Sold Date: January 6, 2016
Start Date: December 27, 2015
Final Price: $99.00 (AUD)
Bid Count: 1
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Up for auction is this amazing Green, Vinyl LP from "Bad Company" Category number TMQ 71085. The album was recorded live in Boblingen, Germany on June 8th, 1974. This Bootleg album is probably the rarest LP from Bad Company, live or studio. A very hard to find record in this sort of condition for the record itself. This LP was released on the famous Bootleg label- "Trademark of Quality". Pressed on beautiful transparent green vinyl with the TMQ Pig Logo Label.
My pictures form part of the description. The sleeve has slight ring wear grime both back and rear, say 1/10. There is corner damage to the top right, and left corners of the sleeve. On the front bottom left of the sleeve is a small stain. Te pictures of the corner damage are front and back, both left and right corners. The cover would be graded VG.
The record is in beautiful condition. I can see no visible damage or scratches to the actual record and have never played it, preferring to keep it as pristine as possible by keeping it safely tucked away in its protective sleeve. The record would be graded Excellent.
Bad Company are a 1970s British hard rock, blues-rock group fronted by Paul “The Voice” Rodgers. Their name came from a ‘70s Western movie and they were formed by former members of Mott the Hoople, Free, and King Crimson. 
Trade Mark of Quality (Often abbreviated as TMQ or TMoQ) stared in the early 1970's (possibly in the late 1960's) by two guys known only as Ken and Dub. Originating in Los Angeles, California, the duo pressed bootlegs of live rock shows. They used colored, virgin vinyl and full-color covers, gaining a reputation for quality work. 

The duo split after a few years, and Dub kept the original Trade Mark of Quality going, still using the "farm style" pig logo, while Ken started using the cigar smoking "Pig Daddy" logo. Ken would copy every new release from Dub's label, using cheaper black vinyl and a less expensive covers. Soon, Dub started adding "Accept No Substitutes" to his releases. 

Ken stopped his branch of TMOQ in late 1973, starting up The Amazing Kornyphone Record Label with another bootlegger known as "Dr Telly Phone." Later he created a number of other labels, including Phoenix and Saturated Records, which made copies of TMOQ and TAKRL records with higher quality color. Dub shut down his branch of TMOQ in 1974, taking a break from bootlegging. 

In the 1980s, TMOQ reformed, creating well-made, colorful packages that rivaled major label quality. The label continued into the late 1980's to be among the first bootleggers to press CDs. 

In the mid-1980's, a German bootleg label "The Swingin' Pig"  used Ken's "Pig Daddy" logo on their boots. Then in 2001, both label logos resurfaced on some re-issues coming from Japan. In 2008, another bootleg label used the "farm style" logo, though it is unclear if there is any connection to the original TMOQ people.