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Bootleg Beatles
Apr. 28th, 2007 05:23 pmOkay, so while Emm and I are spending nearly the entire day watching Ed, Edd & Eddy reruns on Cartoon Network, I'm playing around with my MusicMatch files (once again), and it occurs to me that, being the Beatles fan that I am (thanks, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
emmalyon, for the icon, btw), there are very few bootleg tracks I have. I've never had too many bootlegs aside from the ones I bought at random used record stores, and most of those tracks ended up being on the Anthology series.
Part of me is quite interested in hearing a lot of the stuff, and from what I hear, the bootleg stuff has gotten quite upscale (various cds are available, and I've seen a number of them at record conventions) such as "complete sets" of certain sessions, random mixes of the same song (as there are many, especially during the pre-Revolver era), and whatnot. But I've never gotten around to buying any of it, first because it's hard to come by, and second because it can get pretty expensive. So I've never gotten around to actively looking for any of it.
Every now and again I do find a bootleg track floating around the net, which of course I swipe to listen to. But in all honesty, I don't have that many. Mind you, I'm not into collecting them for the money or to say I've got something rare (although I do have a rather tatty promo copy of the 'Strawberry Fields'/'Penny Lane' single with the extra notes at the end of 'PL'), more along the lines that I'm a)a completist when it comes to collecting certain bands I like, and b)I'm totally fascinated by the way the songs evolved from demo to finished form.
I do, though, have the three books by Mark Lewisohn that are probably the ONLY Beatles books one could ever need (aside from the Beatles Anthology book). And I think that's good enough for now.
But of course, if anyone has any directions to some cheap outtake mp3s, I won't say no. ;)
emmalyon, for the icon, btw), there are very few bootleg tracks I have. I've never had too many bootlegs aside from the ones I bought at random used record stores, and most of those tracks ended up being on the Anthology series.Part of me is quite interested in hearing a lot of the stuff, and from what I hear, the bootleg stuff has gotten quite upscale (various cds are available, and I've seen a number of them at record conventions) such as "complete sets" of certain sessions, random mixes of the same song (as there are many, especially during the pre-Revolver era), and whatnot. But I've never gotten around to buying any of it, first because it's hard to come by, and second because it can get pretty expensive. So I've never gotten around to actively looking for any of it.
Every now and again I do find a bootleg track floating around the net, which of course I swipe to listen to. But in all honesty, I don't have that many. Mind you, I'm not into collecting them for the money or to say I've got something rare (although I do have a rather tatty promo copy of the 'Strawberry Fields'/'Penny Lane' single with the extra notes at the end of 'PL'), more along the lines that I'm a)a completist when it comes to collecting certain bands I like, and b)I'm totally fascinated by the way the songs evolved from demo to finished form.
I do, though, have the three books by Mark Lewisohn that are probably the ONLY Beatles books one could ever need (aside from the Beatles Anthology book). And I think that's good enough for now.
But of course, if anyone has any directions to some cheap outtake mp3s, I won't say no. ;)
