James Brown RR question

hammertime

I've got 2 copies of the It's a Mother LP on King, orange and black labels. Both have the old 2 piece cover and are otherwise identical except one is on very thin flimsy vinyl and the other is much thicker. I assume the thicker one is older? Is there a year they switched to thinner vinyl, or is there any other rhyme or reason to it?

Oldschoolspinna

The real flimsy one COULD be a bootleg, or an import.

Look for small things that are diffrent on one than the other, lettering,symbols, check the dead area in the center of the wax, look at both sets of numbers, they may give you a clue as to where it was pressed.

hcrink

I had assorted lp's like this - where the only difference is the thickness of the vinyl. I'm not completely sold on the earlier vs. later pressing. Perhaps pressed at different factories?

Electrode

I have Ain't It Funky as a German press on Polydor and the vinyl is more pliable like than the solid domestic King's

bull_ox

The real flimsy one COULD be a bootleg, or an import.

I've seen/owned King-label JB LPs that were almost certainly vintage bootlegs...

Records that were popular in their day but not neccessarily on-hand at every single store had knock-offs circulating, purportedly mob-related

SoulOnIce

Records that were popular in their day but not neccessarily on-hand at every single store had knock-offs circulating, purportedly mob-related

Yeah, I was shocked to hear stories from old-time
record dudes about how certain Boston stores were
just bootlegging popular albums of the time, like
Dylan records and Eagles and shit...so there's all
these weird boots from the 70's floating around out
here of the stuff. I've definitely found some boot/sketchy
pressing James Brown albums over the years, too.