"porky" signed LP

[Bonzo 2000]

On my recent birthday, I was given a gift of a framed copy of the Genesis album "The Lamb Lies down on Broadway" My friend told me that the interest lies in the fact that each framed lp disc is signed "Porky" on the vinyl at the run-off. Apparantly "Porky" (George Peckham) was the pressing engineer for a lot of top artists, including The Beatles. I understand that his mark only appears on the first press run of any record, with it being removed on subsequent presses, making a Porky vinyl quite collectable. Can anyone confirm if this is the case?

[spudqueen]

Mr Spudqueen, as an avid Genesis fan and a vinyl and bootleg collector has never heard of this. I did find this article though by googling 'george peckham'
http://www.kidda-band.co.uk/Beatles%20Linked.h tm

[Bonzo 2000]

Thanks Mr Spudqueen - I have seen this article too. Other stuff is available by googling various combinations of "Genesis", "porky" etc, often leading to dealers selling porky signed vinyl. Some of it is very cheap and nothing more than a novelty, others more valuable apparantly due to the Porky element. My framed discs are on the yellow ATCO label for release in the USA, rather than my old copy of the Lamb, which was on the Charisma label. However, apprantly Porky's name appears on both versions, but not all releases - go and check your copy, Spud! I'm just curious to find out if it was only the first pressing.

[spudqueen]

Mr Spudqueen says that his vinyl copy of Lamb Lies Down is in the loft, so checking it itsn't easy - we've got tons of stuff in the loft! Next time Mr Spud is up there I'll try and get him to root it out.

[yon]

The first pressing of any record would run into thousands of copies, so Porky's signature in itself wouldn't make a record valuable - slightly more valuable than the same record without it! I've seen it on loads of records, it doesn't automatically makes that record collectable. I'm sure there's lots of subsequent pressings where someone forgot to remove the signature or couldn't be bothered or probably didn't realise it was signed anyway, it's just a novelty.