Another CBM colored vinyl title surfaces – and it’s red!
That’s what I love about researching this topic: There are still so many details that we don’t know.
In this case, we knew the that Contraband had released four titles on colored PVC and they were all blue:
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So, today, I come across this eBay auction (still active for another 5 days at the time I’m writing this):
I thought maybe it’s a trick of the light (to quote The Who)…
… but no, there’s no doubt, that record is RED!
What else may be out there?
THE AMAZING KORNYFONE LABEL 
Thanks. I was aware of the Elton John and the Hendrix/Mayall but did not count them as CBM’s.
From a comment I received:
“There are more!
Duane Allman – Statesboro Blues: red and another one purple
Jethro Tull . Ticketron: red and another one purple
Cat Stevens – Catnip: also in red
Elton John – Radiochord: blue (not with CBM logo but same “family”)
Hendrix / Mayall …: yellow (not with CBM logo but same “family”)”
From a comment I had received:
“There are more!
Duane Allman – Statesboro Blues: red and another one purple
Jethro Tull . Ticketron: red and another one purple
Cat Stevens – Catnip: also in red
Elton John – Radiochord: blue (not with CBM logo but same “family”)
Hendrix / Mayall …: yellow (not with CBM logo but same “family”)”
Thanks, I was only aware of the Elton John and the Hendrix/Mayall but didn’t count them as CBM’s.
It’s just a simple assumption on my part, but I guess around 1972 to 1973 whomever produced CBM decided to imitate TMOQ and have their product pressed on colored vinyl ??? … As I believe Ken Douglas revealed in his blog, there was a slightly elevated cost to have colored vinyl pressings made (at least in California, where TMOQ was made), but I believe it was basically a sales gimmick, or something to distinguish the product and enhance sales … So “copying” seems to have been an ever recurring theme in the old bootleg vinyl world of the early 1970’s.
It does seem unlikely that it was CBM’s own idea to do this and I don’t think anyone else but TMOQ was doing it consistently at that time, so your theory has merit.