ID-ing a Smile boot on vinyl

[punkinhead]

And actually, with my completion of Smile artifacts, my girlfriend and I did a little photo shoot of my Smile items....it's posted on my face book....used my vinyl copies of Smile, Smiley, BWPS...my green 45 of Wonderful/Windchimes...my promo poster of the first Smile Concerts with the open/sign/door pictured on there...the LLSV book....and my Smile Tour book.

But yeah, needless to say, my Lady is AWESOME

[?]

The first vinyl boot was from 1983.

I believe the colored vinyl versions of the SOT are actually a re-booting of the 2003 pressing that just started surfacing in the last couple of years.  Someone correct me if you got one a colored copy before 2008, 2009 or so.

So am I right in thinking that the original was pressed on black vinyl only?

Yeah, I think so.  I think the first SOT pressing was only on black vinyl, with better printing quality on the sleeve and nicer labels: http://www.popsike.com/BEACH-BOYS-smile-lp-nm/4000476352.html

[metal flake paint]

The first vinyl boot was from 1983.

I believe the colored vinyl versions of the SOT are actually a re-booting of the 2003 pressing that just started surfacing in the last couple of years.  Someone correct me if you got one a colored copy before 2008, 2009 or so.

So am I right in thinking that the original was pressed on black vinyl only?

Yeah, I think so.  I think the first SOT pressing was only on black vinyl, with better printing quality on the sleeve and nicer labels: http://www.popsike.com/BEACH-BOYS-smile-lp-nm/4000476352.html

Thanks for the info.

[Cliff1000uk]

The first vinyl boot was from 1983.

I believe the colored vinyl versions of the SOT are actually a re-booting of the 2003 pressing that just started surfacing in the last couple of years.  Someone correct me if you got one a colored copy before 2008, 2009 or so.

So am I right in thinking that the original was pressed on black vinyl only?

Yeah, I think so.  I think the first SOT pressing was only on black vinyl, with better printing quality on the sleeve and nicer labels: http://www.popsike.com/BEACH-BOYS-smile-lp-nm/4000476352.html

This is the one I have which I bought in a shop just off Tottenham Ct Rd. When did the black pressing come out? And it sold for £112 in 2004? How much is it worth now? Especially with all the hype of the boxset

[?]

Kind of hard to say what it's worth since price varies so much depending on where it sells.  Usually from a record store I would only expect $20-$30 but on ebay they always go higher (if the auction isn't shut down first, which is rare these days).  I think part of that is the buyers on ebay don't know where to look for better prices.  Around the time that one sold in 2004, you could pick up the same pressing from an independent record store I know online for about $40.  In general I think Smile boots have gone down in price a lot in the last ten years.  When I first got into it, if you found any of them for less than $100 it was a bargain but back then there were no blogs to download the boots from for free.  You were lucky to find a couple mp3s here or there but nothing like it is now.