Recorded: 12-May-1974 Location: Notre Dame University Length: 46:53 Sound quality: Audience B Label: D-549 (original) FOO-EEE R2 70540
From: Jon Naurin (naurin[at]mbox300.swipnet.se)
Unmitigated Audacity: Very good show by the short-lived "10 Years of the
MOI" 1974 band. Unfortunately the sound sucks badly - worst in the BTB
series.
From: TTrocc7007[at]aol.com
One of the stipulations of the Boots series as set down
by ICA was that all music had to be reproduced directly from the original
bootleg albums, with no tweazing of any kind. Well that's OK for them, but
It was Tom Brown, myself, and Rhino who took the heat over the audio
quality of Boots 1. For example one of the discs on Boots1 (Unmitigated
Audacity) was included (and remember also that supposedly these decisions
were coming from ICA, and in fact I have read interviews in print were
their one-time employee and shipping clerk Gerry Fialka claimed that HE
chose the material obn Boots1! HAH! If that's the case, ask him WHY each
title was included. Only Tom and I know that.) because it was recorded May 12,
1974, or in fact the actual 10th anniversary of THE MOTHERS. With the exception
of Camarillo Brillo, all of the tunes performed were from the 1965-69 period
Mothers. We thought that just for historical reflection alone it was worth
inclusion, not to mention our wanting to be able to show a Frank that was
human, sentimental, and in love with his own material. Well, it was also
the worst sounding of the lot, and the volume we got the most complaints on.
From: Rolf Maurer (rmaurer[at]pinc.com)
My copy of Unmitigated Audacity lacks the screened-back hammer, and
the rhino with the clothespin on his nose, on the back cover, and the
little FOO-EEE speech balloon on the spine, that my copy of The Ark
has. What is the meaning of this discrepancy?
Additional clues: The disks are in the same catalogue number sequence
(R2 70538 for The Ark, R2 70540 for Audacity). The Ark is made by
Disque Americ in Canada; the Unmitigated Audacity disk doesn't
identify either a manufacturer or a country of manufacture (aren't
records required to have that information?). The difference doesn't
seem to have anything to do with BMG, either.
From: JWB (mudshark[at]intergrafixNO_SPAM.net)
If "Unmitigated Audacity" was the one from Canada, then that would explain
it. But "The Ark" is. So, that leaves us with nothing.
I have never seen an American BTB CD with the details you describe. But I
have seen imports like that, however these imports have different catalog
numbers and are not on FOO-EEE. So, it's a mystery to me. Perhaps your copy
has mis-pressed artwork. Or maybe some Canadian copies are like that. As long
as it's on the FOO-EEE label with an R2 prefix, it is distributed by Rhino,
and must be a North American copy.
From: ifekete[at]daten-kontor.hu
I have the same CD you described. Here's my take on this. This must be a
legitimate Rhino US release with the first version of the artwork which was
later modified. Somehow this is still in the shops in the USA.
The first UA CD I bought was the european pressing on Castle/Essential.
During one of my visits in the US I noticed that the record shops there had
either of two versions of this: one with the same cover art as the european
CD, and the we are talking about. (There are much more differences between
the two than you described - see below). So in the end I bought this version
too.
'strange' US CD 'straight' US CD/european CD
catalog number R2 70540 R2 70540 (US)
ESMCD 959 (EU)
back/spine color yellow blue
foo-eee balloon on spine no yes
hammer on back no yes
rhino saying foo-eee on back no yes
barcode on back 0 8122-70540-2 1
The EU version has,
of course, a different
barcode. As far as I can
remember, the US version
has the same barcode
as the strange one.
'booklet' 2 pages 2 pages (US)
4 pages (EU)
(p. 2&3 empty though)
rhino+catalog number yes yes (on page 4 - EU)
on page 2
front cover:
------------
white square top left 'LTD. EDITION (empty)
COLORED VINYL'
track list 'SIDE 1 (23:53)' blacked out
'SIDE 2 (23:16)' blacked out
bootleg catalog number 'D-549' missing
bottom right
disc
----
picture disc w/hammer yes yes (US) no (EU)
(blue on white)
The 'strange' disc has the following text around the hole
on the shiny side of it (What do you call this anyway? It is not
a matrix number...):
(asterisks) 3 R2 70540-2 SRC#01. (asterisks) M1S3
I also have the US pressing of other BTB CDs too,
Our man in nirvana, e.g., must come from the same pressing plant as UA;
OMIN has:
(asterisks) 3 R2 70372-2.5 SRC*05 (asterisks) M1S2
What I think is the strange CD was the first one in the BTB series.
It clearly has the same front cover art as the original bootleg LP
with some items that were removed on later pressings.
They must have decided on the final graphics design for the series
only after this batch was already out...
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