bettsaj

Grays??... I'm a Romford boy, born and bred.

As far as legality, what does that have to do with anything? Almost 17,000 people were murdered in the U.S. in 2007; I don't think that makes it legal. You can buy marijuana seeds through the mail, but that doesn't make it legal in the U.S. fair enough... It's not legal in the true sense, obviously but that's not what I was getting at. Nobody was harmed in the making of these recordings except maybe Paul Mccartneys inflated bank balance and no one is pushing drugs here. True, the fact that 1000's have downloaded these recordings doesn't make them legal, I was merely pointing out that there is a demand for these releases... EMI don't know what they're doing. These recordings are given away gratis, they're not sold and shouldn't be sold. again that doesn't make them legal, but at least no one is benifiting financially from them. I'm so glad the internet is here..... It means no one will get ripped of buying these types of releases again, mostly the artist.

As far as I know they have only been "officially" released as flac files. Regarding the legality of all these releases. In my opinion the stats speak for themselves... These releases have been downloaded 1000's of times. They've even been plugged and advertised in rolling stone magazine as the best un-official source for definitive Beatles material, see this article http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/20200609/page/20 EMI is, shall we say slow off the mark. There's a wealth of material out there that could be used in this way to produce official re-masters, with bonus material but for some reason McCartney, Starr Harrison (Olivia) and Yoko don't want to be party to that. They tried it with the Anthology series and in my opinion although good, was disjointed and not really how they should have done it. Back in 1998 when they released the 30th anniversary release of the White album everyone thought they would release the mono version... but they released the stereo version..... There was outcry. I for one felt cheated as i already owned the stereo CD version of the White album and ended up buying it again just to maintain my collection and for the miniture packaging the reissue came in. They had the opportunity to redeem themselves and missed the boat in my eyes. The Purple Chick releases serve a purpose, they give the fans what they want... A chronological release of all the Beatles releases in both mono and stereo together with comprehensive session material. I agree, the Dr. Ebbetts stuff isn't perfect, but this man has taken the trouble of finding the best virgin vinyl sources and then after investing 1000' dollars or pounds into his hifi equipment has taken the time to needle drop these recordings for us to enjoy. These are as perfect as we're ever likely to see or hear. I for one think the vinyl mixes are better than the CD mixes... and yes there are differences. After listening to both I prefer the needle drops, they sound warmer, with more sonic range. this may be due to Dr. Ebbetts using valve amps etc, i'm not sure. All I do know is i'm very gratefull to Ebbetts and the guys at Purple Chick for taking the time to do this, or i would have been still suffering these crappy CD copies I have and my old crackly vinyl records..... Which i can't play anymore as I don't have a turntable