DIRTBOMBS Jolene 7" #49/87 kbd Gories White Stripes '00

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The DIRTBOMBS
" Headlights On / Jolene "
VERY LIMITED EDITION very out-of-print 7" BLACK VINYL Import from Italy!
 Recorded/released in 2000 with garage punk Dolly Parton & more! Beautiful sexy rare cheesecake p*rn sleeve! This is the most limited Dirtbombs out there, baby.  There were 300 copies made, in total, of this single.  THEN, it was split into 3 different covers.  This just happens to be the version with the smallest pressing.  Out of 300 copies of this single, this cover was limited to 87 copies!  WAY less than a third.   SOFT X SLUT SLEAZY FAVE SUPER VIXEN EDITION! LIMITED TO 87 COPIES!   NM Unplayed

We're very careful handling our goods. This was eased out of its sleeve, and wasn't touched on its surface OR laid down on any surface.  Unlike other sellers, we NEVER lay your record down!

An original import 7" vinyl rekkid from Italy.
HEADLIGHTS ON JOLENE
(see the photos)

We never lay vinyl on any surface, so what you're seeing is a record held aloft, away from any surface.

NM cover   NM vinyl



The songs:
1. "Headlights On"  2.  "Jolene"
  (Solid Sex Lovie Doll Records, 2000, SSLD 005)
  hand numbered edition of 300
  sleeve #1: the E.B. groovy pic catching edition (94 copies)
  sleeve #2: Soft-X smut sleazy fave super vixen edition (87 copies)
  sleeve #3: Nouvelle Erotique a-go-go edition (119 copies)
blankgeneration.com says: Let's get one thing straight, right off the bat: you're gonna have to look high and low to find yourself a copy of the Headlights On/Jolene single by the Dirtbombs. It's another record released by Solid Sex Lovie Doll, an Italian label that specializes in ultra-limited, super trashy, great singles, mostly by bands who make the Memphis-Detroit connection (Reatards, Walter Daniels, King Louie, etc). Granted, it's a record worth getting, no doubt about that, but don't walk into your local store expecting them to have a copy sitting in the bin next to the new Green Day 7". The Dirtbombs are a band full of very talented musicians, but really, with Mick Collins in a band, all eyes are fixed squarely on him. From the Gories onward, he's sunk his teeth in primal, stompin' music and hasn't let up yet. At times (like on "Jolene,") Collins and the 'Bombs lay out a solid Bo Diddley beat and build a locomotive of a song around it. Other times they take the exact opposite approach, shooting fuzz and distortion everywhere, like scattering buckshot. The two songs on the Solid Sex Lovie Doll Release really only wet your appetite for more. "Headlights On" rushes through a blast of verse-chorus-verse drenched in Jim Diamond's patented distortion. On the flip side they offer a meatier size serving—a touching rendition of the now classic, "Jolene." Not a lot more to say. It's limited to 300 copies, with about three or four different sleeves, making this something really only needed by big Dirtbombs fans. For the rest of you, the single on Hate Records is what you should look for.
Jim Diamond ...    1. was in the Beat-O-Sonics with Eric Makowski.
   2. has got his own studio, called Ghetto Recorders.
   3. engineered/produced or both all tracks on the Ghettoblaster: A Detroit Music Sampler 1997 Volume 1 CD (Motor City Brewing Works, 1997, MCBWGB 001). He is in Jim Diamond's Pop Monsoon, this "band" has one track on the CD too.
   4. engineered all songs (but one) on all earlier releases by The Dirtbombs.
   5. recorded all 3 albums and some singles by Bantam Rooster. He also appears on various tracks.
   6. recorded the first (and last) LP and produced the third 7" by The Dirtys.
   7. appeared on and recorded the excellent Andre Williams LP/CD Silky on In The Red.
   8. was playing bass in The Dirtbombs (5th til 14th line-up).
   9. engineered and appeared on the Red Aunts' Ghetto Blaster LP/CD on Epitaph.
  10. recorded the first 7" and the first album by The Blowtops. He plays organ on Grave With A View, track 10 of the album.
  11. was in The Couvairs for a two track recording session.
  12. is playing baritone 12 string electric ("ghost guitar") in The Witches. Also produced and recorded their 2000 LP/CD on Fall Of Rome Records.
  13. mixed Zulu Lulu on the first album by The Screws.
  14. co-produced and engineered the SFTRI 7" and LP/CD by The White Stripes.
  15. mixed the All-American Psycho 10" by Baseball Furies (Flying Bomb Records).
  16. coremixed Attack by Jon Spencer Blues Explosion on their Heavy 12"/CDS.
  17. recorded the excellent Andre Williams & The Sadies Red Dirt LP/CD (Sonic Rendezvous/Bloodshot Records, SR 9901/BS 048).
  18. mixed The Gospel According To John 7" by Soledad Brothers (Estrus, 1999, ES 7142).
  19. recorded the debut album by The Go.
  20. appears on the Andre Williams Is The Black Godfather LP/CD (In The Red, 2000, ITR-065).
  21. produced a LP and a 7" by New Bomb Turks.
  22. corecorded, coproduced comixed 7" by The Upholsterers, Makers Of High Grade Suites 7" (Sympathy For The Record Industry, 2000, SFTRI 611).
  23. comixed the 7" by The Greenhornes on Italy Records (IR-009).
  24. engineered the debut 7" and the first LP/CD by The Come Ons (Sympathy For The Record Industry, 2000, SFTRI 617 and SFTRI 608).
  25. comixed the second 7" by The Clone Defects.
  26. produced the Electric Power 7" by The Exploders (Rip Off Records, 2000, rip off 046).
  27. recorded the Cyclerific Sounds LP/CD by The Silencers (Total Energy Records, 2000, NER 3022).
  28. recorded the Go Baby Go! 7" by The Silencers (Pure Vinyl, 2000, PV 018).
  29. co-mixed the Sympathetic Sounds Of Detroit LP/CD. (Sympathy For The Record Industry, 2001, SFTRI 623).
  30. recorded three tracks on a 7" by Les Sexareenos.
  31. mixed the debut 7" by The Von Bondies (D · wreckEd · hiT, 2000, DET.001).
  32. recorded the debut-album and the 2nd 7" by The Von Bondies.
  33. recorded the debut-12"EP by Lost Kids (Gold Standard Laboratories, 2001, G§L 43).
  34. recorded a stack of tunes with The Buzzards.
  35. recorded the debut LP/CD by The Daylight Lovers (Sympathy For The Record Industry, 2001, SFTRI 628).
  36. recorded the (not released yet) debut album by The Guilty Pleasures.
  37. recorded the debut 7" by The Del-Gators (Sympathy For The Record Industry, 2001, SFTRI 671).
  38. recorded and mixed The Sights' Are You Green? LP/CD (Fall Of Rome Records, 2001, FOR 1002), their If That's What You Want 2x7" (Fall Of Rome Records, 2001, FOR 1004) and their second album: Got What You Want LP/CD (Fall Of Rome Records, 2002, FOR 1007). 
  39. recorded and produced the recordings for and appears on Wide Right's Music! Live! Booze! CDEP.
  40. produced the 2nd LP/CD by The Come Ons (Sympathy For The Record Industry, 2001, SFTRI 670).
  41. recorded and co-produced the debut album by The Clone Defects (Tom Perkins Records/Superior Sounds, 2001, AR-12244).
  42. recorded a 7" by The Wildbunch, Danger! High Voltage (Flying Bomb Records, 2001, FLB-117).
  43. appears as "Bill Clinton" with The Wildbunch on Danger (High Voltage) (Flying Bomb Records, 2001, FLB-117).
  44. recorded Troy Gregory's Sybil CD (Fall Of Rome Records, 2002, FOR 1005).
  45. is in Jim Diamond's Pop Monsoon.
  46. engineered the 2nd album by Slumber Party.
  47. recorded the Electric Sweat album by The Mooney Suzuki (Gammon Records, 2002, cat.no.?).
  48. appears as "Bill Clinton" with Electric Six on Danger! High Voltage (several releases).
  49. is in Seger Liberation Army.
  50. produced the debut EP by The High Strung.
  51. mastered and/or mixed all tracks on the Ghettoblaster Volume 2 CD (Motor City Brewing Works, 2002, MCBWGB 002).
  52. recorded and mixed and appears on The Clone Defects' second album, Shapes Of Venus (In The Red, 2003, ITR 098).
  53. recorded the second album by The Mistreaters, entitled Playa Hated To The Fullest LP/CD (Estrus, 2003, ES 1296).
  54. recorded the debut album by The High Strung: These Are Good Times CD (Tee Pee Records, 2003, TP-051).
  55. appears on a The Legendary Tiger Man 7" entitled Big Black Rusty Pussyboat (Munster Records, 2003, MR 7181).
  56. appears on the I Sing The Booty Electric album by The Voltaire Brothers.
  57. recorded The Come Ons' Play Selections From The Serge Gainsbourg Songbook 7" (Larsen Recordz, 2003, LZ 077).
  58. recorded The Safes' Boogie Woogie Rumble CDEP.
  59. recorded the debut 7" of The Nice Device.
  60. produced two tracks on the The Von Bondies' second album.
  61. co-produced and appears on Troy Gregory's Laura CD (Fall Of Rome Records, 2004, FOR 1009).
  62. produced the The Forty-Fives' High Life High Volume LP/CD.
  63. produced The Bloody Tears' Downhanded CD (Licorice Tree Records, 2005, YUM 1004).     Pat Pantano:
 1.  was a member of Detroit band named The Colors.
   2. went on to play for a couple of years with another Detroit band called Cathouse.
   3. was in Rocket 455 for one gig only.
   4. was in The Dirtbombs (1st line-up).
   5. relocated to Pittsburgh, and played with Steel Miners there.
   6. was the first drummer for The Paybacks.
   7. moved back from Pittsburgh to Detroit and now is playing in The Come Ons.
   8. appears on Andre Williams' Is The Black Godfather LP/CD     9. is back again in The Dirtbombs (6th line-up and onwards).
  10.  is in Seger Liberation Army.   Ben Blackwell:
   1.  is from the 8th lineup onwards in The Dirtbombs.
   2. appears/appeared  live with Kelley Stoltz.     3. was in Hell's Belles.
   4. was in Belle Isle.
   5. was in Lost Kids.
   6. is the roadie/historian/gogetter for The White Stripes.
   7. is the official email-contact for Italy Records.
   8. runs Cass Records.
   
   
GRADING STANDARDS from GOLDMINE

NEAR MINT: Unplayed, like new and/or brand new.   NEAR MINT MINUS:
This is reserved for records that are a hair's width better than EX+, or just a fraction below NM (or brand-new). Another grading call, but generally it's a piece that is SO close to perfect that you could easily make an argument for it though honesty makes you feel the need to point out something keeping it out of the "nearly perfect" category.

EXCELLENT PLUS:
A judgment call.  This one is sometimes used interchangeably with NM-, but not with all sellers.  This category is for records that are ALMOST new-looking enough to pass for unowned/unused, but might have one or maybe two very minor problems that bother you just enough to not allow it to be there.  Mayhap a record that someone has purchased and never played, but when they removed the price sticker it left a 1/8 inch bare spot on the cover.  So basically, brand-new-looking, but has one light imperfection.

EXCELLENT:
An excellent record will be somewhere in that area between 1) a record that you could put in a plastic bag and pass off as brand new & 2) the VG+ record, which has just enough aesthetic spots to keep it out of the excellent category.  The vinyl can have some visible scuffs, or very minor lines or surface scratches, but should NOT have any lines/scratches that you can feel if you run your fingernail softly over its surface.  In other words, an Excellent record might have places that appear to be scratches, but they should not sound like scratches when you play them on a stereo system.  They key to this category is SOUND.  It can look slightly less than perfect but it has to sound clean. An excellent cover/sleeve can have very minor lines or creases caused by (not all-the-way folded) slight bending/folding of a corner.  There may be some very light wear caused by fingers touching the top of the cover as they flip by, and there might be the very lightest hint of oncoming ring wear, but there should not actually be real ring wear, and there can't be anything even close to a seam split, complete fold, rip or tear.  In other words, not quite perfect, but if not for an imperfection or two it might come close.

VERY GOOD PLUS:
Most collectors, especially those who want to play their records, will be happy with a VG+ record,

VG+ records may show some slight signs of wear, including light scuffs or very light scratches that do not affect the listening experience. Slight warps that don’t affect the sound are OK. Minor signs of handling are OK, too, such as telltale marks around the center hole, so long as repeated playing has not misshapen the hole. (This goes for your body as well. See a physician if your center hole is misshapen or has telltale marks.) There may be some very light ring wear or discoloration, but it should be barely noticeable.

VG+ Covers should have only minor wear. A VG+ cover might have some very minor seam wear or a split (less than one inch long) at the bottom, the most vulnerable location.

VERY GOOD:
Many of the imperfections found on a VG+ record are more obvious on a VG record. That said, VG records — which usually sell for no more than 25 percent of a an NM record — are among the biggest bargains in record collecting, because moost of the “big money” goes for more perfect copies. For many listeners, a VG record or sleeve will be worth the money. For the average Joe, VG is a normal listening copy. The high-end collector's satisfaction level generally bottoms out around here.

VG records have more obvious flaws than their counterparts in better shape. They lack most of the original gloss found on factory-fresh records. Groove wear is evident on sight, as are light scratches deep enough to feel with a fingernail.

When played, a VG record has surface noise, and some scratches may be audible, especially in soft passages and during a song’s intro and ending. But the noise won’t overpower the music otherwise. Minor writing, tape or a sticker can detract from the label. Many collectors who have jukeboxes will use VG records in them and not think twice. They remain a fine listening experience, just not the same as if it were in better shape.

VG covers will have many signs of human handling. Ring wear in the middle or along the edges of the cover, where the edge of a record would reside, is obvious; it may appear on all three sides, though it won’t be obvious upon looking. Someone might have written on it or stamped a price tag on it, too.

GOOD/VERY GOOD MINUS:
Good does not mean bad! The record still plays through without skipping, so it can serve as filler until something better comes along. But it has significant surface noise and groove wear. The label is worn and exhibits significant ring wear, heavy writing or obvious damage caused by trying to remove tape or stickers and failing miserably.
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