Beatles, The - Untouched - Off Elektra Acetate (2012 IMP-N-036) [SBD]

The Beatles
'Untouched : Off Elektra Acetate'
First Edition with Free Bonus Disc
(2012 Idol Mind Production : IMP-N-036)

Outtakes / Demos / Unreleased Mixes
Studio Soundboard Recordings
Encoded: 224 Kbps MP3

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For serious Beatles fans and collectors, here is the Untouched set that started it all.

This is an upgraded source of Glyn Johns’ early mix acetate which contains the session performed in January 1969. The bootlegger says it is an extremely rare audio source directly ripped from the Elektra Records acetate disc named “UNTOUCHED”, which the producer of Let It Be (Phil Spector?) had as a referential material.
Disc 1 contains 18 tracks which are completely raw.
Disc 2 has the same tracks de-clicked and de-noised.

This is what music collector Philip Cohen commented:
These acetates are in fairly poor condition. With the exception of the very brief snippets, these tracks are on other bootlegs, but with better quality. Some of them appear on several Vigotone titles, including “Get Back: The Glyn Johns Final Compilation”.

While the de-clicked and de-noised Disc 2 does sound better, not surprisingly, within a week of the release of the Untouched discs, there were already two upgrades.
a) The Beatles Untouched (Revision A), from ThePetSounds Productions:
I used the raw source on Disc 1 of… Untouched, released by IMP in Japan. Disc 1 contains 15 tracks which were de-clicked, phase-corrected, and speed-corrected. Disc 2 has the same tracks de-noised (used noise reduction), and the three missing parts in them have been patched up from other sources: The beginning of Track 1 “Get Back” was patched with a source from “Celluloid Rock” released by Yellow Dog, and the end of Track 9, “I’ve Got A Feeling,” and the beginning of Track 10, “The Long And Winding Road,” were done with a source from “Posters, Incense And Strobe Candles” released by Vigotone.

b) The Beatles - Get Back: The Elektra Acetate, from Helter Skelter Records:
[The Elektra] acetate features the same stereo mixes that were famously broadcast on US Radio in 1969, this later leading to the bootlegs ‘WBCN Get Back Reference Acetate’ (Yellow Dog) and ‘Posters, Incense and Strobe Candle’ (Vigotone). Both of these discs had their problems, noise reduction for one, seriously damaging the high frequencies, and also some pretty bad low frequency hum. But this new source blows the others out of the water. The problem with this new Elektra Acetate, however, is that it is noisy, very noisy, suffering all of the problems you would expect from a 50-year-old acetate.

For this release, unlike others floating around, I have not used any noise reduction, but instead painstakingly de-clicked, de-popped, and de-crackled each track one-by-one, putting the integrity of the music above anything else - leaving what should be a very enjoyable listen, of what is a very important historical recording. I have also added all of the stereo elements that were missing from this acetate from the Yellow Dog disc (only a section of dialogue), some tracks are available in longer form in mono with extra studio chat, but I did not want to mix stereo and mono here, this is simply stereo only. I also took the liberty of pitch, phase and level correcting this disc, as well as un-doing the peak limiting applied to the original disc.

Track List: (Artwork Included)
Disc 1:
101. Get Back (False Start)
102. Get Back
103. I’ve Got A Feeling (False Start)
104. Help (Jam)
105. Teddy Boy
106. Two Of Us (False Start 1)
107. Two Of Us (False Start 2)
108. Two Of Us
109. Dig A Pony (False Start)
110. Dig A Pony
111. I’ve Got A Feeling
112. -*REMOVED
113. Let It Be
114. Don’t Let Me Down
115. For You Blue (False Start)
116. For You Blue
117. Get Back
118. The Walk
Disc 2: (De-clicked, De-noised)
201. Get Back (False Start)
202. Get Back
203. I’ve Got A Feeling (False Start)
204. Help (Jam)
205. Teddy Boy
206. Two Of Us (False Start 1)
207. Two Of Us (False Start 2)
208. Two Of Us
209. Dig A Pony (False Start)
210. Dig A Pony
211. I’ve Got A Feeling
212. -*REMOVED
213. Let It Be
214. Don’t Let Me Down
215. For You Blue (False Start)
216. For You Blue
217. Get Back
218. The Walk

* Been removed....available on Anthology 3.

Tracks 1,2,3,4,9,10 & 17: London, UK, January 23th 1969.
Tracks 5,6,7,8 & 11: London, UK, January 24th 1969.
Tracks 12 & 13: London, UK, January 26th 1969.
Track 14: London, UK, January 22th 1969.
Tracks 15 & 16: London, UK, January 25th 1969.
Track 18: London, UK, January 27th 1969.
Tracks 19,20,21,22,27,28 & 35: London, UK, January 23th 1969.
Tracks 23,24,25,26 & 29: London, UK, January 24th 1969.
Tracks 30 & 31: London, UK, January 26th 1969.
Track 32: London, UK, January 22th 1969.
Tracks 33 & 34: London, UK, January 25th 1969.
Track 36: London, UK, January 27th 1969.