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Tool's first official 4 Track Demo was manufactured at Richman Brothers pressing plant in New Jersey Zoo Entertainment/BMG ordered 1500 of these cassettes. 50 box's, 30 Tapes per box and 2 rows of 15. These were given away and sold at gigs and on their snail mail merchandise order forms. . When the label were getting these made, Richman brothers asked for a Catalog # for the Demo like most albums. This is where Maynard thought of 72826 of and was given to the pressing plant unknown to them at the time that 72826 comes from the word SATAN spelled on a landline telephone keypad. (The above statement is confirmed in the 2016 M. J. Keenan biography "A perfect union of contrary things" (Backbeat Books) p. 160. Further more the biography notes a selling price of 6$ for the cassette.) Some counterfeits are kicking around and there is a distinctive way to tell the real one's from the fake. In the cassette itself There should be Numbers such as “34/34”, “32/33” “34/35” etc moulded on the bottom middle part of the tape and the top middle should say ”Made In U.S.A.” It’s hard to see because it is moulded on the inside of the plastic. © 1991 Toolshed Music. Made in the U.S.A.