----- Original Message ----- From: "Julian" <julzmon@mac.com> To: "The moon: beautiful. The sun: even more beautiful." <yello@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 7:04 PM Subject: Re: [Yello] Amnesty Picture Disc

What is this single of? Is it a Yello or Dieter project? I have never seen one.

http://www.leonardcohenfiles.com/amnesty.html

Julian wrote:

What is this single of? Is it a Yello or Dieter project? I have never seen one.

jul

On Tuesday, October 21, 2003, at 06:54 AM, Raphael Ackermann wrote:

There is an Interview on it and no music. But I haven't played it yet and won't be able to do so in the next couple of months. :-( From the following sites I guess that there is no relationship of yello/ Dieter to this disc except for the picture. On disc there is part of an amnesty press conference probably in 1988. The discs could've been released around 1992. The pictures are from magazines etc. There exist a lot of these discs for different artists and some artists have quite a few of these discs, maybe 10 or so. That means that there might be more of dese picture discs out featuring dieter and boris. Below are some excerpts from websites where I found infos about amnesty picture discs. Raphael thats what I found on the following website: http://www.leonardcohenfiles.com/amnesty.html Well over 10 years ago Amnesty International pressed a highly limited edition set of commemorative 7" picture discs to mark a conference being held at the time. The set of discs featured many famous music icons of the time including Leonard Cohen. The full colour picture disc does not contain any music but rather spoken extracts from the conference. The pressing was extremely limited (less than 10 copies per disc). look at this website where they believe that it is not a rip-off by a bootlegger but to promote amnesty international. *http://www.geocities.com/denrob.geo/html/body_amnesty.html* http://www.stranglers.org.uk/bootlegs/bootleg.htm Interview from 1988 Amnesty Milton Keynes gig. One of a series of interviews featuring various artists from the press conference. Picture discs are made from magazine cuttings, and therefore feature a range of pictures. Very limited. another website with infos about amnesty picture discs http://www.geocities.com/~rycheitems/pic.html These are unofficial releases. There's no interview with any band-member on it, just material of a press conference with various rock-stars for AI. The pics are taken from different Metal-magazines like Kerrang!, Metal Hammer etc. Back shows pictures and text that was on the back of the magazine sites. The matrix# is the same on all singles. About ten different picture discs were made. michael jackson http://www.isthisweird.co.uk/pdiscs.htm Very rare test pressing 7" picture disc. Never released, only pressed for test purposes. Does not feature music by GNR, but various artists involved with Amnesty International. Only ONE copy pressed! B52's http://www.theb52s.de/seiten/intervie.htm Amnesty International 7" picture discs: All the picture discs have *NOT* any interview of the B-52`s on them. They have nothing to do with the B's except for the picture. They come from the UK and play interview parts from an Amnesty International press conference. Every disc plays the same interview. Who ever made them - he used pages from various magazines for the pictures of the discs. There are a vew more discs with pictures of the B-52's around. There are also the same interview records with pictures by other artists. I don't think that they were made to raise money for AI, I believe that they were made to make a bootleger rich! http://w1.858.telia.com/~u85821131/weirdo/covers.html Unique material: There is *no* Zappa material on this record. From Mikael Agardsson: I was at a record fair in Solna last weekend, and found a weird single (see picture). This single has no Zappa material! What it does have is information about Amnesty International - a few men from Amnesty International relate (in English) what Amnesty International does and what their organisation is about. The (British) guy who sold this single claimed that it was a test pressing, only made in one copy. Of course, I can not confirm that this is true. Only the picture side is playable. The flip side is blank, and white in colour. There is no information at all etched or printed on the record. From Kristian: I cannot exactly recall when it was, but I assume that it was between 5-10 years ago, that I saw lots of these AI pic disc 7" on record fairs. They were available by lots of artists, all said to be limited to 1 copy, all did not include music but spoken information about AI, they were all singles, and they were all pic discs. And, to be sure, they were all quite expensive. (Because of their rarity ...) I assume that some bootlegger manufactured all of these records, like regular pic discs are made, but with the difference that different pictures were inside the clear vinyl for each pressed record (if there is indeed only one copy per artist). I cannot say for sure which artists were also featured in this series, since it was some years ago that I saw them, but I think I recall that Tori Amos and Sting were among them. I wouldn't bet on it, however.