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Silver Dagger
In the case of The Beatles - perhaps the first and greatest of all 'escaped' out-takes - it was a case of an entrusted Abbey Road employee John Barrett making cassette copies of hours and hours of material from reel to reel masters.
John knew he was dying of cancer and told friends he was doing it to provide cash for his family after his demise.
These tapes started surfacing in the early 80s and led to the incredible Sessions bootleg and Ultra Rare Trax series plus many others which eventually pushed the remaining Beatles to issue the Anthology series.
With the Stones there are rumours that Ronnie and even Keith have been responsible for issuing unreleased studio recordings.
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Silver Dagger
In the case of The Beatles - perhaps the first and greatest of all 'escaped' out-takes - it was a case of an entrusted Abbey Road employee John Barrett making cassette copies of hours and hours of material from reel to reel masters.
John knew he was dying of cancer and told friends he was doing it to provide cash for his family after his demise.
These tapes started surfacing in the early 80s and led to the incredible Sessions bootleg and Ultra Rare Trax series plus many others which eventually pushed the remaining Beatles to issue the Anthology series.
With the Stones there are rumours that Ronnie and even Keith have been responsible for issuing unreleased studio recordings.
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Silver Dagger
In the case of The Beatles - perhaps the first and greatest of all 'escaped' out-takes - it was a case of an entrusted Abbey Road employee John Barrett making cassette copies of hours and hours of material from reel to reel masters.
John knew he was dying of cancer and told friends he was doing it to provide cash for his family after his demise.
These tapes started surfacing in the early 80s and led to the incredible Sessions bootleg and Ultra Rare Trax series plus many others which eventually pushed the remaining Beatles to issue the Anthology series.
With the Stones there are rumours that Ronnie and even Keith have been responsible for issuing unreleased studio recordings.
Ronnie was certainly responsible for circulating the first slew of Dirty Work outtakes that surfaced in early '87 - and his stepson was apparently responsible for the deluge of Voodoo Lounge outtakes that surfaced in the mid 90s.
The ABB alternate mixes sessions that came out a couple of years ago circulated via myself after I got them from a guy on a filesharing site (soulseek, to be precise). He'd just uploaded them and told me how he'd come across them - he worked at a storage facility in New York which shared the same computer that was used by the people at Sterling Sound who had mastered the album. He just happened to be browsing the computer and saw a file marked 'Rolling Stones' and made a copy of what was there.
He didnt actually realise that the recordings had never circulated. Unfortunately, they only exist in mp3 format because his hard drive crashed and he'd lost the original files - fortunately he had made mp3 copies.
The Steel Wheels outtakes that first circulated in summer 2006 came when a friend of the widow of a Stones roadie (I assume it was Chuch Magee) contacted us at Rocks Off to tell us he'd been given copies of some uncirculated studio recordings which he wanted to share with Stones fans - so the material was then uploaded to our bit torrent site.
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Gazza
Well, the Ronnie story was a gift as far as I recall. I wouldnt think such a thing was unprecedented. I got the story from the guy I got the tape from in March '87 (I wont name him as he's still an occasional contributor here). Supposedly he got HIS copy from a collector in LA who had been given the tape by Ronnie himself.
I think it was Mathijs who mentioned here a couple of years ago that Jamie Wood was the source for the VL stuff. Whether or not money changed hands, I wouldnt know.
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Rockman
Things have pretty much gone inta lock-down since the massive Voodoo leak .....
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whiskey
Is it possible that the band itself lets them out to keep interest in the band during lengthy periods between official studio albums and tours.
Guess ya ain't heard the EOMS outake OFFICIAL relaeases eh'?Quote
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whiskey
Is it possible that the band itself lets them out to keep interest in the band during lengthy periods between official studio albums and tours.
If they do, theyre doing a pretty lousy job of it!
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ghostryder13
my opinion is that i wouldn't doubt that the stones give copies of outtakes to bootleggers to keep record companies from releasing them as new material