All 26 pressings

Folder 120

Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovak bootleg, not the studio album. "World Slavery Tour Volume II - Live Hammersmith Odeon, October 12, 1984" - a live bootleg LP, catalogue PF101, with mismatched "Bijoux Selected" labels glued to the vinyl. Matches nothing in master 18917 because it is not a version of it.

Catalogue
PF101
Label
unofficial/bootleg -- pressed for Qua B.n.p. (Bratislava)
Released
undated on the copy itself; the recording itself is dated 12 October 1984
Confidence
Not on the master
Why this grade

the sleeve, the etched run-out and the recording's own tracklist all agree with each other -- this is a live bootleg of the Hammersmith Odeon show on the World Slavery Tour -- and none of it is a version of the Powerslave studio album master. It is catalogued here, in the folder position the copy was physically filed in, exactly as folder 59 was on the Seventh Son shelf: the evidence is legible and it fits nothing in the master it would otherwise be checked against, which is why it carries no Discogs release id and is excluded from the master's held/missing accounting

Worth
No recorded Discogs sale
A photograph of pressing 120, Czechoslovakia

What the record says

Every line below was read off a native-resolution crop of the photograph named beside it.

Run-out photographed, both sides, across several frames. Side one reads, hand-scratched, PF101 A; side two PF101 B -- the sleeve's own catalogue number, repeated in the deadwax and legible across more than one frame on each side.

Every line of small print, and the photograph it came from — 10 of them

Front cover: IRON MAIDEN / WORLD SLAVERY TOUR / VOLUME II, hieroglyphic borders reused from the Powerslave sleeve design, and a live photograph inside a blue frame

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Rear cover, top left, small print: PF101

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Rear cover: LIVE HAMMERSMITH ODEON / OCTOBER 12, 1984

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Rear cover, tracklist: Side A -- Powerslave, Straight To The Heart, Guitar Solo, The Number Of The Beast, Hallowed Be The Name, 22 Acacia Avenue / Side B -- Band Intro, Run To The Hills, Running Free, Sanctuary, over five individual band-member photographs

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Rear cover, small print, foot: a photo credit, only partially legible, ending …erman

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Rear cover, foot, in blue: Qua B. n. p., Granajská 26, Bratislava, ČSSR. / Printed by Panini - Skalica. / Exported by Blavota - Bratislava. / Made in Czechoslovakia.

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Label, one face: pink BIJOUX SELECTED label, A Graham Bedford Production, boxed STEMRA, catalogue E17284, marked Side 4, tracklist 1. Harlequin / 2. Ricard's Baby / 3. Six Months / 4. Undiluted / 5. Master Of The House / 6. Supermarket / 7. Patch Up / 8. Live To A Great Age -- an unrelated compilation, not Iron Maiden

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Label, other face: the same pink BIJOUX SELECTED design and catalogue E17284, marked Side 3, tracklist 1. Wait A Minute / 2. What Happened / 3. Train, Train / 4. Aspirin Talk / 5. Typhoon / 6. Well Done / 7. Period

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Run-out beneath the Side 4 label, etched: PF101 A

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Run-out beneath the Side 3 label, etched: PF101 B

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The photographs

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The object, and what marks it out

Sleeve, labels and inserts

  • Outer sleeve -- single, card, purpose-printed for this bootleg: the hieroglyphic Powerslave-style border reused around a live photograph and World Slavery Tour text rather than studio artwork.
  • Labels -- pink BIJOUX SELECTED labels (A Graham Bedford Production, catalogue E17284), which describe an entirely different, unrelated record, not this one. One face is marked Side 4, the other Side 3 -- a pairing that reads like the second disc of a multi-LP Bijoux Selected set rather than a self-contradiction, though nothing here confirms that set actually ran to two or more records. What is actually cut into the vinyl beneath both labels is PF101 A / PF101 B, agreeing with the sleeve rather than with the labels. Whether these labels were put here deliberately, as cover for a bootleg pressing run, or simply mixed up from spare stock when the record was assembled, is not something a photograph can settle.
  • Vinyl -- black.

What distinguishes this pressing

  • Catalogue PF101, printed on the sleeve and etched in both run-outs, and nothing under that number, or under World Slavery Tour Volume II, appears anywhere in the fetched Powerslave master version list -- the master lists versions of the 1984 studio album, and this is a live recording from its tour with a tracklist that does not overlap the album's at all.
  • The Czechoslovak manufacturing block -- Qua B. n. p., Panini - Skalica, Blavota - Bratislava, Made in Czechoslovakia -- printed nowhere on any official Powerslave pressing on this shelf.
  • Labels that describe a different record altogether. The BIJOUX SELECTED pink labels are not this bootleg's own artwork; they are recorded here as a mismatch between what is printed on the vinyl and what is actually etched into it, not smoothed over into a single consistent story.
Ten tracks, two sides, and the recording credits

Side A

  1. A1Powerslave
  2. A2Straight To The Heart
  3. A3Guitar Solo
  4. A4The Number Of The Beast
  5. A5Hallowed Be The Name
  6. A622 Acacia Avenue

Side B

  1. B1Band Intro
  2. B2Run To The Hills
  3. B3Running Free
  4. B4Sanctuary

No production, performer or recording credits are printed anywhere on this sleeve, beyond a single photo-credit line at the foot of the rear cover that is not legible enough in these photographs to quote in full -- it ends …erman. This is a live audience/soundboard-style recording, not a studio one, and being unofficial it carries none of the Powerslave album's own production credits, which is why they are not repeated here.

Condition, from the photographs

A photograph cannot grade a record - this is a description of what is visible, not a grade.

  • Sleeve: general handling wear with some edge and corner softening; no splits or seam separation visible in these shots.
  • Vinyl: light surface marks and handling sheen catch the light. No visible deep scratches, warping or edge damage in these photographs. The labels are clean and unmarked.

Nothing on this page comes from playing the record. No Goldmine grade is claimed for it, or any other. I have no record of where this copy came from.

What is settled, and what is not

This is a settled answer, not an unsettled one -- it is just not an answer about the album master. The sleeve names the recording precisely (World Slavery Tour Volume II, Live Hammersmith Odeon, 12 October 1984, catalogue PF101), the run-out etching repeats that catalogue number on both sides, and the sleeve's own tracklist is a ten-song live setlist that shares only one title with Powerslave's eight studio tracks -- the song Powerslave itself, performed live rather than the studio recording -- and otherwise draws on four other albums (The Number Of The Beast, Hallowed Be The Name, 22 Acacia Avenue, Run To The Hills, Running Free, Sanctuary). A shared song title is not a shared release: none of this is a version of Discogs master 18917, so it holds none of that master's releases, and the wants and market pages correctly go on treating every version of the studio album as un-held on this copy's account -- exactly the reasoning folder 59 was graded on for Seventh Son.

What is worth recording rather than smoothed over: the labels disagree with the sleeve and the matrix. Both faces carry pink BIJOUX SELECTED labels from an unrelated compilation (E17284, A Graham Bedford Production) -- one stamped Side 3, the other Side 4, a pairing consistent with a second disc of a multi-LP Bijoux Selected set rather than an inconsistency in its own right. Either way it is not this record: the etched run-out underneath, PF101 A / PF101 B, agrees with the sleeve instead. Unofficial pressings of this era are known to reuse whatever blank labels were on hand, sometimes deliberately as cover for a bootleg run; nothing in these photographs settles which of "deliberate disguise" or "assembled from mismatched stock" is true here, so neither is asserted -- only what is observed.

What is not attempted here: identifying this as a specific catalogued bootleg release, the way an official pressing is identified against a Discogs master. This dossier does not claim a Discogs release id for it. What is certain is read off the copy itself: the sleeve, the matrix and the recording it claims to be, all three agreeing with each other and with nothing else on this shelf.