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Metallica Ride the Lightning Misprint

Hobo Dolphin
Thu, 29/11/2012 - 01:35

One of the rare Ride the Lightning pressings from France that accidentally printed it in green instead of blue. Also misspelled the track "For Whom The Bell Tolls" as "For Whom The Bells Toll".

Not for sale or trade

Year: 1984
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vomitoxic's picture

I have this also. What colour is the lp?

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Hobo Dolphin's picture

Black. What colour is yours?

vomitoxic's picture

Mine is orange.

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Paprika Jancsi's picture

All the coloured vinyl versions are bootlegs.

vomitoxic's picture

Where did you find out that?

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Ironhead's picture

Sounds quite obvious to me, considering the cover's a misprint and back then coloured vinyls were quite rare.

vomitoxic's picture

Okay. Not so aware of vinyl history or with coloured vinyls.
Shame but whatcha gonna do.

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metal_thrashing_dad's picture

If you want a definite answer on that matter you should ask this guy here: http://tshirtslayer.com/user/hectorkirkwoodgmailcom.
Huge Metallica collector over the years.
Nice one by the way, me gusta!!!

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meaningless's picture

damn nice

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doyle92's picture

Supposedly only 400 of these pressed.
Great score

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Recent Comments

  • 9 minutes ago
    Thank you! I've thought the same thing haha, great blank though.
  • 20 minutes ago
    Great score.
  • 39 minutes ago
    Big rush and deep purple gone
  • 39 minutes ago
    Nice one..
  • about an hour ago
    awesome band, some of the sickest sludge out there!
  • about an hour ago
    Ahhh I still need this one. Nice find dude.
  • about an hour ago
    Sick
  • about an hour ago
    Good luck, the purple one is by far the rarest of all versions and was only sold by the band directly
  • about an hour ago
    Slayer circle gone
  • about an hour ago
    It certainly was! This is the first time I've seen it available in years. 🤘
  • about an hour ago
    Nice find. This is a difficult one to track down.
  • about an hour ago
    Currently not planning on parting with this one - sorry!
  • about 2 hours ago
    Nice shirt..
  • about 2 hours ago
    smoke that shit baby!
  • about 2 hours ago
    They played a small pub gig up my way once, i don't think they tour alot.
  • about 3 hours ago
    Can I have