JIM JONES LIVE! A Gun To The People's Temple (Test Pressing)

Test Pressing + Bonus 7" Limited to 3 copies *1 per person*
- Black Heavyweight 180 Gram Vinyl
- Kraft Jacket with Pen Plotted Design
- The Songs of Q042 Bonus 7" (3 unique song recordings, 1 song with each test pressing)

The Infamous “Death Tape”
(FBI No. Q 042)

Saturday, November 18th 1978
Jonestown, Guyana

Reverend Jim Jones commands The Peoples Temple to commit an act of revolutionary suicide. In this recording you will hear the final moments Rev. Jones and his followers make the case for poison as one brave soul defiantly opposes.

"IT'S NOT TO BE FEARED, IT'S A FRIEND." — Rev. Jim Jones

Dedicated to the defiance of Christine Miller

The Songs of Q042
The 7" Bonus Recordings

The Death Tape was recorded over a reel-to-reel tape which already had music on it, music which was not entirely erased in the process of recording Q042. The two recordings – the original funk and R&B music and the tape of Jonestown’s final day – were also recorded at different speeds. This led to the sound of seemingly low and slow droning organ music that lasts the entire tape.

The Three Songs:

“I’m Sorry” by the Delfonics

“The Pain Gets a Little Deeper” by Darrow Fletcher

“Never Give You Up” by Jerry Butler

Each 7" is comprised of one of the three songs with the excerpt of the Death Tape under which the songs play at half speed (Side A), giving the music a droned, spaced out, warp sound with the words of Jim Jones at normal speed, followed by the song at its recorded speed and the words on the Death Tape at twice its speed (Side B), giving the words an incomprehensible “chipmunk” effect. Both the excerpts and the songs have been separated into left and right channels for easy recognition of what is song and what is sermon.