Oil Well Bootlegs - RSC CD: The Beatles – Ticket To Ride Oil Well

The Beatles - Ticket To Ride

Oil Well RSC 009 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

Note:
~~Track 1 recorded: June 2, 1968~~
Track 2 recorded: April 6, 1966
~~Track 3 recorded: January 19, 1967~~
Track 4 recorded: February 15/19, 1965
Track 5 recorded: February 11, 1963
Track 6 recorded: October 12, 1965
Track 7 and 9 recorded: June/October 1968
~~Track 8 recorded: February 4, 1968~~
Track 10 recorded: February 1965

1. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (take 5) - Abbey Road Studios, London, United Kingdom. 3rd July 1968
2. Tomorrow Never Knows (Take 3) - Abbey Road Studios, London, United Kingdom. 6th April 1966
3. A Day In The Life (Take 6, Take 7) - Abbey Road Studios, London, United Kingdom. 20th January 1967
4. Yes It Is (take 1) - Abbey Road Studios, London, United Kingdom. 16th February 1965
5. I Saw Her Standing There (take 10) - Abbey Road Studios, London, United Kingdom. 11th February 1963
6. Norwegian Wood (take 1) - Abbey Road Studios, London, United Kingdom. 12th October 1965
7. Not Guilty (take 102) - Abbey Road Studios, London, United Kingdom. 7th August 1968
8. Across The Universe (take 8, RM2) - Abbey Road Studios, London, United Kingdom. 8th February 1968
9. While My Guitar Gently Weeps (take 1) - Abbey Road Studios, London, United Kingdom. 25th July 1968
10. Ticket To Ride (take 2, SS.HLP.07.02) - Abbey Road Studios, London, United Kingdom. 15th February 1965

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

This album is a digital clone of Ultra Rare Trax Vol.3, CD1
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.

Reputably a clone of The Swingin' Pig's famous Ultra Rare Trax Vol.3 , which whilst still available was becoming harder to locate, whilst this may have been the source, this title has alternate mastering. Whilst the material on this disc remained Core Material, this disc was obsolete almost as issued. In 1994 Oil Well also released Across The Universe which was a " double " clone containing both Ultra Rare Trax Volumes 3 and 4
http://www.beatleg.info/music/docs/beatles/boots/cd/rsc009cd.htm

Some of the material on the Ultra Rare Trax series was subsequently officially released on the Anthology series in the mid-1990s, though Michael Callucci, writing for Classic Rock magazine, claims the original bootlegs are still worth hearing as they contain material not on the official release
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© Official released material:
Track 1,2,3,7,9 have been released officially on: "Anthology" (1996)
Track 4 has been released officially on: The Rolling Stones Rock And Roll Circus - ABKCO ‎– 1268-2 on 15th Oct 1996.
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Ultra Rare Trax

Ultra Rare Trax was a series of bootleg recordings of the Beatles, featuring studio outtakes, that first appeared in 1988. It took advantage of a legal loophole known as the "protection gap" that allowed bootleggers to release old recordings due to ambiguous copyright laws. In all, eight volumes were produced. It was not the first Beatles bootleg to appear on compact disc but it was the first one to achieve widespread attention with bootleggers, because its sound quality showed what digital remastering was capable of. The bootleg appeared after John Barrett, an engineer at Abbey Road Studios, performed an audit of the material in the studio's archives in 1984 and made backups onto tape with the strict condition that they were not to be copied or sold.

However, a Dutch collector managed to purchase some studio tapes for $20,000, which were subsequently resold to a German fan, Dieter Schubert. Schubert believed that any studio recordings made before Germany's ratification of the Rome Convention in 1966 were public domain in that country, and therefore decided to create his own bootleg label, Swingin' Pig, and released his titles on CD. The logo and name were based on the earlier Trademark of Quality bootleg label that regularly featured William Stout's artwork on its covers.

One bootlegger claimed it to be "the single most important release in the history of CDs ... the quality just blew people's minds".Author Clinton Heylin believes some tracks on the Ultra Rare Trax series sounded even better than the then recent CD reissues of official material from EMI.

EMI Records, which held copyrights to the Beatles' studio recordings, was unhappy that somebody had effectively stolen work they held the rights to and released it.
A representative was "mortified" to discover that the first volume of Ultra Rare Trax contained previously unreleased recordings of "I Saw Her Standing There" and "Strawberry Fields Forever", and the original 1963 recording of "One After 909" that was intended for Please Please Me.
EMI representative Mike Heatly said in an interview with ICE Magazine that he had no idea how a bootlegger had managed to obtain such high-quality recordings.
The bootleg also convinced fans that there was far more unreleased material in the EMI vaults than was previously thought.

Anthology
In the mid 1990's, the three remaining (I refuse to say surviving) Beatles got together to finish a John Lennon song called "Free As A Bird". The recording of the song was challenging, as they had to overdub their individual parts onto a circa fifteen year old tape, without ruining the original track with John singing. Despite the pressure, the song was completed and a new Beatles compilation had a very interesting opener.

Generally agreed upon as being only for the most loyal of fans, Anthology 1 lives up to that billing while simultaneously blasting it to pieces. There are plenty of things on here that even a casual listener could enjoy, such as a jaunty (and in my opinion better) version of "Can't Buy Me Love" on disc two, as well as a lovely live version of "Twist and Shout".

For the most hardcore of Beatles fans, there are rare gems such as the groups' first ever recording (That'll Be The Day-Buddy Holly), the infamous "Jewelry quote" where Mr. Lennon shows some sass to all the wealthy ones in the audience; which includes the Queen, and of course, alternate takes on beloved Beatles classics which shows the boys not only trying something new, but screwing up as well.