Rejected Chain

So previously I posted about my Chain of Strength LPs that I had picked up recently. Well now that I have completed my Chain LP collection I have been working on my Chain of Strength 7” collection.

This week I got two Chain 7’s in the mail. Both of these happen to be from the Foundation Records rejected press. (Again sorry for the bad quality photos!)

Everyone reading this knows the story about the Chain pressing, but he’s is a bit of info. There were 500 records pressed. This press was rejected. Of the 500 rejected press, 100 went to each band member. Now out of the 500, 100 were given the highly sort after Chain Crew covers (which I still need!!). Some of the 400 have obviously gotten into circulation.

Here is a regular copy of the rejected press. It has a photocopied cover and insert of the first accepted press.

Here you can see the rejected press on the left and accepted press on the right.

This is the inside of the covers, again the rejected press is of course the photo copied black one.

Interestingly the labels on the rejected press are a lot darker than the later accepted press, as you can see here. Again rejected is on the left hand side.

SIDE ALEX:

SIDE PAIN:

My copy of the accepted press has the large inset/poster. There are accepted pressings with smaller inserts and I believe all are numbered out of 100, though I don’t have one of those.

Now I also picked up another rejected press recently. This one is, however, much more sort after. The rejected press with ‘booted’ Confusion sleeve.

Now there isn’t a whole lot of information about this one. But consensus seems to be that this is a 'booted' copy of the actual Confusion sleeve, which i don't have a copy of. (This is based on the fact that the cover is much darker).  

Now this is actually printed on cardboard and has the correct glossy Mindpower records insert. So it is thought these were made by someone close to the record label. Again, this is just speculation, but it seems to make sense. I have no idea of how many of these actually exist.

Here is the insert.

Hope you enjoyed reading. More Chain and other records to come soon so stay posted!

BROTHERHOOD

If you’re reading this you have probably noticed my obsession with collecting Brotherhood records, as you can see here, here and here. So the other day I came across a Brotherhood record on eBay, the seller was advertising it as Green out of 273. However from the photo in the listing, the record looked just like my copy on solid green, which according to the pressing info there are only a handful of. The photo clearly wasn’t like my clear green copy. So I shot the seller an offer and bought it, planning on using this to trade for other records.

Here you can see my solid green on the left, clear on the right and my new record in the middle. Now as you can see here, the record in the middle looks pretty much identical to my solid green, however there is a difference.

When holding the new record up to the light the record is partially transparent, unlike the solid green.

When looking closer you can see that the record in the middle you can actually see through it and read the word ‘BROTHERHOOD’ through the record. Where as on the record on the left you can’t.

It looks like what I have managed to pick up was a transition press of sorts. Not quite solid green, not quite clear. Though some people might just call this a solid green, I like the idea of adding another Brotherhood record to my collection (as it’s getting more and more difficult to come by the ones I am missing!).

Here are a few closer pics, but because I was using my iPhone, still hard to see the differences. First solid green.

Here is the 'transition' green.

And lastly clear green.

While taking photos of my copies or Words Run on green, I thought it was time to get out my other Brotherhood records and take some updated pics of my collection. (again sorry for the poor quality pics).

THE ONE THING THAT STILL HOLDS TRUE.

So recently I have really been focusing on collecting Revelation colour LPs. Along with all the re-presses that Rev has been pressing I have managed to pick up a good amount of Rev LPs from Jeff, who was selling his amazing collection. As part of my deals with Jeff I managed to pick up a few Chain of Strength LPs. I love Chain and until recently when Rev re-pressed the LP I actually only had copies of the 7”, so I ordered the re-presses through Rev and thought it was about time to finally track down the earlier presses of the LP as well.

First up we have the first press on Clear Green vinyl out of 312, making this of course the rarest press.

I actually don’t have a copy of the first press on black (thought there are 3023 of them! But I have a copy of the later press. The differences between these I will go though below).

Here is what was meant to be the ‘final’ press from 2001. Grey vinyl out of 440.

Here we have the first of the recent re-presses. White vinyl, out of 557. This was the first Chain LP that I picked up. I actually really like the look of the white vinyl, and the choice of all the colours for the Chain LPs in fact.

Lastly the most recent press, which, at the time of writing this, are still available at Revhq. Clear vinyl. Not sure of the pressing info for these yet, hasn’t been updated here yet. If anyone knows, please let me know!

Okay now as probably anyone reading this will know, the first press and later press chain LP’s inserts had slight differences. This of course helps in identifying the first press black from the later pressings. However with the most recent re-presses, it seems the differences are now a bit more confusing.

Here shows the first press insert on the left and later 2001 press on the right.

As you can see the later press has a more lime green and the first press has what is commonly referred to as Kelly Green.

Now the most recent Rev re-presses seem to have gone back to the Kelly green. However there are some differences with the later press. (1st press, 2001 press, 2012 press)

It is really hard to see in these pics as my iPhone wouldn’t really pick it up. But the first press insert doesn’t have the regular Rev yellow in the logo. It is more or a mustard yellow. This pic really doesn’t do it justice. (Again 1st press left, 2001 press middle, 2012 press right).

Also the first press insert has more of a green tinge to the whole insert, as you can see here. (First press left, 2001 press middle, 2012 press right).

Hope this has made it pretty clear and not just confused anyone reading this. 

So glad I was able to pick these up and add to my Chain collection. Wish I had of got to see the Chain reunion shows, they looked like they were a blast. I guess I will have to settle with spinning these records instead!

Break Down The Walls - Part II

So again it has been ages since my last post, since June in fact! Wow, time flies. I have had no time to do this blog recently but I should be able to make pretty regular posts moving forward.

Anyway, if you look through my last few posts you can see they were all of Wishingwell Records. Well this post pics right up from where I left off. I have just managed to pick up one of my absolute top wants, Youth of Today – Break Down The Walls, BLUE vinyl on Wishingwell records!!

Now this record was on eBay recently in a lot of other random records, and I figured I would shoot the seller an offer to buy just this record, and he could keep the others.  The seller responded asking if I added an extra zero on my offer by accident! It seems that the seller was a bit unaware as to what this record would sell for. But I assured my offer was correct and we quickly made a deal.

Now the cover and insert for this record were in less than ideal condition. They both had water damage, but the record itself is in great condition. So for now I have switched covers with my black vinyl copy (which is still a bit beat up) and will keep an eye out for a copy on black in great condition.

I’m so stoked to finally have both the Red and Blue vinyl for this release. I’m sure I have said it before but I love Wishingwell colour vinyl. Something about it always looks amazing and the combination of Youth of Today and Wishingwell, well it doesn’t get much better than that!

Here are a couple pics of my colour Wishingwell records.

Hope you enjoyed reading, good to be back. Got heaps of other posts planned so keep an eye out!

Still Screaming!

So it’s been a while between posts because I’ve been travelling and other things have gotten in the way. But now I’m back I should be updating this fairly regularly.

So after I got back home I was super excited to receive this record in the mail. Uniform Choice – Screaming for Change on grey vinyl, courtesy of Dobek (thanks again bro!). This record is super nice looking! I love this album, and in my opinion, has some of the greatest straight edge lyrics. 

The few of you that read this blog may have seen a few posts showing some of my UC records. After scoring this latest copy I now have all the colours except the super rare Pink transition colour (if someone has this hit me up!!). 

The pressing info for Screaming for Change is pretty non-existent, but from checking how often each colour comes up the light pink transition is clearly the rarest colour, but the grey seems to be the second rarest, not popping up all that often. So I'm really stoked to finally own a copy. 

I love Wishingwell coloured vinyl. Some of the most crucial looking records out there, just a classic looking hardcore record.

Break Down The Walls

Okay so anyone who reads this probably knows that I was extremely lucky enough to have recently picked up a copy of Youth of Today – Break Down The Walls red vinyl on Wishingwell records. This record has been on the top of my record want list ever since I started buying records, but I never ever thought I would actually own a copy.

Everything about this record has already been said before, it's an absolute classic. I mean Youth of Today on Wishingwell records, what more needs to be said!

This copy is as mint as they come. The vinyl looks almost untouched and plays perfectly, no pops or skips, sounds great.  

The cover is perfect, still in shrink-wrap. Even the insert is in perfect condition.

My copy also came with a Wishingwell catalogue, nothing super special, but I love it when records come with little extras.

And here are a couple Wishingwell ‘family’ photos.