The book will tell the story of the men who started the Trademark of Quality (TMQ) bootleg label and released a number of Rolling Stones titles including the legendary Liver Than You'll Ever Be. The book will contain a complete discography of the label with photos. A friend of mine helped with researching the information in the book.

In that hot summer of ’69 two longhaired music freaks created an underground LP record album of unreleased tracks by one of their music gods and put it out on the streets of Los Angeles. No one had ever been crazy enough to do such an audacious thing before. The god’s official record label was not amused but the music fans were thrilled. Were these guys pirates or heroes? It was so much fun the first time, they soon pressed up even more records of forbidden musical fruit. They were on a roll. The following year, in 1970, one of the culprits put The Pig image in a circular logo with the name, “Trade Mark of Quality.” TMQ and Pigman were born!

With a cast of outrageous characters, here is the story of Trade Mark of Quality aka TMQ aka The Pig, the first bootleg record label of it’s kind, spawning many later imitators. From the end of the 60’s to the mid 70’s, TMQ and Pigman lead the way, trotting down a muddy trail, feeding the habits and needs of music addicts around the world. Who were these fellow travelers? Carl? The Greek? Merlin? Hans? Rob Snout? Casper? Sheldon? The Blue Hasslebeast? and Ol’ Fred? (Not to mention, The Brooklyn Boys, The Record Suits and The Feds!) What was the connection between TMQ and the Viet Nam war, revolutionaries, guns, pot and the moon landing? It’s all here!

Included in A Pig’s Tale is not only the Trade Mark of Quality and Pigman saga, but reproductions of all the rubber stamped and illustrated album jackets from every genuine TMQ record release, including the earliest releases from ’69 right up to the last titles in 1976. Everything you ever wanted to know about the real TMQ label is here: A complete discography of artists and track listings, sources of recordings, catalogue numbers, master tape and record matrix info, colored vinyl pressings, record labels, graphics, photos, vintage news clippings, articles and more, all collected together, at last, in one volume.

A Pig’s Tale by Ralph Sutherland and Harold Sherrick, with their unique point of view, guides the reader through the never before told history of Trade Mark of Quality. It’s all here for the music lover and fan, the hardcore record collector and the just plain curious.

[geniusbookpublishing.com]



Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 2021-05-07 11:36 by boogaloojef.

Update...[tmqapigstale.com]

Good to see the special edition sold out, I'm gonna grab one of these soft cover versions.

jb

Hi Everybody,
For those of you who are not on the e-mail list, I wanted to let you know that we are just slightly ahead of schedule as far as the book is concerned. If everything holds out, there is a possibility that we may begin to ship the book before the September time period that we originally planned.
[tmqapigstale.com]

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boogaloojef
No one had ever been crazy enough to do such an audacious thing before.

This is not true, as Clinton Heylin proved in his excellent book About the history of the bootlegs. Of course 'The great white wonder' was the first rock Bootleg, followed soon after by 'Live'r than you'll ever be', but basically Bootleg Recordings were as old as the record inbdustry. From the beginning there were illegal recordings, wax cylinders and records of operas and jazz music.

So, the idea was not a new one back in 1969. It only took some longhaired music Freaks to adapt it for rock music.

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saltoftheearth

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boogaloojef
No one had ever been crazy enough to do such an audacious thing before.

This is not true, as Clinton Heylin proved in his excellent book About the history of the bootlegs. Of course 'The great white wonder' was the first rock Bootleg, followed soon after by 'Live'r than you'll ever be', but basically Bootleg Recordings were as old as the record inbdustry. From the beginning there were illegal recordings, wax cylinders and records of operas and jazz music.

So, the idea was not a new one back in 1969. It only took some longhaired music Freaks to adapt it for rock music.

I just quoted the blurb on the site for my friend who was involved in the book. I didn't write it.

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saltoftheearth


This is not true, as Clinton Heylin proved in his excellent book About the history of the bootlegs. Of course 'The great white wonder' was the first rock Bootleg, followed soon after by 'Live'r than you'll ever be', but basically Bootleg Recordings were as old as the record inbdustry. From the beginning there were illegal recordings, wax cylinders and records of operas and jazz music.

So, the idea was not a new one back in 1969. It only took some longhaired music Freaks to adapt it for rock music.

Yeah, opera freaks would illegally tape performances of a very young stunning Maria Callas and Dean Benedetti will be forever in the heart of jazz fans for turning on his tape recorder whenever Charlie Parker "took off" soloing in clubs.