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 consists of a composition of a square image of centred hand-drawn like lines.

The picture reminds of the cover art of the Temple Of Love single combined with The Sisters of Mercy's

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 has the song titles horizontally shifted from left to right and back imbedded the same sort of lines as the cover front but here they are drawn in parallel.

• 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   with cream white labels. - a limited edition of 100 copies on white grey marbled 220g vinyl   with golden-coloured labels. 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 (2016) is also limited to 500 copies. The vinyls are black. It is not known, however, whether these are also made of 180g vinyl like the first edition of or the standard ~130g only. The labels are the same as on the first-edition black vinyls. With this edition, the records come in a wrap-around sleeve, which can be folded out into a poster. The cover art is the same as with the first edition, though here the colour of the print is brown rather than white. The inside of the cover shows a detail from the front cover art including the band name at the bottom all printed in a grey tone.

Gimme Shelter - Test pressing - Label (detail)

• The test pressing is limited to 8 issues and stored in either the regular cover of the first edition

with a regular white inner sleeve or they come in a generic black die-cut cover.

• The labels are white and 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)

For recent price developments see sistersbootlegs/Gimme Shelter or popsike/Gimme Shelter.

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

- Please click into files for larger views -

Gimme Shelter - Cover 2nd edition (front)

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

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

Gimme Shelter - Label 1st edition on black vinyl (side A)

Gimme Shelter - Label 1st edition on black vinyl (side B)

Gimme Shelter - Cover 2nd edition (overview)