A communication break-down somewhere! I supplied the equipment and was told Brad had a pristine copy of Heroes that he was bringing. At sound check I asked him for the record and he looked at me blank. Upon finding out he did not own such copy I ran back to my house and got the one I bought in the summer of '78. I played that thing to death that summer. A copy was also dug up and retrieved from Skele-tone Records in Rochester NH but Dave Archembault of vinyl nirvana, who supplied the Thorens for the night, liked the condition of my copy better and so that's the copy we played. Hissing, popping and scratchiness included. People loved it. The noise drove me a little crazy but it really was the worst at the beginning of each side only. The new purchase was raffled off, of which a friend of mine was the lucky winner and now I'm setting up a turntable for her. All's well that ends well I guess!
