Japan JL 5XX Copy Series: JL-526 to JL-530 and the Holy Grail Records paper label
526 LIVE Paris Olympia
528 Deep Purple SONIC ZOOM
529 Led Zeppelin MUDSLIDE
530 ABBEY ROAD REVISITED
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JL 526: The BEATLES – LIVE Paris Olympia
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JL 528: DEEP PURPLE – SONIC ZOOM
More reading on this most classic of DP bootlegs can be found here.
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JL 529: LED ZEPPELIN – MUDSLIDE
Return of the Holy Grail Records labels after encountering them first on JL 1004: Beatles – ON STAGE IN JAPAN – The 1966 TOUR.
Google has never heard of an official record with this title and if it ever existed it has either remained in total obscurity or was shelved at the last minute and the labels were lying around at an L.A. pressing plant. The third and most favored theory is that this is an invention/meant as a smoke screen and deterrent for closer scrutiny by the bootleggers (Ken?) who reissued (mostly double) TMOQ titles in California around the second half of 1976 / early 1977, reminiscent of the Von Grossenschuss paper label used on Wizardo re-issues I have blogged about before.
It seems that the JL crew liked this label so much, they decided to copy and use it as well. This allows us to date JL 1004 and JL 529 to 1977.
Confirmed sightings so far:
Led Zeppelin: On Blueberry Hill
Matrix: EV-666-A-1
Matrix: EV-666-B-2
Matrix: EV-664-A-3
Matrix: EV-664-B-4
Jimi Hendrix: ALIVE / L.A. FORUM – LIVE! / BROADCASTS MAUI
Rolling Stones: GIMME SHELTER / AMERICAN TOUR 75 VOLUME 1, 2 (single volumes of the last bootleg Dub ever released: L.A. FOG (TMOQ 8207/8 – ca. 2nd half of 1976)) / EUROPEAN TOUR 1973
The Beatles: LAST LIVE SHOW
The Who: TALES FROM THE WHO
[There are probably more out there]
Above: White version of the label found on the Zep Blueberry Hill double
Were there any brown U.S. originals? I have yet to see one.
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JL 530: The BEATLES – ABBEY ROAD REVISITED
Quite a change from the original: The copied version of a WIZARDO REKORDS [sic] label.
This 1976 original (based on a 1973 CBM title) can be revisited here.
Well, its not japanese but it is on the holy grail records label https://www.discogs.com/Led-Zeppelin-Led-Zeppelin-Live-On-Blueberry-Hill/release/10357496
Thank you for the link. Does your version look the same?
I have also updated the post. The info contained here is as much as we know: These are TMOQ reissues done by Ken around late ’76 /’77 from the original plates (just after Dub called it quits).