Anyone who collects Sisters vinyl ever notice???

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Anyone who collects Sisters vinyl ever notice that there
are inscriptions etched into the clear area around the center of the record?

Did Eldritch do this? :von:

My records are in storage but I remember things like "For Spiggy"
& "Jesus Loves The Sisters" and some of what looked like German
I think.

Anybody else notice this or am I just going mad. :eek:

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known as run-out groove inscriptions (ROGI for short)

all documented on the Sisters Wiki Singles entries

They've been discussed on this forum before, but I can't find the thread
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Try here :wink:

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scotty wrote:Try here :wink:

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I'm lusting after your avatar! :wink:
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9while9 wrote:
scotty wrote:Try here :wink:

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I'm lusting after your avatar! :wink:
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I wish :lol: :lol: , apart from missus scotty, I don't think woman kind gets any better than the girl(Godess) on the right :oops: :oops: :lol:
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I have 5 vinyl records :D --- for once i can participate to a thread

~This corrosion has (Eldritch) <-- the name between ( )

~Floodland ; nothing particular if not on side 2 track numer 4 is Never land (a fragment) -- kinda cute "a fragment"

~The sisters of mercy (the first album i presume, it's dated 1984) ; each song is (Eldritch) and Produced by Andrew Eldritch

~First and last and always ; music by Wayne Hussay except track 3 by Marx/C.Adams/Hussey all words by Eldritch

~Vision Thing ; in resume ; written and produced by Eldritch except track 3 on both sides (seems like all "tracks number 3 were produced in collaboration). On the inside sleeve - the lyrics and these funny clarifications ;

Music reproduced kind by kind permission of EMI (yup - emi - Me
:lol: - lame joke since my real name is emilia - therefore the short emi applies - andrew cupcake ; you're my possession now mouhahahahaha) Music Publishing Ltd / Eldritch Boulevard Ltd. Except " More " EMI Music Publishing LTd. / Eldritch boulevard Ltd. / Lost Boys Music / Ringhtsong Music Inc.

(and you almost need a microscope to read those lines)

The thanks
Peter One (close-to-death)
Puk and Brite (just close, really)
Mark (maximum r'n'r)
John Perry (immaculate convection)
Lars (big food)
Max Hole (big dollars, little flak)
Boyd (mau-mauing the flak)
Tim (jumping on the fast moving train)
Pete and Phil (back on station)
Manni (Ur-Mitternatcht) < --- no speak german, sorry

also to Monika, Thorsten, Astrid ( :eek: i actually know a girl who runs a betonel store who goes by that name....), Neil, Trina and everyone else who stayed up late for this

Sisters information service ; PO BOX HP 29, Leeds 6, West Yorkshire, England

The dramatis personae on this record are fictional and any resemblance to persons living or dead is entirely concidental.

:lol: -- love his sense of humor

will be taking pics of all these tomorrow if anyone wants 'em
(tonight my 8 rechargeable batteries are ... being rechared ... damn you walkman, DaMn YoU !! )


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ailime wrote:--- for once i can participate to a thread
After Montreal, you can participate like never before, emi. 8) :von: :D
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ailime wrote:--- for once i can participate to a thread
After Montreal, you can participate like never before, emi. 8) :von: :D
:lol: :oops: and "How to kindly ask and autograph to :von: with one simple stick of Everlasting red lipstick"


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CNT 002 has "FOR SPIGGY" "RISE AND REVERBERATE" on the AA side (Adrenochrome); both sides have Bilbo Tape One.
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does the fact that my vinyls are "canadian made" make a difference ? or i have not looked carefully enaugh ...
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ailime wrote:does the fact that my vinyls are "canadian made" make a difference ? or i have not looked carefully enaugh ...
Look on the run out grooves, by the label. there what the bloke who made the acetates wrote.
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ailime wrote:does the fact that my vinyls are "canadian made" make a difference ? or i have not looked carefully enaugh ...
Look on the run out grooves, by the label. there what the bloke who made the acetates wrote.

You may need a magnifying glass depending
upon wether your vision is good. 8)

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Not Sisters specific, but these comments are as yer man said down to the acetate man. For instance I've got loads of "A PORKYS PRIME CUT" across a whole range of music.
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9while9 wrote:Anyone who collects Sisters vinyl ever notice that there
are inscriptions etched into the clear area around the center of the record?

Did Eldritch do this? :von:
I for one hoped for a hand-etched ROGI by Eldritch himself on my vinyls and not by an suspect "acetate man". :? :lol:
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IIRC there was an article in Q many moons ago about Porky's Prime Cuts. As I recall, one of them (an Elvis Costello 7" maybe?) had the record company's A&R man's private phone number on it after Porky took a dislike to him. (Or something similar -- memory fails me.)
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for a time when i bought a new vinyl, i'd inscribe my DJ name on the ROGI area and the date purchased, using a safety pin.
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I'm sure on the Lucretia 12" it says

"More more more stupid guitars"
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Mmmm. "Porky Prime" was the name of the guy who used to actually do the cutting. He did loads for the indie labels in the early 80s, and also did Led Zep 4 and a Monthy Python LP, as well as - presumably - innumerable others. These inscriptions used to originally be messages for one person involved in the pressing process to another, so it would be stuff like "more bass" or "watch out for side 2, the last track was a bitch to get right", or whatever. They eventually evolved into in-jokes, messages to the fans, or just cool/obscure/ridiculous sounding stuff.

It's not just Sisters-specific - to pull out a random example, Spacemen 3's "Playing With Fire" has "Write to (postcode) for free gift" on one side, and "Never gonna get out of this world alive" on the other.

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9while9 wrote:and some of what looked like German
I think.

"Im Westen nichts Neues" is an anti-war novel by Erich Maria Remarque.

"Leis' weht der Wind der Heimat zu, mein irisch Kind, wo weilest Du" is a quote from T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land". But Eliot himself quoted Richard Wagner here, if I remember correctly.
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:cry: I must be the luckiest fan not having anything chrispy on my vynils ... :cry:

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ailime wrote::cry: I must be the luckiest fan not having anything chrispy on my vynils ... :cry:

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Good god woman you barely have any of the area showing that they scratch the messages into. :roll: Pull out a bit more look into the shinny area.....smooth area....glossy area.
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You'll have to hold it at an angle to notice, and experiment a bit. See where the red arrows are pointing here:

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That's the part you want to look at.
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9while9 wrote:Anyone who collects Sisters vinyl ever notice that there
are inscriptions etched into the clear area around the center of the record?

Did Eldritch do this? :von:

My records are in storage but I remember things like "For Spiggy"
& "Jesus Loves The Sisters" and some of what looked like German
I think.

Anybody else notice this or am I just going mad. :eek:

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Have a look at your other records EVERY f**ker with a needle does it!
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RobF wrote:
Have a look at your other records EVERY f**ker with a needle does it!
What's heroin got to do with this?.... :lol:
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