Stoker is known for doing wet transfers.
Aaron -- there was a TV show a few years back about the Library of
Congress which showed a wet transfer. They made a BIG fuss about moving
this VERY IMPORTANT record from one building to another. It was the
recording of Woody Guthrie singing This Land Is Your Land including the
"previously unrecorded" extra verse about the private property sign.
They showed moving the record with one of them holding it in the back
seat of a car ON A PILLOW. Then in the other building they discussed it
being an acetate. Why the pillow if it was a lacquer unless it was
glass? But it WASN'T a lacquer. The label area showed clear
indications that it was a test pressing. There was a square indentation
about 3/4 inch square around the spindle hole that I have seen on many
test pressings. Then they wet transferred it. If it was so fragile it
needed to be moved on a pillow, and it was a pressing, it wasn't a vinyl
pressing. And if they wet transferred a shellac pressing, they just
ruined it. When we had an ARSC tour of Culpepper a few years ago I put
in a request to see the disc. They "didn't have time to find it."
As for the Elvis disc and the family, Elvis had given the disc at the
time it was recorded to a friend who had a phonograph so he could listen
to it. The friend later became an airline pilot. When he retired a few
years ago the record surfaced and I thought he had given it back to the
family. Apparently not. It had been used by RCA for issues but it now
was auctioned off by the pilot's family.
Mike Biel [log in to unmask]
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Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Elvis' 1st Recording Digitally Transferred at
the Country Music Hall of Fame
From: Tom Fine <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, April 16, 2015 8:17 pm
To: [log in to unmask]
I think he did something cleanup like when he was using the Q-tips on
the disk. It didn't look like
the lacquer was loose, but I sure wouldn't have used an aggressive brush
or cleaning solution on
that particular record. But, I might have seen if I could raise some
crud in the grooves with some
sort of soaping agent and very gentle Q-tip work, and then very
carefully rinsed with RO water
(Pepsi's Aquafina is one really cheap source of mineral-less RO water,
by the way).
Like Aaron said, we didn't see the whole process, and Alan Stoker is
experienced and considered an
expert by the Nashville community.
Does anyone know the history of that record? How did it fall out of the
Presley family's hands?
-- Tom Fine
----- Original Message -----
From: "Aaron Coe" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2015 7:31 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Elvis' 1st Recording Digitally Transferred at
the Country Music Hall of Fame
>I was wondering the same things Duane. Clearly we are not seeing the entire transfer event in this
>3 minute clip, but this is the first time I’ve seen a wet transfer performed anywhere honestly.
>
> -Aaron
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> http://cuttingcorporation.com
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>> On Apr 16, 2015, at 6:54 PM, H D Goldman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Aaron,
>>
>> Does anyone know why they decided to do a wet transfer? Too bad they didn’t have the good sense
>> to clean it.
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> Duane Goldman
>>
>> H D Goldman Lagniappe Chemicals Ltd.
>> PO Box 37066 St. Louis, MO 63141 USA
>> v/f 314 205 1388 [log in to unmask]
>>
>>
>>> On Apr 16, 2015, at 12:09 PM, Aaron Coe <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Video of Elvis’ first recording, a 10-inch lacquer disc purchased by Jack White for $300k being
>>> transferred by Alan Stoker at the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, TN:
>>>
>>> http://youtu.be/wvtSMMaYUug
>>>
>>> Clearly things went well, but wet transfer of a lacquer sure makes me nervous.
>>>
>>> -Aaron
>>> _______________________
>>> http://cuttingcorporation.com
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