get the knack wally pressing

Geeze, I have looked at at least fifty of these items and only found a wally print on one side, and it was thrashed out. are these hard to find? Kind of like the Nature of the Beast--never even seen a green label of this.

 

Actually found one today at Goodwill--it was the first time I had seen the record in the last year of looking. I came to the forum to see what people had to say about it! Wally on one side only as well. Capitol rainbow label. Sounds a bit trebly, but since one of the matrix numbers has a "z" figured it was a couple of revs down the chain or well played. Still, dig it, though remembering the time it came out is a bit of a let down, end of the seventies and all...I recall it being a record much maligned by the cool kids of the day, though I quietly dug the guitar playing, as it jangled in a Springfield kind of way. FWIW I saw them in an arena the next year as a favor to a buddy who had an extra ticket for a date that never happened. It was the same week I saw The Pretenders on their first American tour. Talk about a study in contrasts. Odd arena band, to say the least.

Matrix:

Side1: SO 1-11948 F-8 (Wally scribed in the run out)
Side2:SO 2-11948 Z6

 

One last thing: I've been looking into this and apparently the band made the use of the Capitol rainbow label mandatory as part of their signing to Capitol, so this may very well have extended into reissues and why you may have not found any green label issues of this...

 

Sounds like an odd request. What was the reason?

 

Beatles vibe.

 

It's not uncommon to see bands request that labels use older logos/labels on their releases. The Hives come to mind.

 

False. The band wanted a custom label because they didn't like the purple one in use at the time - and were refused. There were rainbows in storage which were used.

Ultimate revenge? Capitol had to make more rainbows as a result of the success of the record.

 

Shows you what I get for reading wiki entry...

 

Never found a two sided Wally. I have one on side one and one on side two.

 

I never saw a rainbow pressing of a Knack record that had the late 60s "Subsidary" print label if that's what you mean,just the later ones.

And yes I have seen Get The Knack with Wally on both sides,but they've been trashed.

 

For clarification, I meant the green label for april wine's notb, which i understand is the wally version and is hard to find...as an analogy to the hard-to-find wally gtk...sorry if any confusion from my poor wiritng on this issue.cwd

 

Looked at seven more in nashville last night...not a single wally amongst them!cwd

 

They were marketed as "the next Beatles" and even tried to capture some of their early style...didn't work. They were more
Bay City Rollers than the Beatles in those times.

 

Why would Capitol waste valuable factory storage space on obsolete 10-year-old labels? It makes no sense, and furthermore I have never seen one.

 

It would appear that Canadian issues got the purple label...

 

Does that have the clean version of "(She's So) Selfish"?

Or was that just for Canadian radio (those were the tapes used for the first US CD issue...)

 

My pressing of GTK is a US Rainbow label first pressing purchased by me a few days after it came out, but it's not a Wally. Says MCA8L on it.

Derek

 

That's what I have in a promo copy when released. Sounds good to me

 

That's what I thought.I would like to see a picture of a copy with the pre-1969 labels.

 

How can I identify a promo copy?

 

At that time the record companies pretty much stopped pressing official promo copies. They started just punching holes in the cover or cutting a corner. I worked in a record store at the time and the promo copy I received from Capitol had a hole punch.

 

Just look at the cover!

 

The German pressing looks like this as well. I think the idea that the US ever used 12 year old stock rainbow labels is false.

 

Love to have this on 180g, done by Steve and Kevin!