Great
White Wonder
1B
(TMOQ) source:
Various
Side one:
Baby please don't go
Interview by Pete Seeger
Dink's song
See that my grave is kept clean
East Orange New Jersey
Man of constant sorrow
Side two:
Candy Man
Ramblin' 'round
Black cross
Ain't got no home
Death of Emmett Till
Poor Lazarus
Side three:
New Orleans rag
If you gotta go, go now
Only a hobo
Sitting on a barbed wire fence
Mighty Quinn (take 1)
This wheel's on fire
Side four:
I shall be released
Open the door, Homer (take 1)
Too much of nothing (take 2)
Nothing was delivered (take 1)
Tears of rage (take 2)
Living the blues
Sources:
Sides 1 & 2: All 'Minnesota Hotel tape' material
(Minneapolis,
Dec. '61) except:
Interview from Broadside show 3-62
Side 4: All Basement tape material except:
'Living' - Johnny Cash Show May 1 1969
Side 3: The six songs here, in order, are from:
'Another Side' outtake June '64
'65 outtake released as single
'Times' outtake '63
'Highway 61' outtake '65
Basement tape '67
Basement tape '67
Read the 1969
'Rolling Stone' article about the release of this first bootleg
album
Rocolian©
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In the early 70's the TMOQ Great White wonder was copied by a label
called 'Rocolian'. They used various combinations of the TMOQ
matrix
number not only as their matrix, but by logical extension, their
reference
or catalog number. The relationship between POPO, TMOQ, CBM, and
Rocolian is not quite clear; but, at least in the beginning, there were
ties of some type.
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Just as with the other labels, Rocolian released several variations
of this album.
The cover was a blank white or eggshell gatefold. Some issues
were stamped in the TMOQ style, some in small print in the upper right
corner. Some have a small 'flower girl' stamp.
Some labels were blank, but most were the standard Rocolian
label.
(this label has fake song titles with the heading "Dupre and his
miracle
sound"). It has long been rumored that disc two was released as a
single
called 'Approximately'. It has now been
established
that there was, in fact, such a release. Only a handful of these
rarities
were created.
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In 1970 some friends got together and decided to create what would
become the most famous bootleg record label of all time. ...
Trademark
of Quality. ... also known as TMQ, TMOQ, TMOQ-1, and later as
TMOQ-2.
Their first release was this now famous " rubber-stamp" cover 'GWW'.
The
stamp was done by hand, and was therefore inconsistent. Some copies
have
letters that are complete; while others are barely visible. The stamps
were generally in the upper right corner, but at times drift down to
the
center.
Some are straight, while others are on
an
angle. View a mega-rare
autographed copy
of this LP here. Some LPs also
included
an insert inside the jacket. The insert had four photos, the newly
conceived
pig logo , and a reference #D 101 (most probably 'D' for Dylan
and
101 from the matrix number of the European issue). This LP was a
very good press and the quality was nearly as good as the
original.
The LP sides were in a different order from the original as shown at
left.
This LP is identified, as per Roques,
as
gwa 1Ba. ©
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Originally, side 3 had no matrix number. Subsequent pressings
corrected this error. ©
1999 Craig Pinkerton Bobsboots.comLike many of the
original bootlegs, there were several issues of this album.
Presses
and represses. Each had slight variations; and combinations of
disks,
jackets, and inserts from various pressings would be combined
both
by the manufacturer and by the retailer to create an endless number of
variations. It would be most difficult, if not impossible, to
actually
retrace the exact release in the exact order it occurred.
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It is known that there were several colors of jackets including white,
green, yellow, peach, and purple.
There were several colors and combinations of colors of vinyl including
black and the following clear colors: blue, green, red, yellow, and
possibly
others.
Variations of labels include blank white, blank light colored, original
pig, etc.
There were also a few different colors of inserts, and slight
variations
in the information. One such variation is the 'POPO production'
insert.
POPO was closely associated with, if not intertwined with the newly
formed
TMOQ.
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In 1973 TMQ issued some of their titles in a generic cartoon
cover. While not known to be issued with the cover, the series
labels
are to be found on a 1973 edition of this LP. Therefore, it is
considered
to be the first issue.
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In the mid 70's a new style insert was used with a "live in concert
1974" photo (gwa 1Bb). To compound the confusion, it was at this time
that
a personnel change occurred at TMQ. The new group, commonly
referred
to as TMOQ-2, not only created new packages, but also repackaged
various
combinations of the material from the original company.
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5 stars
Original CV NMP175
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gwa 1B
Matrix: 22 64 2/3/4/5
Autographed
copy
Previous GWW Release
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Approximately
½ Of GWW
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