Title: The Jersey Devil (Third Press - Pink insert - Idle Mind label - Black Vinyl)
Label: Wicky Vinyl
Date: 1973 / 1975
Location: Various Location


Trackslist:

A1 Circus Song
A2 New York Song
A3 Spirit In The Night
A4 Santa Ana

B1 Tokyo
B2 Thundercrack
B3 Thunder Road


Notes:
Track : A1 Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles, CA 1973-05-01
Tracks: A2/A4 - B1/B2 The Main Point, Bryn Mawr, PA (early show) 1973-04-24
Track : B3 The Main Point, Bryn Mawr, PA 1975-02-05


Format: 33 1/3 rpm 12'


Runout Groove Etchings:
Side A: Jersey Dvil 1 - HAR 147 Side 1 / This Side For Char
Side B: Jersey Dvil 2 - HAR 147 Side 2 / This Side For Carol


Release Info:
“The Jersey Devil” boasts the prestige of being the first ever Bruce bootleg to be privately-pressed and sold.
It was created by the very famous fan Lou Cohan in the USA, with the first pressing released back in the summer of 1975 on the Hoffman Avenue Records label. The LP includes a live performance from 1973 recorded off broadcast radio in Philadelphia.
The first pressing is on black vinyl with a single silver label containing the songs on both side A and side B, presumably to save money, and on the other side a plain blank white label.
The cover is a blank white sleeve, with a wraparound insert, and we believe the first 500 copies were printed on pink paper. In subsequent pressings the insert was printed on white paper.
The second pressing was done with a spectacular red multicolour splatter vinyl, also with the same single silver label including the titles on side A and side B with a plain white label on the other side.
Since these unauthorised vinyl records were illegal, Lou Cohan was investigated and his records confiscated, but not before he gave the original plates to a friend to keep safe as the investigation continued.
Other bootleggers (Vicky Vinyl) continued pressing copies using the original plates and artwork. These third pressings had the same white sleeve, same pink and white inserts, and black vinyl but with one difference: an Idle Mind label often used on other Vicky Vinyl releases. This version has the silver Hoffman Avenue label on side A, but on side B, a black and white label with a drawing of a woman.
In 1976-78 Lou and his friends pressed more copies from the original plates on transparent red and blue vinyl with no labels and the original Jersey Devil insert. These were sold as a 5 LPs Box called "Box O'Rocks" that included the boots "The Jersey Devil" (Blue Vinyl), "Hot Coals From The Fiery Furnace" (Red and Yellow Vinyl) and "There Ain't Nobody Here From Billboard Tonight " (Yellow and Blue vinyl), the mismatched copies were sold separately with their original covers.
The investigation faded away, and in 1977-78 production switched to King of the Alley and the TMQ catalogue numbers.
The circulation of these last two versions was not very high, so they are not very easy to find.
This latest new boot "The Jersey Devil - King of The Alley" was also pressed on black vinyl with plain white labels. Around the same time as this release Lou's East Coast connections pressed a version of The Jersey Devil on Blockhead Records. This version used new plates with different matrix information, a slightly smaller version of the original artwork and dropped the patched version of Thunder Road. Some copies had a white sleeve and some a black sleeve.


Quotation:
low -> 60 euro - medium -> 80 euro - high -> 100 euro