The Doors Morrison Hotel RARE 1978 CANADIAN RED VINYL 1/1 COPY IN THE WORLD
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In the late 1970’s, an employee at the Columbia Records Pressing Plant in Don Mills, Ontario secretly snuck in a red puck during the manufacturing of a reissue of The Doors’ “Morrison Hotel” and made himself potentially the only copy ever manufactured of this red coloured Canadian variant press. It has been in a private collection for decades, ever since it was first made.
This is NOT a bootleg or unlicensed press. It is a 1/1 press unlike any other, and it is the first time it has ever been for sale in the marketplace.
The matrix/runout codes belong to the original press “75007-A-1A-2G” issued by Columbia Records and is the exact same press, but on a vibrant coloured red wax never commercially distributed or mass manufactured in any capacity. It belongs to this series of mass manufactured presses [https://www.discogs.com/release/3268389-The-Doors-Morrison-Hotel] but, as stated, on a 1/1 red vinyl.
The labels are placed on the opposite of each side––Side 1 has the label for the A-Side, and Side 2 has the label for the B-Side. I have never seen a copy of Morrison Hotel with this mispress label error.
The record itself has been stored securely for the past 40+ years. Visually graded, it rests between a strong VG and a light VG+ depending on how conservative you are. Play graded, it plays between a strong VG and a light VG+, with some light noise consistently underneath the music on the B-Side of the record, with two pops occurring on Maggie M’Gill at the beginning of the track and near the end of the track. The A-Side [which is labeled as the second side] plays remarkably clearer, with any noise being almost undetectable while the music is playing. To make it simpler, the A-Side [track 1 being Roadhouse Blues] plays between an 8 or 9 out of 10. The B-Side [track 1 being Land Ho!] plays between a 6 or a 6.5 out of 10.
It was tested it on a Fluance RT85 turntable with lower-end Sony speakers. If you have a higher end sound system, I can only imagine how much clearer and crisp it would sound.
It includes the original gatefold jacket, which I would grade as being in EX/EX+ shape. The cover itself belongs to the same reissue as the matrix on the record does.
I purchased this record [as well as all the other one-of-a-kind red records I have up for auction RIGHT NOW] from the family of the former Columbia Records Pressing Plant employee. I own a record store in Hamilton, Ontario – just an hour or so away geographically from where the plant used to be decades ago when it was run by Columbia.
The year of this reissue is somewhere between 1977-1979. since all the unique red records are an identical shade of red, they were all pressed at the Columbia Records Pressing Plant in Don Mills, Ontario, and all the others were all issued between 1977-1979, and they all came from the exact same collection.
All records have been professionally cleaned and placed into a brand new anti-static MOFI inner sleeve and a resealable poly outer sleeve.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
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