Silver And Gold

Box Cover A box, Sanctify Yourself inspired insert and the vinyl from three boxes. The triple black vinyl set at the back, a set including the transparent disc in the middle, and the marbled colour set at the front.

Tracks Waterfront [Live] Speed Your Love To Me [Live] Come A Long Way [Live] Book Of Brilliant Things [Live] - Five To One [Live] Ghostdancing [Live] Don't You (Forget About Me) [Live] Promised You A Miracle [Live] Once Upon A Time [Live] Oh Jungleland [Live] All The Things She Said [Live] Alive And Kicking [Live] Sanctify Yourself [Live] Someone Somewhere (In Summertime) [Live] Big Sleep [Live] Love Song [Live] - Sun City [Live] - Thank You [Live] (Not Listed) - Dance To The Music [Live] Format Triple LP in silver box with colour insert. (Most common) Triple marbled coloured LPs in silver box with colour insert. Two marbled coloured LPs and one single transparent LP in silver box with colour insert. (Rarest) Release Information Waterfront Records Ltd SIM 140686 (Guily Labels) Concert Source Rock Am Ring, Nurburgring, West Germany, 14th June, 1986 Quality 5/10 Additional Information "How are you? Let me see your hands!" Intro Tape has now been dropped, with Jim announcing Waterfront, complete with special echo effect from the sound guys. Mick MacNeil gets the first introduction, with a mad keyboard solo during the first quarter of the song. In this longest version yet, MacNeil remains contant in the mix and can be heard trying a variety of different melodies and keyboard effects. After what seems a long pause, Jim announces Speed Your Love To Me and this time, it's Charlie who gets the introduction and brief solo during an extended outing of this Sparkle In The Rain classic. "How are you, over the east side? To the west? And to the back? And of course, the ladies and gentleman at the front." Then, Jim breaks into the introduction of Come A Long Way, a rare performance of a forgotten Once Upon A Time track. Despite transplanting some Chelsea Girl lyrics ("I want you here, I want you now" which also crop up in the live Waterfront), there's nothing that really differentiates this from a slightly rushed version of the album cut. "Everything OK? What a brilliant night, huh? From the album, Sparkle In The Rain, this is called The Book Of Brilliant Things". After Mick's majestic solo introduction, this is Mel's chance to shine during the Five To One climax of the song. Unfortunately the recording suffers from distortion here. There's an echo effect on Jim's microphone again as he thanks the audience. "This song is decidated to the Amnesty International Organisation - Ghostdancing". The mix is interesting: Mick is higher than Charlie, but John Giblin gets the introduction and the solo during the song. Mick follows with an interesting, and unique solo before Charlie gets his second introduction of the night. This is one of the longest versions of the song on record, and is almost a public jam session. Don't You (Forget About Me) is introduced. The recording suffers noticably from echo, sounds tinny, and suffers from terrible distortion during parts of the song. On the plus side, Charlie and Mick engage in some unique jamming again. Some argument in the crowd spoils the end of the song, but it's finished by intro of Promised You A Miracle. Sue Hadjopoulos gets her introduction here during the final parts of a tight performance. "Everything OK? Once Upon A Time" Apart from some extra lyric embellisments from Jim, this version is much the same as the previous live outings. "Please say hello to the girls from New York city - on percussion, the great Sue Hadjopoulos. And one of the great new voices in the world, Miss Robin Clarke." Oh Jungleland, which follows, is much like the album version, apart from the softer, extended ending. This segues immediately into All The Things She Said which also resembles the album version except for an extended instrumental ending. Some slightly different guitar effects are evident during the intro of Alive And Kicking, but despite that, this version doesn't differ from other live versions during this tour. Oriental sounding keyboards immediately kick off Sanctify Yourself after Robin's final vocals of Alive And Kicking. It features a great guitar solo from Charlie, and also extra "Walk Away" lyrics from Jim. The first encore starts with Jim asking the crowd if they should play some more. "Everything OK? Someone Somewhere In Summertime." Those familiar with the Live In The City Of Light version may find Robin's extra lyrics and vocal following of Jim somewhat intrusive. Like many of the other songs during this gig, it features an extended instrumental ending, which adds some colour to the end of the song. The third song from New Gold Dream (81,82,83,84) is Big Sleep, a slow measured performance. This is in contrast to the furious introduction to Love Song, which features a short opening drum solo from Mel. Only the first verse is performed which is followed by a long instrumental during which Jim made an announcement: "This song is written by a friend of ours, Little Steven. One day, Little Steven, left New York City and he went to South Africa. Little Steven stayed there for three weeks. He looked at the people, he looked at the government and he looked at what the government were doing the people. He said 'These bastards must go!' [Pause] 'These bastards must go!' [Pause] "THESE BASTARDS MUST GO! What did he SAY?". "GET UP!" What follows is the loudest, rushed and enthusiastic versions of Sun City bootlegged. "Little Steve will be happy! Goodbye!". Robin gets her final introduction as the band jam and segue into Thank You and Dance To The Music. Overall this bootleg is slightly tinny, with a little too much high tone. But it also Suffers from distortion at high volumes (and it should be played high!). It's pretty good for an audience recording, with the majority of crowd noise only during the breaks. It features the longest versions of Waterfront, Ghostdancing and Don't You (Forget About Me) heard yet. Earlier bootlegs from this tour (such as Alive And Singing and Alive And Kicking) managed to get the concert on a double - not here, a triple LP set is needed. There are at least three different versions of this box set. The first, and most common, features just plain black LPs. The next varient features marbled colour vinyl, but every version of these seems to be different: my set includes a dark green, light green and white marbled vinyl. I know of others that feature all dark green, or all light green. It looks like the bootleggers used almost every combination of coloured wax. The rarest varient includes a transparent disc. I suspect there are even more combinations.

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