The esher tapes

[Rocky Rabbit]

I have found asite where you can download these recordings but there are only 12 songs.Is'nt there more available than this?

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[Nick_Lennon]

Hi - I have a boot of White Album songs (vol 1) and "some" of the songs are on there. I was always under the impression there were only about 10-12 songs from those tapes. Would love to find a list of what songs are available from the Esher tapes!

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[FPSHOT]

I don't know the number of songs, but would guess that twelve is close, but beware that on downloading sites also other demos are mentioned as being Esher Taped, whilst they are not. Even some of the Complete Lost Lennon Tapes are referred to as such.

Shouldn't this be moved to the Bootleg Forum?

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[FPSHOT]

Btw, which site is that?

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"Well I've never been to England,
But I kinda like The Beatles"

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[Jerry]

There are actually about 25 songs available from these sessions. Just ask some of the former CD contest winners. Many people have asked for this CD. If that BootlegZone site still worked, I could post a link. But oh well.

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[Legs]

1. Cry Baby Cry
2. Child of nature
3. The Continuing Story of bungalow bill
4. I'm so tired
5. Yer Blues
6. Everybody's got something to hide (except for me and my monkey)
7. What's the marry Jane
8. Revolution
9. While my guitar gently wheeps
10. Circles
11. Sour milk sea
12. Not guilty
13. Piggies
14. Julia
15. Blackbird
16. Rocky Racoon
17. Back in the U.S.S.R.'
18. Honey Pie
19. Mother nature's son
20. Ob la Di, Ob la da
21. Junk
22. Dear Prudence
23. Sexy Sadie
24. Happines is a warm gun
25. Mean Mr. Mustard
26. Polythene Pam
27. Glass Onion

I have it on a bootleg called unplugged by the Odeon bootleg label. The latest release is called from Kinfauns to Chaos.


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[bobdude]

I have it too on a boot called Kinfauns. Same 27 songs just a different running order.

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[Legs]

The esher tapes has been brought up before.
http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/Forum4/HTML/000169.html
http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/Forum4/HTML/000141.html
http://www.beatlelinks.net/ubb/Forum4/HTML/000125.html

I leave this topic open, tho I prefer to have one topic about an subject with lots of replies, then 4 5 or more topics about the same subject with just one or two replies.

[FPSHOT]

Yes, Sir

Isn't there some story abou those tapes, I still believe that I miss some titles, and some are not Esher, but I may be wrong.

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[Legs]

I dont know if there really is a story. When they got back from India, they got together at George's house in Esher, Kinfauns, the end of May 1968,probably 30 May, and they played and recorded the songs they had written mostly during their visit there. George had an 4track recording equipment.

About some songs not being "Esher demos"
Well you got the Anthology and the Beatles themselves to blame for the confusion. Before Anthology 3 came out in 1996, there were only 23 esher demos. Mark Lewisohn only mentioned 23 songs in his book "Recording sessions" and the bootlegs,including "Unplugged" only contained these 23 songs. See the first 23 songs on my list, these were songs we know for sure that they were played at Esher.Then out of the blue Anthology 3 adds another 4 songs.
"Happines is a warm gun"
"Mean Mr. Mustard"
"Polythene Pam" and
"Glass Onion"

"Mean Mr. Mustar" and "Polythen Pam" doesn't sound as they were from Esher, but since they are on Anthology who knows.
So the list I have posted is the complete list of Esher demos. Go compare it with what you have, other songs then what is on the list are not from Esher.

[oracle193]

I have the Esher Tapes on a Yellow Dog CD
called Unsurpassed Demos. The recording
quality is quite good, as with most Yellow
Dogs

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[Jerry]

To me, the one that doesn't sound like it's from the Esher tapes is "Happiness Is A Warm Gun." On almost every other song, there are a few voices singing. And it just sounds more like a "composing demo" rather than a completed song like the rest of the tracks.

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[BadLittleKid]

1. Cry Baby Cry
2. Child of nature
3. The Continuing Story of bungalow bill
4. I'm so tired
5. Yer Blues
6. Everybody's got something to hide (except for me and my monkey)
7. What's the marry Jane
8. Revolution
9. While my guitar gently wheeps
10. Circles
11. Sour milk sea
12. Not guilty
13. Piggies
14. Julia
15. Blackbird
16. Rocky Racoon
17. Back in the U.S.S.R.'
18. Honey Pie
19. Mother nature's son
20. Ob la Di, Ob la da
21. Junk
22. Dear Prudence
23. Sexy Sadie
24. Happines is a warm gun
25. Mean Mr. Mustard
26. Polythene Pam
27. Glass Onion

I have it on a bootleg called unplugged by the Odeon bootleg label. The latest release is called from Kinfauns to Chaos.


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I bring this old topic up because it answers my question I was going to post in here. I was wondering why all the Esher demo tape releases omit the tracks "Happiness Is A Warm Gun", "Mean Mr Mustard", "Polythene Pam" and "Glass Onion" whose only source is the Anthology 3.

Does anyone know were some other songs performed as well, others than what are present on Legs' list?

(Btw, "Helter Skelter", "Gurudeiva" and "Rishikesh No.9" are not Esher demos!):laugh5:

[digdad]

As far as I know, that's all of them. Those are the 27 that are available in the Premium forum that Jerry uploaded.

[Legs]

For now only 27 songs are comfirmed, but who knows in the future Apple will release another kind of Anthology magicaly adding another 6 songs to the list.
Some of the songs on "Anthology 3" still don't sound like they were from Esher to me.


I bring this old topic up because it answers my question I was going to post in here. I was wondering why all the Esher demo tape releases omit the tracks "Happiness Is A Warm Gun", "Mean Mr Mustard", "Polythene Pam" and "Glass Onion" whose only source is the Anthology 3.

Does anyone know were some other songs performed as well, others than what are present on Legs' list?

(Btw, "Helter Skelter", "Gurudeiva" and "Rishikesh No.9" are not Esher demos!):laugh5:

[BadLittleKid]

For now only 27 songs are comfirmed, but who knows in the future Apple will release another kind of Anthology magicaly adding another 6 songs to the list.
Some of the songs on "Anthology 3" still don't sound like they were from Esher to me.

There were sound of bottles in some of those songs, yes.

[Legs]

Forgot to mention tho that prior to Anthology 3 the songs that were on bootleg were taken from a tape owned by John Lennon. The Anthology made use of a tape that was owned by George, so it's posible that there were diferent songs recorded on each tape.

[BadLittleKid]

I was again thinking about these tapes. It seems that Lennon owned a copy of George Harrison's tape and that tape was used for Lost Lennon Tapes broadcast and therefore many songs that were previously Lennon tapes became Lost Lennon Tapes in the full meaning of the phrase.

Being cynical I only observed how many bootlegs use the broadcast event, if not the original tapes, as their source.