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Lindsay's Collection

The Beatles   01/??/1969

Get Back Chronicles Vol.2 (Fab Productions), Compilation, Compilation
Media flac   2 discs
Notes sourced from Purple Chick A/B Road
Tech Notes THE BEATLES
THE BLACK ALBUM
2007 REMASTER
TWICKENHAM FILM STUDIOS
JAN. 1969
COMPILED BY TENNIRU


LINEAGE: FLAC (A/B ROAD) > AIFF (xACT) > AUDACITY (EDITING) > FLAC

It's almost hard to imagine a world without Purple Chick these days; everything nicely compiled, in order, complete, in good quality. The stack of old, scratchy, worn vinyl on the shelf isn't the great eye into the Beatles' past like the folder sitting on a DVD-R, likely identical to the state it was downloaded in for seeding purposes. It's more of one of those snowy, distorted glass things you see on a shower. Except someone went at the door with a hammer and taped it back together the best they could. "A/B Road" towers like a monolith over what may be a physically large disc, or pair of discs sharing a sleeve with huge piece of paper that bears a certain resemblance to what came with a similarly-designed real album.

The Black Album was the first bootleg I ever heard. A rough transfer at a low bitrate; the worst of both worlds as far as audio is concerned. Better existed at the time, but this new collector didn't know that. Of course, this was the Beatles; this wasn't going to stop me. The sound of John Lennon incoherently screaming the tune of "House Of The Rising Sun" over a sea of crackling an hiss, Paul McCartney roaring something about Pakistanis in a manner distantly resembling "Get Back"; these were new, foreign, and somewhat scary noises to me.
Now, in 2007, I've decided to revisit this old gem using Purple Chick's wonderful A/B Road collection, reconstructing this thing track by track, edit by edit; every track ends where it should, and the more memorable tape oddities are preserved (fun fact: the Black Album Hi-Heeled Sneakers wasn't just filled with dropouts, but actually was edited together from two takes! This took me about two hours to notice.)
It does run at the right speed, though.

This started as something I was boredly doing to distract myself from the aftereffects of wisdom teeth removal (the painkillers are probably the only thing that kept me from tearing my ears off while digging through the swamp that is the Get Back Sessions). The vast majority of the credit for this, of course, goes to Purple Chick. All I did was take their work and re-arrange it in the image of an old bootleg from decades past.

I have not tried something like this before, but I have done my best to meet the naming rules.
Trades Allowed Yes
Ratings Show: A    Sound: A
Owned by Lindsay · Last Updated May 23, 2023