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Through The Years - Box Cover (front)

Through The Years - Box Cover (Spine)

Through The Years - Box Cover (back)

This is a three record box bootleg that features the complete recordings of two concerts of the Sisters of Mercy.

The first concert was performed in 1983 during the Trans-Europe Excess Tour when Ben Gunn still played the second guitar in the band. The other gig is from the Tune In - Turn On - Burn Out Tour in 1985 when Wayne Hussey had already joined the band on guitar, replacing the before mentioned Ben Gunn.

This change of personnel through the years has obviously changed the sound and the modalities of the songs, too, and is well reflected on this bootleg. Some songs are repeatedly featured on the different sides of the records, and they sound amazingly varied as they were recorded at different concerts or in different eras.

Release Notes

• Label: unknown

• Catalogue#: none

• Run-out Matrix: SM8385-A to SM8385-F

• Format: 3 x 12" vinyl LP box

• Released: 1986

Remarks

• The box is made of resistant cardboard with a black snakeskin surface. On this box an adhesive, printed plastik layer is glued in a way that it links of the box and its top through the leftern side.

• There are different editions of this bootleg that vary in the color of the vinyls and their label.

One edition has 3 blue/black splattered clear vinyls and plain labels.

One edition has 3 marbeled dark purple vinyls of the same color and labels with a dogs head.

One edition has different coloured vinyls and labels with the Merciful Release Logo.

Sources

• The first record features the full concert at Loft, Berlin, Germany on 30 August 1983.

• The second and third record contain the whole concert at Top Rank, Brighton, England on 01 April 1985.

This was the last time Gary Marx performed on tour with The Sisters of Mercy. One day later, on April 2nd, he was still present, when The Sisters of Mercy performed two songs during the Old Grey Whistle Test broadcast with BBC TV, but left the band afterwards for good.

Track List

Record One

Record Two

Record Three

Additional Pictures