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!