Christine here! Taking my dog for a long walk one very early morning, we found the doors of a business wide open. Inside were machines. Strange looking machines. Couldn't figure them out, unless maybe Dr. Suess had done some manufacturing here!
There were some people around and so my friendly dog went in nose first and I followed. We spoke to a man named Bruce. He explained that Impressions LA Printing Services and Dorado Music Publishing over at Burbank Boulevard in NoHo were in the business of printing album covers, the innards of the covers, and the center labels. We're talking for VINYL records here.
Those machines - one from the late 1950's, another from the mid 1970's - others a history of album cover and record label printing! I felt like a secret shopper when Bruce told me that they'd received recent orders from Bob Dylan and Neil Young. See people are buying Dylan and Young record albums in vinyl even when the same music is available in CD. (As you may know from Neil's memoir which I covered here a while back, Neil is involved in getting better quality sound recording onto those CD.s) The records that were recorded originally and pressed on vinyl are being ordered in and for that, an artist needs more album covers printed too. Bruce said Neil reminded them that he wanted his covers to look as old as the originals do today. A small run is about 1000.
I'm posting this because they were friendly people and because they give TOURS TO THE SCHOOL CHILDREN. So while we don't do advertising on this Google Blogger, we thought you might want to give them a call about the little tour. When I was there those strange machines weren't running. I hope to go back someday when they are!
Their number is 818-761-9295
Saturday, October 12, 2013
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