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Knockin' On Docks' Door - Cover (front)

Knockin' On Docks' Door
- Detail from the tour crew credits on the back cover

A 2LP vinyl bootleg that features one of the energetic concerts during Tour Thing 1 in 1990 promoting the then new album Vision Thing.

Back in those days, The Sisters Of Mercy performed three concerts in a row at DOCKS in Hamburg on November 16th, 17th and 18th, 1990. The present 2 LP release presents the concert of the second evening.

Two songs of this concert - Ribbons and Something Fast - can also be found on side B of the 12" When You Don't See Me single .

Release Notes

• Label: The Reptile House Ltd.

• Format: 2 × 12" vinyl LP

• Catalogue#: SM 901 117

• Barcode: 0 71875 579828

• Run out grooves: SM-901117-A to D

• Released: 1991, though the back cover states 1990 as the year of release

Remarks

• Black vinyls with Merciful Release logo on black background, numbered by letters.

Copies with plain black and red labels do exist as well.

• For the front cover artwork there was used the band photography form the single Doctor Jeep, which was released in 1991.

It was probably culled from the poster that comes with the limited 12" single, and for this reason a fine hairline is visible, just where the poster was folded.

• Alice and Amphetamine Logic are permuted in the track list.

• Back cover notes:

Beside the usual track list, the album title, the band name and some information about the venue,

there are further interesting details listed on the cover back:

- (p) & (c) 1990 The Reptile House Ltd.

Which is not true. (Disproofed by the cover artwork)

- a long list of the tour crew (see image on the right),

taken from the Vision Thing Tour Programme.

- The "Reptile House Approved" logo is in bad resolution (see the image in the middle below).

Knockin' On Docks' Door - Greek Box (content)

Knockin' On Docks' Door - Greek Box (front)

A Greek box set does exist as well.

• It is - of course - a limited edition, in this case of 10 handnumbered copies.

• The box itself is black and has the band name, the bootleg title

and a Merciful Release Logo in golden print on front.

• The contents are:

- the two LPs,

- a concert ticket, though not from this gig, but from Wembley,

- an insert sheet with a track list,

- a Heartland magazine,

- a Vision Thing tour programme, and

- obviously a t-shirt

• As far as we know, this box was sold on EBAY by a Greek seller

for the first time in 2012 - 22 years after the initial release of this bootleg!!!

Source

• Recorded live on November 17th, 1990 at DOCKS, Hamburg, Germany

• As usual for Tour Thing 1, the intro of the gig was a playback of Afterhours.

Although it is not mentioned in the track list, the album starts with the final part of this song.

Knockin' On Docks' Door - Cover (back)

Knockin' On Docks' Door - Detail from the "Reptile House Approved" logo on the cover back

Knockin' On Docks' Door - Label

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Track List

Additional Pictures

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Knockin' On Docks' Door - Vinyls With Black Labels

Knockin' On Docks' Door - Vinyls With Black And Red Labels

Knockin' On Docks' Door - Vinyls With Merciful Release Labels