The Live Mole Show

Tracklist Hide Credits

A1	Voices Of The Air
A2	The Secret Seed
A3	Introduction
A4	Won't You Keep Us Working?
A5	First Warning
A6	Back To Normality?
A7	The Sky Falls!
A8	Narration
A9	God Of Darkness
A10	More Narration
A11	March To The Sea
A12	The Observer
A13	Hole Workers' New Hymn
B1	Rumors
B2	Arrival
B3	Deployment
B4	Saturation
B5	Still More Narration
B6	Idea
B7	Construction
B8	Ugly Rumors
B9	Failure / Reconstruction
B10	Success
B11	Upset Narration
B12	Call Of The Wild
B13	Driving The Moles Away
B14	Don't Tread On Me
B15	The Short War
B16	Frantic Narration
B17	Resident Speech
B18	Satisfaction Written-By – Jagger-Richards
B19	Happy Home

Companies, etc.

• Lacquer Cut At – Sonic Arts

Credits

• Lacquer Cut By – Leo Kulka
• Management [Manager] – Bill Gerber
• Vocals [Vocalist] – Nessie Lessons
• Voice [Narrator] – Penn Jillette
• Written-By, Music By, Performer [Played By], Directed By – The Residents

Notes

This is the second pressing of this recording which was termed the 'official' version, following the limited release of the first pressing which the Cryptic Corporation claimed was a bootleg (the 'unofficial' version). This was done as a media hype to garner interest in the recording prior to release to make people think there was demand for the recording from sources other than the Cryptic Corporation themselves, which made the public believe that the LP was obviously highly desirable and definitely worthy of release.

This second pressing features covert art printed direct onto card rather than the printed paper cover glued onto the card sleeve of the first pressing. The cardboard is white.

Below is some (mis-) information from the book "The Cryptic Guide To THE RESIDENTS", 1986

FACTS:
This album is an "unofficial" condensation of two Mole Show concerts given by The Residents at the Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles in October of 1983. The "bootleg" record has no label or catalog number - it was bootleged by an "inside source" at the shows, whose efforts were later discovered, but were not discouraged.
Ralph Records was later financially compensated, after discovering that the resulting album was being manufactured and sold.
The sound quality of the record is quite good, considering that the recording was made from a cassette tape of the two concerts. The front cover was taken from the European MOLE SHOW program; the back cover is a picture of a piece of the burlap screen which was used in all of the concerts.

COLLECTOR INFO:
1800 copies of THE LIVE MOLE SHOW were produced in total secrecy, and were sold by mail and through word of mouth. Later that year, Ralph Records came into possession of the master tapes, and manufactured the same recording as a picture disc, in a limited edition of 1500 copies.
Other bootleg recordings have been made of the MOLE SHOW concerts. One of the more notable is the THE THIRD SECRET OF FATIMA, a self-proclaimed edition of 346 copies (quite suspect), which was recorded and manufactured in Italy. The overall sound quality of this release is quite poor, even for a bootleg album.

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
001	The Residents	Mole Show ‎(LP, Album, Ltd, 1st)	Ralph Records	001	US	1983
HYCA-2043	The Residents	The Mole Show Live At The Roxy ‎(CD, Album, RE)	Birdsong, Hayabusa Landings	HYCA-2043	Japan	2011
001	The Residents	Mole Show ‎(LP, Album, TP, 2nd)	Ralph Records	001	US	1983
BOM22062	The Residents	The Mole Show Live At The Roxy ‎(CD, Album, RE)	Bomba Records	BOM22062	Japan	1998
none	The Residents	Live At The Roxy, 30.Oct. 1982 ‎(Cass, Unofficial, C-6)	007 Records	none	Unknown

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