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iCaramba said:

This is a pretty cool site I discovered lately. If you look through the archives, there's some great stuff. http://www.thebeatlesrarity.com/

A lot of the stuff is not that "rare" per se, but some of it is… and I think it's nice to listen to something different every now and then, especially for those of us who don't collect all the bootlegs.

Joe said:

I stumbled across that site only yesterday. There is some good stuff in there.

I guess I use the term "rare" somewhat loosely on the site. Rare to me means either not officially released, or officially released but now out of print for long enough that people are having trouble buying a new release of it. Sometimes things are widely bootlegged and for that reason may be considered not rare, but nevertheless I still lump those in because it's a gray area as to how known/unknown it is. Occasionally the rarity won't fit either category but usually that is it. Infrequently I will do something fancy like tamper with a recording but in any such instance I always state it in the post. This sounds nastier than it really is (as if I'm being deceitful or something) but that is not the case at all. An example would be the BROW posts where I restored You Know My Name (Look Up The Number) to it's original lenth. That one is here. I also did that with The Quarry Men's In Spite Of All The Danger which was edited down on the Anthology 1 CD. That one is here. So these are just minor reconstructions to give a fan a close idea of how it was before edits and stuff like that.

skye said:

The American trailer for Nowhere Boy is out! Interesting, it's rated R. I guess a biopic on John Lennon would have to be, wouldn't it? Watch This: New Us Trailer for John Lennon Film 'Nowhere Boy'.

I have mixed feelings about this. I suppose I'll end up watching it and expecting it to be primarily entertaining and secondarily how I think it must have really been.