The Big Hand unreleased versions

It would be interesting to read transcripts for these interviews (the Wikipedia page references a 1992 KROQ interview as the source for the claim of Boris' objections). Since someone went to the trouble to list a reference, I'm more likely to think there might be some truth. 

Was Boris thrown under the bus? Was someone just mouthing off? We may never know!



(taken from: www.afoolisharrangement.com/cure/tradelist.asp?TradeTypeID=5)

About the mentions of variants, i think the writer in fact is back to writing about 'a letter to elise'.

What does "tagged onto the end of a Bloodflowers era ROIO." mean?  It's especially ROIO that i don't understand.

ROIO means Recording Of Independent Origin.
Effectively not an official release.

Here's a shot of the track listing. It appears to be vapourware and only in mp3.

And the Picture Show instrumental is just a variant mix of the 1990 demo version that's already on the Wish DE.