Bulldozers and Dirt 7" sleeve question

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Bulldozers and Dirt 7" sleeve question

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Anyone who has a copy of this, what is the quality of the white sleeve? Is is it just like printer paper quality or more like a slicker quality sleeve that we are used to? Thanks

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dangerbird wrote:Anyone who has a copy of this, what is the quality of the white sleeve? Is is it just like printer paper quality or more like a slicker quality sleeve that we are used to? Thanks
It should be noted there are at least 2 different color sleeves of this release.
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Somebody on here has to have one? I'm asking I bought one and think I got a photo copied sleeve. You can let me know through PM if you'd like.

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This may help?

http://www.45cat.com/record/sdr001

From the comment:

"In actuality the sleeve is a 14.5" x7.25" sheet of paper folded in half. The bottom graphic is printed upside down so when folded appears upright."

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Thanks, I had one in early 2000's that I sold, I remember it differently I guess. I recently got a new one it must be legit. Thanks

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We had them press printed from what I remember, but the very first bunch out might have been done at Kinko's - there could easily be counterfeits, I guess. The brown cover was printed on a press if I remember correctly, not a copier. Shit, I'll have to ask P.
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Just realized I said something stupid a few days ago. I didn't mean there were two color sleeves, but that there were two types of paper used. The website "One Of These Days" had a lot of details about the 45 and some of the early DBT cassette releases. Sadly that website and it's fantastic setlist database are gone.
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brett27295 wrote:Just realized I said something stupid a few days ago. I didn't mean there were two color sleeves, but that there were two types of paper used. The website "One Of These Days" had a lot of details about the 45 and some of the early DBT cassette releases. Sadly that website and it's fantastic setlist database are gone.
Agreed.

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brett27295 wrote:Just realized I said something stupid a few days ago. I didn't mean there were two color sleeves, but that there were two types of paper used. The website "One Of These Days" had a lot of details about the 45 and some of the early DBT cassette releases. Sadly that website and it's fantastic setlist database are gone.
Here's the text copy from "One Of These Days". Unfortunately the waybackmachine did't store the images.

Bulldozers and Dirt/Nine Bullets 7"
In late May of 1997, the band pressed their first (and only) 7" single. It featured two tracks from the EP, "Bulldozers and Dirt" and "Nine Bullets", as well as Jim Stacy's inimitable cover art (which also graced the band's first two albums). An interesting note concerning the single is that a small initial run of the sleeves was printed on white paper. After this run, the band changed post office boxes and had to change the number listed on the back cover (the earlier run show box number 682, and the rest show box number 667). The remainder of the sleeves were printed on brown paper.

https://web.archive.org/web/20121104224 ... g/misc.php

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Here ya go Jenn. This is from the old mail list.

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I can tell you why. :)

Originally we printed the cover on this awesome brown bag type of
paper. Jim Stacy had done the art and the layout so all we had to do
was print it. I believe there were actually two different browns, too;
I got a discount at the print shop I was working at for using some old
paper that was irregulkar size. Patterson said he wanted it to look
like a paper sack so that's what he got. This old pressman who worked
there ran the original batch off on a small one-color press and
another employee, my friend Josiah (who's now in the band XXX
Hardrive), cut them down and folded them. Then we got some folks
together and put the yellow disc thingies in the middle of each 45,
folded the 45 in the paper and slid them into the plastic sleeves. If
I remember correctly, I wrote something silly on a few of those 45s
before stuffing them. No telling what happened to that original bunch.
Unfortunately, we didn't have enough brown paper - and there wasn't
enough demand at the time - to cover all the 45s, so as we ran out
we'd print up more - but because I wasn't working at the print shop
any more and everyone was broke, usually Patterson or I would just
take them to Kinko's and run them off on white paper. Then we'd have
another night of stuffing and off they'd go to play wherever and sell
one or two 45s. I'm not positive, but I think there was only one run
of 500 of the records themselves.

-Jenn

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Awesome. Thank all of you!

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I will have to get mine out and look at it tonight. Finally got it out. I have the brown wrapper with the second po box they used. I had never looked before but it does have the yellow disk dealyo.

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Wish I had one of these. It's the only piece of DBT vinyl I don't own.
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