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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
rebbi OP
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Jsd52756,
Thanks very much for the other thread reference. I have to believe that on a bulletin board frequented by so many obsessive LP freaks (no insult intended... I count myself among them) somebody else must have started a thread on this same topic at sometime or other. Now that my turntable is up and running again, I will look for these little messages on my other LPs and post them as I see them.

By the way, I checked that Emerson Lake and Palmer LP, it's right there, on side six of the three LP set: "Love from Andy & Arun," except that "&" sign is actually a treble clef! :-)
elevick
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no one mentioned "my sweet satan" from Zepplin 1
arnold_layne
141 posts
 
Hotel California US pressings:

Side 1: "Is it 6 0'clock yet?"
Side 2: "VOL is five piece live" VOL = Victim of Love
rebbi OP
1,326 posts
 
Another one:

The new Cisco pressing of Steely Dan's AJA says, "Mr. Record & Dr. Groove @ ATM" on both sides. :-)
jsadurni
210 posts
 
My Eagles the Long Run says, "Never let your monster lay down" on side A
on side B it says: "From the polack who sailed north"

I always thought it was a private message just for me and lived my life in such a way....
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