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- From: ross-c@scs.leeds.ac.uk
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- Subject: Re: unheard Beatles alternates
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- In article <randall.724551344@seashore> you write:
- >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?
-
- According to articles on bootlegging published this year in the UK press,
- the security used to be very lax, and the tapes used to be "borrowed" at
- night, and returned the next morning. One magazine claimed that the
- nightwatchman (note singular) at one studio (possibly EMI) was very easily
- bribed (the magazine described how, I won't :-) ). Also, they said that
- "house hippies" associated with recording companies were involved in
- "liberating" unreleased sound recordings and artwork.
-
- I'm starting to think I should hunt this article up and type it in. This
- is at least the second time I've described it here.
-
- Cheers,
-
- Ross-c
-