raoulduke Posted May 14, 2016 Share Posted May 14, 2016 I have a copy of the album Ssssh by Ten Years After. Side 1 is labeled (handwritten/carved) ZAL-9083-6; Side 2 is labeled (printed) MXX-9084A-1A. Side 1 is the correct Side 1; Side 2 is a Bach concerto I'm not specifically familiar with (or it's likely J.S. Bach). I can't find any evidence of this misprint. Any thoughts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Servo Posted May 14, 2016 Share Posted May 14, 2016 That's very odd... My copy of Ssssh does not have that problem. However, I'm not sure anybody on these forums would have an answer for ya. The crowd here tends to be a bit younger, and geared more towards recent/upcoming releases (I'm definitely generalizing here...). I do recommend also inquiring over at the Steve Hoffman forums if you haven't already. There's definitely a lot of accumulated knowledge over there; somebody might have an answer for ya there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raoulduke Posted May 14, 2016 Author Share Posted May 14, 2016 Agreed. It's clearly a misprint in the sense that it's not Side B. I think they must have confused the serial numbers and I wonder if mine isn't an early and/or test print. Is your Side A serial number the same or is it ZAL-9084? Because the 9084 makes sense for confusion but if 9083 was the standard Side A label it's even weirder. I wasn't aware of Hoffman's forums so I posted over there too; thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Servo Posted May 14, 2016 Share Posted May 14, 2016 No, mine is CHR-1083. Looks like this is your copy: https://www.discogs.com/Ten-Years-After-Ssssh/release/3056595 Side A 9083 Side B 9084 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raoulduke Posted May 14, 2016 Author Share Posted May 14, 2016 Okay then the B-side confusion would make sense. So is mine a 1969 German Deram reissue [in the sense that it either wasn't first run or was just not originally for US market]? I don't expect you to know that I just find some of the discog info pages confusing... such as this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Servo Posted May 14, 2016 Share Posted May 14, 2016 You're right, I have no idea Anyway, sounds like you've got something unique there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raoulduke Posted May 14, 2016 Author Share Posted May 14, 2016 http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/ten-years-after-ssssh-misprint.539299/ They were both, to some degree, divisions of or owned by Decca, and I guess in 69 or 70 they were pressing both in the same place and someone screwed up the division label distinctions. So the b-side to this and the A-side to what was actually Telemann chamber music were both 9084 even though the Decca division labels attached to the Cat# itself (the pure number) were different. A minor mystery. Thanks for your help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drds89 Posted May 14, 2016 Share Posted May 14, 2016 That's cool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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