I'm completely in agreement with Rockvirgo on this. Here are my reasons. It is standard, no mandatory practice in the recording industry to store tapes tails out and yet all vinyl recordings show this effect to some degree or another. The degree to which it is audibly apparent is proportional to the degree that the cutting is modulated. The end of the argument is this: I have many recordings on vinyl that were tracked and mastered digitally and never "saw" an analog tape. This is conclusive evidence that LP groove echo is at work. Plus the music is heard exactly one revolution of the LP before the main music kicks in, and there is no way that one revolution of a tape reel corresponds exactly to one revolution of LP every time.
And Lugnut, you are incorrect in the assumption that the music would be reversed. After all the LP, and hence the modulated adjacent revolution is still rotating in the same direction.
And Lugnut, you are incorrect in the assumption that the music would be reversed. After all the LP, and hence the modulated adjacent revolution is still rotating in the same direction.