Frank

Here's another one that I brought home a year ago and have only recently got around to properly checking out, largely due to the mess that my record room has been in for months...

My last post mentioned my trip to the New Jersey record store (and record label), Sky Valley Records. As well as the Christ discography, I also picked up a 7" by Sunstroke titled 'Frank'.

The 7" is a tribute to Frank 'Skip' Candelori, the singer of Turning Point (and Godspeed, Memorial Day and Twelve Hundred).

This is a two song 7", with one song being an original and the other being a Memorial Day cover. And, quite unusually for a 7", the sleeve is gatefold.

When I went into the shop I figured I would buy a copy of this 7", but somehow I ended up coming away with five. I was struggling to decide which colour I wanted, and in the end Chuck did me a deal for five. What's funny is that when I entered these into my collection on discogs, I realised that there are two other colours that were not offered to me. So now I'm in a weird place where I can't decide whether to buy two more to be 'complete', or to potentially get rid of some. The eternal dilemma.

I also managed to buy a test press. Or rather, two test presses. Chuck explained that each test press came on a different colour of vinyl, and he had two spares. So for some reason I ended up buying both of those too... and also being given a t-shirt that apparently came with each test press.

Slightly annoyingly, the next day Chuck sent me a message to say that he had forgotten to give me the covers for the test press. They should come in a rip off of the 3 LP that Dischord released. Despite a couple of attempts to get in touch with Chuck in recent months to get hold of those test press covers, I haven't had any luck. Hopefully one day I will get them. If so, I will post them up here.