Tuesday, March 12, 2019

L7

From my 2008 interview with Donita Sparks:

First I have to confess. I’m kinda a record geek.

DS: “Ok.”

So, I pulled out my pristine copy of Smell the Magic to play some tracks today. And I also happened to always be interested in‑kind of a more recent thing‑a run out groove inscriptions. And I don’t know if you know this, but on at least my copy, it’s inscribed in the runout groove “ROCK SHOW tONIGHT - BIG BUttS LIVE ON StAGE”.

[Laughter]

I actually do a blog about run out groove inscriptions and try to explain them. Do you know anything about that one and what it means?

DS: “Oh, well that was our idea.”

Ok.

DS: “And I believe it was being mastered in LA. And you know when you’re mastering on vinyl or for vinyl, you know a lot of times the mastering person will say, hey do you want to write anything in there? And I think on our first album, on Epitaph, we had put ‘PLAY LOUD DROP TROU’ or‑”

[Laughs]