Paul it’s so interesting that you got help from Dan Epstein for this. I follow both of you on Substack, and by the time I got to the picture where you are conducting the zoom interview, I had forgotten I was reading your Substack and was expecting to see Dan.
My first Sire records were purchased in 1978 - Boney M’s “Night Flight to Venus” LP and “Rivers of Babylon” 45, and the 2-LP compilation “British Gold.” But it wasn’t long before I was buying Ramones and Talking Heads releases, and came to think of the Sire label as a sort of “Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval” for punk and new wave. Yet through all this I never noticed anything unique about the yellow label with the yin-yang logo as it revolved on my Lafayette LP/8-track unit. But that’s why we love Paul and rely on him to notice the day-to-day oddities the majority of us never notice.
Paul it’s so interesting that you got help from Dan Epstein for this. I follow both of you on Substack, and by the time I got to the picture where you are conducting the zoom interview, I had forgotten I was reading your Substack and was expecting to see Dan.
My first Sire records were purchased in 1978 - Boney M’s “Night Flight to Venus” LP and “Rivers of Babylon” 45, and the 2-LP compilation “British Gold.” But it wasn’t long before I was buying Ramones and Talking Heads releases, and came to think of the Sire label as a sort of “Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval” for punk and new wave. Yet through all this I never noticed anything unique about the yellow label with the yin-yang logo as it revolved on my Lafayette LP/8-track unit. But that’s why we love Paul and rely on him to notice the day-to-day oddities the majority of us never notice.
PL, what’s the 45 adapter piece called? I made a few mini me’s on my CNC.
Usually called either a spindle adapter or a spider.
FWIW, the Black Sabbath label is being riffed on by jazz pianist Aaron Parks for his upcoming album cover: https://www.bluenote.com/artist/aaron-parks/