THE BEATLES White Album COMPRESSED VERSION Rejected by G.HARRISON

$

1,500

An extremely rare withdrawn first pressing of The Beatles White Album mistakenly pressed from the earliest (and rejected) masters. 

As described in Perry Cox's definitive book Price Guide For American Beatles Records, "this variant has lacquer numbers in the trail off area ending in numbers LESS than 34.  These record were pressed with metal parts generated from the initial 33 lacquers, which were supposed to be destroyed.  George Harrison objected to the use of a limiter that had compressed the sound during the mastering process. He insisted that the initial lacquers be destroyed and that the album be remastered. Harrison's remastered version is found on standard copies of the album which have lacquer numbers 34 or higher.  [At the time of the book's publication in 2007] Only one copy, which is a VG- condition Scranton pressing with lacquer numbers A-28 and B-29, has been confirmed thought there are undoubtedly others out there."

Bruce Spizer also writes about this rare version in his book The Beatles on Apple Records:
"George Harrison, along with Mal Evans, was in Los Angeles to produce Jackie Lomax's upcoming Apple album. He dropped by the Capitol Tower to hear the White Album. He had left London for LA prior to the banding session during which the order of the songs was selected for The White Album, and wanted to hear the finished product. He did not like what he heard and insisted that he be allowed to work with Capitol's engineers to remaster the album.

This story is told by Mal Evans in an issue of The Beatles Book (the official Beatles Fan Club monthly publication) in which he states that Capitol's engineers had "done all sorts of technical things to it that altered half the effects." As was often the practice at the time, Capitols engineers had run the sound through a limiter and compressed the volume range of the recording by cutting back the high volume peaks and bringing up the low passages. This would have been particularly noticeable on "Helter Skelter," a loud rocker with a fake fade-out ending, and Harrison's "Long, Long, Long," which has quiet passages throughout and loud distortion at the end."

Perry Cox was of course right--a very few more copies have surfaced since his book's publication--and this is one.  This example is a rare Scranton pressing with "B29/A28" matrix numbers on Sides 1/2, and "A28/B29" matrix numbers on Side 3/4.  The Side 1/2 disc is in VG condition; Side 1 plays great, and Side 2 very well with some light ticks through Blackbird, Piggies, and Rocky Racoon.  The side 3/4 disc is in VG+ condition and plays very well, with some light ticks through Revolution No. 9. 

The original cover, number A1500820, is in Excellent condition, bright and clean with just a bit of aging. The poster, photographs and light green photo spacer are all beautiful in Near Mint to Mint condition. Capitol logo on side 2 and 4 labels. "Bungalow Bill" on side one label. 

A very rare Beatles album, almost unknown until Perry Cox's 2007 book.

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