Tune In - Turn Off - Burn Out
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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.
Release Notes
- Label: Lounging Records / Skeleton Songs Ltd
- Catalogue#: TUNE IN
- Format: 12" vinyl LP - Picture Disc
- Released: 1985 (Germany)
Remarks
- 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...
Editions
This bootleg was released in basically four 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 vinyls come with September Songs labels.
- The colours of these labels vary, however; the first issues often have labels
- a pale blue label on Side One and a yellow one on Side Two. Some copies also
- have pales blue September Songs labels on both sides, while later copies
- mainly come with yellow September Songs labels on both sides.
White-label editions
- There is one edition with plain white labels on black vinyl.
- Apart from the labels, there is no difference between this edition
- and the September Songs issue one.
- Likewise, there is white-label issue on red vinyl, allegedly
- a limited edition of 50 copies only, which are very hard to find.
- These too, come with the same cover art and track list as all the
- other aforementioned issues, for some detailled pictures see below.
- Both white-label editions tend to have notes written by former owners
- on their labels to mark the side or describe the record's content.
- Run-out grooves on all these above editions: TUNE IN/A, TUNE IN /B
- A picture disc issue does exist as well. (see the pictures on top of the page)
- The vinyl comes in a transparent plastic sleeve without any sort of print on it.
- On the A-Side, the front cover of the first edition is printed as a square on the
- otherwise white background: Side B pictures the cover back in the same way.
- According to the Reverberation Across The Nation Discography Booklet,
- this picture disc was a limited edition of 300 copies.
- Beyond these issues, a very obscure and unique Swingin' Pig Records pressing has surfaced.
- It is pressed on red vinyl and has genuine orange Swingin' Pig labels. The record comes in a white cardboard cover
- On the cover, the band name and the title of the bootleg are noted in handwriting with large marker-letters.
Possibly, this is the original first test pressing for all other issues. The Run-out grooves here are "Tune in" A/B and "Leder".
- Our thanks for the pictures of this vinyl go to Heartland Forum member Rise891.
Source
- Originally recorded live at Leeds University, 16 March 1985
- This 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 very few occasions that
- Nine While Nine was performed live and the track is included
- in the present album as well.
- The same content is also available on other 12" vinyl bootleg-LPs like
- Ghostriderz, the very rare Ghost Riders and Live At Leeds,
- Tune In ... Turn Off ... Burn Out ... was apparently released first,
- and a CD- version of it followed in 1991.
- In addition, various audience recordings from this concert
- are in circulation among the fanbase.
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 |
For recent price developments of the picture disc see sistersbootlegs/Tune in, Turn off; price of all releases are available @popsike/Tune in... Turn Off...
Additional Pictures
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