All Along The Watchtower

All Along The Watchtower - Cover (front)

A 7" bootleg consisting of songs covered live by The Sisters of Mercy in 1984 and 1985.

Release Notes

• Label: Royal Records

• Catalogue#: Royal Record 003 / DAVY 003

• Format: 7" vinyl single

• Released: unknown

Remarks

• All Along The Watchtower is also the title of a well-known Bob Dylan song.
  Credits are given to Jimi Hendrix, however, who covered the song only six months after
  the original release and whose interpretation reached the charts in 1968 and therefore
  became most strongly identified with the title.

• Issued in two editions, one on red and one on black vinyl.

• The red vinyls have plain white labels.

• The black label edition gives DAVY 003 as catalogue# on the labels.

• The black vinyl edition labels say:
  
    DAVY THRUST PRESENTS
       THE MISSION SISTERS
                   "LIVE"

All Along The Watchtower - Cover (back)

• Cover Design by P.A.M. - There are several mistakes on the back cover:
  "Birmingham" is spelled "Burmingham", "Stairway To Heaven" is spelled "Stairway To Heven"
  "Hey Joe" is spelled "Hay Joe" and "Jimi Hendrix" is allover spelled "Jimmy Hendrix"

Sources

• Track A1 was recorded live at Tin Can Ballroom, Birmingham on 7 April 1984

• Track A2 was recorded live at King George's Hall, Blackburn on 21 March 1985

• Tracks B1 and B2 were recorded live Manchester University on 13 October 1984

Track List

Side A
A1  Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)	Original by Abba
A2  Stairway To Heaven	Original by Led Zeppelin
Side B
B1  Hey Joe	American rock standard best known version by Jimi Hendrix
B2  Purple Haze	Original by Jimi Hendrix

Additional Pictures

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All Along The Watchtower - Edition on red vinyl

All Along The Watchtower - Black vinyl (Side A

All Along The Watchtower - Black vinyl (Side B)

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