SLEEP Dopesmoker 2 X LP rare TEST PRESSING high on fire
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This is a mint TEST PRESSING of Sleep 'Dopesmoker' LP that eventually released in 2003 on Tee Pee Records. There are generally only 10 to 15 copies of test pressings made, and used for the label and band members to hear the way it sounds on vinyl before the final retail pressing is made. I bought this a few years ago at a record show in San Francisco. Sleep features Matt Pike of High On Fire as well as Al Cisneros & Chris Hakius of OM. "Under their new contract, they began work on their third album, Dopesmoker, in 1995. Much to the dismay of executives at London records, Dopesmoker was a single song more than one hour long. London Records declared the album unmarketable and refused to release it. Sleep returned to the studio and then submitted their second attempt at the new album. They had retitled it Jerusalem, re-written some of the lyrics and trimmed it down to a "lean" 52 minutes, but it was essentially the same as Dopesmoker. London Records again refused to release it. Frustrated and generally unhappy with the situation, the members of Sleep decided to disband." - wiki
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