Talk:Trademark of Quality

Actually, maybe an unref would be sufficient. I don't doubt that the info in the article is roughly correct. Note also that it could be expanded using this wiki-article although that article is also completely unreferenced. Pascal.Tesson 13:53, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

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Swingin' Pig Records
Didn't this company become the legitimate Swingin' Pig Records company? I had one of their records once ("Live at Albert Hall '66' by Bob Dylan) and it had a cartoon of a pig on the sleeve saying something like "This is our trademark of quality." Eligius (talk) 04:06, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I had the same impression, but I never heard Swingin' Pig called a "legitimate" record company. I always thought it was another bootleg outfit, albeit a high quality one. Shocking Blue (talk) 20:26, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

No, it was not related to the original TMOQ. It was a German Label run by Dieter Schubert that payed tribute to TMOQ by re releasing their old original titles. The following explains:

Dieter Schubert [managing director, Swingin' Pig]:

The basic philosophy of Swingin' Pig is to make available historically important, previously unreleased recordings which would otherwise never see the light of day. Take, for example, Ultra Rare Trax by The Beatles ... The Beatles themselves say they don't want them out because they feel the outtakes are not up to normal standards. The public obviously has a totally different opinion ... The tapes are over thirty years old now, some nearly forty. Twenty more years in the archives would possibly destroy the tapes, like many outtakes from the fifties, and they'll be lost forever. So even if the quality is sometimes not up to today's digital standard, this is not the point. 'Casual listeners' should, by all means, avoid buying Swingin' Pig releases; they will only be disappointed. The swingin' pig in the logo snapped his fingers and wore a fedora. The label soon became infamous for using the NoNoise noise-reduction system, which caused most of their CDs to sound not so good in my people's ears [this was a typo; meant to read "many people" - but when I discovered it, "my people" looked so good that I kept it in]. They were also among the first to legally release unauthorised contemporary recordings, exploiting a loophole in the Rome convention that made it technically legal, in countries that had signed the Rome convention, to issue recordings, without permission, from countries that hadn't signed it, and the USA hadn't signed it. Their first such release was Atlantic City '89, a triple-CD box of the Rolling Stones, put out in 1990.Germany 1988: All records are re-releases of earlier bootlegs with a simple insert like the original insert. The back is rubber stamped with "Limited edition of 100 copies only", which definitely isn't true in most cases. Matrix number is always the number of the original record. Number on insert is always "TAKRL xxxx" (2LP sets have "TAKRL xxxx/xxxx" and so on). Some records in coloured vinyl. Not rare and not very expensive.

Dieter Schubert had developed a reputation for deluxe, coloured-vinyl releases from quality source tapes. Best of the bunch were the Royal Sound double-albums and a handful of titles on a label that revived the logo, if not the name, of TMQ - The Swingin' Pig. As a vinyl label, The Swingin' Pig issued a mere fifteen titles. But Mr Schubert was just gearing up for the next bootleg revolution. The last original TSP release stopped at No.144 on vinyl, Cd´s with No.223. There were even some test pressings made. The label was white with the Cat.nr printed in blue coloring. The vinyl was placed in a original TSP inner sleeve.

CONTINUING SAGA RECORDS Bootleg label from the US active in the late 1980's. Parent label: Rock Solid. These issues are not released by the Swingin Pig Records, they are recent fakes using the well known name of TSP. All releases after 1996 are a different label run by different people who use name and artwork of the original TSP label. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.13.158.102 (talk) 23:16, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

Colored vinyl?
I have purchased several of these releases, from Great White Wonder and John Birch Society Blues on down; and while I would agree that they are of (generally) high quality, I never saw any of them that were issued on colored vinyl. Maybe that happened in later years, but not back in the 1970's and 1980's that I know of. Shocking Blue (talk) 20:29, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

"Most of the titles released by the Trademark of Quality label, which was in business from 1970 to 1976, were released on colored vinyl. Often, the first pressings of a given title were on colored vinyl, with subsequent pressings on regular black vinyl. For a few titles, a handful of copies were pressed on multicolored vinyl. Pressings on the Trademark of Quality label were highly regarded among collectors, as the vinyl itself was of good quality as was the source material of most of their releases."

https://www.rarerecords.net/record-info/bootleg-records/ 2A00:23C5:B3A2:A001:D067:C88E:94FA:C53A (talk) 22:29, 23 December 2021 (UTC)