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WE CURRENTLY HAVE NEARLY 500 LISTED ITEMS Click here to see ALL our ROCK auctions Our PSYCH PROGRESSIVE auctions Our PUNK NEW WAVE auctions Our JAZZ auctions Our BLUE NOTE JAZZ auctions Our BLUES auctions Our CLASSICAL auctions Our COUNTRY auctions Our FUNK auctions Our LATIN auctions Our METAL auctionsOur REGGAE auctions Our SOUL auctions Our STILL SEALED ITEMS Our PROMO auctions Our AUDIOPHILE auctions PEARL JAM SPIN THE BLACK CIRCLE / LIVE AT SOLDIER FOELD - ULTRA-RARE V.V.
RECORDS RARE, EXTREMELY LIMITED PROMOTIONAL-ONLY EDITION ON PALE BLUE SOME WOULD CALL THIS WHITE SPLASH MARBLE VINYL - ORIGINAL 1996 VV RECORDS STEREO 2-LP SET DOUBLE ALBUM VV-000001 ORIGINAL U.S.
PRESSING ORIGINAL BLACK WHITE V.V.
LABELS THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST U.S.
PRESSING ON COLORED WAX THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.
ORIGINAL GATEFOLD COVER COVER IS STILL IN ITS ORIGINAL SHRINK CELLOPHANE WRAP FAIRLY THICK VINYL PRESSING On the scale from 1 to 10 1 being the least, and 10 being the most severe , we assess the thickness of the vinyl as 7.
CLEAN, WEAR-FREE LABELS PLEASE SEE THE IMAGE OF THE COVER, LABEL OR BOTH, SHOWN BELOW Note: this is a REAL image of the ACTUAL item you are bidding on.
This is NOT a recycled image from our previous auction.
What you see is what you ll get.
GUARANTEED What would it take to approach Pearl Jam about turning their legendary July 11, 1995, Soldier Field, Chicago show into a colored, double-LP, limited edition release for fans? That was the question that Alex Luke at St.
Louis FM Station 105.7 KPNT The Point was asking.
The concert was the first of the tour where Pearl Jam s set was broadcast by Monkeywrench Radio, and Pearl Jam along with Alex Luke thought it would be a great opportunity to release the show for the fans.
Icing on the cake was that it was the longest concert Pearl Jam had ever performed at that time.
This artifactor takes a look at the end result of an far-fetched idea that became a reality.
In late 1996 over a year after the show itself The Point, Vintage Vinyl and Reel George Productions issued Spin the Black Circle / Live at Soldier Field in two formats: Double Vinyl in gatefold packaging, and a 2-CD set in jewel case.
Both items have serial number VV000001 VV for Vintage Vinyl and were each produced in quantities of 530 units.
At a time when bootlegs were expensive, risky and unofficial, this release was free, soundboard-quality, and official.
Official? Sony/Epic did not officially release this, so endorsed by the band might be a better way to put it.
George Gimarc of Reel George Productions, who produced Spin The Black Circle/Live at Soldier Field, put it best when he said that this release was basically the band bootlegging the bootleggers.
It was a way for Pearl Jam along with The Point and nearby St.
Louis record shop Vintage Vinyl to give away a beautifully packaged soundboard recording of the Soldier Field show.
Pearl Jam was thrilled with the fact that a double LP on marbled colored vinyl would be one of the formats being produced along with the double CD set.
Production started in August of 1996, right around the time Pearl Jam s forth studio album No Code had been released.
George Gimarc was sent a tape entitled Monkeywrench Radio Live from Pearl Jam, and he began to put the show into production.
There were to be about 500 double CD sets and 500 double vinyl sets to be produced.
The order was placed for 550 of the vinyl sets to be pressed, and in the end a total of 530 or so were made.
Originally, the records were supposed to be manufactured with a white swirl on clear vinyl, exhibiting a pearly look.
However, after the pressing company ran out of the color that was picked, they took it upon themselves to press the music onto a toothpaste-green marbled vinyl.
All artwork and design was done by Bobby Greeson.
The artwork on the front of the packaging, which wraps around to the back on the LP jacket is a nice prism-like color blend with bold black text along with little Pearl Jam caricatures popping through stars.
If the caricatures look familiar, it is because they were taken from an old cartoon style t-shirt.
The gatefold packaging opens up to a nice black and white photo of rock-n-roll nick-naks and Pearl Jam memorabilia: a guitar Mike s? , a few guitar picks, guitar strings, a bottle of something, an ash tray, a set list which is not in Ed s handwriting and a folded up Mookie Blaylock t-shirt.
Over top of the photo, the liner notes reiterate the grass-roots approach to the production of the release: Thanks to Lou Prinz Pappa Ray at Vintage Vinyl, Alex Luke who actually got it at KPNT, Reel George, Bobby Greeson, Leslie Connaly, Tracy Munoz, Steve Powell and special thanks to the nameless and anonymous members of Pearl Jam and Sony/Epic who allowed us to avoid the lawyers and get this done for the fans.
To promote the release, there were 700 posters printed out of Colby Poster www.colbyposter.com in Los Angeles, CA to accompany the release of Spin The Black Circle/Live at Soldier Field.
They have the exact same artwork as the CD and LP packaging.
You can see one of these posters pinned on a telephone poll on the back of the CD insert shown to the right .
The back of the CD insert also shows a scene of Chicago at dusk along superimposed with two fans wearing Pearl Jam shirts, presumably the same Mookie Blaylock shirt that is folded up in the gatefold photo and the cartoon shirt used to design the cover artwork.
The LP jackets and CD liners were printed at Dorado Press, San Fernando, CA .
On October 8, 1996 the CDs were shipped, and the LPs were shipped a few weeks later.
Vintage Vinyl and The Point announced that there would be a limited Pearl Jam live release, and all you had to do was drop by the record store or radio station to grab your copy, one per customer.
They were mainly distributed from Vintage Vinyl, along with the posters.
Fans went crazy over this and all of the vinyl and CDs expectedly disappeared rather quickly The odd thing about this release is the liberty taken with the songs on the discs themselves.
The actual selist reads like this contains portions of the show: Main Set First Encore Second Encore 1.
Release 2.
Go 3.
Last Exit 4.
Spin the Black Circle 5.
Tremor Christ 6.
Corduroy 7.
Whipping 8.
I Got Shit 9.
Dissident 10.
Even Flow 11.
Improv/Sick o Pussies 12.
Deep 13.
Jeremy 14.
Glorified G 1.
Daughter/ This Boy / The Real Me / W.M.A.
/ ABitW-II 2.
Animal 3.
Habit 4.
Jam/Lukin 5.
Not for You 6.
Little Wing teaser 7.
Elderly Woman 8.
Immortality 9.
Alive 10.
Porch 1.
Everyday People 2.
Let My Love Open the Door 3.
Better Man 4.
Rearviewmirror 5.
Black 6.
Blood 1.
Yellow Ledbetter The intro of Release is the song s usual start as the calm before the storm, yielding to a flurry of heavy and mid-tempo songs including Go , Whipping and Corduroy .
A monster Daughter with its four song tags brings the intimacy of this stadium down to the size of a campfire.
The then-new songs Habit and Lukin peak the crowd s interested before the one-two punch of Alive and Porch to end the 24-song first set.
Rare covers Everyday People and Let My Love Open the Door start the heavyweight first encore, continuing with Better Man , RVM , Black .
Blood ends in a snarl of drums, feedback and screaming a sonic tempest twisting Chicago like a tornado.
Yellow Ledbetter serves as CPR for a crowd that has witnessed the longest Pearl Jam show at the time.
In other words, Pearl Jams are masters of show flow, and this setlist is the quintessential example.
It is understandable for cost and space reasons that the double-vinyl required the axe of a few songs, but the exclusion of Release , Porch and Blood are startling exemptions considering their positions in the setlist as show-opener and set closers.
The double-CD contains some adherence to the setlist, but then somehow diverges into mid-set songs to end the set.
The LP contains portions of the show: Side One Side Two Side Three Side Four 1.
Go 2.
Spin The Black Circle 3.
Whipping 4.
I Got Id 5.
Last Exit 1.
Daughter / WMA / ABitW 2.
Animal 3.
Elderly Woman 4.
Alive 1.
Jeremy 2.
EvenFlow 3.
Everyday People 4.
Let My Love Open the Door 1.
Rearviewmirror 2.
Black 3.
Yellow Ledbetter The CD includes the entire set, but takes liberties with the song order: Disc One Disc Two Release Go Last Exit Spin the Black Circle Tremor Christ Whipping I got id even flow Deep Jeremy Glorified G Daughter Animal Habit Elderly Woman Immortality Alive Porch Everyday People Let My Love Open the Door Rearviewmirror Black Blood Yellow Ledbetter Corduroy Dissident Not For You Better Man Now almost twenty years after its initial release, collectors are having a hard time getting their hands on this rare piece.
With such a limited production amount, and although it is not an official Pearl Jam release, Spin The Black Circle/Live At Soldier Field remains one of the most sought after pieces around.
With such beautiful packaging and live Pearl Jam on marbled, colored vinyl, what s not to like? EXCERPT FROM AN ONLINE REVIEW BY GEORGE REILLY TO SEE IF WE HAVE OTHER LISTED ITEMS BY THIS GROUP OR ARTIST click here CONDITION: RECORD IMPORTANT NOTE: unless otherwise noted, ALL records are graded visually, and NOT play-graded we grade records under the strong, diffuse room light or discrete sunlight a WE GRADE THE VINYL AS STRONG NEAR MINT APPEARS UNPLAYED, POSSIBLY PLAYED ONCE .
The original luster is very much intact, and the vinyl shines and sparkles almost like new.
b The records are pressed on a beautiful, thick, inflexible vinyl, which was usually used for the first or very early pressings.
Usually, the sound on such thick vinyl pressings is full-bodied, vivid, and even dramatic.
Do not expect to obtain such a majestic analog sound from a digital recording c Of course, this is a full-bodied ANALOG recording, and not an inferior, digital recording COVER COVER IS STRONG NEAR MINT, STILL IN ITS ORIGINAL SHRINK WRAP The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover: - Cover has a visible wrinkle crease in one of the corners.
VISIBLE ON BACK SIDE ONLY - Cover has one corner slightly dinged / bent nothing significant NO OTHER IMPERFECTIONS ON THE COVER: - No split seams - No ring wear - No cut-out drill holes.
- No cut-out corners - No saw-marks or indents - No dirt/dust rubbing stains friction marks caused by rubbing against other covers - No yellowing from aging - No writing - No stamps - No peel-off marks - No stains - No mold or mildew spots - No stickers or labels - No water damage - No razor marks, scratches, pressure marks, lines, streaks, or cuts.
- No warping - No wax, glue, paint or liquid drops on the cover - No glue traces or wax residue.
- No bar codes - No RIAA stamps or stickers.
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