[78-L] RCA Victor reverse side "spider web" etching name?

[joe@salerno.com]

As it was explained, I think by Dr. Biel, they needed something in the 
press so that the bisquit would run properly as it melted. Hence you 
sometimes find transcriptions with a silent groove on the blank side

but that doesn't answer the question of why they chose such an image

Across the pond they used the recording angel...in America, a spider's web

I don't get it...

joe salerno


Steven C. Barr wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "joe at salerno.com" <jsalerno at earthlink.net>
>> I've never thought it particularly attractive myself, what were they
>> trying to say, that their reocrds were old and stored improperly? That
>> the music was old? Or the owners of the records livewd in dingy old
>> houses and never swept up after themselved? That the records or music
>> belonged in a museum?
>> Why not a sun burst or something a little more positive?
>>
> They just wanted/needed something to put on the "B side" of single-faced
> issues (often found as the last disc in classical album sets, as well as the
> "special issues" which only had one side...!). The completely-blank
> reverse used on early SF issues caused slippage and off-speed playing
> on 78 turntables...!
> 
> ...stevenc 
> 
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