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Title: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: Klaus74 on April 03, 2021, 06:15:31 PM
Hello to all fellow DS MK Fans, who also like Vinyls.
I´m Klaus from Germany, Dire Straits-Fan since 1985 and i´m still collecting so called exotic vinyl-versions of the well known albums, Maxis and Singles. To me it documents a world-wide phenomenon, because music itself knows no borders. :)
I own some copies from the following countries: Israel, Turkey, Zimbabwe, Republic South Africa, South-Korea, Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Venezuela, Hungary, Czech Republic, DDR (German Democratic Republic), Greece (Testpressing of OES), Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Peru, Equador, Panama. I´m still looking for more Vinyls on LP, Maxi-Single and Single-format in pristine condition. I also have the rare Japanese Promotional-12-Inch Record of Lady Writer-Sultans of Swing, and the dutch Tunnel of Love 12-Inch-Promo with the Stereo and the Mono-Mix.
So, are here some other Vinyl-fans, which also are interested in the exotic stuff. ?
I also have some white-label Testpressings from different countries, and one Acetate-Single So far away from the Sound-Clinic Mastering Studio. To me it is very fascinating to discover such exotic records. :wave
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: Klaus74 on April 04, 2021, 03:31:43 PM
Here a picture of a Zimbabwe Dire Straits LP-Album. First Album on Vertigo Zimbabwe (South Rhodesia). The state of Zimbabwe produced vinyl records until the mid Nineties. There was a pressing-plant in Harare and a music company called ZMC Zimbabwe Music Corporation. The cover-colours differ from the other issues and the used paper is not glossy, but more rough.
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: Klaus74 on April 04, 2021, 03:37:23 PM
This is the rare Japanese Promotional-12-Inch record by Dire Straits. Pressed through Nippon-Phonogram as a Maxi-Single for DJs only. Lady Writer / Sultans of Swing. White-Label with special Promo-Catalogue-Number and the Japanese Promotional inscriptions. To my knowledge, the one and only 12-Inch record in Japan by Dire Straits. Very hard to find. :think
The cover is a white cardboard-cover with a red 45-rpm stamp and pasted regular 7-inch sleeves from Japanese releases. Possibly handmade, but regular and released in tiny quantities with that record.
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: Klaus74 on April 04, 2021, 03:46:06 PM
Some more exotic Dire Straits records.
Dire Straits - First Album. TAIWAN Edition, different front and backcovers and a different label: New Jen Sheng
Dire Straits - Communique. INDIA Edition, slightly different front and backcovers and with the Vertigo-Swirl-Label
Dire Straits - Communique From Bahamas - Straits Power, ULTRARARE Japanese Promo and Documentary-Record for DJs in Japan. Tracklisting not equal with the Communique record and with additional spoken comments in Japanese and English language by Japanese Music-Journalist Yuji Kon-No. Very rare Japan only record.
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: Klaus74 on April 04, 2021, 04:24:46 PM
Brothers in Arms as SOUTH-KOREA Edition. Released there through Sung-Eum-Limited in Seoul, South-Korea. Different colours on cover and a blue Vertigo-Label.
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: Klaus74 on April 04, 2021, 04:32:05 PM
Some more exotic Vinyl-gems.
Dire Straits - First Album (Los Reyes Del Swing), VENEZUELA-Edition, Vertigo Records, different coverdesign and spanish inscriptions
Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing (El Baile Del Sultan), Philips-Records, Single from EQUADOR
Dire Straits - Brothers in arms, Vertigo-Records, CANADA-Edition, Canada-only cover for that single
Dire Straits - So far away, GONG-Vertigo-Records, HUNGARY-Edition, unique cover, the one and only single by Dire Straits in Hungary. There is also the Money for nothing LP-Album on Gong-Vertigo records in Hungary, that´s it.
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: Klaus74 on April 05, 2021, 01:24:29 PM
Some more exotic vinyl-gems. :)
Dire Straits - Walk of life, UK-Testpressing in Vinyl with handwritten archive-label, possibly pressed by PRS in UK. Vinyl-Pressing-plant, where Phonogram Ltd. was a client.

Dire Straits - So far away, UK-ACETATE-Reference-Disc, manufactured by The Sound Clinic, a well known Remastering Studio in UK. The prä-owner was a woman, who worked for the Phonogram Record-company in UK. She overpasted the original green-grey-coloured archive-label from Sound-Clinic with an UK-official So far away label. An Acetate-Record is a record, made of metal with a coated nitro-cellulose surface. Only a few copies were made, mostly for the artist, the producer, manager or sound-engineer, to get the first impression of the recorded work.  My Acetat-record plays the final mix of the single-version. Those records are very desirable if alternate mixes or other unknown versions had been recorded. A very rare record anyway.
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: Klaus74 on April 05, 2021, 01:39:32 PM
Some more bizarre and obscure Dire Straits vinyls from my collection. 8)

Russian Flexi-Discs in 5-Inch Format and in different colours. Dire Straits - Les Boys, Record Label called BudKon Russia. Some more titles are known. I have actually 3 different discs.

Polish Flexi-Discs in an envelope-Cover, here the complete Album Making Movies divided into different Music-Postcard-Discs in a Set. Poland-Edition of 20 Sets only.

Those records does not offer a very good sound-quality, because of the used material, but they are really obscure.
Sometimes in the past those flexi-discs are issued as freebies in Newspapers or Magazines.
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: Klaus74 on April 05, 2021, 01:40:19 PM
Here are the Polish Postcard-Records from Making Movies-Album.
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: Klaus74 on April 05, 2021, 06:40:55 PM
Again some exotic Dire Straits stuff. Exotic Vinyl-Editions 8)

Dire Straits - Sultans of swing, JAPAN-Promo-Single with special cover, two versions of Sultans of swing included
Dire Straits - Sultans of swing, PHILIPPINES-Edition, White-Label Vertigo, manufactured through DYNA-Records Manila
Dire Straits - Twisting by the pool, ZIMBABWE-EP-Edition, White-Label Vertigo, pressed in Harare
Dire Straits - Money for nothing, REPUBLIC OF SOUTH-AFRICA-PROMO-Edition, violet-Vertigo-label, two versions of Money for nothing included.
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: Silvertown on April 05, 2021, 07:44:23 PM
Interesting stuff! Thanks for posting these!
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: Klaus74 on April 05, 2021, 07:53:40 PM
Hello Silvertown. Thank you. :)
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: jbaent on April 05, 2021, 10:39:11 PM
Some more exotic vinyl-gems. :)
Dire Straits - Walk of life, UK-Testpressing in Vinyl with handwritten archive-label, possibly pressed by PRS in UK. Vinyl-Pressing-plant, where Phonogram Ltd. was a client.

Dire Straits - So far away, UK-ACETATE-Reference-Disc, manufactured by The Sound Clinic, a well known Remastering Studio in UK. The prä-owner was a woman, who worked for the Phonogram Record-company in UK. She overpasted the original green-grey-coloured archive-label from Sound-Clinic with an UK-official So far away label. An Acetate-Record is a record, made of metal with a coated nitro-cellulose surface. Only a few copies were made, mostly for the artist, the producer, manager or sound-engineer, to get the first impression of the recorded work.  My Acetat-record plays the final mix of the single-version. Those records are very desirable if alternate mixes or other unknown versions had been recorded. A very rare record anyway.

I'm very interested in acetates. I have also several test pressings but only one acetate of MFN
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: Klaus74 on April 06, 2021, 07:26:28 AM
Hi, congratulations for MFN-Acetate. It is also a collection of it´s own. :thumbsup :thumbsup :thumbsup
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: dustyvalentino on April 06, 2021, 10:39:32 AM
Very cool, thanks for sharing.

Any chance you could rip the mono mix of Tunnel of Love? I'd be interested to hear what that sounds like.
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: Klaus74 on April 06, 2021, 02:52:19 PM
Hello dustyvalentino. Yes thanks. It is to me very fascinating to find Dire Straits records from all over the world. :thumbsup

About the Mono-Mix of Tunnel of Love. I don´t have it recorded on my PC. I have to record it first for a wav.-Data,  but at the moment it does not work correctly. I assume my Music Cleaning Lab Deluxe-Sound-software does not work correctly in the moment. I used to find the mistake but it will take some time. :think
Best wishes Klaus.
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: Klaus74 on April 06, 2021, 02:57:04 PM
For the first taste, here are some pictures of the Dutch Tunnel of love Promo-12-Inch and the French Telegraph Road Promo 12-Inch record (onesided). Both are autographed by Mark and the Telegraph Road-Record is also autographed by John Illsley.
The Dutch record is very rare and it was very long time on my want-list. The French record is rare too, but sometime with a little patience you can find it on ebay or somebody has it twice. 8)
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: Klaus74 on April 06, 2021, 03:43:20 PM
Here are some Testpressings of regular Vinyl-records by Dire Straits.
Dire Straits - On Every Street, GREEK White-Label-Testpressing with original greek Cover.
Dire Straits - ExtendedDancEPlay, BRITISH White-Label-Testpressing from PRS-Pressing Plant with original UK-Cover.
Dire Straits - Communique, AUSTRALIAN White-Label Testpressing with an Phonogram-Archive-Cover and Production-Sheet from Phonogram Australia
Dire Straits - Money for nothing 10-Inch-Maxi-Single, BRITISH White-Label Testpressing from Lyntone Pressing-Plant, Laquer-Cut by Francis De Souza.
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: Klaus74 on April 06, 2021, 03:44:35 PM
Here the Money For Nothing 10-inch Single as White-Label-Testpressing.
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: Klaus74 on April 06, 2021, 03:54:20 PM
I also found two mispressed LP-Albums.
Dire Straits - Brothers in arms UK-Vertigo edition, but it features the Rockband RUSH on the A-Side.
Chris De Burgh - Flying Colours UK-A-M-Records edition, but it features the second half of the Money for nothing LP-Album on the B-Side.
Mispressed LP-Albums pressed in the same pressing-plant with exchanged matrixes for A and B-Sides.

Here is a Zimbabwe Misprint-Version of Twisting by the pool. Wrong lettering on the label. The record plays NOT on 45 rpm and the A-Side has TWO songs.
PS: I´m still looking for a German Lady Writer Single with misprinted Picture-Cover. The cover i´m looking for is violet and NOT blue. Please feel free to contact me, if someone has it for sale or swap. :thumbsup
 
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: dustyvalentino on April 06, 2021, 04:17:42 PM
For the first taste, here are some pictures of the Dutch Tunnel of love Promo-12-Inch and the French Telegraph Road Promo 12-Inch record (onesided). Both are autographed by Mark and the Telegraph Road-Record is also autographed by John Illsley.
The Dutch record is very rare and it was very long time on my want-list. The French record is rare too, but sometime with a little patience you can find it on ebay or somebody has it twice. 8)

Thank you. Very odd to have a mono mix by 1980.
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: Klaus74 on April 06, 2021, 04:25:49 PM
Yes that´s funny.
Some Hi-Fi-Enthusiasts love old or historic mono-recordings, mostly by Jazz-recordings. In the 1960s record-buyers could get one album twice, in Stereophonic or in Monophonic, like most of the Rolling Stones, Beatles, Elvis Presley LP-Albums.
Also interesting fact, that most of the Brazilian Singles and Maxi-Singles play on 33.3 RPM and NOT on 45 rpm. :think
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: Klaus74 on April 06, 2021, 04:39:43 PM
This is also a little curious record.
Mark Knopfler and Chet Atkins - The next time i´m in town. PROMOTIONAL-Single from NORWAY, but made in Holland. Two A-Sides. Red CBS-Label.
 There are also two onesided Spanish Promo-Singles by Mark and Chet on CBS-records Spain with yellow labels and nice picture-covers.
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: dustyvalentino on April 06, 2021, 05:44:50 PM
Yes that´s funny.
Some Hi-Fi-Enthusiasts love old or historic mono-recordings, mostly by Jazz-recordings. In the 1960s record-buyers could get one album twice, in Stereophonic or in Monophonic, like most of the Rolling Stones, Beatles, Elvis Presley LP-Albums.
Also interesting fact, that most of the Brazilian Singles and Maxi-Singles play on 33.3 RPM and NOT on 45 rpm. :think

A lot of those 60s albums (eg Beatles) sound better in mono, the band themselves approved the mono mixes, stereo was an afterthought and can sound weird, drums only in one speaker etc.
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: Klaus74 on April 06, 2021, 06:00:41 PM
Yes i know those obscure early stereo records. RCA-Victor uses a very ugly electronically created stereo for the early Elvis Presley songs from the 1950s. That sounds very ugly, so the mono-mixes are the best choice on the old seven-inch-records or on the first-editions of the LP-Albums. The first real stereo-record by Elvis is the album Elvis is back from 1960.
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: Klaus74 on April 06, 2021, 06:26:41 PM
Here is a 6-Track 12-Inch record by Dire Straits / Mark Knopfler from ARGENTINA. White Label. Side-A feat. the Twisting by the pool EP and Side-B feat. the Comfort and Joy Soundtrack-Maxi-Single.
ARGENTINA Issue only.
A Brothers in arms LP by Dire Straits from TURKEY. Turkish editions are very rare. Released there on blue-silver Philips-Label and manufactured by a Turkish pressing-plant named Plaksan. There are some other Turkish Labels like COBRA and GALA-Records with Dire Straits.
BIA was on the top of the Turkish LP-Charts, that is a little miracle, but cool to know.
Released in tiny quantities because not so many turkish people are interested in modern popular music, but it is astonishing to know, that a lot of US and UK-Groups and Stars are available in Turkey in the Sixties, Seventies and Eighties, like Beatles, Stones, Elvis, Deep Purple, Pink Floyd and Dire Straits. ;) ;)
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: Klaus74 on April 06, 2021, 06:53:39 PM
Some other exotic Dire Straits singles.
Dire Straits - Dinero para nada (Money for nothing), Single from PANAMA, silver Labels
Dire Straits - Walk of life / Quin-Cola Song, Promo-Single from ECUADOR, with Walk of life and an advertisement-Jingle based upon the melody of Walk of life in spanish language. Produced by an equatorian Beverages-company called Quin-Cola. Released there in 1987.It is a rare single.
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: Klaus74 on April 07, 2021, 10:52:22 AM
Here are the two mispressed LP-Albums from my exotic collection.
UK-Edition of Brothers in arms by Dire Straits, UK-Vertigo VERH-25, pressed through PRS Pressing plant.
A-Side features not Dire Straits but Rush. Matrix-Numbers A-Side: VERH-12 A-1 (Rush) / B-Side: VERH-25 B/8 (Dire Straits)
Cover and Labels are Dire Straits Brothers in arms album.

UK-Editon of Flying Colours by Chris De Burgh. UK-A&M-Records. AMA-5224, 1988.
A-Side features the first half of the Chris De Burgh-Album, Matrix: AMA 5224 A2J 1-1 / B-Side features the second half of the Money for nothing Album by Dire Straits VERH-64 B-8U 1-1
Cover and Labels are Chris De Burg Flying Colours Album.
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: Klaus74 on April 07, 2021, 10:55:48 AM
Another Brothers in arms LP-Album variant from URUGUAY.
Slightly different cover-colours and different Backcover-artwork. Cover is made of a rough paper.
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: Pottel on April 07, 2021, 12:30:47 PM
klaus, again, welcome to this forum, and thnx for your amazing rarities, i was never a collector of the official stuff, more the bootleg side of things, but it IS interesting to see all this variety. i know a lot of fellow fans on here are on a similar trip
Hammer kollektion!
do you only collect these kinds of records? or also live recordings?
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: Klaus74 on April 07, 2021, 01:57:43 PM
Hello Pottel. Thank you.
I collect all different Dire Straits items i can get. LPs, Singles, Maxis, CD-Albums, CD-Singles, Videos, Posters, Stickers, Press-Kits from Musicjournalists, original Publicity-Photos or slides, Posters and Signs from record-stores, Bootleg-Vinyls, Bootleg-CDs, Promos on Vinyl and CD, Radioshows on Vinyl and CDs, Testpressings, original Award-Discs Golden and Platinum-Discs, and so on. I feel to be like a Dire Straits Archäologist. It is fascinating to get some of these exotic records.
And, of course, i also have still some gaps in the different collecting-fields.  ;)
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: Klaus74 on April 07, 2021, 08:08:55 PM
This item can also be classified as a collection of it´s own. 8)
I´m a proud owner of a Golden-Disc-Award of the Brothers in arms Album from GREECE. Presented to Ed Bicknell for 50.000 sold albums in Greece. Presented through the IFPI. There are also Awards by BPI(British Phonographic Industry), RIAA (Record Industry Association of America) and other copyright organisations.
That is a special field, because it is not easy to get genuine Award-Discs. I´m very very glad to have six of those Awards in my collection, from various countries. In case of collecting US-Awards by RIAA, be aware of falsifications, FAKEs, because many collectors want the US-RIAA-Awards. To me it is not so important to have all US-RIAA, i´m also interested in other countries.
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: Klaus74 on April 07, 2021, 08:10:07 PM
Some more pictures.
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Post by: Klaus74 on April 07, 2021, 08:13:56 PM
Here i have Guy Fletchers Platinum-Award for the OES-Album. Double-Platin-Award by BPI, Brit-Award for the sale of 600.000 copies of OES in UK.
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: Klaus74 on April 07, 2021, 08:19:56 PM
Another Gold-Award from BRAZIL for the Money for nothing-LP-Album. Presented to Dire Straits for the sale of 100.000 Albums in Brazil in 1989.

A Platinum-Award from NEW ZEALAND, presented to Dire Straits for the successful sale of First Album in NZ.
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: Klaus74 on April 08, 2021, 09:29:34 AM
Here are my last two Awards.
Dire Straits - On Every Street USA-Platinum-RIAA-Award for the sale of 1.000.000 copies of OES in the USA. Presented as so called "In House-Award" to a big Record-Store in Maryland named Record and Tape-Traders.
There are different Award-Types: First: Presented to the Star, the Band, or other personalized for each musician, just see my Guy Fletcher award, to the Producers, Managers. Second: Presented to Record companies, Publishers, or Radio-Stations (mostly in the US) that are the so called In House-Awards.
Dire Straits - Money for nothing Single-Silver-Disc-Award, presented to Phonogram Limited (the Recordcompany) for the sale of 250.000 copies of the single MFN in UK in 1986, BPI-Award, (British Phonographic Industries).
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: Klaus74 on April 08, 2021, 09:32:37 AM
On the WWW you will find a very valid site by an American Award-Expert on the subject of the RIAA-Awards from the past to the present. He explaines exactly the features of an genuine RIAA-Award, the changing RIAA-logos, the time-periods, and of course, the features to detect a falsification. Very interesting to read and to know, especially for the RIAA-Award-Collectors.
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: Klaus74 on April 14, 2021, 05:15:21 PM
A new exotic Promo-Record arrives in my collection.
A Split-Promo-Maxi-Single with two artists: Dire Straits and Tears For Fears.
Promo-Record from BRAZIL.  Dire Straits: Your Latest Trick and Tears For Fears: Head Over  Heels
There is another Split-Promo-Maxi by Dire Straits with Tears For Fears in Brazil with other tracks. (Brothers in arms and I Believe)
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: Pottel on April 16, 2021, 09:45:56 AM
may want to check this channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsTxxptyyEZM9dSMvYH7P5Q
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: Klaus74 on April 16, 2021, 01:35:52 PM
to Pottel.
Wow, yes indeed a cool collection. Absolutely amazing. :thumbsup But he should keep and store his vinyl-discs in a much better way in his shelfs.
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: Klaus74 on April 19, 2021, 05:34:27 PM
Dire Straits - Love over Gold LP-Album from SINGAPORE/MALAYSIA/HONG KONG. Pressed with the legendary old-style Vertigo-Swirl-Label.
Just arrived in my DS MK-Collection.
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: Klaus74 on April 24, 2021, 03:01:57 PM
Here we have another TAIWAN-issue of the BIA LP-Album, but with a slightly different cover. Here are some inscriptions in taiwanese language and the dates of 1985 and 1986. Possibly a second edition from around 1986. I have three different TAIWAN-issues of that album.
First Edition: Vertigo-Taiwan Swirl-styled-labels and thick cardboard-covers, similar like the old US-LPs
Second Edition: New Jen Sheng-Label, and a thin paper-cover folded into a thin plastic-foil
Third Edition: New Jen Sheng-Label, and a folded thin paper cover without plastic-foil and with the additional taiwanese inscriptions.
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: Klaus74 on May 14, 2021, 06:07:06 PM
Some new exotic records arrived today in my collection.
Mark Knopfler and Chet Atkins - Neck and Neck LP-Album, CBS-Records ZIMBABWE, 1991 released, different label-style.
AND:
Mark Knopfler - Local Hero, Vertigo ARGENTINA, little different cover
Mark Knopfler - Princess Bride, Vertigo ARGENTINA
Mark Knopfler - Last Exit to Brooklyn, Vertigo ARGENTINA
AND:
John Illsley - Glas (Vidrio), Vertigo ARGENTINA.
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: Klaus74 on May 14, 2021, 06:08:04 PM
Some Argentina-Details on Covers. 8)
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: Klaus74 on June 07, 2021, 03:24:30 PM
Today, some Zimbabwe and South-Rhodesia DS-Vinyls arrived at my home.
Dire Straits - Communiuqe´ LP-Album, Zimbabwe-Polydor-Release with different Coverartwork
Dire Straits- So Far Away/Walk of life Zimbabwe-Single on Trutone-Music-Label
Dire Straits - Sultans of swing/Setting me up, South-Rhodesia-Single on Vertigo-Label.
All records are in pristine condition. That´s a miracle for such issues.
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: Klaus74 on July 06, 2021, 09:47:58 PM
Hi to all vinyl-freaks of Dire Straits records.
Now i have found another TAIWANESE edition of the Alchemy-Lp-Set.
Different front-cover-layout. Released on the Taiwan-Label New Jen Sheng. Cover is a folded paper-sheet, seamed on the bottom. I own another TAIWAN-edition with fold-out-cover and with the Vertigo-swirl-labels.
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Post by: dustyvalentino on July 07, 2021, 03:41:12 PM
Cool cover!
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: Klaus74 on July 22, 2021, 05:13:01 PM
My newest Exotic-Gem.
Dire Straits - Love over gold, Hits-Label, Taiwan. Very uniqe record-label from Taiwan and a thick cardboard-cover, similar to the US-editions.
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: Klaus74 on July 22, 2021, 05:19:01 PM
Another new exotic-issue from my collection.
Dire Straits - Communique LP-Album on SWIRL-Vertigo Label from MALAYSIA/SINGAPORE.  8)
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: Klaus74 on February 08, 2022, 06:31:17 PM
My newest Exotic-issue is from former YUGOSLAVIJA.
Dire Straits - First Album, released in former YUGOSLAVIA on Philips-Records/RTB-Records. (RTB stands for Radio-Televizije-Beograd). The Yugoslavian issues are on a blue-white-coloured Philips-Label.
According to my knowledge, there are two singles only in Yugoslavia, Sultans of Swing and Romeo and Juliet, with cover-design from the Dutch-releases. 8)

Dire Straits played some concerts during their Love over gold-worldtour in Ex-Yugoslavia in 1983 and during their Brothers in arms-worldtour in 1985.  :think
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: Klaus74 on February 25, 2022, 03:57:38 PM
Again some news in my collection of exotic MK and DS-Vinyls. 8)
Here we have the Making Movies LP-Album from SOUTH-AFRICA. Just look at the different designed cover with the exchanged colours. Released in RSA in 1980 on a violet-silver Vertigo-Label.
The Dire Straits Twisting By The Pool-12-Inch-record from SOUTH-Africa. Released there in 1983 also with the violet-silver Vertigo-Label. 3-Tracks.
Distributed through Trutone Music. The covers made by INTERPAK printing-office. That is significant to detect issues from South-Africa.
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: vgonis on April 03, 2022, 02:19:42 AM
What a lovely collection of hard to find items! Thanks for sharing! Back in the 90ies when most people were trading their vinyl collections for CDs I could find many obscure things in second hand record stores, at relatively reasonable prices. Now,online the prices have skyrocketed, and i don't have the money or time to keep it up. If something comes by the shop, I have dibs but sometimes it is still too expensive to keep for myself and I let go.
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: Klaus74 on April 03, 2022, 05:55:01 PM
Hi, yes that is true, but don´t miss your chances in the future. I also don´t have big money like Scrroge McDuck, but i swap and sell some other copies from my private vinyl-collection, also other artists. So i can re-create some money for further DS gems. Yes i know such record-stores in Germany, small and big fleamarkets, house-clearances and so on. That are all good chances to grab some nice items.
But you need some special contacts for such exotic stuff. In Germany i find all the regular German issues, also special record-club-editions from the early DS albums as well, and sometime a cool UK- or a USA-issue in some collections but i detect the special stuff on the online marketplaces worldwide, or on some record-fairs.
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: vgonis on April 03, 2022, 10:11:32 PM
The bug never goes away.  ;D Let's stay in touch and if you have a list of doubles you wish to trade or sell, do send me a price list!
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: Klaus74 on April 04, 2022, 11:12:39 AM
Yes, of course.
By the way, The Bug: ;D Do you know the rare French Promo-CD-Single of The Bug. ?? OK, it is not a vinyl-item, but a very rare and well demanded CD-Item.
It is a one-track Single-CD in a special Bug-shaped cardboard-Cover. Just have a closer look to the regular French The Bug, CD-Single, Vinyl-Maxi-Single or the Seven-inch-single. In France The Bug has a totally different cover, to the EU or UK-editions. It is a drawing of an insect, a real bug, and the french promo-item is a shaped Bug made of Cardboard, and you have to open the two wings to get the CD.
Very crazy and interesting item.  8)
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: vgonis on April 04, 2022, 10:25:56 PM
Yes! I do have this one, https://www.discogs.com/release/6628825-Dire-Straits-The-Bug  but nothing else from French editions of this single.
Lovely cover! I think Dire straits are a very hard band to collect. So many unique items, promos, singles etc. from so many countries all over the world due to their global success.
I started collecting them in 1989, when it was hard to understand the enormity of the editions. I keep going, but other priorities take up the time and funds needed. And part of it is other music!  ::)
I guess the sky is the limit in collecting them. Should you ever send me a list of things for trade/sale, send me also a list of what you are looking for. I might have something for trade!
I find  particularly  odd the decision of S.Korean and Yugoslavian Making movies editions, to rearrange the track order and ultimately leave out Les boys, altogether!!

 
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: Klaus74 on April 05, 2022, 10:55:45 AM
Yes you have the 4-Track Maxi-Single of The Bug as French edition. Also hard to get now. There is also a 7-Inch single and a regular 2-Track CD single in France with that Bug-insect-cover.
We DS collectionists are in a really good situation. Picture this, in case of a Beatles or Rolling Stones collector from all over the world. They are going to be nuts in that case. Just have a closer look to worldwide issues by the Beatles or the Rolling Stones in those days. Our Dire Straits collecting-field is easily understandable, but if you are a collector of worldwide-issues by The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Elvis Presley and so on, you´ll getting mentally insane. 8)
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: Klaus74 on October 11, 2022, 12:18:37 PM
So, this is my newest exotic gem for my vinyl-collection.
Dire Straits - Making Movies LP-Album from TAIWAN. Released some time later in Taiwan on a label, called MAJOR-Records. It features a thick cardboard-cover, like the Warner-Bros issues from USA. The record carries a blue label and a lyric sheet is also included. The pressing itself is really thick and it plays marvellous. There are some other newer record-companies in Taiwan: CELL RECORD-COMPANY, MAJOR-Records and Yan-Yin-Records. They all feature the cardboard-covers.
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: Klaus74 on January 03, 2023, 04:26:14 PM
In the next days i will receive a Czechoslovakia Issue of the Love over gold LP-Album. Released on the former state-controlled record-label SUPRAPHON-Records. Release-date there is 1984 not 1982.
Pictures of cover and label in the next time.  8)
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: Klaus74 on March 29, 2023, 11:23:38 AM
A little update.
In the next days i will receive some Dire Straits vinyl-singles from Republic South Africa, a Brothers in arms LP-Album from Turkey and two LP-Albums, Making Movies and On Every Street from Ecuador. 8)
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: Klaus74 on April 25, 2023, 11:17:04 AM
Hi to all Dire Straits Vinyl-maniacs. :wave
Here we have a Colombia issue of the OES LP-Album. Slightly different frontcover and totally different backcover. The label is a blue-white Vertigo-Swirl-style label. Absolutely amazing.  :thumbsup
Made by Philips-records in Colombia. I hope to spot out some more DS albums from Colombia, Costa-Rica and so on. Maybe it is a copy from the private collection of Pablo Escobar. A joke, of course. ;D
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: Klaus74 on April 25, 2023, 11:17:47 AM
Here we have the label from Vertigo Colombia.
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: dustyvalentino on April 25, 2023, 12:15:03 PM
Very cool
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: Klaus74 on May 16, 2023, 01:36:20 PM
Hi, to all worldwide DS vinyl-collectionists.
Here we have a Love over gold LP-Album from Czechoslovakia. Released there on the state-controlled SUPRAPHON-Recordlabel.
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: msn22 on February 06, 2024, 02:50:27 AM
Was only going to collect a few things, starting to get out of control :-)
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: vgonis on February 06, 2024, 11:29:45 PM
Thank you Klaus 74 for these exotic "birds". Very nice indeed!
And thank you and welcome msn22! Nice rare finds in this "group" photo!
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: jbaent on February 07, 2024, 07:46:50 AM
Was only going to collect a few things, starting to get out of control :-)

Welcome to madness!!!!
Title: Re: Collecting exotic Dire Straits-Mark Knopfler Vinyl
Post by: Klaus74 on February 16, 2024, 01:00:43 PM
Hello and welcome msn22. Cool picture with also cool items.  :thumbsup