Oil Well Bootlegs - RSC CD: The Beatles – Across The Universe Oil Well

The Beatles – Across The Universe
Oil Well – RSC 032 CD

1 Ob-La-Di,Ob-La-Da - 2:56
2 Tomorrow Never Knows - 2:57
3 A Day In The Life - 5:09
4 Yes It Is - 3:06
5 I Saw Her Standing There - 3:00
6 Norwegian Wood - 2:03
7 Not Guilty - 3:15
8 Across The Universe - 3:46
9 While My Guitar Gently Weeps 3:26
10 Ticket To Ride - 3:23
11 One after 909 - 3:17
12 A taste of honey - 2:17
13 I feel fine - 2:49
14 Yer Blues - 4:00
15 Blues Jam - 3:48
16 Not Guilty #2 - 4:25
17 Get back - 2:17
18 Mailman bring me no more blues - 1:53
19 Do you want to know a secret - 2:44
20 All you need is love - 5:00
Total duration: 65:33

Note:
All songs by Lennon/McCartney unless noted
~~Live in Sheffield, March 3, 1964~~

Track 1. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (take 5) - Abbey Road Studios, London, United Kingdom. 3rd July 1968
Track 2. Tomorrow Never Knows (Take 3) - Abbey Road Studios, London, 6th April 1966
Track 3. A Day In The Life (Take 6, Take 7) - Abbey Road Studios, London, 20th January 1967
Track 4. Yes It Is (take 1) - Abbey Road Studios, London, United Kingdom. 16th February 1965
Track 5. I Saw Her Standing There (take 10) - Abbey Road Studios, London, 11th February 1963
Track 6. Norwegian Wood (take 1) - Abbey Road Studios, London, United Kingdom. 12th October 1965
Track 7. Not Guilty (take 102) - Abbey Road Studios, London, United Kingdom. 7th August 1968
Track 8. Across The Universe (take 8, RM2) - Abbey Road Studios, London, 8th February 1968
Track 9 While My Guitar Gently Weeps (take 1) - Abbey Road Studios, London, 25th July 1968
Track 10 Ticket To Ride (take 2, SS.HLP.07.02) - Abbey Road Studios, London, 15th February 1965
Track 11 One after 909 - Get Back Session 28 Jan 1969
Track 12 A taste of honey - Take 7, 11 Feb 1963
Track 13 I feel fine - Take 9 overdubbed onto take 7, 18 Oct 1964
Tracks 14-15: Yer Blues/Blues Jam - Intertel Studios, London, 10th December 1968
Track 16 Take 102, unedited stereo mix, 12 Aug 1968
Track 17 Get back - Parody of Get Back sung in German (aka GEH RAUS), 27 Jan 1969
Track 18 Mailman bring me no more blues - Remixed/edited 1984, Get Back Session, 29 Jan 1969
Track 19 Do you want to know a secret - no echo effects on george's lead vocals, Take 8, 11 Feb 1963
Track 20 All you need is love - Take 58,25 Jun 1967, From the "Our World" TV Programme

Lineup:
John Lennon - guitars and vocals
Paul McCartney - bass and vocals
George Harrison - guitars and vocals
Ringo Starr - drums and vocals

This CD is a compilation of the songs on the Oil Well CDs "Ticket To Ride" and "Get Back" which are themselves the same as Ultra Rare Trax 3 & 4.
This is definately NOT Live in Sheffield 03/03/64, we all wish it was but, this is no more than a false statement to sell more cloned material. A better sales pitch would be as a 'two for one price' similar to that issued by some commercial labels or 'Pirate' discs of commercial releases.
http://www.beatleg.info/music/docs/beatles/boots/cd/rsc032cd.htm

There is also more studio chatter included on this CD. Despite the sleeve notes there are no live recordings on this CD. Oil Well is probably one of the most disrepectful label towards its customers-

This Oil Well version has a fine cover, fine quality. Limited to 200 copies only. Due to its rarity and good quality, this disc is recommended.
Track 14 is Yer Blues (Take 3) different take respect the version released officially on Rock N' Roll Circus first edition in the 90s. In 2019 Yer Blues (Take 3) has been released officially on: Rock and Roll Circus Expanded Audio Edition as Yer Blues (Take 2);
Track 15 has been released officially as Warmup Jam on Rock and Roll Circus Expanded Audio Edition (2019)
Audio quality:

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© Official released material:
Track 1,2,3,7,9 have been released officially on: "Anthology" (1996)
Tracks 14,15 have been released officially on: Rock and Roll Circus Expanded Audio Edition (2019)

Track 16 has been released officially on: Anthology (1996)

Track 19 has been released officially on: Please Please Me - Deluxe Edition

Track 20 has been released officially on: Magical Mystery Tour (50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition)

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Anthology
When the Beatles released the first of the three double-disc Anthology sets in November 1995, the idea was to beat the bootleggers at their own game. More than any other artist – more than Bob Dylan, more than Pink Floyd, more than Bruce Springsteen – the Beatles' outtakes, session scraps and tossed-off fragments were hoarded and cherished by collectors.

But unlike so many of those other artists, there wasn't, frankly, too much the Beatles left unreleased. Most everything they recorded in the studio was collected on the 12 albums and the singles-sweeping Past Masters set that had been released over the years. The handful of quality leftovers had pretty much been bootlegged to death by 1995.

Still, Anthology posed itself as more than just a vault-clearing project (like Dylan's Bootleg Series). By chronologically lining up the band's earliest recordings (a cover of Buddy Holly's "That'll Be the Day" from 1958 when they were still known as the Quarrymen) to the last song they recorded together (fittingly, a remix of "The End"), the three volumes tell the story of the world's biggest pop group – the rise, the fall and everything in between. More than 150 tracks tell this story. Some are fragments, some are mere dialogue. And some are tinny live versions where you can hardly make out the band from all the screaming girls in the audience. But the best of them reveal a side of the group's history that was left undocumented, at least officially, for more than a quarter-century.

Anthology review
It is quite possible that it was the Anthology series that soured me on pursuing the Beatles' catalog for the longest time. The combination of foisting new songs upon the public when, instead, it was the three surviving members singing along with a tape recorder (and, by that, I mean home tape recorder) to what were never intended to be Beatles songs and the reverent attitude of publications like Rolling Stone that every note ever played by this band was worthy of unending worship was just too much. It's one of the many times where it's nice that we are years removed from the hype.

The Anthology series, looking back on it, is less the culmination of brilliant stuff we never got to hear and more hours and hours of four guys fooling around in the studio. As usual, sausage is delicious, but less so watching it get made.

Although not the best of the series, the first Anthology does contain more of the essential material one would want concerning the band. We have the Quarrymen acetate, home recordings from the time Stuart Sutcliffe was with the band, and a number of demo recordings with Pete Best on drums. Hearing him play makes something clear: John's assertion that he was a lousy drummer was way off, as he's doing a number of styles, largely akin to jazz, while the rest of the band barely takes what was supposed to be their shot at the big time seriously. It's much more likely the rest of the band simply didn't get long with him as he was always the outsider. Hearing the dirge-like version of "Love Me Do" sounds like the other three were purposely trying to make it difficult for him.

A good portion of the Anthology 1 is live material, which actually is pretty good and shows what a dynamic live band the Beatles actually were. Unfortunately, the studio takes feature more goofing around. I guess as much recording as they were forced to do to stay relevant at the time does require stress release, but that doesn't really make it a good listen unless you were there and remember the context.