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- From: faciane@huey.met.fsu.edu (Dave Faciane)
- Subject: Re: unheard Beatles alternates
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.134416.11045@mailer.cc.fsu.edu>
- Keywords: studio, alternates
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 13:44:16 GMT
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- In article <randall.724551344@seashore> randall@informix.com (Randall
- Rhea) writes:
- >I always wondered where the bootleg material comes from. The
- >various alternate takes on the Yellow Dog CDs sound like they
- >came from the master tapes. Did someone at EMI leak the tapes?
- >If so, why didn't they leak all of them, including the various
- >ones discussed in the previous article?
- >
- Much of the YD/URT material comes from the EMI collection of work
- tapes from which the final versions of the Beatles' LPs and CDs
- were subsequnetly made. These outtakes are comprised mostly of working
- versions of familiar songs, such as the ubiquitous SFF outtakes.
- Most of the stuff comes out in dribs and drabs (to keep you buying it,
- you see. Those bootleggers are clever). It's not known, for obvious
- reasons, who is the source of the illegally-dubbed tapes which find
- their way onto the CDs. Perhaps it is a high-ranking EMI employee.
-
- >I know that the bootleg "Get Back" stuff comes from acetate
- >and from the unused film soundtrack. But the other stuff sounds
- >too good to be from any other source than the master tape.
- >
-
- Most of the Yellow Dog stuff probably comes from an analog dub of
- the master (unless the bootleggers have access at EMI to digital
- transfer equipment, in which case they should display "ADD" on the
- CD case!), so the material you finally get to hear is perhaps one
- or two generations distant from the master (unless it has been handed
- down in tape-trading circles for a while, like the "Hodge Podge" stuff
- apparently has). That explains the excellent sound quality you hear.
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