Acknowledgements

I'm in deep debt of gratitude to these persons:

• All members of WISHBONE ASH, past and present. Without you, there would be no discography
• Leon Tsilis, originator of "The Wishbone Ash Web Site". Be sure to visit there if you're interested in a comprehensive presentation of what Wishbone Ash is all about!
• Dr. John, who knows everything worth knowing about Wishbone Ash. Practically all information about different printings are courtesy of Dr John.
• Tsutomu Kubota (JPN) and Andy Garcarz (UK) for being co-workers!
• Co-worker Wolfgang Schmidt (GER) for invaluable help (especially the singles).
• My Canadian AshCon97 companion and co-worker John Mellec for his contributions.
• The founder of the official German Wishbone Ash Web Site, Detlef Assenmacher now defunct. Detlef's been co-working on this web site too!
• All eBay sellers allowing me to use their pictures and other information on this web site. They are:
  Han Sang-Hak, eBay seller "recomania" and an "anonymous" person. All from Korea. Giancarlo Romanelli from Italy. Carlos Garcia and an "anonymous" person from Spain.
• Co-worker David Richardson, from UK, who among other things made the greatest Wishbone Ash screen savers I've seen!
• A couple of "hard core fans" may not be unmetioned:
• Mike Derbyshire (UK) for "Hot Ash", for being at AshCon98 and, and...
• Harry van der Pouw (NL), who among other things informed me of the Wisbone Ash Picture Disc pirate copy of the Live in Chicago CD.
• Co-worker Dave Hefford, from UK, who scanned (and made available to this web site) the cover art of the rare Blowin Free, Phoenix & Jail Bait EP .
• Co-worker Vincent Dymanus who allowed me to use his picture of Wishbone Ash’s first Holland single.
• Co-worker Mike Pering who sent me all info about the compilation CD entitled "The Collection".
• Co-worker Doug Boyne (Indonesia/Scotland) for sending the detail photo of the first printings of Live Dates II.
• Co-worker Ben Reinhardt who's an expert on finding "missing" printings and sending pictures of them.
• Co-worker Kelly C. Hanna who sent me detailed info of the Mexican printing of Live Dates 2.
• Co-worker Vemund Grimstad who sent me info and pictures of some Spanish singles etc.
• Co-worker Simon Atkinson who sent me pictures of some Italian singles, and more.
• Co-worker Mike Weal who sent me info and pictures of Japanese bootleg releases.
• Co-worker Bob Beresford for sending me "loads of pictures" etc.
• Co-worker Stian Brekken, for his web site containing Hipgnosis covers, which he graciously allowed me to "loan" Wishbone Ash cover art from.
• Co-worker Philippe Gweganton for info and pics of a whole lot of French printings.
• Co-worker Neil Hunt for his help on comparing track lengths of various CD releases of Live Dates and finding a missing printing of On Air. Plus a lot more.
• Co-worker Martin Blow for opening my eyes concerning Ben Granfelt's E.G.O. solo CD.
• Co-worker Jean-Paul Baume for pics of first album's Mexican printing.
• Co-worker "HeJePi" for several corrections/additions.
• Paul Smith for pictures of Live Dates Volume 2 printings with some errors.
• Steve Bannister for detailed information of Live in New Jersey Bootleg CD.
• Steve Koontz and Colin Hargrave for pictures of Wishlist CD.
• Peter Webb for pictures of Live in Cologne DVD/2CD.

Thanks also to:

• Patrick Fuchs for pointing out that I had the wrong recording date for Insomnia on Tracks 2CD.
• Max Jackson for pointing out errors/discrepancies in track lenghts of Live in Geneva.
• "Barrerensen" who sent me info of Live in Hamburg LP release.
• Nigel Clinning who sent me corrective information of Live Dates 2 printings.
• Joerg Moeckel who searches for my mistakes when transferring data from discography version 4 to version 5 ("Lost Pearls" and "BBC Radio 1 Live In Concert Wishbone Ash").
• "Doctor Crack" and Tim Bracey for information concerning Tracks 2.
• Marcus Meyer (GER) for informing me of some European printings that I’d missed.
• Klaus E. Meyer (GER) for additional information.
• Mike Davis (USA) who informed me of two albums that I'd missed (way back in '94).
• Martin Daughton (UK) for some corrections to the UK singles printing years and Cat#'s.
• Jose Barrero from Spain for sending me additional info of the 1991 Stage Affair Bootleg.
• Tim Bracey from UK who pointed out a missing hidden track. Thanks!
• Jos van Acker from the Netherlands who found two more "Liverpool bootlegs".
• "spider" who brought to my attention a download-only version of a "Liverpool bootleg".
• "mesopopmania" who made me aware of "Classic Airwaves".
• Chris Breen who made me aware of a "Wishbone Ash discography book".
• Ian Sadler for "poking me" about Elegant Stealth Deluxe Edition and The Story Behind the Album Elegant Stealth DVD.
• Félix Benoit for sending info of a french Pilgrimage printing.
• John Foster for making me aware of "Renaissance - De_Lane Lea Studios 1973" CD where Andy Powell plays on one track.
• Jari Kumpula for making me aware of a bug in the bootlegs / pirate copies search page.

Written by: Rainer Frilund - Last update: Sep, 2025