Tune In - Turn Off - Burn Out
Tune In ... Turn Off ... Burn Out ...
Due to technical limitations of Wiki-formatting, the original title could not be used for this bootleg.
A live bootleg from The Sisters of Mercy's 1985 Tune In - Turn On - Burn Out Tour .... Although, the band didn't know it at the time,
this was to be the last gig of The Sisters of Mercy in their First and Last and Always formation in their spiritual hometown of Leeds.
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Release Notes
- Label: Lounging Records / Skeleton Songs Ltd
- Catalogue#: TUNE IN
- Format: 12" vinyl LP - Picture Disc
- Released: 1985 (Germany)
Editions
This bootleg was released in basically two editions.
- The first edition is a black 12" vinyl LP coming in a black cardboard cover with a large Walk Away logo
- in a square and the bootleg title Tune In ... Turn Off ... Burn Out ... in red print on it.
- The back cover notes a track list, the band line-up and various details about the release:
- Recorded Live In Leeds University 16/3/85.
- Produced And Published By
- Skeleton Songs Ltd.
- Keep the fire burning...
And in very small letters:
- Coverproduction Atlan Prod.
- Realisation Robert-Jo
- On the spine - like on the cover back - the article of the band's name is omitted:
- Sisters Of Mercy - Tune in... Turn off... Burn out...
- Most of the vinyls have September Songs labels.
- The colours of these labels vary; most likely the first ones have different pale colours on side one and two.
- Later copies have yellow September Songs labels on both sides.
- Issues with plain white labels are known to exist as well.
- Run-out grooves: TUNE IN/A, TUNE IN /B
- A further edition was a picture disc coming in a transparent plastic sleeve.
- On side one is a picture of the front cover of the first edition and on the other side a picture of the cover back.
- According to the Reverberation Across The Nation Discography Booklet, this picture disc was a limited edition of 300 copies.
- Beyond these "regular" issues, a unique Swingin' Pig Records pressing has surfaced recently.
- For more information about this one, see the details and pictures down below.
Source
- Originally recorded live at Leeds University, 16 March 1985
- The recording is far from complete.
- Train, Marian, No Time To Cry, Possession, Walk Away, Burn, Emma,
- Amphetamine Logic, A Rock And A Hard Place , Floorshow and Gimme Shelter are missing.
- On the other hand, this was one of the few concerts were Nine While Nine was part of the set list
- and the track can be found on the present album as well.
- The same content is available on the bootlegs Ghostriderz, the very rare Ghost Riders and Live At Leeds,
- though the present one seems to have been released first.
- A CD-bootleg of the same concert was issued in 1991, see Tune In... Turn Off... Burn Out...
For recent price developments of the picture disc see sistersbootlegs/Tune in, Turn off, price developments of present releases are @popsike/Tune in... Turn Off...
Track List
| Side One | Side Two |
| A1 First And Last And Always | B1 Nine While Nine |
| A2 Body And Soul | B2 Knockin' On Heaven's Door |
| A3 Alice | B3 Ghostrider |
| A4 Body Electric | B4 Louie Louie |
Additional Pictures
- Please click into files for larger views -
NOTE:
A very obscure and unique Swingin' Pig Records pressing has surfaced recently.
This one comes in a handwritten cover with red vinyl and genuine orange Swingin' Pig labels.
Possibly, this one is the original first pressing. The Run-out grooves are "Tune in" A/B and "Leder"
- Thanks for the pictures of this vinyl to Heartland Forum member Rise891.
