widijaz
Feb 25, 2005, 11:05 PM
Those of you who are familiar with the production history of the
recent 4-cd set "The Capitol Versions, Vol. 1" will know that the
booklet originally intended to be included with the set was quite
different from the one that was actually used. Due to production
deadlines, the booklet originally planned was dropped in favor of a
cheap, simplistic, generic booklet that provides virtually no details
about these new CD's.
This is the CD booklet that Bruce Spizer (author of
those great coffee table books about the Capitol and VJ releases) had
originally submitted to Capitol for use in the boxset. It consists of
12 pages with an essay, and complete information of release dates,
original mastering dates, original mastering engineer, "fake stereo"
and "fake mono" info, stereo and mono mixdowns and the dates, chart
positions and RIAA certified information for each album. All the
stuff that SHOULD have been in the booklet that came with the box.
It's a professional glossy booklet of the same high quality you would
expect from Spizer with 17 color and B&W photographs of original
promotion items, singles, newspaper clippings, and group pictures.
It only cost $3 (!!) which includes shipping and handling in the U.S. I'm told
the booklet slips neatly into the pocket of the set right next to the
official booklet. As I mentioned earlier, it was not included in the
released set because of time constraints.
You can pick one up directly from Bruce Spizer's site Beatle.net
http://www.beatle.net/homepage.htm
recent 4-cd set "The Capitol Versions, Vol. 1" will know that the
booklet originally intended to be included with the set was quite
different from the one that was actually used. Due to production
deadlines, the booklet originally planned was dropped in favor of a
cheap, simplistic, generic booklet that provides virtually no details
about these new CD's.
This is the CD booklet that Bruce Spizer (author of
those great coffee table books about the Capitol and VJ releases) had
originally submitted to Capitol for use in the boxset. It consists of
12 pages with an essay, and complete information of release dates,
original mastering dates, original mastering engineer, "fake stereo"
and "fake mono" info, stereo and mono mixdowns and the dates, chart
positions and RIAA certified information for each album. All the
stuff that SHOULD have been in the booklet that came with the box.
It's a professional glossy booklet of the same high quality you would
expect from Spizer with 17 color and B&W photographs of original
promotion items, singles, newspaper clippings, and group pictures.
It only cost $3 (!!) which includes shipping and handling in the U.S. I'm told
the booklet slips neatly into the pocket of the set right next to the
official booklet. As I mentioned earlier, it was not included in the
released set because of time constraints.
You can pick one up directly from Bruce Spizer's site Beatle.net
http://www.beatle.net/homepage.htm