''Made From Plate'' is an album released by tax-scam label

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as the debut album of a band called Onion. In reality, like ''

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'', released by Guinness Records the album was a composite, created from unpublished demo recordings made by several different unsigned performers. One of the rarer albums released by Tiger Lily Records, only two copies are known to exist.

Album release

As the release of a tax scam label, the album came with minimal documentation beyond songwriting credits and claims that the songs had been published by a company owned by

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and

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. However, this may be a false claim, in the same way that the documentation on Hotgun claimed that the original songs on that album had been published by

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's father. Record collector Scott Blackerby discovered the album in 2011 and diagnosed it as a composite created from unpublished demo tracks, based on the multiplicity of songwriters, the fact that some of the tracks sounded unfinished, and the differing musical styles involved. This was confirmed in 2013, when Dan Chapman, friend of one of the credited writers, Dennis Wilkerson contacted Blackerby. He revealed that at some point around 1970 he and Wilkerson after having some success with a

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rock band, had been contacted by a producer named John McCauley who offered to professionally produce their music. In the end the project did not result in a recording contract and the pair went their separate ways. Many years later Wilkerson had been contacted by a record collector in Europe who had obtained a copy of Made From Plate and was trying to track down the songwriters. It is likely, as with the tracks that made up Hotgun, that the recording studios who supplied the tracks for Made From Plate sold them to Tiger Lily Records as a means of recouping the recording costs.

Track listing

Side one

# "Colorado" # "Black Cloud" # "Children Hold On" # "My, My, My, My"

Side two

# "Believe Me" # "When Something's Wrong" # "A Lovely Day" # "Thanks To All of You"

References

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Album release

Track listing

Side one

Side two

See also

References