The Wailers - Out of our tree: original pressing info?

[Mr.Segment]

Hep!

Just bought a copy of the Out of our tree album on Etiquette. Does anyone have the matrix numbers handy? Just got a tad worried I might have bought an early repress.

Mine reads: 026-1-RE with the Monarch no: 8557

It´s in mono and the cover has no printing on the spine. (green frame)

Any help appreciated!

 

[MopTopMike]

That seems to be a reissue

 

[gregk25]

darned: same matrix here, blank spine, at least it was cheap...

 

[buckeyebeat]

You're OK guys, they are original - assuming they have the purple label.

The reissues are either red labels or stereo AFAIK. It was repressed in the 1970s and the 1980s. The 1970s repressings are a lot rarer than the originals!

Don't be concerned with the relative cheap price. This record never took off like the Sonics LPs and probably sold as many if not more copies than the Sonics. Good luck finding a M copy though.

 

[gregk25]

A good way to start the day, thanks! Finding a NM mono copy of Here are the Sonics LP seems to be the real challenge. The NW-garage-fiends knew how to party, it seems - and took along this LP to every one of them.