Secret messages on LP's?


Hi,

I cannot be the only person who has noticed that many older LP's have little, sometimes jokey messages etched into the blank area near the lead-out groove. For example, on my copy of James Taylor's "That's Why I'm Here," the lead-out area of Side 1 says, "Purina Ear Chow." And I believe that one of the three LP's from the Emerson Lake and Palmer live album, "Welcome Back My Friends To The Show That Never Ends" has "With Love From Andy & Arun" written there.

Anybody have other gems on their LPs?

And who in the production process would be putting these little messages there, anyway?
rebbi
Tgrisham,

I'm not talking about things that you HEAR on the album, but rather, things that somebody working at the mastering plant actually "penciled" into the smooth area near the lead out groove. It's writing that you can see on the physical surface of the record.
>>And who in the production process would be putting these little messages there, anyway?<<

Oliver Stone