Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU.UUCP (04/18/87)
Really-From: 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). -- David A. (DAP) Pearlman Billy don't be a hero... Be a pastrami on rye.