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From: leei@princeton.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.records
Subject: Strange: ECM Pat Metheny albums
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Date: Tue, 27-Sep-83 14:12:31 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 27 14:12:31 1983
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Sometime in the summer of last year, I was playing Pat Metheny's "Offramp" and
I noticed that I could see 'through' the record to the turntable.  I picked it
up, held it to the light and sure 'nuff, it was a very dark translucent green.
It was so dark in fact that I had thought it was regular vinyl up until that
time and I'd had the album for about a month.  I thought this was rather
and showed it to some of the people that I introduced to PMG, but thought
nothing more of it.

As soon as the new album "Travels" came out, I went into the record store and
bought it.  After I took it home, I looked at the disks and, again, noticed
that they were also translucent, this time blue.  Being a little bit slow to
clue in, it wasn't 'til I showed someone else these two 'anomalous' albums and
he asked me if all of PMG's albums were like this that I checked them all.
They \all/ were. (At least the four I have)  If I remember right, they are
colored as:

	New Chautauqua          - grey
	As Falls Wichita ...    - reddish (brick)
	Offramp                 - green
	Travels                 - blue

Is this true for all his albums? (which I'm sure I'll eventually get; these guys
are really GREAT)  Is it true for all ECM pressings? (his are the only ones
I've got) [Note: I'm not sure, but I know that at least some of these are
Canadian pressings, since I bought "Travels" in B.C., but I can't rightly
remember where I got all the others, I'll have to check]

It's a very strange effect since all of these are dark enough to pass for
'real' vinyl unless you hold them up to a light!

				- Lee Iverson
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