Amazing! Thanks for posting this, Sylvain!
I found the thread you're talking about, here's a cut and paste:
fuzzymental
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Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 7:55 am Post subject: the TRUTH about BFTG first press !
here's some final infos concerning the early and first pressings of BFTG comps, right from Tim's mouth ! :
"hey sylvain - yeah, i got married in may 1983 to a gal named caroline from paris and i moved to paris in oct 1983 and we pressed 500 each of the first 2 bftg's in france, with her dad's swank house as an address.
we had a hard time selling em, so we drove most of them to hans kesteloo's in tubingen, germany and he bought 90% of them...
that was a funny trip - we borrowed caroline's father's 1965 mustang and crammed the trunk with 800 lps and prayed that the customs wouldn't catch on and tax us!
tim "
cheers,
sylvain
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jeffs11375
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Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 8:12 am Post subject:
Somewhere I heard that Tim W. is planning to remaster all the BFTG comps using some of the newer technology for even better sound. Any truth to this rumor?
From a business point of view it doesn't seem like the smartest thing to do but as a fan I hope it's true.
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Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 8:29 am Post subject: A flock of homos
This exhaustive breakdown of Tim's old fire & brimstone spur-of-the-moment rants is the funniest thing I've seen in a long time. Thanks
// Patrick
Rich Strauss wrote:
Copy A of Volume 1 (not listed as such):
The cover says "17 ROCKIN' 1966 PUNKERS!".
The albums drawn at the bottom of the front cover say:
"Jazz Hits! Zappa Talking Heads PIL"
"David Bowie gravest hits"
"jefferson airplane"
The back cover has pictures labelled:
Crypt RR-66A/B
Copy B of volume 1 (also not listed as such):
The cover says "ROCKIN' 1966 PUNKERS!".
The albums drawn at the bottom of the front cover say:
"Diarrea-Thmics Boy George More creeps Out To ruin America"
"Devil Wor Metal"
"Disco Rap"
The back cover has pictures labelled:
"Larry & The Blue Notes"
"Michael Edward & The Bel-Aires"
"Jujus"
"Eilte"
Side One has
1. The Elite
2. The Jujus
3. The Alarm Clocks
etc
Side Two has
1. The Rats
2. The Rats
3. One Way Street
4. Larry & The Blue Notes
etc
There are longer descriptions of each track.
blue label
Crypt 001A/B
Copy A of Volume 2
Black & White cover with red for flames only
Some albums:
"A Flock Of Homos"
"Iron Maiden Smoke On the Water vol. 98"
"Devo Pac-man"
Back cover has 8 record labels.
2 or 3 sentence description of each song.
Side One has
1. Roy Junior
2. The Unrelated Segments
3. The Mystics
Side Two has
1. The Brigands
2. The Children Of Darkness
3. The Canadian Rogues
Red label
Crypt RR-660A/B
Copy B of vloume 2:
Black & White cover with blue background red for flames & lettering
Some albums:
"New Wave"
"Frankie Go To Hell"
"Art Rock"
Back cover has 6 band photos.
longer description of each song.
Side One has
1. The Lyrics
2. The Canadian Rogues
3. The Unrelated Segments
etc
Side Two has
1. The Outsiders
2. The Banshees
3. The Triumphs
Yellow label
Crypt 002A/B
Anyone have any other versions?
Regards, Rich
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Jasper de Wilde
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Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 10:38 am Post subject:
I don't get this shit!!!!
You wanna have the original pressings of COMPILATION-albums????
Aren't even the 1st pressings of a Pebbles or BFTG album kinda
compilation-reissues of the REAL originals??
I would go for them, the 7"-es. Quite an expensive hobby though!!!
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the plague
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Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 11:12 am Post subject:
Anonymous wrote:
the original copies sound shittier and are probably from shittier copies of the records, if my memory serves me correctly.
i`d have to disagree ,i have a new copy of BFTG vol 8 and its not as good as the earlier presses i have.
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fuzzymental
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Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 4:04 am Post subject:
just a follow up to this discussion: I recently came across 2 copies of the original french pressing of vol. 1 on voxygrave... I keep one for me, the other is now on ebay (item 4857869994), along with a scarce DIGGIN FOR GOLD VOL. 1 comp.... just 2 of the best 60s comps ever !
s.
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bimbam
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Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 5:37 am Post subject: glow in the dark
to get this straight:
the first pressing was 500 copies (including the bonus "The Witch" cover by Mono Man backed by a Mission Of Burma or 2 - Erik L added deadwax scratches to it to make it sound like an acetate), of which there were 66 that i hand-painted the "back from the
grave" front text with
glow-in-the-dark paint, and these were reserved for mailorder only sales (plus i gave pals a few copies).
around 8 copies were actually mailordered, and i forgot about em until july 2000, when i found the remaining copies in a dark closet while emptying the old family house in preparation for its demolition.
bimbam
