Deep Purple-"Hush"

I should point out that although I believe that my copy
of "Hush" is a real one, who knows.. I've come across a
lot of boots. They usually have crappier looking
Tetragrammation labels. I think my copy is real, looks
exactly like Yah Sure's copy, with the text on
everything slightly more to the right. Meaning it was
stamped onto a blank Tetragrammation label.   

Has it really come to the point where we're down to scrutinizing wolf calls, of all things? What a truly, truly sorry lot this is.

Naturally, I'm in. ;)

For the sake of comparison, here's what I hear on my original Columbia Terre Haute-pressed Tetragrammton 45s, a mid-'70s Warner Brothers Back To Back Hits reissue 45 (also pressed by CTH) and an original 1968 Monarch-pressed Tetragrammaton Shades Of Deep Purple LP my brother bought at a Pacific Northwest Bon Marché store while on vacation that summer, didn't like and gave to me:

Tetragrammaton 1503 mono 45s: I hear what could be Howling Wolf The Third growling after just finding out he was being cut from the 45, but it's actually tape bleed-through. There's a phantom howl just before the first call, ditto just ahead of the second howl and the "sneak preview" bleed-through of the first chord coming in halfway through howl number two.

Warner Brothers Back To Back Hits reissue 45 (this is the LP version with three wolf howls, in stereo): no bleed-through noted until the first chord "sneak preview" halfway through the second howl, although it isn't quite as prominent as it is on the mono Tetragrammaton 45s.

Tetragrammaton 102 Shades Of Deep Purple LP: identical to the stereo WB Back To Back Hits 45 above.

So it would appear that the tape bleed-throughs just before the first howl and just before the second howl appear only on the mono tape used to cut the Tetragrammaton 45.

As for the authenticity of the Tetragrammaton U.S. 45, if it isn't a styrene pressing, it's probably a counterfeit.

I did this comparison a few years back. I found the 45
was a fold-down, however you needed to compress the
result and EQ it like the 45 for it to sound "right".

MM