It is a unique and wonderful opportunity and such a historical document to hear these early demo versions. So, using George's Ampex 4-track Reel-to-Reel recorder, they laid down these mostly acoustic demos consisting primarily of early versions of songs that would later become the ' White album', as well as some that would be later released on respective solo albums ('Junk', 'Child of Nature' which was later re-worked to become 'Jealous Guy', and 'Circles'), and a few that were never officially released ('What's the New Mary Jane', 'Sour Milk Sea', 'Not Guilty'). Here, in late May 1968, after returning from their trek to India and prior to going back into the recording studio to work on their next album (in June), the boys got together and presented to each other the songs they had each recently come up with.There have been many bootleg variations of the Esher demos circulating (with titles such as 'From Kinfauns to Chaos', 'Acoustic Masterpieces', Unsurpassed Demos', 'The Beatles-Unplugged', 'Release from Limitation', and countless others), in varying quality, for many years, but all have consisted of the same 23 songs (it has been rumored that the bootleg releases came from copies of Lennon's own Acetate, which he traded for some other bootlegs). It has been reported that 27-28 songs were recorded over a couple days, after which George Martin had several copies of an acetate of these sessions pressed and distributed to each Beatle for their perusal at home to work with before heading into the studio in the following weeks. Most intriguing are the early acoustic versions of songs that became much more electric or 'rockier' (like 'Revolution', 'Everybody's Got Something.Monkey', 'Yer Blues', 'While My Guitar.Weeps', etc). In some cases, the songs are still quite rough, in others, they are very similar to what the song would sound like on the finished album. When listening, you can get the feeling of having your own personal, casual and informal concert with them just sitting around your living room.
I have not included these tracks here as they are commercially available on Anthology 3. 3' (The Demos)From Purple Chick's notes - "For what it's worth, not only do these tracks sound better to us than on 'From Kinfauns To Chaos' but they're also in the 'correct order', at the correct speed and in true mono for the first time (as best we can tell)."However, the Purple Chick collection also included the 4 additional Esher songs taken directly from the official Anthology 3 release. Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My MonkeyThese are taken from the Purple Chick compilation 'The Beatles - Deluxe Edition Vol. The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill16. Amor estranho amor completo dublado completoThe only thing I do have is My total Beatles Collection of all 16 Lps from Capital and Apple (Later ) They were all purchased at the time of their release from 63- to the final Lp. I have to say blows my mind!!! I have to admit and reluctantly and remorsefully that I do not have one Bootleg Lp. I am new to this blog site and in just reading what I've read thus far on all the vast amount of Beatles Bootlegs there are available. Collection of these PC series (which amounts to several dozen CDs worth) contain most all of the Beatles bootleg recordings you would ever need, as they were compiled from many different bootleg sources, keeping the best stuff, and eliminating all the redundant and low quality remainders, and rendering most of the rest of the bootlegs obsolete.But please, let me know what your favorite Beatles bootlegs are.Hi Fellow Bloggers. Purple Chick also has a Live series compilation, which again compiles all the best quality live recordings over the Beatles career. I feel like I have the strongest connection. I feel like I've known them as friends all my life well at least 40 plus years. I guess you could say that they are the most important Band or group in the Soundtrack of My Life. The Beatles are so much a part of me and my life and have been since I was 13 yrs old. I am so much more than that. I would not classify myself as. A different mind set now more mature. Because its familiar yet new and exciting and I'm in. What is so amazing is that 40 yrs later I have found myself falling in Love with the Beatles all over again watching all the old concert footage and interviews on utubw. Best memory cleaner for macLennonThis site respects and supports artists and artist rights. Thanks for listening sorry it doesn't follow with the theme of Bootlegs Lps but I do hope that you still like it. Than the best way to keep their spirit I'd the spirit of that band alive is to play their music and look at their photos and share them and your thoughts and stories with other Beatles Lovers or Beatlemaniacs such as myself and that way their Spirit lives on forever as we'll as their music. I believe that if we truly love a group or band or a singer musician artist etc. It's so exciting to fall in love with the Beatles all over again with new Eyes and Vision. A singer/songwriter/ performer myself I also can see them in that light now.
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