Our newest release, “Ballads of Lost Son” by LENZI, is truly special. It’s a 3-record vinyl LP box set, featuring clear-yellow, clear-pink and clear-clear vinyl.
The packaging is hand-screen-printed by Steve Walters at Screwball Press. This is an extremely limited pressing, so if you want one, you need to act fast.
I found some photos of Number One Cup playing at the Taste of Lincoln Avenue in Chicago in 1994. They were on the Lounge Ax stage, or at least on a stage a few doors down. Hmm, I wonder who the sponsor was?
Michael Lenzi: m.lenzi@att.net OR Seth Cohen: seth@kim-cohen.com
Today, Michael is assembling his three-record LENƵI box set, which we will release in the next few weeks.
This isn’t the first Sweet Pea release that we’ve hand assembled with screen-printed pieces from Steve Walters. Back in 1994, the band and friends of the label assembled Number One Cup’s Indie Soft-core Denial 7-inch single (containing “Divebomb”) in Jane Hirt’s living room at 1515 W. Hollywood Ave. in Chicago.
It was quite the process. First we had to fold and glue the die-cut cardboard covers. Around those, we folded and glued a black screen-printed label that carried the record’s information. Into that, we inserted the 7-inch, whose label had four images (like the shoe above). The record was rotated so one of the images showed up in the little window.
It was summer, it was hot, we were all a lot younger and thinner. This is what I remember. That and the prodigious amounts of rubber cement that was used.
