Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 1:01 am
God bless him, but I haven't really been thrilled with the Purple Chick stuff I've heard, in the sense that he just compiles stuff. He doesn't seem to do any remastering or touching up, and his editing skills are crude. His sets are great if you're looking for all the bootleg stuff, in raw form, in one place.
My copy of the Purple Chick White Album set has a better sounding copy of the Esher Demos, but there are digital errors throughout the whole damn thing! Did he ever issue an upgrade to that?
I'm contemplating uploading my own sets which are just "fantasy" versions of what I thought Apple should have done in the first place. I've foisted them upon various people but never uploaded them. For the albums proper I used the SHTV favorites Die Beatles/Beatlemania/Blue Box LP's
Up to MMT they are just one disc: STEREO ALBUM>STEREO NON-LP TRACKS>SELECT OUTTAKES
White album is four discs: STEREO LP 1/STEREO LP 2>STEREO NON-LP TRACKS/ESHER DEMOS/SELECT OUTTAKES
Let It Be is one disc and Abbey Road is two: original LP on one and Non-LP>Outtakes on the other.
The "Sessions" frankenstien mixes were not used at all. The alternate Ob-La-Di, Ob-La Da is in excellent wide stereo taken from Purple Chick's set and drastically remastered - I took it from a "B" to an "A"
I also used the new "Revolution 1" alternate.
Shit like that. I dunno. Good idea?
My copy of the Purple Chick White Album set has a better sounding copy of the Esher Demos, but there are digital errors throughout the whole damn thing! Did he ever issue an upgrade to that?
I'm contemplating uploading my own sets which are just "fantasy" versions of what I thought Apple should have done in the first place. I've foisted them upon various people but never uploaded them. For the albums proper I used the SHTV favorites Die Beatles/Beatlemania/Blue Box LP's
Up to MMT they are just one disc: STEREO ALBUM>STEREO NON-LP TRACKS>SELECT OUTTAKES
White album is four discs: STEREO LP 1/STEREO LP 2>STEREO NON-LP TRACKS/ESHER DEMOS/SELECT OUTTAKES
Let It Be is one disc and Abbey Road is two: original LP on one and Non-LP>Outtakes on the other.
The "Sessions" frankenstien mixes were not used at all. The alternate Ob-La-Di, Ob-La Da is in excellent wide stereo taken from Purple Chick's set and drastically remastered - I took it from a "B" to an "A"
I also used the new "Revolution 1" alternate.
Shit like that. I dunno. Good idea?