THE RADIATORS THE DANCING YEARS CHISWICK 1980 A & B REJECTED 2 x TEST PRESSINGS
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58
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77
£ 58
Sold For
Apr 9, 2017
Sold Date
Mar 30, 2017
Start Date
£ 25
Start price
10
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Great Britain
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Description
echo2ndhand
The Radiatorsa.side test pressing The Dancing Years [Utopia Mix 2] b.side test pressing Paddy Guitar Paddy[?]
Rare rejected Test Pressings - original 1980 a.side & b.side one-sided Test Pressings, pressed with matrices CHIS 126 A-2 & B-1 [which were later used for the release "Stranger Than Fiction" backed with "Prison Bars" & " Who Are The Strangers?"], with the a.side TP playing a rejected different mix of "The Dancing Years" from that of the single that was later released on CHIS 133...got that? Good, because let's not muck about here, this could be your only opportunity to own this in a very long time...I've seen evidence of another but that belongs to one of the Radiators band members! In addition, this was produced by Hans Zimmer, who later went on to do some fabulous soundtracks like "Gladiator" & "Interstellar" - this was one of the Radiators' record he produced, that's history right there Chiswick Records - cat. # CHIS 126
- 2 x 7-inch 45rpm, 1-sided vinyl singles - pressed in the UK - stamped matrix CHIS 126 A-2 / CHIS 126 B-1
- pressing plant white paper labels, solid centre - with black plain paper sleeve - a note about test pressings: TEST PRESSINGS are manufactured to test the quality of the finished product before pressing thousands of records. Test pressings are made to ensure that the grooves themselves are clean, deep enough and formed correctly; that the grooves, label and centre hole are not off-centre; that the vinyl does not warp. Test pressings are supposed to be destroyed, but most of them end up being kept by the people to whom they are sent... Only a few[1] test pressings are made for each record (usually 5–25 copies with plain white labels). These are sent out to the record company after first being checked by the quality control department at the pressing plant. The record company will then send copies to the Producer as well as the Artist and often a copy to the Cutting Engineer. Test Pressings are usually pressed on a special press that is very high quality and used only for test pressings. It is regularly serviced and only pure virgin[2] vinyl is used for these discs. Consequently, white label test pressings are always highly sought after by collectors “in the know” because they will have the best sound quality that’s possible to get... [1] Vinyl records are pressed using metal stampers and these stampers gradually deteriorate during the manufacturing process and so are usually replaced after every 500 to 1000 pressings. Test pressings have the highest sound quality as they are the very FIRST records to be pressed from a new set of stampers [2] Virgin vinyl, is pure vinyl, not including any re-grounds or other extraneous material. Re-grounds are made from recycled vinyl, produced by grinding up faulty records and then melting these grounds down and combining them with virgin vinyl. For albums, usually only a low percentage of re-grounds are used, perhaps 20 or 25%, but often with 7” 45rpm records the percentage can go up to 50/50
VINYL NEAR MINT
- labels clean, pristine other than pressing plant matrix notations - vinyl looks unplayed, wonderful vinyl, probably played a handful of times at most
SLEEVE n/a - almost as new but with notations, shelf rub :
Visually graded to 'Record Collector' guidelines:
: P&P
- sent in a professional 7-inch card mailer with extra card protection - see 'Postage and Payments' tab above for rates :
RETURNS? - accepted
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QUESTIONS?
- just ask!
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