Opal Discography

1983 Fell From The Sun 7" (Serpent Records, Serpent 001): Fell From The Sun (Smith); All Souls (Roback/Smith). 12" EP (Serpent E1092): Grains Of Sand; Fell From The Sun; All Souls; Lullabye. Note: 7" released through Bucketful of Brains magazine under the name Clay Allison; 12" credited as Kendra Smith/David Roback/Keith Mitchell, released in 1984. Buy 12" EP at Amazon.

1985 Northern Line 12" EP (One Big Guitar): Northern Line (Roback/Smith); Empty Bottles (Roback); Soul Giver (Roback/Smith). Produced by David Roback.

1986 Don't Shoot compilation LP (Zippo, ZONG 009): Freight Train (Cotton). Note: Recorded under the name Clay Allison; reissued on CD in 1993 by Mau Mau (MAU CD 606). Buy LP at Amazon.

1987 Happy Nightmare Baby (SST/Rough Trade): Rocket Machine; Magick Power; Relevation; A Falling Star; She's A Diamond; Supernova; Siamese Trap; Happy Nightmare Baby; Soul Giver. All songs by David Roback and Kendra Smith. Produced by David Roback. Buy LP at Amazon, CD at Amazon.

1987 Chemical Imbalance 7" EP (Chemical Imbalance Records, 003). Opal track: Indian Summer (original by The Doors). Note: Single released with Chemical Imbalance magazine issue #6, October 1987; also featured are Slovenly, fIREHOSE & Leaving Trains.

1987 Beyond The Wildwood - A Tribute to Syd Barrett tribute (Imaginary). Opal track: If The Sun Don't Shine. Note: "If The Sun Don't Shine" was originally released by Pink Floyd as "Jugband Blues". Buy LP at Amazon, CD at Amazon.

1989 Early Recordings (Rough Trade): Empty Box Blues (Roback); She's A Diamond; My Only Friend (Roback); Empty Bottles (Roback); Grains Of Sand; Brigit On Sunday (Roback/Suki); Northern Line; Strange Delight (Roback/Suki); Fell From The Sun (Smith); Harriet Brown; Lullabye; All Souls. CD adds Hear The Wind Blow. All songs by David Roback and Kendra Smith unless otherwise indicated. Produced by David Roback. Buy CD at Amazon.

King Kong Club, College Park, MD, May 14, 1984

The Electric Banana, Pittsburgh, PA May 22, 1984

Ann Arbor, MI May 24, 1984

Philadelphia, PA November 3, 1987: Rocket Machine; Rock Section (The Colours Out Of Time); Supernova; Magick Power; Happy Nightmare Baby; Soul Giver; Siamese Trap; [Jewel?] (cut) + KSDT San Diego, November 17, 1987: "Halfway Blind".

UCSD, San Diego (KSDT broadcast) November 17, 1987: Rocket Machine; Magick Power; Supernova; Rock Section (The Colours Out Of Time); Happy Nightmare Baby; Soul Giver; Siamese Trap.

Supernova: Live at the I-Beam, San Francisco, November, 1987: Rocket Machine; Magick Power; Supernova; Jewel; Rock Section (The Colours Out Of Time); Happy Nightmare Baby; Siamese Trap; Soul Giver; XXX.

Germany, March 20, 1988: Revolution; Ghost Highway; Soul Giver; Rock Section (The Colours Out Of Time); Magick Power; Happy Nightmare Baby; Blue Flower; Indian Summer; Heroin; Rocket Machine; XXX; Soon Be Home (The Who); Life's A Gas (T.Rex); The Killing Moon (Echo & The Bunnymen).

Berlin, Germany, 1988: Revolution; Ghost Highway; Rock Section (The Colours Out Of Time); Happy Nightmare Baby; "She Walks in the Winter"; Blue Flower; The Killing Moon; "Ariana/She Falls and She Can't Get Up"; Rocket Machine; "Trapped in the Rain"; Indian Summer; Heroin; Hear The Wind Blow; Soon Be Home.

Bloom Club, Mezzago Italy, March 24, 1988: Revolution; Ghost Highway; Rock Section (The Colours Out Of Time); Magick Power; Blue Flower (Slapp Happy); Where Did You Run To; Indian Summer; Heroin (Velvet Underground); Rocket Machine; [Ariana] "She Falls And She Can't Get Up"; Soul Giver; Happy Nightmare Baby; Real Wild Child; "She Walks Through The Moonlight"; "Trapped in the Rain"/"Feel like a Fool"; Soon Be Home (The Who).

U4 Club, Vienna, Austria, March 30, 1988: Revolution; Ghost Highway; Soul Giver; Rock Section (The Colours Out Of Time); Magick Power; Happy Nightmare Baby; Blue Flower; Indian Summer; Heroin; Rocket Machine; Soon Be Home; Life's A Gas; The Killing Moon.

Theaterfabrik, Munchen, Germany April 5, 1988 per http://www.mazzystar.nu/web/bootlegs.asp

Rohre, Stuttgart, Germany, April 6, 1988: Revolution; Magick Power; Ghost Highway; Rock Section (The Colours Out Of Time); Rocket Machine; Blue Flower (Slapp Happy); Happy Nightmare Baby; "She Walks in the winter..."; Soul Giver; Indian Summer; [Ariana] "she falls and she can't get up"; Real Wild Child; Life's A Gas (T. Rex)/Heroin (Velvet Underground); "Trapped in the Rain"/"Feel like a Fool"; The Killing Moon (Echo & The Bunnymen); Hear The Wind Blow; Soon Be Home (The Who).

Logo, Hamburg, Germany, April 9, 1988 per http://www.pacificnet.net/~kevhayn/livetape.htm

Holland Paradiso, Amsterdam April 10, 1988 per http://www.mazzystar.nu/web/bootlegs.asp

Bad Hanover, April 15, 1988

The Kennel Club, San Francisco, CA, June 30, 1988 per http://home.pages.at/schida/premarkus/musicoll.txt

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