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December 12th 2000
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Long time, no update - sorry about the delay, peoples! However,
there is at least now a fairly radical update - the addition of
a videos page, containing no less than 33 Beatles videos. They
are mostly promotional videos, or the montages taken from the
Anthology video set. However, there's also a couple of rarities,
including a trailer for Help!, as well as several
live performances.
A note on the video formats, though. Most of them are Real Media
files, and download fine. However, FortuneCity seems to have
imposed problems with .ASF and .MOV files, so these have been
zipped up - hope this doesn't cause too many problems!
I'm shortly about to be away from a high-speed net connection,
so don't expect any updates before January - however, I will be
WORKING on updates, nevertheless. I've recently come into a few
vinyl records that just HAVE to be recorded, as well as other
stuff I want to get put on!
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October 15th 2000
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"Woohoo!" some of you might say! Contrary to my original plan
of staggering the uploading of tracks,
I've put up five whole albums of MP3s in one go - new clean
recordings of Please Please Me and A Hard
Day's Night, as well as the complete With The
Beatles and Beatles For Sale stereo albums.
And what's more, you can now find Sgt. Pepper's Lonely
Hearts Club Band here in it's monoaural form!
At the moment, I am still trying to track down a copy of the
White Album mono version - but hopefully it won't
be too difficult!
Also, I'm planning a small EPs section to go with the Long
Tall Sally EP already on-line, since a few of the EPs
contain mono mixes no longer available - notably the
Magical Mystery Tour double set. I'll see how
things go before I set anything in stone, though!
I hope you enjoy this update - the largest ever done here!
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October 10th 2000
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The more astute of you may notice that nothing at all has
actually changed - I just wanted to drop a note saying that I'm
still alive, and that I still have website concerns going on!
Within the next week or so, I hope starting a whole new load of
MP3s - firstly, new cleaner versions of Please Please
Me and Beatles For Sale (as well as the
rest of the latter going on-line!), plus shortly afterwards I
will putting up With The Beatles in stereo, and
then Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in mono
- a popular request by many!
Now, I don't want to make any promises, but I'm also hoping to
be able to get ahold of recordings of the mono
"White" album - I shall see how things go before
I start finalise any plans.
And finally, I hope to be able to get a full set of Beatles EP
covers and annotations on-line - so keep watching this space!
Hear ya later, and please
listen.to/beatles_rarities!
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August 14th 2000
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Well here it is! The fruit of many night's work! (a little
delayed, too!)If you've not
visited this site before, then you won't know just how vastly
different the design has just changed, but if you're a regular
visitor then hopefully you'll find the site much easier to
navigate now, as well as being more visually appealing.
However, as well as the major overhaul, I have also had time to
add even more stuff to the site - including stereo recordings of
side A of Beates For Sale, as well as a special
treat to fans of recording sessions - an MP3 of part of the
track 2 session tape for From Me To You along with
annotation, kindly donated by Rohan Byrnes.
With a bit of luck, I'll soon have the rest of Beatles For
Sale on-line, as well as adding a bit more detail into
the notes for each record - and updating the last couple of
pages still in the old style.
Until then, all the best, and enjoy the new-look site!
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July 27th 2000
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Well, spent the long hours of the night uploading the rest of
A Hard Day's Night - however these recordings are
not my own, and are available thanks to Don Trapani, who
recorded them from his Japanese pressing. See the
AHDN page for more details!
As for why it's so long since the last update, well I've been
away in South Africa - but now I'm back, work is continuing in
bringing you more recordings. I am currently in the process of
getting Beatles For Sale recorded and encoded -
side A is done, but I am yet to start on side B. However, I've
not uploaded any of these recordings yet.
Finally, I'm also currently at the stage of redesigning this
site to make it somewhat more organised and usable, and with
this revision will come a treat, too! So keep your eyes posted
this next weekend or two for:
listen.to/beatles_rarities Version 2.0 :)
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June 5th 2000
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I've now included a couple of updates to the site - as well as
My Bonnie / The Saints and
Please Please Me I have now added the Long
Tall Sally EP, as well as some stereo recordings of
A Hard Day's Night - although I'm still working on
de-hissing issues - thanks for your patience!
Also, too, I have reworked the pages for My Bonnie
/ The Saints and Please Please Me to
include recording history for the discs, and the Please
Please Me page includes a transcript of the back cover
promotional text (please note - recording dates taken from table
compiled by Joseph Brennan from Mark Lewisohn's "The Beatles
Recording Sessions" and "The Beatles Chronicle," and is used
with permission).
Finally, there is now a guest book, which I would really
appreciate if you'd sign, and I hope to bring you another update
very soon!
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Opening - May 31st 2000
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Recently, I was lucky to get my hands onto some good old
fashioned vinyl records of early Beatles material, and it soon
became apparent that the recordings etched into the plastic
grooves may be of interest to others - not least since I had
stereo copies of Please Please Me, A Hard
Day's Night and Beatles For Sale.
I decided to make available to the dedicated Beatles enthusiast
these recordings as I could best transfer onto computer. I'm
rather pleased with the recordings so far, however there is a
persistant hiss on all them, so I recommend turning down the
treble if you can.
Whilst not all the material I have is available here yet, I
shall endeavour to get the remaining recordings digitised as
soon as possible!
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