More Kate rareties

[dap@cgl.ucsf.edu (David Pearlman%Kollamn)]

One class of collectables conspicuously absent from the "top 100"
rareties list is acetates. These are special disks cut one
at a time and in *extremely* small quantities (often one or two
of a particular single/album), usually to find out what a record
will sound like before going through the great expense+effort of
making the actual pressing masters, etc. for producing vinyl records.

While I don't know how many acetates of each Kate Bush record have been
made, or for which *any* are in general circulation (often only the
artist and the producer will get copies; sometimes only the artist;
sometimes the record label requests a few), I do know that at least
one acetate copy of "The Kick Inside" is in a collector's hands. I saw
it at a used record store in LA a few years ago for $35.00.

Another nice thing about acetates (from the collector's point of view)
is that they sometimes contain unreleased material. I have acetates
of a few LP's that differ from their released counterparts, and a lot
of acetate singles which were never released (often referred to as
acetate "demos"). Sorry, no Kate stuff (as well as I remember).


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				                 David A. (DAP) Pearlman

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