art direction [reissue art direction], design Jeri Heiden art direction [reissue art direction], design Ryan Corey edited by Blade engineer [additional engineering] Allan Blazek engineer [additional engineering] Kelly Kotera engineer [additional engineering] Tom Scott engineer [assistent] Matt Coles engineer [assistent] Zach Johnson engineer [original recording], producer [original recording] Bill Szymczyk lacquer cut by Chris Bellman mastered by Bob Ludwig mixed by Jeff Balding photography by Bob Jenkins photography by David Alexander photography by Hasse Persson photography by Henry Diltz photography by Jeffrey Mayer photography by Michael Putland producer Don Henley producer Richard Davis producer [produced for release by] Bill Inglot producer [produced for release by] Steve Woolard product manager Irving Azoff Copyright (c) Elektra/Asylum Records Phonographic Copyright (p) Elektra/Asylum Records Record Company Warner Music Group Manufactured By Warner Music Group Marketed By Warner Music Group Recorded At The Forum, Los Angeles Mastered At Gateway Mastering Lacquer Cut At Bernie Grundman Mastering Pressed By Optimal Media GmbH Mixed At Sonic Boom-Room Edited At Echolalia Designed At SMOG Design, Inc. Released in a gatefold cover with 2 printed innersleeves showing photos, credits and tracks The LPs are housed in black polylined extra inner sleeves
[Removable hype sticker on front]:
First time on Vinyl! Live From the Los Angeles Forum, October 20-22, 1976
2 LPs With 3 Sides of Audio Plus an Etching
[Barcode] 6 03497 84269 8
RI 667034 / 603497842698
[On back cover]:
Made in Germany
Some releases also show Made in Germany on a removable sticker on shrink
In runouts, all Optimal Media plating symbols may be mirrored and inverted, e.g. =1 and X1 in the runout field appears as =↾ and X↾ in the deadwax. In variant 1, the runout strings are etched, side B, 211 is written backwards
Some issues, especially for the US market, were released with a Walmart sticker and a laminated card inside as a part of postmanufacturing marketing strategy
[On Labels]: Made in Germany Barcode: 6 03497 84269 8 (On hype sticker text) Barcode: 603497842698 (On hype sticker scanned) Rights Society: GEMA/BIEM (On labels) Matrix / Runout: R1-667034-A 0603497842698-01 CB BL46759-01 A1 (Side A runout, variant 1) Matrix / Runout: R1-667034-B 0603497842698-01 CB BL46759-01 B1 211 (Side B runout, variant 1) Matrix / Runout: R1-667034-C 0603497842698-02 CB BL46759-02 C1 (Side C runout, variant 1) Matrix / Runout: R1-667034-A 0603497842698-01 CB BL46759-01 A1 =1 (Side A runout, variant 2) Matrix / Runout: R1-667034-B 0603497842698-01 -2 CB BL46759-01 B1 (Side B runout, variant 2) Matrix / Runout: R1-667034-C 0603497842698-02 CB BL46759-02 C1 X1 (Side C runout, variant 2)