I Can't Await To Meet My Deadly Friends

A vinyl LP bootleg released in three editions and featuring selected live tracks from two concerts by The Sisters of Mercy in Bremen,

one in November 1984 and the other in May 1985.

The record opens with the two main songs from The Sisters of Mercy's first single The Damage Done.

As they have an identical tracklist and they are titeled the same, they are considered to be different editions of the same record. Nevertheless these variations have totally different covers and at first sight it seems that they are not the same LP at all.
However, the front cover arts of these three unlike designs have one detail in common. All the pictures have a religous motive.(See below)

File:I Can't Await To See My Deadly Friends 1st Front.jpg I Can't Await To See My Deadly Friends - Cover 1st Edition (front)

File:I Can't Await To See My Deadly Friends 2st Front.jpg I Can't Await To See My Deadly Friends - Cover 2nd Edition (front)

File:I Can't Await To See My Deadly Friends 3st Front.jpg I Can't Await To See My Deadly Friends - Cover 3rd Edition (front)

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General Release Notes

• Label: 1st and 2nd edition - Shelter Records

          3rd edition - unknown

• Format: 12" vinyl LP

• Released:

General Remarks

• It is the same content as the second disc of the 2LP bootleg "Kings And Queen".

• Knockin' On Heaven's Door has as intro a short version of Fix. Then, when Doktor Avalanche introduces the main song, somebody of the audience shouts "We will, we will rock you". As the rhythm is very similar to this Queen song[[1]], it has an amusing effect.

• On all editions the band is presented as "Sisters of Mercy", skipping the article.

Source

• A1 and A2 taken from the single The Damage Done

• A3 and B2 recorded life at Schlachthof, Bremen 08.11.1984

• A4, A5, B1, B3 and B4 recorded life at Schlachthof, Bremen 10.05.1985

1st Edition

File:I Can't Await To See My Deadly Friends 1st Front.jpg

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

Release Notes

• Label: Shelter Records

• Catalogue#: LP 0398, MC 0564

• Format: 12" vinyl LP

• Barcode: 4 008535 034473

• Released: 1986

Remarks

• Black vinyls with black and white Shelter Records labels.

• Runnout Grooves: SIS

• The cover art shows a sketch drawing of a somehow cruzified and transfixed person.

• The back cover includes an X-ray picture. It might be someones head and a necklace.

• Back cover notes:

"TAKK HASSE OG MARIT"

"FOR THE FIRST TIME UNBROKEN I AM RETURNED"

"Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust. Shakespear, Cymbeline, 4. Akt 2. Szene"

"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 within

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

• A1 is misspelled as "Demage Done" on sleeve and label.

• A5 is noted as "Knocking On Heaven's Door" on sleeve and label.

File:I Can't Await To See My Deadly Friends 1st Back.jpg I Can't Await To See My Deadly Friends - Cover 1st Edition (back)

File:I Can't Await To See My Deadly Friends 1st label A.jpg I Can't Await To See My Deadly Friends - Label 1st Edition (Side A)

File:I Can't Await To See My Deadly Friends 1st label B.jpg I Can't Await To See My Deadly Friends - Label 1st Edition (Side B)

2nd Edition

Release Notes

• Label: Shelter Records

• Catalogue#: LP 0398, MC 0564

• Released:

Remarks

• Back cover notes:

"TAKK HASSE OG MARIT"

"For the first time unbroken I am returned"

"PRODUCED BY THOMAS JEROME NEWTON AND BAAL"

• A1 misspelt "Demage Done" on sleeve and label.

• A5 anoted as "Knocking On Heaven's Door" on sleeve.

• Black vinyl with white Shelter Records label.

3rd Edition

Release Notes

• Label:

• Catalogue#: SIS

• Released:

Remarks

• A5 anoted as "Knocking On Heaven's Door" on sleeve.

• B1 misspelt "Gimmi Shelter" on label.

Track List

Side 1

Damage Done		3:05
Watch		3:02
Burn		3:27
Logic		4:15
Knockin' On Heaven's Door		8:33

Side 2

Gimme Shelter		5:40
Ghostrider/Sister Ray		8:00
Train		2:47
Emma		6:33

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