Wednesday, July 1, 2015

THE BIG BEAR SKATEBOARD RAMP 1978-1980




By Hanson Meyer

 
Vintage Black Knight Skateboard
Since I was born only a few blocks from the beach in Hoag Hospital, Newport Beach, and I spent my adolescent years playing on and around the beaches in the area, I was among several of my friends to own a Black Knight skateboard at the age of 9 in 1973.

The board was a flat piece of wood with no kick tail or grip tape and it had a black knight on horseback painted on the top surface. The trucks were better than their other early predecessors in the 1960s, but my board had the same hard, clay wheels. Although it is now considered a dinosaur, it was my symbol of status at the time as I was the first kid on the block to have one.

I remember using it as my primary mode of transportation in my neighborhood, riding down the sidewalk trying to make sure I skated over every crack at an angle and avoiding anything resembling a pebble.
Clay Wheels and Loose Bearings
I learned the hard way that those old clay wheels didn’t roll easily over small imperfections on seemingly flat surfaces. It wasn’t just me though… I remember riding behind friends at a good clip when all of a sudden someone was thrown from their board and would go into stop-drop-and roll mode in order to avoid serious injury. But no matter how careful we were, we all bore the battle scars of road rash at some point.
 
I’m not sure if it was from my mother feeling sympathetic to my bumps and scrapes or if it was from my constant nagging and begging for new urethane wheels that had just become available, but I soon found myself riding on a new set of clear but amber in color, extra-wide “Stoker” wheels in the back and the standard sized Roller Sport urethane wheels in the front. I remember the difficulty I had the first few times I attempted to keep all the loose bearings together while I put the wheels on the trucks. During this early time I had friends who also received new boards and wheels from their parents. I remember thin aluminum boards with Cadillac wheels, Bonzai boards with burgundy urethane wheels and others.

It was also about this time my mom took me down to our local Vans store on Newport Blvd to purchase my first pair of original Vans deck shoes blue in color and patented waffle soul. They had a "stickier" feel and gripped those early boards before we had grip tape.
 
I don’t remember what happened to my original board, but suspect it ended up in a garage sale before I moved from the beach area up to the mountains of Big Bear. When I first arrived in Big Bear in the spring of 1976, I found that there weren’t any sidewalks to ride on and most of our neighbors had cabins that the owners only visited every so often, so I had to resort to riding a bicycle to meet up with my new friends. That winter, I learned how to ski and enjoyed some of the other sports that winter had to offer.
 
When the snow finally melted, me, my friend Scott Boyd and a host of other buddies, bored with the lack of summer activities in Big Bear, found ourselves searching for something that would give us a new form of adrenaline rush. With none of us yet old enough to hold a driver’s license, we all relied on our bikes for transportation as well as a form of entertainment. Bicycle motocross was becoming popular and Scott was becoming better at jumping and doing tricks so we decided to create a ramp on an elevated edge of Big Bear Lake which we used to jump off of and into the water. We would judge each other on height, distance, and extremeness of the trick. But we were soon bored with it and the water was really cold.
 

Sims Laminated Board and Pure Juice Wheels

It was around this time that along with all of the publications displayed regarding skiing, we noticed Skateboarder Magazine tucked away at the far end towards the back of the rack at our local liquor store. My new friends had grown up in Big Bear and weren’t exposed to what had been going on at the beach the way I had. My parents once again succumbed to my badgering and they bought me another skateboard. This time it was a Sims laminated board with Gullwing trucks and Sims Pure Juice wheels. It didn’t take much time before my friends were scanning the pages of Skateboarder Magazine yearning to learn how to ride with me. Soon they all followed suit and we all had new skateboards and were riding up and down the storefront sidewalks at Interlaken Shopping Center near the Stanfield Cutoff at the easternmost end of Big Bear Lake. We were seen jumping off of curbs and seeing who could grind their trucks the furthest on the edge of the curb pretending it was coping.

SkateBoarder: How To Build Your Own Ramp
In Skateboarder Magazine, we took notice of all the skaters at the time starting to ride in empty swimming pools, in massive water pipes, and in brand new skate parks. We didn’t have any of those things anywhere near us, so we just made ourselves a nuisance at the shopping center. The one thing that my skateboard lacked that I definitely needed was grip tape. For some reason, the early skateboards lacked this necessary feature and we didn't have any up in the area so I had to improvise. I thought of gluing sandpaper to the deck, but then I found something that would work in the Big Bear Lake Marina hardware store... It was something for the deck of a boat, but it worked. I liked my Sims board, but compared to the skaters’ boards in Skateboard Magazine, mine seemed a little plain... It needed stickers. Unfortunately, skateboard stickers were unavailable in our little mountain community, so I did the next best thing… I cut out logos from the magazines that I had, laid them out on the bottom of my board, and then laminated them with a thin coat of resin. It was the best that this little 13 year old skater could do.
 
Hanson Meyer
Over the winter months in late 1977 and early 1978 when we had periods of heavy snow, we just skied and kept reading Skateboarder Magazine dreaming about living near the beach. One of the issues in the spring of 1978 had a section in it on how to build your own ramp, so one of our classmates, Greg Espinoza, built a small, portable, three foot ramp at his house that he set up at the end of his concrete driveway. We all headed over to his house one day after school and rode the ramp until it was dark outside. It was at that point that Scott and I decided to build a ramp at my house.
 
My family built our own house there in the mountains at an elevation of 7,500 feet. It was at the very end of Bow Canyon Road in a community of Big Bear known as Moonridge and Scott, with problems at home at the time, had moved in with my family. Although it wasn't official, he became my sort of "foster brother".
 
Scott Boyd
Our home was backed to national forest and we had very few neighbors. Every spring construction companies would enter the area building cabins and spec homes on open lots and so we made it our daily ritual to scan the work sites for extra lumber on our way home from school… A 2x4 here, a sheet of plywood there, and before long, we had built an initial ramp eight feet wide and five feet high (eventually became 8 feet high) positioned across the street from my house facing our driveway. We had a long steep driveway made of concrete at least ¾ of the way down where it turned to asphalt just before it met our narrow street. The asphalt was a bit perilous as the road hadn't been paved in quite some time and every winter, large trucks would dump little rocky cinders on the ice to help cars with traction and these little rocks would just build up around the roads over the years. Scott and I could have opened a janitorial service with the amount of sweeping experience we built up at that time. Even though we were very thorough and we managed to get most of the objects off of the road, it seemed that we always missed one little item that one of us would inadvertently discover with one of our front wheels on the way to the threshold of the ramp.






 THE BIG BEAR RAMP

The Big Bear Ramp as it existed in September of 1979. It was 8' high and 8' wide.
 
In the interest of minimizing the amount of asphalt we had to ride across, we positioned the ramp so that it encroached on the road by about three feet or so. We rode the ramp that whole summer but as we became a bit braver with every run and were backing up further and further up the driveway, we decided that it just wasn’t high enough and decided that we would build it higher the next spring in 1979.
My house at the end of Bow Canyon Road in Moonridge, Big Bear. Scott Boyd getting ready to head down the driveway and hit the ramp across the street.
 
Spring finally came and we went back to work on the ramp. We built it up to a formidable 8 feet in height. We even found some thin wood paneling that we used to resurface the entire face of the ramp. And although it was just shy of being vertical at the top, it was now as smooth as any pool surface and every skater within a 30 mile radius came to my house to showcase their level of expertise.



THE FIRST PHOTO SESSION SEPTEMBER, 1979 

  
 Most of these shots are of my best friend, Scott Boyd (RIP).

Scott Boyd Hitting The Ramp

Scott Boyd Getting A Little Air On The Ramp


Scott Boyd

Scott Boyd Landing It On The Ramp


Hanson Meyer On The Ramp


Scott Boyd On One Wheel



Scott Boyd
 
Scott Boyd with a Handplant

Scott Boyd

Scott Boyd

Scott Boyd

Hanson Meyer



Scott Eats It... Hit a Rock on the Asphalt...

Scott Boyd getting brave... only wearing shorts!
  
Scott Boyd
 
Sun Just Going Down



 
It was also around this time that my dad took me on a trip to visit some family friends who lived in Mission Viejo located in Orange County. They had a son named Jeff Barnes who had a skateboard… so of course I brought mine along for the trip. While I was there, Jeff’s mom took us to Big-O Skatepark in Orange. It was an amazing place with one of my skateboard heroes, Duane Peters, from Skateboarder magazine actually skating there… all this while I heard all my favorite music being played through the overhead PA speakers. I wanted to live there so badly… these were my people!
 
Blaise Ugolini
In early 1980, two new skater kids who were brothers had moved up from Los Angeles, Blaise and Cam Ugolini. Blaise had been skating semi-pro for team Variflex but unfortunately, he had to give it all up when his family moved up to Big Bear. They both had the wider pool boards that were just becoming popular and they were completely set up with "grab-air" rails, nose guards, coping guards... everything. Blaise even introduced us to a new brand of grip tape called "Pizza Deck". It was brick red in color and had what I remember as big chucks of black broken glass in it. Your feet did not come off your board, but it was really bad if you wiped out and the deck of your board raked you across the leg or arm.

I had another family friend named George “Lefty” Lumsden from San Diego who grew up surfing and skating there and started riding for team Gullwing. His family came up to visit us that summer and hearing that I had a ramp, he brought a couple of skateboards with him. He rode the ramp with me and my friends and when he left, he gave me one of his Gullwing pool boards. It was a blank 10.5 inch wide board with Gullwing trucks and Sims Snake Conical red and yellow wheels. It was awesome. I hand painted the bottom of it with yellow and black checkers and a large yin and yang symbol in the center. Eventually I added a nose guard, grab air rails, new truck risers and a new kick pad. It became my pride and joy. I also remember adding coping guards for doing curb grinders when we were skating at the shopping center.  

 

Blaise Ugolini drew this depiction of me on my Skateboard in June 1980.



THE SECOND PHOTO SESSION 

IN SPRING 1980

 
By the spring of 1980, we had pretty much completed the ramp, making repairs and adding everything we felt necessary. We even paneled the sides to make it more presentable to our neighbor across the street who we sensed was growing weary with the sight of the ramp blocking part of his front yard and driveway whenever he came up on weekends. The only additional change we made came after this photo session in the form of an 8 foot long piece of PVC pipe which we attached to the top edge to emulate the coping of a swimming pool.

For the remainder year, it became a daily ritual that Scott, Blaise, his brother Cam and a number of our other friends would come over and we would take turns riding the ramp. 

I photographed this particular session the same as the previous with a small Kodak 110 camera. Unfortunately, because I was the one behind the camera I never ended up in front of it for this session. Although there were many who rode the ramp, nearly all these photos are of Scott Boyd and Blaise Ugolini... but we weren't bad for a bunch of kids in a remote mountain community on a homemade ramp and with limited equipment over 35 years ago.
 

Blaise Catching Air... My sister, Kirsten in the background next to the truck
  
Blaise with One Wheel on the Ramp. Note the newly finished paneled side.

Scott Boyd Setting Up the Hand Pland
 
Blaise Catching Air

Scott Boyd

Blaise Ugolini Preparing to Land an Arial.

Scott Boyd
 
 
Blaise takes flight again

One of the girls, Janine, tries her hand at the Ramp... I don't remember her pulling this off.

Blaise with a Hand Plant

Scott Launching into a Hand Plant

Blaise Ugolini at the top of the Ramp. His brother, Cam, watches along the side. My sister, Kirsten on her horse behind the truck.

Close-Up of the Last Photo


Scott Boyd Landing

Another Arial from Blaise

One Last Arial from Blaise


Scott Boyd Catching Air off the Top of the Ramp

 
After we had our fill of the ramp, we would all tighten the trucks on our boards as much as we could, line up at the top of Bow Canyon Road, turn our skateboards around backward and then sit down on them. We tucked our knees to our chin, put our feet on the tail, and then used our hands to push off the line as quickly as we could to try to secure the pole position. After enough speed had been gained, we would firmly grip the sides of our respective boards to enjoy the one mile downhill ride to the bottom of the canyon… A sport we referred to as “Butt Boarding”. We did manage to pick up a lot of speed and since the road was very narrow, we all prayed that there wouldn't be a car coming up the canyon around a blind curve. Scott and I actually did make a downhill board that we cut out of a 4 foot long 1 inch thick plank of oak that we set it up with some extra tight trucks, old wheels off of one of our boards, and extra grip tape. During one of our butt boarding melees, one of our buddies drove just in front of the pack with Scott out in the lead on the downhill board. He was clocked going 42 mph... faster than any one of us had gone before. For that one time that he made it down safely, he had at least a half a dozen previous nasty wipe outs. We all had our share of wipe outs from high speed cases of "the wobbles" and I remember that we all had worn holes through the bottoms of our shoes from using them as brakes.

This is a view of Bow Canyon Road on the way up to my house. It was steep, narrow, had a number of sweeping turns, and was just under a mile long from my house at the top down to the bottom. Knowing that we were going to be riding our boards down it later, we did a lot of road maintenance removing small rocks, pebbles, twigs, etc. during our daily walk home from the school bus stop at the bottom.


Another view of Bow Canyon Road a little further up and closer to my house at the end.
Finally, near the end of summer our neighbor who owned the house across the street from us was tired of the ramp in front of his house and made a strong request to my parents that we tear it down… that, unfortunately, was the end of the ramp.
 
I did end up moving back to Newport Beach in 1981 and my Gullwing team board again became my main form of transportation taking me from home to school and from school to work. Once I finally saved enough money, I bought myself a 1971 VW Van and got a new job a lot further from home. I worked with a woman who had a young teenage boy who saw me carry my skateboard into the building one day. He went on and on about it to his mother for more than a week. She finally told me that she was going to buy him a board, but her son wanted one exactly like mine and she wanted to know where she could buy one. I told her that mine was a one of a kind, hand painted team board but she could probably find one that was comparable and be good enough for her son. You could see the look of disappointment and that she was going to have to be the bearer of bad news… It was at that point that I went to my car, retrieved my skateboard, walked back to her desk and handed her my board to give to her son… That then closed my chapter of skateboarding.


This is dedicated to one of my closest and best friends from my youth, Scott Boyd... R.I.P.

 

Tuesday, January 27, 2015

UNIFORM CHOICE – 1982 ORANGE PEEL SESSIONS: 7” Vinyl EP - Collector Notes



by Hanson Meyer

After uploading a couple of songs from the Uniform Choice original 1982 Demo to YouTube in March 2011, I started receiving messages from people asking if there was ever going to be an official release. Not too long ago, as more and more people started to find out about it, several small independent record companies contacted me asking if I was interested in putting it on vinyl. At that point I decided that I would start to look into a number of different record companies…  and after evaluating them taking into consideration several factors including stability, familiarity with old school punk rock, and record distribution, I narrowed the scope to just a couple of record companies.

I first approached Dr. Strange Records on August 8, 2014 and found that Doc, the owner, was very accommodating and genuinely eager to work with me. We worked out all the details and less than two weeks later, a contract was signed and I drove out to their retail store in Rancho Cucamonga, California to meet the staff. 

I had originally hoped that we could hit a target release date of September 18, 2014 which was the 32nd  anniversary date of the recording, but Doc informed me that their record pressing plant, Rainbo Records, was backed up a little bit and it would be an impossible deadline to make. Then several weeks later, we received more bad news… Rainbo was backed up more than originally thought and it was going to be a total of 4 months before the pressing would be completed. 

Usually, depending on a band’s marketability, Dr. Strange would make a first pressing of 300 or 500 copies… Doc knew our record would sell but wanted to test the waters first. On October 1, 2014 Rainbo sent 25 copies of the Test Press to Dr. Strange Records of which several came to me for each of the band members, etc. A number of other copies were distributed to Dr. Strange staff members who helped with the project. After everything was said and done, there were eight remaining copies… Doc wanted to see what the initial response would be to determine how many to produce for the first pressing. He sent out a small email blast to key individuals, companies and loyal retail customers stating that the first eight people to contact the store would be able to purchase one of the eight copies. Within 20 minutes of the email going out, all of them were gone. Doc told me that the phone continued to ring for days…

Since the Test Press copies went so quickly, it was decided that the first pressing would be a total of 600 records… 100 as a limited run on black vinyl, and 500 on orange vinyl.

Rainbo shipped the records and they were received by Dr. Strange just before Christmas on December 23rd. The sleeves and inserts weren’t ready, and with the holidays just kicking in, nothing could be done until the new year. The original plan was to have an “in-store” event on Sunday, February 8, 2015 with the original band members present to sign records and answer questions, etc., and then have the official release of the record on Tuesday, February 10th… but by the middle of January the sleeves and inserts were printed and ready to go. While the sleeves were being printed (and the record not officially being released yet), Dr. Strange had contacted a number of their primary distributors to start taking orders. About 450 records were earmarked for the distributors while some of the remaining 150 came to me and the larger balance was reserved for the Dr. Strange Retail store and website. The plan was to have enough for Dr. Strange to sell and then still have enough for the “in-store” event. Heavy orders came in from the distributors starting on January 14th and all the records allocated for them were gone in two days. The orders kept coming in, so Dr. Strange immediately put in an order with Rainbo Records for the next pressing. This time the pressing would be 1,000 +/- copies on clear blue vinyl but Rainbo informed us that they were still backed up and the records wouldn’t be available until May, 2015. Within ten days of making the first pressing available for retail purchase at Dr. Strange, the remaining records were gone… even the ones slated for the in-store record release event on February 8th. Without any records to sign, the “in-store” event had to be postponed and wouldn’t happen until the next pressing became available. After Doc put in a plea to expedite the second pressing, Rainbo came through and Dr. Strange was notified on February 18th that the second pressing on blue wax was completed.

Here are the details of each of the three versions (including the Test Press) that are currently in circulation:


TEST PRESS

Release: 25 copies released on Oct 1, 2014. About 15 copies split between Dr. Strange Staff and Band Members. 10 copies made their way to the general public.

Sleeve: Folded at the bottom of the sleeve and cut straight across the top with front and back top edges the same height. No glue was used on the sleeve. 4 Color artwork on semi-gloss paper. Artwork on front includes nuclear explosion flanked by a tattered American Flag on the left and a Russian Flag on the right. Emblazoned across the front of cover just under the flags are the words “TEST PRESS”. Both front and back of the sleeve have a semi-transparent black border. The front of the sleeve has the lyrics of the original theme song “Uniform Choice” in a courier font along all the edges of the sleeve within the border. The reverse of the cover has a photo of the original Uniform Choice back drop banner that was used for live performances in 1982 and 1983. It has the songs and credits listed. It has a “large” Dr. Strange logo and a large catalog number and lists the date as “2014” (year that the test press was released). The logo, catalog # and date are floated up off the bottom edge of the sleeve by 1 ¼”. 
 

Insert: No insert or digital download.

Label: White generic label from Rainbo Records Manufacturing Corporation. Label has Cutomer, Matrix #, Side, Date and Comments. Nine of the original 25 copies have hand written information on the labels.

Vinyl: Black vinyl, small spindle hole, deadwax runout has DSR134-A, R29725, “We Are Unicorn Hoist” on Side A; and DSR134-B, R29726, “Bye Leo!” on Side B.


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FIRST PRESSING (Limited Version on Black Vinyl)

Release: 100 Copies released on Jan 15, 2015. This limited release was reserved for the Dr. Strange Retail store/website and band members. This version was not released to distributors.

Sleeve: Folded at the bottom of the sleeve and cut straight across the top with front and back top edges the same height. No glue was used on the sleeve. 4 Color artwork on semi-gloss paper. Artwork on front includes nuclear explosion flanked by a tattered American Flag with Ronald Reagan under it doing a salute on the left and a Russian Flag with Leonid Brezhnev under it on the right. At the top of the sleeve just below the border is printed “We Are Your”. This is the only version of the first pressing that has this verbiage on it. Both front and back of the sleeve have a semi-transparent black border. The front of the sleeve has the lyrics of the original theme song “Uniform Choice” in a courier font along all the edges of the sleeve within the border. The reverse of the cover has a photo of the original Uniform Choice back drop banner that was used for live performances in 1982 and 1983. It has the songs and credits listed. It has a “small” Dr. Strange logo and a small catalog number and lists the date as “2015” (year that the test press was released). The logo, catalog # and date are floated up just above the bottom edge of the sleeve (much lower than the test press). In addition, in the upper right corner of the sleeve reverse there is a small white box with each copy of the record being hand numbered from 1/100 through 100/100. It’s important to note that the first nine were all numbered 1/100, then the sequence picks up again at 10/100. This was done so that all the key individuals involved would receive a “1/100”.


Insert: Two inserts. 1) Double sided on semi-gloss paper. Front side has lyrics to each of the four songs with a pencil sketch watermark of the original Uniform Choice logo. Back side has a short bio, band photos and the “Special Thanks” section. 2) This insert is a copy of the original recording Orange Peel Studio track listing from September 18, 1982 that lists each of the songs with their respective studio tracks.

Also has a "yellow" digital download slip.

Primary Double-Sided Insert
Additional "Bonus" Insert for Black Vinyl Version Only


Label: Color is Black with White ink. Side A is listed as “This Side” and has UNIFORM CHOICE across the top in a rough stencil type font. Side B is listed as “That Side” and has “U.C.” across the top as it was hand-written on set lists in 1982.

Vinyl: Black vinyl, small spindle hole, deadwax runout has DSR134-A, R29725, “We Are Unicorn Hoist” on Side A; and DSR134-B, R29726, “Bye Leo!” on Side B.



Note: There was one copy numbered 1/100 that has a different “incorrect” cover. It has a front side that is the same as the “Primary Version” with orange vinyl, and it has a reverse side that looks like the “Test Press” sleeve reverse and even has a "2014" date, but it has a white box just like the other copies of the “Limited Version”. This was an anomaly and there are no others like it.



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FIRST PRESSING (Primary Version on Orange Vinyl)

Release: 500 Copies released on Jan 15, 2015. This release was the primary release for distribution and sales in record stores in the United States and beyond. Some copies were held by Dr. Strange Records for their Retail store/website and few went to band members. 

Sleeve: Folded at the bottom of the sleeve and cut straight across the top with front and back top edges the same height. No glue was used on the sleeve. 4 Color artwork on semi-gloss paper. Artwork on front includes nuclear explosion flanked by a tattered American Flag with Ronald Reagan under it doing a salute on the left and a Russian Flag with Leonid Brezhnev under it on the right. Both front and back of the sleeve have a semi-transparent black border. The front of the sleeve has the lyrics of the original theme song “Uniform Choice” in a courier font along all the edges of the sleeve within the border. The reverse of the cover has a photo of the original Uniform Choice back drop banner that was used for live performances in 1982 and 1983. It has the songs and credits listed. It has a “small” Dr. Strange logo and a small catalog number and lists the date as “2015” (year that the test press was released). The logo, catalog # and date are floated up just above the bottom edge of the sleeve (much lower than the test press).



Insert: Double sided on semi-gloss paper. Front side has lyrics to each of the four songs with a pencil sketch watermark of the original Uniform Choice logo. Back side has a short bio, band photos and the “Special Thanks” section.

Also has a "yellow" digital download slip included in packaging.

Double-Sided Insert

Label: Color is Black with White ink. Side A is listed as “This Side” and has UNIFORM CHOICE across the top in a rough stencil type font. Side B is listed as “That Side” and has “U.C.” across the top as it was hand-written on set lists in 1982.

Vinyl: Orange vinyl, small spindle hole, deadwax runout has DSR134-A, R29725, “We Are Unicorn Hoist” on Side A; and DSR134-B, R29726, “Bye Leo!” on Side B.



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SECOND PRESSING (Clear Blue Vinyl)

Release: 1,061 Copies became available as the 2nd Pressing on Feb 20, 2015. This pressing was distributed in the United States and beyond. Some copies were held by Dr. Strange Records for their Retail store/website and few went to band members. 

Sleeve: Folded at the bottom of the sleeve and cut straight across the top with front and back top edges the same height. No glue was used on the sleeve. 4 Color artwork on semi-gloss paper. Artwork is similar to the 1st Pressing but differs slightly. On the front it depicts a nuclear explosion flanked by a tattered American Flag with Ronald Reagan under it doing a salute on the right and a Russian Flag with Leonid Brezhnev under it on the left. This differs from the first pressing as on that cover Reagan is on the left and Brezhnev is on the right. Both front and back of the sleeve have a semi-transparent BLUE border to match the color of vinyl. The front of the sleeve has the lyrics of the original theme song “Uniform Choice” in a courier font along all the edges of the sleeve within the border. The reverse of the cover is exactly the same as the 1st Pressing and has a photo of the original Uniform Choice back drop banner that was used for live performances in 1982 and 1983. It has the songs and credits listed. It has a “small” Dr. Strange logo and a small catalog number and lists the date as “2015” (year that the test press was released). The logo, catalog # and date are floated up just above the bottom edge of the sleeve.


Insert: Double sided on semi-gloss paper. Front side has lyrics to each of the four songs with a pencil sketch watermark of the original Uniform Choice logo. Back side has a short bio, band photos and the “Special Thanks” section. There are two versions of this insert. 1,000 copies are missing the last two lines of the Bio. 61 copies have the corrected bio and include the last two lines (see photos below).

Also has a "white" digital download slip included in packaging.

Double-Sided Insert (First 1,000 Copies) missing last two lines of Bio

"Corrected Version" of Double Sided Insert with last two lines of Bio (Last 61 Copies)

Label: Color is Black with White ink. Side A is listed as “This Side” and has UNIFORM CHOICE across the top in a rough stencil type font. Side B is listed as “That Side” and has “U.C.” across the top as it was hand-written on set lists in 1982.

Vinyl: Clear Blue vinyl, small spindle hole, deadwax runout has DSR134-A, R29725, “We Are Unicorn Hoist” on Side A; and DSR134-B, R29726, “Bye Leo!” on Side B.




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A Comparison of the Different Versions


THIRD PRESSING (Clear Red Vinyl) coming soon...