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Deutsches Muzeum, Munich

Remastered From Original 1st LP Pressing

***About Rubber Dubber records***

(Mainly written by a man named Gene)

"Rubber Dubber was a California based bootleg label, and started out as a one-man organisation. The man behind this was quite a colorful character. Born the son of a Dallas mob boss, he skipped the family business, enlisted in the Navy and worked for Navel Intelligence. Upon his discharge, he was hired on as a roadie for one hit wonders "Paul and Paula." The Paul part of the act found God mid tour and dropped out and "Dubber" took his place for the rest of the tour with no one the wiser.

By this time he was obsessed with bootlegs and decided to get in on it himself. He bought a used rubber swim fin press and converted it to press LPs and found he was able to produce flawless pressings. He then set out to record concerts himself. (Thus the name Rubber Dubber). The biggest problem facing concert tapers was smuggling the recorders into the concerts and that had to rely on arenas (like the LA Forum) with lax security. Dubber over came this by attaching a tiny FM transmitter to a powerful mic and broadcasted the show to a van in the parking lot fitted with a small recording studio. Dubber also had quite a number of L.A. based employee's who also did their share of taping duties, notably in Europe as well.

He was able to have master discs made through a friend he made while on tour who worked for a well known "Sound Lab" known and respected for their high "Fidelity" mastering who also worked on his tapes. The result was a pressing and sound quality superior to anything on the market.

He would send copies of his bootlegs not only to major music magazines to review, but to the record labels of the bands he was bootlegging as well. Talk about balls! Upon getting one of his bootlegs in the mail, some top brass at Atlantic Records were so impressed that they tried to arrange a meeting with him to buy his tapes and learn his pressing secrets. (This meeting never happened, though). He also did interviews for Rolling Stone and several LA area radio stations.

Sadly, he got into some trouble which resulted in a death. He`s now serving a life sentence in New Mexico"

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Afternote:

There are two reasons why it is questionable whether the "Who is this ?" lp is a genuine "rubber dubber" release.

1) Clinton Heylin's book "Bootleg! The Rise and Fall of the secret recording industry", claims that Rubber Dubber and its founder went out of bootlegbusiness in 1971 for good under pressure of a prosecution threat. However, according to a former employee, RD continued operating for a while from another location after the Fed's had attempted to bust the RD office in L.A. And Gene, the man who wrote this story, said the man behind RD gave up bootlegging only in the early '80`s.
2) RD was operating in the States, while certain sources state this record is originating from either Germany or the U.K. No evidence to prove this statement is known though.

Personally, I do think this is a real RD product. Who knows ? Please tell me if you know more about the origins of this LP.

Prof. Stoned