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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
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....
polk432
1,142 posts
 
Jimi Hendrix. Forgot the album. Song may have been 3rd stone from the sun. Play it on 45 or 78 rpm for the message.
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