Live Dates Volume 2 - Cover Art

Cover art by Colin Elgie.
Photograph: Hipgnosis-Brimson

Front cover	Stickers found in the upper right corner of the double album printings
Picture courtesy of The Wishbone Ash Web Site.	Blue sticker: Picture courtesy of Doug Boyne.   Black sticker: Picture courtesy of Paul Smith.   Sticker on Indian printing MCA 4 113: Picture courtesy Saurabh Zutshi.

Front cover and obi of Japanese SHMCD of year 2010	A sticker found in the upper right corner of the Japanese SHMCD

US Single CD release RGM-0033. Back and front cover.

The blue "sticker" is not a real one, but printed as part of the cover art. Also note the slight difference in the ceiling's red and yellow lines. They curve a bit at the outer part of the front cover.

French double CD LMLR 782 035 Front and contents...

... Inside view

... Portrait

French double LP LMLR 783 183 Inside view

Front and back

Inner picture on gatefold sleeves.
The hand written song list in the picture includes a couple of "lost songs", i.e. "I Need People" and "Lookin' for a Reason" (Barely visible in this small copy). Picture originally from Tsutomu Kubota.
Picture of German "Additional Tapes" 203223
Thank you, Wolfgang Schmidt!
Mexican printing MCA LAE-337, Note the album title Live Dates "Eleven"	Mexican printing MCA LAE-337, Partly Spanish track names
Picture courtesy of Kelly C. Hanna	Picture courtesy of Kelly C. Hanna

Mexican LP LAE-387

Cover art pic courtesy of Ben Reinhardt.

Lower right corner of front cover. Samples from a couple of printings. Leftmost and middlemost picture courtesy of Paul Smith.
UK Double LP with blue sticker MCG 4012.	UK Double LP with black sticker MCG 4012.	German single LP printing 203 150-32.
In the leftmost picture, the man in the red shirt coming to the venue is only half shown.         In the middlemost picture, the man in the red shirt is fully shown.         In the rightmost picture, the man in the red shirt is fully shown and a woman in blue dress         is seen standing behind the seated people.
A gatefold's inner part printing comparison courtesy of Paul Smith:     The picture does not line up very well in the lowermost gatefold (UK 2 LP MCG 4012 with black sticker on front cover). Some of the text is cut out.

Japanese Promo Box

Promo box published together with Japanese paper sleeve CD releases.
Note that Live Dates Volume 2 was not released with the 2001 batch of Japanese paper sleeve CD releases.
However it was released in Japan later on in year 2010.

Front of box	Back of box
Spine of box

 
Other promo boxes:
Pilgrimage
Argus (two versions)
Wishbone Four
Live Dates (two versions)

All promo box info and pictures courtesy of Jean-Paul Baume.

Feb, 2023