Black October (bootleg)

Black October - LP Cover (front)

A two-LP bootleg recorded live during the Black October Tour in 1984.

One of the concerts with plenty comments from Andrew Eldritch between songs.

This vinyl bootleg is an "anomaly" with regard to the sound quality of the two existing editions.

Only very few bootlegs (if any) show such a tremendous difference in sound quality between editions

as is the case here, so that it seems, in fact, reasonable to assume that the second pressing

is just a low-quality fake of the original.


Release Notes

• Label: Merciful Release (allegedly)

• Catalogue#: MRT033-T, MSR-63, L-29797

• Format: 2 LP

• Date of Release: 1987 (America, according to the Reverberation Across The Nation booklet)

Remarks

• The concert starts with an excerpt of the song Perfect Day by Lou Reed from his album Transformer.

This playback crystallizes from the crowd noise and fades over into the opening track Burn.

• Notably, the last song of the actual concert, Sister Ray, is not featured on this bootleg.

• Heartland and Marian are mixed up in the track list.

Backsleeve-Notes

• Special Thanx To "The Phantom Twins"
  - but this does not mean, the item were a Palazzograssi produce!

Black October - Black and red labels of first edition

• Keep Watching the Western Sky

• A Merciful Release - not true, either

Black October - Overview of the second edition

This vinyl bootleg is available in two editions:

First edition:

• Audibly based on a soundboard recording.

• The labels on record one are plain red,

the labels of record two are fully black.

• The runout grooves are MSR-63-A to D

plus some further symbols where most of them are crossed out.

Second edition:

• The cover is nearly identical to the first edition. Only the colour of the track list differs slightly.

The letters of the 1st edition are dark pink or rather purple, while the letter of this edition are pink.

• The sound quality is rather poor and disappointing.

There are up and down turns of the volume, one channel is even silent at times.

Skips and bucles, as if the needle had been jumping on the turntable while ripping,

make it seem likely that this second edition is just a sloppy copy taken from the vinyl of the first edition.

• Record one has plain white labels and the labels of record two are plain beige, nearly white.

• The runout grooves are SOM-001-A to D.

See the pictures below for more details.

Source

• Recorded live on October 22nd, 1984 at Top Rank, Brighton, England, UK.

• This bootleg exists in two formats: the present 2LP vinyl version and a CD.
  

• Furthermore, a CDr with that title but from a different concert turns up in auctions time and again.
  

• In addition, a further bootleg CD called Enter The Sisters has the subtitle A Black October ...
  

For recent price developments see sistersbootlegs/Black October ...

Black October - LP Cover (back)

Track Lists

RECORD ONE

RECORD TWO

Side One	Side One
A1   Burn	C1   A Rock And A Hard Place
A2   Heartland	C2   Train
A3   Marian	C3   Floorshow
A4   Walk Away	C4   Alice
	C5   Body Electric

Side Two	Side Two
B1   Body And Soul	D1   Gimme Shelter
B2   No Time To Cry	D2   Knockin' On Heaven's Door
B3   Anaconda	D3   Adrenochrome
B4   Emma

Additional Pictures

- Please click into files for larger views -

Black October - LP Covers (back) - left: 2nd edition / right: 1st edition - different colours of the track-list print

Black October - Details of the vinyl run-out grooves (Side A) left: 1st edition / right: 2nd edition The width of the run-out groove of the second edition is smaller than on the vinyl of the first edition, possibly due to a longer recording time caused by skips and bucles as mentioned above. Anyway, this shows, that the two pressings do not come from the same acetate.