MR12-S John Paul George Ringo ‘In The 1970 s…’

USA: 2ns half of 1980

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• Angel Baby – from the withdrawn Roots album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.

 

 

 

 

V.A. ‘LIVE AID – ‘THE GLOBAL JUKEBOX’ Vols 1 + 2 ETS 2588-9 / 2590-1 and ‘LIVE AID'(SG 6)

Japan: 1985

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):

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Peter Blake art work

 

Paul McCartney (Wings) ‘ZOO GANG’ (fake) IMP 1117

Japan: 1977/8, made to appear like product released by Vicky Vinyl on the Idle Mind label in the U.S.

SIDE A

Spirits Of Ancient Egypt
Lady Madonna
The Long And Winding Road
(Los Angeles, CA, Inglewood Forum, June, 23,1976 – taken from the Idle Mind 3 LP box WINGS FROM THE WINGS  IMP 1117-9)

Live And Let Die
Picasso’s Last Words
(Inglewood Forum, June, 21,1976 – taken from the Wizardo LP LASER BEAMS  WRMB 382)

You Gave Me The Answer
(Cow Palace, San Francisco, CA, June, 14, 1976 – taken from the Wizardo LP WINGS OVER FRISCO  WRMB 503)

Magnito And Titanium Man
Go Now
(Inglewood Forum, June, 21,1976 – taken from the Wizardo LP LASER BEAMS  WRMB 382)

SIDE B

My Love
Let ‘Em In
Silly Love Songs
Beware My Love
(Cow Palace, San Francisco June, 14, 1976 – taken from the Wizardo LP WINGS OVER FRISCO  WRMB 503)

Soily
(Inglewood Forum, June, 23,1976 – taken from the Idle Mind 3 LP box WINGS FROM THE WINGS  IMP 1117-9)

Zoo Gang (pirate of the 45 B-side of ‘Band On The Run’

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An entirely forgettable release copied from Wizardo’s and Vicky Vinyl’s original bootlegs in degraded sound.

Japan JL 5XX Copy Series – Final Installment: JL-531 to JL-539

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):

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JL 532: PAUL McCARTNEY – in scotland

 

Copy vs. original Wizardo label

For more information regarding the original release, click here.

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JL 533 The BEATLES – RENAISSANCE MINSTRELS

 

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JL 534: The BEATLES: CINELOGUE I: LET IT BE

 

Above: The JL copy of a King Kong label

Below: An original version:

For more information regarding the original release, click here.

 

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JL 535 LED ZEPPELIN – CELLARFUL OF NOISE

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JL 536: LED ZEPPELIN – ON STAGE IN EUROPE 1975

For more information regarding the original release, click here.

 

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JL 537: Deep Purple – LIVE IN LONDON

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JL 538: Deep Purple – PERKS AND TIT

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JL 539: Queen – ROYAL AMERICAN TOUR

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Japan JL 5XX Copy Series: JL-511 to JL-515

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

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JL 511: PINK FLOYD EUROPE 74

This copy shown sold for 16,000+ Yen in Japan in April of 2015, confirming a trend we already saw in the OG PF copies.

This title helps us significantly in dating the whole JL series, as it can be traced back to the two previous originals. First, there was THE SCREAMING ABDAB , Wizardo’s first PF title, released in the fall of 1975.

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).

With and without ‘JL’ prefix.

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JL 514:  THE BEATLES – live in europe & us tv casts

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JL 515: THE BEATLES – LIVE IN VANCOUVER CANADA

WINGS’ Rock Show ’75 / ‘Underneath The Cruz Twinkling’ 76011

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 McCartney in scotland (302) and by Contraband as scotland – 73 (Instant Analysis 1030). Unfortunately, the Eight Arms To Hold You  book does not comment on this.

This is the video special produced in Japan: