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I Can't Await To Meet My Deadly Friends - 1st Edition (front)

I Can't Await To Meet My Deadly Friends - 2nd Edition (front)

I Can't Await To See My Deadly Friends - 3rd Edition (front)

A vinyl LP from the 1980ies released in three covers editions, the latter of which in at least six different pressings (vinyl colours). The bootleg features selected live tracks from two concerts by The Sisters of Mercy in Bremen, one from November 1984 and the other one from May 1985, and the two main songs from The Sisters of Mercy's first single The Damage Done as opening tracks. All three versions share the same tracklist and title, while the covers look entirely different and might give rise to the impression of completely different releases. However, the unlike designs on front of the covers have one detail in common: all the pictures show a religous motive.

Remarks

• All editions name the band as "Sisters of Mercy", omitting the article.

• The content is the same as on record two of the 2LP bootleg Kings And Queen.

• The intro to Knockin' On Heaven's Door consists of a short version of Fix, which is not mentioned on any of the covers.

When Doktor Avalanche starts the main song, a shout from the audience can be heard: "We will, we will rock you".

As the rhythm is very similar to the according Queen song, this has an amusing effect.

Sources

• Watch and The Damage Doneare studio outtakes from the The Damage Done single.

They appear in reversed order on the records, but not in the cover tracklists.

• All the live tracks were recorded from the audience at Kulturzentrum Schlachthof in Bremen;

Burn and Ghostrider / Sister Ray were recorded live on 8 November 1984;

Logic, Fix / Knockin' On Heaven's Door, Gimme Shelter, Train and Emma were recorded live on 10 May 1985.

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Track List

Various Editions

I Can't Await to Meet My Deadly Friends
- First Edition Cover (front)

First Edition Shelter Records Label (Side A)

First Edition Shelter Records Label (Side B)

I Can't Await to Meet My Deadly Friends
- First Edition Cover (back)

First Edition

Release Notes

• Label: Shelter Records
• Catalogue#: LP 0398, MC 0564 (hinting at the idea that a music cassette would exist as well)
• Format: 12" vinyl LP
• Barcode: 4 008535 034473 / Run-out Grooves: SIS
• Released: First pressing - 1985, later pressings - 1986

Remarks

• Black 180-220 gram vinyls, manufactured in Germany

• b/w Shelter Records labels

Other sources (scroll) maintain, that first pressings of this edition had come with yellow and red labels, most likely simply confusing the cover colours of the first and second edition with the labels of the first one.

• On the front cover is a drawing of a crucified person.

• The back cover shows an X-ray picture of a head and a large necklace around its shoulders coming with the caption:

Golden lads and girls all must,

As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.

           Shakespear, Cymbeline, 4. Akt 2. Szene

• The Damage Done is misspelled as "Demage Done" and Knockin' On Heaven's Door as "Knocking On Heaven's Door" on sleeve and label.

• The running times of the songs are noted after each track on the backcover.

• Further backcover notes:

TAKK HASSE OG MARIT (Nor.: Thanks to Hasse and Marit)

FOR THE FIRST TIME UNBROKEN I AM RETURNED

PRODUCED BY THOMAS JEROME NEWTON AND BAAL FOR BROKEN HOPES PROJECT

• NOTE: Thomas Jerome Newton and Baal are regularly credited as producers by Shelter Records, both referring to characters impersonated by David Bowie as performer in:

a) The Man Who Fell To Earth (as Thomas Jerome Newton) in a movie directed by Nicolas Roeg and

b) a BBC 1982 TV production of Baal (as Baal), a play by German modernist playwright Bertholt Brecht

Second Edition Cover (front)

Second Edition Cover (back)

Second Edition
Release Notes

• Label: Shelter Records

• Catalogue#: LP 0398, MC 0564

• Barcode:

• Released: most likely 1986

Remarks

• This version comes on black vinyl with white Shelter Records labels.

• The backcover gives the song durations in a line

below the tracklist of each side of the record

• Further back cover notes:

TAKK HASSE OG MARIT (Nor.: Thanks to Hasse and Marit)

For the first time unbroken I am returned

PRODUCED BY THOMAS JEROME NEWTON AND BAAL*

*see NOTE under first edition

• Damage Done is misspelled as "Demage Done" on sleeve and labels.

• Knockin' On Heaven's Door is noted as "Knocking On Heaven's Door" on the cover.

Third Edition Cover (front)

Third Edition - Label (Side A)

Third Edition - Label (Side B)

Third Edition Cover (back)

Third Edition

Release Notes

• Label: - none given
• Catalogue#: none
• Run-outs: SIS
• Released: several pressings after 1986 with varying vinyl colours

Remarks

• This edition has no barcode.

• The running times of the songs are not mentioned the cover.

• Back cover notes:

WARNING: All Rights of the producer and the owner of the recorded work reserved. Unauthorized copying, public performance, broadcasting, hiring or rental of this recording prohibited.

• Ghostrider and Sister Ray are listed separately, not as a medley,

and ascribed wrongly to Bremen 1985.

• Knockin' On Heaven's Door is noted as "Knocking On Heaven's Door".

• Gimme Shelter is misspelled "Gimmi Shelter" on the labels.

In addition, the title of the bootleg ends abruply:

I CANT AWAIT TO SEE MY DEADL...

Various Pressings

• This edition was pressed on vinyls of many different colours.

Vinyl colours that have been seen so far are clear, black, red-brown, brown marbled, clear splattered with pink (or red), clear red splattered with a bit of blue, splattered clear-orange, and green.

• Colours that would allegedly also exist, while we have not yet traced a picture of them, are pink, and white.

Possibly, it's just a matter of describing colours ...

Additional Pictures

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I Can't Await To Meet My Deadly Friends
- Second Edition (overview)

I Can't Await To Meet My Deadly Friends
- Third Edition with brown marbled vinyl

I Can't Await To Meet My Deadly Friends
- Brown marbled vinyl

I Can't Await To Meet My Deadly Friends - First Edition with Black Vinyl (overview)

I Can't Await To Meet My Deadly Friends - Third Edition with Black Vinyl (overview)

I Can't Await To Meet My Deadly Friends - Third Edition with Clear Vinyl (overview)

I Can't Await To Meet My Deadly Friends - Third Edition with Clear Pink Splatterd Vinyl (overview)

I Can't Await To Meet My Deadly Friends - Third Edition with Red and Blue Splatterd Vinyl (overview)

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