issued in the Pebbles series were compilations of recordings from continental Europe in the sub-series The Continent Lashes Back. According to the Bomp! website, the release of the Pebbles, Volume 11 CD in 2007—actually several years after the release of the Pebbles, Volume 12 CD—represents the last album that will ever be issued in the Pebbles series. More recently, AIP has begun the Essential Pebbles series and Planetary Pebbles series; whether there will be future volumes in these series is uncertain. To their credit, when AIP began issuing Pebbles albums on CD, the albums included numerous recordings that were not as yet on the LPs. Also, after the release of the first six volumes on CD, all of the tracks on the Pebbles CDs had been previously un-reissued on CD. Even the first two releases in the Essential Pebbles series include a second CD of previously un-reissued music in addition to the distillation from the previous Pebbles albums. ESD Records According to the AIP website, ESD Records (also known as East Side Digital) issued 4 volumes of CDs in the Pebbles series in 1989–1990. Though compiled by AIP, the tracks are almost completely different from those in the corresponding volumes of the LPs and CDs described previously (although a sizable number of the tracks on ESD's Pebbles, Volume 2 appear on both the earlier Pebbles, Volume 3 LP and the later CD reissue). Particularly on ESD's Pebbles, Volume 1, many of the tracks are either new to Pebbles or are buried on the higher-numbered volumes in the Pebbles series or Highs in the Mid-Sixties series. The albums had a limited run of only 1,000 each and are now difficult to locate; but, not surprisingly, the ESD and AIP CDs are often confused. One added bonus in the ESD CDs is that the excellent liner notes are written by Nigel Strange (who wrote liner notes for several of the BFD Records albums also). Discography LPs Pebbles, Volume 1; #BFD-5016 — (no volume number on the BFD Records LP release; no catalogue number on the initial Mastercharge release) Pebbles, Volume 2; #BFD-5019 Pebbles, Volume 3: The Acid Gallery; #BFD-5020 Pebbles, Volume 4: Summer Means Fun; #BFD-5021 Pebbles, Volume 5; #BFD-5022 Pebbles, Volume 6: The Roots of Mod; #BFD-5023 Pebbles, Volume 7; #BFD-5024 Pebbles, Volume 8; #BFD-5025 Pebbles, Volume 9; #BFD-5026 Pebbles, Volume 10; #BFD-5027 Pebbles, Volume 11; #AIP 10001 Pebbles, Volume 12;