Dinosaur Jr Self Titled First Album RED Vinyl LP Record A PORKY PRIME CUT

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30

I just realized this is the second pressing from the late eighties so I lowered the price!

Recorded at Chris Dixon's house. 

This is the red-label repress from the late 1980s. 

Cover: thick cardboard with flat finish (1st press is thin European style with shiny finish). Blurry, esp. text on back. 

Label: red/yellow (1st press is beige or pale green) 

Lacquer Cutting, Processing and pressing plant uncredited. Identified by runout etchings. This version was pressed by Damont. There is another version which was pressed by Rainbo Records using the original Damont plates: Dinosaur. 

Cat# HMS015 on the labels, HMS 015 on backcover. 

First pressing is here: "Dinosaur" 

? 1985 LSR Records, Inc. 

© 1985 Dinosaur

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Matrix / Runout (Etched Runout Side 1): HMS-015-A1. MT. 2 DAMONT A PORKY PRIME CUT.

Matrix / Runout (Etched Runout Side 2): HMS-015-B1. MT.1 DAMONT

FUN FACT

The run out wax has "A PORKY PRIME CUT" written on it. Here is a bit on what this means.

George "Porky" Peckham (born 1942, Blackburn, Lancashire) is an English record engineer, widely recognised as among the most accomplished in the business. He has been responsible for producing the master discs from which many vinyl records have been pressed over the last 40 years.[1][2]

His master discs, and the records produced from them, are known as "Porky Prime Cuts" and often bears either the motto "A Porky Prime Cut"[3] or a cryptic or humorous comment (signed "Porky"), etched onto the run-out grooves. Other inscriptions attributed to him include "Pecko" and "Pecko Duck".

'Before you make the final positive,' adds Peckham, 'you have to put a matrix number in the middle, because as far as the factory is concerned it's just another disc. Then I sneak on the old Porky Prime Cut...' 

Originally, the 'Porky' was a reference for the pressing plant should they need to contact the cutter. 

'That was the main reason I only ever wrote Porky on The Beatles' records,' Peckham enlarges, 'but I was also scared to put any weird stuff on their records because their fans were that crazy about them that they'd read something into it.' 

Soon everyone wanted the now legendary Porky hallmark - preferably replete with cryptic message - on the run-off grooves of their records.