Another basically pirate release following the similar in concept Down And Out?
Side 1:
Interview / Bip Bop / Lucille (excerpts only) – Wings’ rehearsal before their first ever tour, Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, early February ’72. Taken from the Wings Over The World TV special, broadcast 16 March 1979 Lucille is from the first Wings rehearsal at the Institute Of Contemporary Arts, London in February 1972.
Little Woman Love – B-side of Mary Had A Little Lamb
John Lennon interview about New York – ?
Angel Baby – from the withdrawn Roots album
Bangla Desh Press Conference / Speech / If Not For You (Rehearsal) – the first few minutes of the Concert For Bangla Desh film
Deep Blue – B-side of the Bangla Desh 45
Ringo interview about the Nashville recording sessions 1970
Coochy Coochy – B-side of the Beaucoups Of Blues 45
Interview Paul McCartney about touring Europe in 1972
The Mess – B-side of the My Love 45
“Good Bye Joel” – described as a “very weird montage of sounds (and pretty funny!)”, another Melvin message aimed at (“Paul-is-dead” theorist) Joel Glazier
Side 2:
Interview – Blow Away with George voice-over, discussing the Beatles
Miss O’Dell – B-side of the Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth) 45
Grammy Awards John Lennon, Andy Williams, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel on Grammy Awards Show, L.A., March 1, 1975 [finally something new (and not copied from an official or TV source!)]
Move Over Ms. L. – B-side of JL’s Stand By Me 45
Give Ireland Back To The Irish / Interview – rehearsal in the McCartney home filmed by ABC News, 7 March 1972. Excerpts from this were also used on a late night US TV special hosted by David Frost: A Salute To The Beatles: Once Upon A Time – which aired May 21st, 1975, which became Melvin Records’ source.
Oh Woman, Oh Why – the promo version pirated (has crackle and some skips), despite what the back cover states, the amount of gun shots is exactly the same compared with the official version: seven.
Ringo interview about the Blindman movie
Blindman – B-side of the Back Off Boogaloo 45
Now Hear This – The third piano intro from Paul’s Brung To Ewe By promo LP for the Ram album
Zoo Gang – B-side of Band On The Run and theme of a British television show by the same name about a band of French resistance fighters, This track would not see an official US release until 1988.
John interview about a possible Beatles reunion – ?
Be My Baby – from the withdrawn Roots album
I do remember when I owned this album that side 2 ended with the sped up recording of Melvin Records denying they had anything with the Wings Over Wembley double album.
Shown here with a Melvin Records flyer featuring their first two releases.
Matrix: MM 03 A / B 340 (hand written)
USA: 1976, “500 pressed” as stated in HOTWACKS
Source: The Atlanta Omni, 19 May 1976
Side One: Venus & Mars / Rock Show / Jet / Let Me Roll It / The Long And Winding Road / Live And Let Die Side Two: Yesterday / Silly Love Songs / Beware My Love / Soily
Sound quality was rated “acceptable” in Madinger & Easter’s book. Definitely an item for those that had to have it all only.
Source: Mining the Live Aid radio broadcast from July 13th ’85 for two double sets. Selected were the performances by David Bowie, Bryan Ferry with David Gilmour), the Wembley Finale, Paul McCartney, F.Mercury & B.May, the Power Station and Duran Duran.
ETS 2588 A: TVC 15 / Rebel Rebel / Modern Love / Heroes / Sensation / Boys and Girls / Slave To Love / Jealous Guy ETS 2588 B: Do They Know It’s Christmas / Is This The World We Created? ETS 2589 A: Let It Be / ? / ? / ? / Murderess / Get It On (Bang a Gong) ETS 2589 B: A View to a Kill / Union of the Snake / Save A Prayer / The Reflex
[Not an accurate track list, I just tried to piece it together from various sources.]
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Volume 2 presents Eric Clapton, Led Zeppelin (with Phil Collins), The Who, Black Sabbath, Mick Jagger (w. Hall&Oates, Eddie Kendricks, David Ruffin and Tina Turner), Bob Dylan (w. Keith Richards & Ronnie Wood) and the finale in Philadelphia.
ETS 2590 A: White Room / Rock & Roll / Whole Lotta Love / Stairway To Heaven ETS 2590 B: My Generation / Love Reign On Me / Won’t Get Fooled Again / Paranoid ETS 2591 A: Lonely At The Top / Just Another Night / Miss You / State of Shock / It’s Only Rock & Roll ETS 2591 B: Ballad Of Hollis Brown / Ship Comes In / Blowing In The Wind / We Are The World
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Meanwhile, someone in Europe went “the whole hog”and issued everything on a 12 LP box (ca. late ’85/86):
531 Beatles THE E.M.I. OUTTAKES 532 Paul McCartney in scotland 533 Beatles RENAISSANCE MINSTRELS volume 1 534 Beatles Cinelogue: LET IT BE 535 Led Zeppelin CELLARFUL OF NOISE 536 Led Zeppelin ON STAGE IN EUROPE 1975 537 Deep Purple LIVE IN LONDON 538 Deep Purple PERKS AND TIT 539 Queen ROYAL AMERICAN TOUR
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JL 531: The BEATLES – THE EMI OUTTAKES
Copied World Records label above.
Original U.S. ZAP Records label below (the fake track list never changed):
JL 511 Pink Floyd Europe 74 JL 512 Beatles / Rolling Stones BATTLE JL 513 Paul McCartney James Paul McCartney 514 Beatles Live in Europe & US TV Casts JL 515 Beatles Live in Vancouver Canada
Then, Contraband wasted little time and copied this LP relatively shortly afterwards as:
This means that JL 511 was pressed in 1976 at the earliest.
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JL 512 (as the matrices say) orJL 522 (according to the cover #) The BEATLES / ROLLING STONES – BATTLE
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The original:
Released in 1971. An early example of a “hybrid bootleg”. The track list on the insert is incorrect. While the excellent sounding Rolling Stones tracks are just in the wrong order, the Beatles side underwent a complete change that must have come too late for the “Art Department”.
Side 1: Looking Tired (2:15 – (06 September, 1965 at RCA Studios-Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA) / Tell Me Baby (1:54) (11 June 1964 + all following tracks: At Chess Studios, Chicago, IL) / Down in The Bottom (2:43) / Stewed And Keefed (4:09) / Hi-Heel Sneakers (2:59)
The Vg quality Beatles side lists the songs performed on their 1965 Ed Sullivan Show appearance from the 14 August ’65 but is actually a partial copy of side one of the LAST LIVE SHOW LP, starting with “Twist And Shout”.
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JL 513: PAUL McCARTNEY & WINGS – JAMES PAUL McCARTNEY
I had written previously in this post that this was a copy of the CBM version – I hope that this is really the case as the cover joins the TMOQ ‘smoking pig’ version from 1974 with the added CBM logo, and unless one listens to the actual JL version record, it is not confirmed (CBM simply copied TMOQ’s insert text, despite changing the track list).
Has any band been more lucky when it came to touring Japan than Wings? Two sold out tours and not a single gig played! With now three cancelled Japan Tours to his name, Paul must hold the record.
Second place probably goes to the Animal’s Japan tour in November of 1968: “…after a few successful shows at major venues, the group was expected to put on two shows a night for Japanese gangsters for two weeks. Eric and the band rebelled, and had to bribe their way out, so they abruptly left Japan without their equipment. ” [http://www.chickenonaunicycle.com/Eric%20Burdon.htm]
Prior to the start of their Australian tour, arrangements had been made to film and record the first night in Melbourne on 16-track tape (show # 8 of the tour) at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl (that is is the complete name of the venue) – for use in TV- and radio specials.
The Australian FM broadcast was bootlegged in 1976 as disc one of the Wizardo bootleg FLY SOUTH minus the announcer’s comments.
The material was also broadcast in Japan on JO2R but with several differences compared to the Australian version:
– Two extra songs, “Band on the Run” and “Hi Hi Hi” were included plus the introduction to “Venus and Mars”
– However, the musical introduction (“Batman”) to “Band on the Run” can only be found on FLY SOUTH
– The Japanese broadcast was also treated to some post-production work via “audience reaction” bits meant to mask edit points. In the YT video at the bottom, listen to one of these very noticeable overdubs at 14:00 minutes.
MARC Records released the Japanese broadcast tape in 1976:
Side 1: Venus And Mars/ Rock Show/ Jet/ Let Me Roll It/ Maybe I’m Amazed/ I’ve Just Seen A Face/ Blackbird/ Yesterday Side 2: Listen To What The Man Said/ Call Me Back Again/ Letting Go/ Band On The Run/ Hi Hi Hi/ Radio Announcement* Bluebird* (JO2R radio ad)
Matrix: TW-76011 A/B
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Later in 1976, when John Wizardo compiled his WINGS triple LP box {505}, he decided to include some of the Melbourne tracks and selected “Venus And Mars”, “Rock Show”, “Jet” and “I’ve Just Seen A Face” – but not from the source tape he had used before on FLY SOUTH but from the MARC LP.
In my opinion, what could have been a great box set – with all the ’76 source tapes only Wizardo had: Chicago, San Diego and San Francisco – was watered down by the inclusion of tracks that had been available before. Did he listen to Rock Show ’75 and realize this was the same performance as FLY SOUTH? Then why not include “Band on the Run” and “Hi Hi Hi”, the new tracks? Or did he find the audience enhancements and minor differences worthy enough to warrant inclusion?
The same goes for the UK 1973 tracks, which I assume came from Edinburgh, 23 May 1973 (2nd show), as released by Wizardo himself as one of his first titles in the 300 series in 1975: Paul McCartneyin scotland (302) and by Contraband as scotland – 73(Instant Analysis 1030). Unfortunately, the Eight Arms To Hold You book does not comment on this.
The small text to the right says: “Fab Four 101 is the first of a series of limited edition 45’s intended for collectors only. Sound Quality: A-/B+ Front cover illus. by Scott”
Matrix: FF 101-A/B
Surprisingly perhaps, not that many copies were pressed and this title is rather rare.
It does sound as if Lou had planned to issue more Beatles 7″ titles and I wonder if this release came out in 1977, following the Joe Pope debut offer of a colored Deccagone single in April of that year.
‘What A Shame Mary Jane Had A Pain At The Party’ had first been presented to the world in November of 1972 on Contraband’s The Never Released Mary Jane LP and Peter Cook and Dudley Moore’s 1967 45 ‘L.S. Bumble Bee’ pirated and wrongly attributed to the Beatles on the same label a few months later. Dub had also included ‘Mary Jane’ on his title by the same name (more commonly referred to as SPICY BEATLES SONGS – TMOQ 71076) and both titles appeared on Wizardo’s DR. ROBERT…? pirate album in 1976.
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H.A.R. 169:
A companion piece to Wizardo’s releases # 500 – LIVE IN HANOVER – and 505 as material from the Offenbach, Germany 1972 and the San Diego 1976 was spread over two of these titles for each concert.
Side 3 has ‘Jet’, ‘Magneto and Titanium Man’, ‘My Love’, ‘Beware My Love’ and ‘Soily’ from the 16 June concert at the San Diego Sports Arena. The Wizardo 3 LP box shown below has ‘Live And Let Die’, ‘Time To Hide’ and ‘Beware my Love’, the last one sounding better on the Wizardo box.
There is a small error in the solo Beatles reference book EIGHT ARMS TO HOLD YOU where it says “[‘Oriental Nightfish’] was one of the first Linda tracks to make it out to the collecting world, via its appearance on the 1978 Beatles bootleg Indian Rope Trick.” when it really was 1976 and Lou’s double album of the same name, where it closes side 1.
The preceding five tracks were the first time anything from Wing’s August 1972 European dates became available – in this case the concert in Groningen, the Netherlands, on 19 August ’72, unfortunately, this is the worst sounding audience recording Lou would ever press onto vinyl.The tape Lou had to work with must have suffered from some substantial azimuth misalignment and have been a very high generation copy. Presented here is about half of the first set in rearranged order and the opening song of the second one, ‘Best Friend’.
“But collectors will recognize the performance, or at least, part of it. Sections of it appeared on the rare Oriental Nightfish vinyl bootleg [‘Eat At Home,’ ‘Mumbo,’ ‘Best Friend,’ ‘1882,’ and ‘I Would Only Smile’ on Oriental Nightfish (Hoffman Avenue HAR 169)], and a longer segment has changed hands on tape. In both cases, the show was identified as ‘Sweden.’ Actually, it appears to be neither Sweden nor Paris, although we cannot be entirely sure exactly what it is. McCartney makes no location references during the show, but us heard saying dank u – thank you, in Dutch. We have (at least) extractions from most of the 1972 Dutch shows, and the performances here do not match those. ” [Darth Disc liner notes for their Live In Groningen CD]
Matrix etchings on the ‘Groningen 1972’ side, spelling out “Lou”.
And “Sean” on the ‘San Diego ’76’ side. The remaining sides have “Char” and “Mark” just like the Dylan double “Hold The Fort For What It’s Worth”. It seems that this title was only pressed in this ‘yellow with black streaks’ pattern.
Collector’s opinions on this compilation:
“It Is worth for the MINE FOR ME song alone, which is sung by Linda, Paul & Rod Stewart.Bare in mind that It can only be found here.Those were the times that despite the bad quality sometimes you’ve stumbled accross some gems like these….-:)“
“Well the yellow specaled [sic] vinyl is cool. The San Diego concert songs are decent sound. Side one will remind the “Older” folks just what the golden age of boots really were. Side 2 slightly better. I like the disclaimer, “like there’s only so much an equaliser can do!” “
“ never get tired of listening to this bootleg! A very fine one! (many core tracks!) Side one is in quite terrible quality but the folks that made this record were kind enough to warn the collector (!) of the bad quality with a little note on the back cover!! Side two is also not the best quality but still very enjoyable! Too funny to hear Paul speaking german! (“Wir machen eine Ausweiskontrolle – alle Jugendlichen unter 18 Jahren müssen das Lokal verlassen” 🙂 Side three is really a quite good recording of a great concert!! And on Side four we get a nice compilation of still rare songs, especially “Mine For Me”, although it lasts less than a minute, is a delightful gem! (I believe it originally appeared on one of Joe Pope’s SFF fanclub flexis.) The pirated b-sides ‘Zoo Gang’, ‘Country Dreamer’ and ‘I Lie Around’ are always nice to hear just like the J.P.M. songs. All in all: A fine bootleg (above all for its age!) which you won’t listen to only once…“
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H.A.R. 170:
Released almost a year and a half after Wizardo’s first official offering ‘One – One Concert + More’and surpassed by the official release of the 1972 Madison Square Garden material, the beautiful colored discs are now the main attraction here. The two “Salute To Sir Lew”TV special tracks made their bootleg debut on this release.
Repressed in green
A third pressing was on black PVC with Dragonfly labels.
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Repackaged in Japan together with Vicky Vinyl’s 10 inch A Guitar’s All Right John… after John’s murder created a renewed interest in his unreleased material.
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Yet another repacking job from Japan coupled the material with Melvin Record’s In The 1970’s and took the liberty of renaming it Last Live Show
It’s October 1st – I am back and I hope everyone’s had a good September. To my amusement, the blog has had more visitors lately than before my break when I posted regularly. Hmm, what does it mean? … Anyway, this post will present two of my vacation purchases and ask a question.
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The Bowie Wizardo EP WR 201. My question is, were they sold like this – is this still sealed from way back in 1975 (obviously, the insert had to be held in place by something, so this must have come shrink wrapped)? Ignore the inventory sticker, which was added much later .
Back view.
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And just to show off:
Wizardo WINGS 3 LP box # 505, the only Wizardo release that used the word “limited” on the insert, and this one likely the last sealed copy on the planet (with corner rip).
The seller has another 10 sealed boots of various titles on eBay. I asked where these came from but “I am selling these for someone else” was all he could offer. Someone must have bought from the source pretty early.
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Plus a new addition – probably the finest copy there is left:
In the words of a 35+ year long bootleg collector: “These Wizardo sets are at the end of the wrmb catalogue, and John pressed no more than 200 copies each; then he pressed the ‘BOSS’ series and finally the ‘DEATH’ and ‘IMPORTANT’ (personal copies of the ‘K&S’) series.” Maybe it really was only 200 or 500 – as a current eBay seller of WRMB 501 claims – the total number is still incredibly low, they often included unique material and they were never copied by another label or did not seem to have gone through several re-pressings. The hardest one to find, according to my research, is WRMB 504: The Beach Boys Anaheim ’76.
The first Wizardo bootleg with a quality warning on the insert.
Source: Germany, Offenbach Stadthalle – 19 July 1972.
With perhaps the exception of Paul and his band and Pink Floyd, who played there in February of 1971, the Offenbach Stadthalle was and is the must play venue for everyone who is anyone on the B list (and below) in the Rhein-Main area of Germany ‘(B list’ is not a judgement on the music but 2,500 tickets are much easier to sell than 12,000 or more). I saw Thin Lizzy here in March of 1981 from the safety of the raised seats in the back.
Set list:
Bip Bop+ Smile Away+
Mumbo Give Ireland Back To The Irish+ 1882 I Would Only Smile Blue Moon Of Kentucky The Mess+
Intermission Best Friend
Soily I Am Your Singer Henry’s Blue (titled by Linda as “Take me on home Momma, cause I’m runnin’ home tonight”) Say You Don’t Mind Seaside Woman
Wild Life
My Love Mary Had A Little Lamb+
Maybe I’m Amazed
Hi Hi Hi
Long Tall Sally
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Not wanting to make this a double LP John gave five additional songs (marked ‘+’ above) to his friend Lou Cohan, head of Hoffman Avenue Records, and credit was duly given on the back of the 2 LP set.
A good audience tape exists among collectors but is missing ‘Mumbo’, ‘My Love’, ‘Maybe I’m Amazed’, ‘Hi Hi Hi’ and ‘Long Tall Sally’. It looks like there is only one source tape as Wizardo did/could not use any of these tracks either.
It turns out while in other cities poor ticket sales led to cancellations (Lyons in France, Breda in the Netherlands) in Offenbach they had to turn people away.
Page from the official tour program sold at the Europe 1972 concerts.
