Lennon Plastic Ono Band God Save Us UNRELEASED 2 sided ACETATE Beatles LISTEN
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Description
Incredible probably unique item. I got this in a big Beatles Collection 15 years ago. It was given to the collector in the early 70s in New York, apparently by a friend of a friend who was in the business.
A side is a Plastic Ono Band demo of God Save Us that the Elastic Oz Band subsequently released on Apple, but this is a completely different version with a John Lennon lead vocal. I have uploaded a short, low quality, snippet of this side to youtube: https://youtu.be/zRNpbrxNTj4 so you can compare. B side is a sludgy bluesey instrumental, full band, with I would guess Lennon playing electric organ. The technology defeated the upload of this track!
Condition is relly nice for an Acetate, A side is EX, B side shows a few light scuffs.
Please no offers below minimum bid price.
UPDATE: DESPITE TERRIBLE INTERNET PROBLEMS HERE IS A WETRANSFER LINK TO A 15 second sample of the B Side:
Download link
https://wetransfer.com/downloads/15ce41f49c32abaad4d8e5dd089b7b4820200522095932/e242fafb4ffcfa69ee0a2488c57eda7120200522100044/820f13
IMPORTANT UPDATE: The above sample was at 33 rpm sorry! Here is a longer sample at the correct speed!
On 22-May-20 at 16:55:51 BST, seller added the following information:
UPDATE:
Had some interesting dialogue with a serious Beatles Collector about this item in the light of the world of fake acetates and the Jam on the B side appearing on bootleg LPs and people thinking it isn't Lennon. I'm no Beatles expert, obviously, but I have been collecting and dealing records for many, many years. And I know there is an Acetate counterfeit industry out there that has got worse in recent years. Anyone can get a dubplate made for £20, copy an EMI Disc acetate label and scrawl on it in biro. Whether anyone would go to the trouble of typing a label with an antique typewriter using a red ribbon (like this one) I don't know. So I get it. But I bought this 15 years ago from an Investment Banker who had been a Beatles Collector in his youth, he hadn't touched his vinyl since the 80s when he went over to CD. So if this IS a fake its a very, very old one and from an era when there wasn't anything like the intense market and ease of copying there is now. I know its hard to imagine, and I don't know how old you are, but copying these labels now in a convincing fashion is simple, back then was almost impossible, you could always tell. Be interested to know how anyone could prove such a generic blues jam (on the B side) was a fake, it could be literally anyone. Whats the fake rationale? I think its presence here means that it is, actually, legitimate and the naysayers on the bootlegs are errh, wrong as this acetate ties it to another obviously legitimate track! And the name of the track on the bootlegs is different to this one. My guts tell me that this is the real deal. The story I have behind it dates it back to the 1970s, the label is typed, the B side titles are different from the bootlegs and it looks and smells right. But then I'm no Beatles expert, as I say!!
On 22-May-20 at 18:27:35 BST, seller added the following information:
UPDATE: And heres the link I forgot last time:
On 22-May-20 at 18:30:27 BST, seller added the following information:
wetransfer.com/downloads/a55ca8e44cdae27351f6debd580cbdfb20200522132010/71d88231f4e902f92954e5f78023b71420200522132038/7de888
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