK VINYL (35 WITH LIMITED EURO TOUR COVER)

Let's go bottom to top. First off we have the standard black release which looks like it's out of 515.


Then we have the clear with black haze, or as some weirdos like to call it now a days, black "smoke".


It looks real "smokey" when it's on top of the white paper sleeve, but if you hold it up to the natural light, it looks a lot different.


Looks like two separate pressings. And the last of the standard pressings is the numbered red version.


Now let's go back to the black version. Chris made 35 Euro Tour sleeves and if taking care of me with the 3 standard pressings wasn't enough, he included one of these too. Maybe a nod to Rev with this sleeve?


Don't let your eyes deceive you here. That's not #53 out of 500, that's 005/35. Liking that! So that's it. I hope you enjoyed that little....ohhhhhhhhhh wait I almost forgot.


HEYO!


HEYO!!

Looks like Chris nodded again here, this time to the Indecision - Campaign For Complete Musikal Destruction 7" that was put out for the Europe tour back in 98. A 7" that is so damn hard to track down. They made 500 of those, each with a different member on the sleeve. 5 members, 5 versions, 100 of each. Each one was pressed in red and had the "Test Press" label on it. Yes everyone had the test press label. Why you ask? Well Justin told me it was done to "piss everyone off." ahahah Ahh well. You know what else, the label looks the same too. It's not, but it's that same tan color. So back to the demo test press, he went with a redish cover this time, and I got 005 out of 14! A matching set.

I'm going to have to bring the collection back together at some point here. I've gotten so much stuff since my last picture. This is the one I took over a year ago

At least I think this is the last one. This pic was from my post back in March of 2010 But since then I got the Merciless release, the DNR release, and this release. Hmmm oddly enough, I got 2 absolutely huge Indecision items coming in soon, and they're related to that post I made back in march. That's interesting. I guess I really do need to get the gang back together. OK after my next Indecision/MPB post I'm going to pull everything out and we'll see what we have.

I want to thank Chris Trip for saving a busy dude's ass. I owe you big time. Let me know when you do you're next release and LP will pick up the digital. Thanks!

May 28, 2011 Long Strange Trip - Part 1

About a month or so ago I heard that Trip Machine launched the Unrestrained/Incendiary split and because of my brain being bogged down with so much stuff these days, I delayed in getting in there and picking up as many versions as he had. Luckily when I finally got in there I was able to grab 3 copies. Chris usually does some new school pressing with his records like Jeff Bottled Up. For instance with this split he pressed the following:

5 PEA SOUP VINYL
6 BLOOD ORANGE VINYL
9 RASPBERRY GRAY VINYL
12 CLEAR YELLOW VINYL (WITH LIMITED COVER)
15 CREAMSICLE VINYL
38 SLATE BLUE VINYL
98 ARMY GREEN VINYL
114 CLEAR ORANGE VINYL (STAMPED AND HAND NUMBERED/MAILORDER ONLY)
228 REFRIED BEAN VINYL (70 CAME WITH V.O.D. RIPOFF RECORD RELEASE COVER)

Wowzers! There's probably some dudes out there banging their heads against the wall. Kind of fun in a way though. Let's take a look at the 3 I was able to score.


Clear Orange #ed out of 114, I got 38.


Here's the Army Green version out of 98.


And the last one I managed to pick up was the Slate Blue version out of 38.

The colors are all great and Chris did a really impressive job on the packaging as well. I'm a huge fan of the folding wrapper on a 7". The reason is a normal jacket never gets used to it's full capacity. It makes so much more sense to me to forget the whole insert garbage, and make a folding sleeve with the insert printed on the inside. I hate inserts, and I especially hate insert sleeves. Wow I hate insert sleeves so damn much. Maybe Chris can chime in here and let me know if it's cheaper printing it this way. Which I think it is. Very rarely do I see something that's clearly a better way of doing things, that's also cheaper. I hope it is.

So if you count the version of this I wrote about a while back in Cross Country Connections, I have 4. I think I want one more, that yellow one with the limited cover. I'm going to keep my eyes peeled. With 12 pressed I assume he gave 5 to each band, gave 1 to a friend, and kept one. I think I might have to start emailing some people!

Also you might have noticed this post is just "Part 1". Well Chris really saved my ass on this one. I didn't even realize he was running another preorder at the same time as this split. I'm going to hold that story for Part 2. Hopefully in the next few days I'll be able to bang that out. Yeah 2 posts in 1 week! I'm like a machine...

that was a terrible joke

May 16, 2011 MPB - DNDNR

A few weeks back I got the new Most Precious Blood album called Do Not Resuscitate in the mail. I ordered a couple of copies, one of which I gave to Tom. This was pressed by Morse Code Recordings which is Rachel MPBs and her boyfriend Derek's label. I think Derek's last name is Morse, and this is the reason for the label name, but don't quote me on that.

A lot of people were really clamoring for this release to come out. Every 6 months since 2005, a 30 reply thread would get posted on some board, wondering when the next album is coming out. Then after a couple years they teased everyone with a picture of a CDR that had the album name on it. They also made this picture the homepage to their website. I assume they did this to show everyone that they were still a band, and they had an album, but maybe there was another reason it couldn't come out. Maybe someone had the rights to the record, but didn't want to release it yet. You get the point. So once they finally announced they were going to release the album, I had this thought that this album probably wouldn't have that, "It's been 6 years since we released an album" feeling. Usually when a band tries to make a comeback after 6 years, their sound completely changes. But I figured that since this album was written pretty soon after Merciless, that the typical MPB sound would be there. And I was right about that, the album sounds great.

#ed on the sleeve 85/150. I think that's a good first pressing amount.




The sleeve on this record is not like a normal sleeve. It's like a thick gatefold poster almost. I almost wish there was something frame worthy on the inside.


Rachel also sent me a test press, which was extremely nice of her. You know I gotta keep this streak going.

That's a sewn up t-shirt used as a sleeve. It's sort of like Grant did on the Merciless album, only that was a silk screened bag of some sort.

All in all a real cool release. I'm glad the vinyl came out on Rachel and Derek's label and not some other label. If you want a copy of your very own, they still have a few green and black marble left in their store.

Morse Code Recordings

Also, this is Napoleon sleeping next to a Merauder record.