Silence Is Platinum

Silence Is Platinum - Box (front)

A limited edition box set with 2 x 7" vinyls from the late 1980ies.

Release Notes

• Label: Palazzograssi Records

• Catalogue#: PG-01

• Format: 2 x 7" vinyl single(Box Set)

• Released: 1987 / 1989

Source

• Recorded live on 30th May 1985 at Fenders Ballroom, Long Beach, USA

• Very good sound quality, recorded directly and in stereo from the mixing desk

• The same gig can be found on the Floorshow LP bootleg.

Basic Remarks

• The set exists in at least two editions.

• The first edition comes in a black box with a Hessian type appearance.

• The second set has a red gatefold cover and is limited to 40 copies.

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The Various Editions

Original Box Set

• A limited edition of 1000 sets in a black box issued in 1987.

Silence Is Platinum - Overview of Content of the Black Box

• The box set comes in a black textured box with an embossed Merciful Release logo
  and the Silence Is Platinum title in silver foil print on the front.

• On the back side the boxes are plain black.

• The sets contain two 7" vinyls, one of which is clear white,
  the other blueish or greyish or dark green / olive marbled.
  

• Issues with one white and one black vinyl are also said to exist.

• The vinyls have black labels with Merciful Release logo and detail the tracks on each side.

• Each record is housed in a white centre cut window sleeve with no printing.

Further contents are:

• A heavy black inlay card with the same image as on the box front in white print on black ground.
  The reverse is printed in white on black giving the track list, comprehensive details on the release,
  a list of contents and the numbering stamp.

• A copy of the concert poster showing a picture of three sculls in black print on glossy
  white paper. Size: 44cm x 32cm. The poster also has the limited number stamped on it.

• A two-page review of the concert from Midnight Magazine including further details
  about the American leg of the 1985 Armageddon Tour

Silence Is Platinum - Overview of Content of the Red Edition

Red Gatefold Release

• Two years after the original - in 1989 - a further release of 40 hand-numbered copies was issued.

• These additional copies come in a glossy red gatefold sleeve with
  the same cover art as the box set. Only the print is black on red (dark orange) here.

• They were done on the occasion of a record fair event - The Sisters of Mercy Convention,
  which took place on 19 March 1989 at the Astoria on Roundhay Road in Leeds.
  

• Initially, these issues were sold only there and count among the rarest Sisters bootlegs to find.

Cover with numbering space

• The actual reason behind the limited red gatefold edition was that
  some of the black boxes were damaged and too expensive to
  remake. So the amount of boxes did not cover the vinyls pressed.

• Apart from the cover, the contents of this release are identical
  with the original box set.

• The numberings are, however, all handwritten and do partly also
  give 19-3-89 as the date of release. In addition, the cover has a white numbering space printed at the side, in which the number is written.

Further Releases

• Proof-sleeve and unnumbered promo copies do exist as well.
  We have not yet been able to trace some pictures of them, though.

• Rumours of fake copies of especially the black box set prevail.

Track List

Record 1

A1   Rock And A Hard Place	B1   Gimme Shelter
A2   Floorshow

Record 2

C1   Alice	D1   Marian
C2   Body And Soul	D2   No Time To Cry

Additional Pictures

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Box Contents - Part 1

Box Contents - Part 2

Silence Is Platinum - Stamp-numbered Insert Card (back)