Gimme Shelter (LP)

A 12" vinyl bootleg that contains nine selected songs from the BBC Radio One sessions plus Gimme Shelter recorded at the Paradiso, Amsterdam on 28 August 1983.

Gimme Shelter - Cover 1st Edition (front)

Gimme Shelter - Cover 1st Edition (back)

Release Notes

• Label: Arkain Filloux

• Catalogue#:

• Format: 12" vinyl LP

• Released: 2014 / 2016 (Belgium)

• Run-outs: Side A/Side B

Gimme Shelter - Cover 1st Edition marbled vinyl (overview)

Remarks

• This bootleg was released in three

limited versions, the first two in 2014

and a repress in 2016.

• A white-label test pressing

does exist as well.

This page is Work in Progress and going to be extended as soon as ever possible

• The front cover art shows an innovative composition of a square image of centric hand-drawn like lines.

The picture reminds of the cover art of the Temple Of Love single and the old head-and-star logo which overlaps the lines as a negative layer.

The vanishing point of the lines is positioned in the eye of the logo.

• The back cover art work shows the song titles horizontally shifted back and fro

and imbedded in parallel, hand-drawn like lines.

• Back cover notes:

As a headline: BBC SESSIONS

and on the bottom:

ARKAIN FILLOUX

DREVE OLYMPIC 15 · 1070 ANDERLECHT

BRUXELLES BELGIQUE

• Although, allegedly manufactured in Belgium all issues were initially delivered from the US.

• The labels give information on the band name - Sisters of Mercy - omitting the article,

the album title and the track list as well as record side marks and running speed (33 ⅓ rpm).

• Very good sound quality, especially the songs from the Peel Seesion '82 and Peel Session '84.

Compare representative sound files of the present album on this site.

Gimme Shelter - Cover of the 2nd edition (unfolded outside)

Gimme Shelter - Cover of the 2nd edition (unfolded inside)

Editions The first edition released in 2014 consisted of two varieties: - a limited edition of 500 copies on black 180g vinyl - a limited edition of 100 copies on white grey marbled 220g vinyl. The records were offered as "handnumbered" although no numbering has so far been found on neither the covers nor the labels of any of the copies that surfaced. The sleeve consists of two (front and back) silk-screen printed images in a grey, almost white colour on a black, glossy generic cover. As a matter of fact, this printing method has the letters and the image haptically perceivable at a touch. The second edition is also limited to 500 copies. The vinyls are black with the same labels as the first edition. The record comes in a wrap-around sleeve, however, which can be folded out to a poster. The cover art is the same as with the first edition, though here, the colour of all lines is brown rather than white.. The inside of the cover shows a detail from the front cover art in a grey tone with the name of the band at the bottom.

Gimme Shelter - Cover Test pressing (label)

• The test pressing is limited to 8 issues

and stored in either the regular cover of the first edition or in a generic black die-cut sleeve.

• The white labels are stamped on one side:

SISTERS OF MERCY

GIMME SHELTER

TEST PRESSING

1 OF 8 COPIES

Sources

• Tracks 1-4 are from the Peel Seesion 1982.
• Track 5, Gimme Shelter, recorded live at Paradiso, Amsterdam, NL, 28 August 1983
• Tracks 6-9 performed live during the Peel Session 1984.
• Track 10, Heartland, is from the "Kid" Jensen Session 1983

Gimme Shelter - Test pressing with regular cover (overview)

Track List

Side A	Side B
1.  Good Things	6.  Poison Door
2.  Floorshow	7.  Walk Away
3.  Alice	8.  No Time To Cry
4.  1969	9.  Emma
5.  Gimme Shelter	10.  Heartland

Additional Pictures

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Gimme Shelter Cover 2nd edition (front)

Gimme Shelter - Marbled vinyl 1st edition (side A)

Gimme Shelter - Marbled vinyl 1st edition (side B)