Bizarre or Fake Electric Ladyland / Hendrix LP

[piper]

Hi Everybody,

 

I’ve just came back from Stockholm where I finally bought myself this vynil (Electric Ladyland by Jimi Hendrix).

It seems to be a German edition by Polydor.

 

The strange thing is that the sides have been mixed, in other words: the vinyl starts off with “And the gods made love” and in the other side I’ve got “Rainy Day Dream Away” which is actually the side B of the second disc, not the first.

 

Anyways, is this a fake vinyl? Has anybody heard about this issue?

Clearly I can’t come back to Sweden to change it L

[monsterrod]

I don't think English is their first language, so maybe we should hold off on poking fun of him/her.

 

 

Edit: OK I get it. LP1 A side/C side LP2 B side/D side. Yes, this was common practice for 2xLP's back in the day. Sounds legit.

[spectrum]

I think that was a common practice for double records back in the day. I think early UK presses had it that way.

[piper]

I think that was a common practice for double records back in the day. I think early UK presses had it that way.

 

Thanks for answering!

Yes, in fact English is not my first language, so I apologize if I make some mistakes. By "fake" I meant "not an original hendrix vinyl". Do you guys think it's the case?

 

What do you mean by “common practice”? Was it a common mistake back then?

 

How can I know if it’s actually a bootleg? Frankly it sounds incredible and the actual vinyl is in perfect conditions. 

[Metal Mike]

What do you mean by “common practice”? Was it a common mistake back then?

 

If memory serves, this was for DJs. You could play side A and cue up side B on a second turntable so you could play through without a delay while you had to stop it, lift the needle, etc.

I guess in olden times, they like to play whole albums.

[piper]

I don't think English is their first language, so maybe we should hold off on poking fun of him/her.

 

 

Edit: OK I get it. LP1 A side/C side LP2 B side/D side. Yes, this was common practice for 2xLP's back in the day. Sounds legit.

 

That’s exactly it! LP1 A side/C side LP2 B side/D side.

 

So basically you don’t think I got ripped off? It’s actually an original vinyl?

 

Do you think it’s actually from the 60’s? It’s made in Germany and the label is Polydor.

 

Thanks

[aflycon]

If memory serves, this was for DJs. You could play side A and cue up side B on a second turntable so you could play through without a delay while you had to stop it, lift the needle, etc.

I guess in olden times, they like to play whole albums.

 

It was also much more convenient for the "fully-automatic" setups of the 70s, which could queue up albums similarly on one turntable. You'd play the A/C record while the B/D one was loaded and ready, and then it would drop down and play side B after A finished. You'd have to manually switch to C, but then D would follow. 

 

It was a big deal. Peter Frampton's Frampton Comes Alive was the first record to be pressed this way, I believe. So your copy of Electric Ladyland probably is not from the first pressing but is more than likely genuine. Nice score, if it sounds good!

 

Edit: I stand corrected. The first German pressing of Electric Ladyland was pressed in the A/C B/D format after all. Good find!

 

Edit 2: It's actually A/D B/C, which I suppose makes more sense for "auto-coupling" (the official term for that mechanism I talked about earlier). Still, it's probably from the first pressing. Check the catalog numbers against the link I provided to make sure.

[aarondltd]

Yeah I got one of these used and its really annoying. I hope if I pick up a new copy it doesn't do this but I haven't bothered to look into it.

[mrrom92]

This is really common even on LP sets back from the 50's. Just how it was done.

That said, there are a lot of fakes of this out there, all of them coming out of Europe. Was it cheap? That's a major red flag. If you could post pictures + a detailed description of the matrix number, that's the only way we can really tell you anything of it's provenance.

[piper]

Hi ! Thanks for answering!

 

I’ll try to give you all the information I have in order to know if it’s actually a fake one:

 

POLYDOR / 2LP . 2612 002

Printed In Germany – Imprimé en Allemagne by Gerhard Kaiser GmbH, Essen – Manufactured by Deutsche Grammophon, Hamburg

 

The vinyl have this number on them: Vinyl 1) 184 184 Vinyl 2) 184 183

Sorry, I can’t seem to be able to upload pictures :/

[mrrom92]

Hi ! Thanks for answering!

I’ll try to give you all the information I have in order to know if it’s actually a fake one:

POLYDOR / 2LP . 2612 002

Printed In Germany – Imprimé en Allemagne by Gerhard Kaiser GmbH, Essen – Manufactured by Deutsche Grammophon, Hamburg

The vinyl have this number on them: Vinyl 1) 184 184 Vinyl 2) 184 183

Sorry, I can’t seem to be able to upload pictures :/

Only "184" or "183" is inscribed in the matrix on each disc?

[grizzlyfoz]

I have a 7 LP boxset of Beethoven's 9 symphonies, and it's set up this way Side1/14 Side 2/13 etc.  Would actually be nice to have a turntable like that sometimes, you could have continuous music for hours. I suppose too if you wanted to be really lazy you could just have 2 copies of every album and stack them so you wouldn't have to deal with flipping.  The first turntable I used was my parents old one that had this function but it was broke so it was just annoying to get the albums on and off the spindle.