Monday, September 14, 2009

The Beatles - Acoustic Masterpieces - The Esher Demos


In late may 1968 The Beatles came together at "Kinfauns", George Harrisons home in Esher. One by one, first John, then George, then Paul, recorded 23 of their newest compositions by double tracking themselves onto George's reel-to-reel.These songs were written during the Beatles' two month stay on a meditation course in Rishikesh, India and subsequently recorded on the White Album. Not all of them made it onto vinyl, thus remain unreleased at least as Beatles versions.These 1968 sessions remained in the vault until a few years ago. Sounds like a sunny, smokey day.Here is a selection you may have heard before and maybe the first time this song was played amongst the Beatles as a group. It is presented in the best possible sound. Enjoy.

01 - Cry Baby Cry
02 - Child Of Nature
03 - The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill
04 - I'm So Tired
05 - Yer Blues
06 - Everybody's Got Something To Hide Axcept For Me And My Monkey
07 - What's The New Mary Jane
08 - Revolution
09 - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
10 - Circles
11 - Sour Milk Sea
12 - Not Guilty
13 - Piggies
14 - Julia
15 - Blackbird
16 - Rocky Raccoon
17 - Back In The Ussr
18 - Honey Pie
19 - Mother Nature's Son
20 - Ob La Di, Ob La Da
21 - Junk
22 - Dear Prudence
23 - Sexy Sadie

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