VERY RARE 7" ACETATE. TOOTS & MAYTALS/WAILERS ALT CUTS.
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EXCEPTIONALLY RARE EMIDISC ACETATE OF ALTERNATIVE CUTS TO TWO OF THE GREATEST REGGAE TRACKS EVER.
TOOTS & THE MAYTALS:- 54 46 WITHOUT THE LONG AND LABOURIOUS INTRO.
WAILERS:- IT HURTS TO BE ALONE.
ON THE MAYTALS TRACK THE LONG INTRO IS MISSING AND IT GOES STRAIGHT IN TO THE RHYTHM.
THE WAILERS SIDE IS POSSIBLY THE ALTERNATIVE TAKE REFERRED TO ON THE TRACK LISTING FOR ONE OF THE HEARTBEAT CD's.
JUNIOR BRAITHWAITE ON VOCALS, BUT THE GUITAR WORK IS SO BRILLIANT, THAT IT IS ALMOST CERTAINLY ERNEST RANGLIN.
I MAY BE WRONG, BUT IT CERTAINLY SOUNDS LIKE AN ORIGINAL OF THE LONG LOST ALTERNATIVE CUT.
PERSONALLY, I PREFER BOTH OF THESE CUTS TO THE RELEASED VERSIONS AND THIS ACETATE IS IN REMARKABLY GOOD CONDITION.
THERE IS HARDLY ANY SURFACE NOISE, WHICH IN ITSELF IS RARE FOR AN ACETATE, AND ALTHOUGH THERE IS A SLIGHT DENT IN THE SURFACE, AND I MEAN SLIGHT, THERE ARE NO SKIPS, JUMPS, ETC. JUST 2 MINOR CLICKS ON THE MAYTALS SIDE.
AS THIS IS ON AN ACETATE, IT IS QUITE POSSIBLE IT WAS CONSIDERED FOR RELEASE, BUT THEN CANCELLED.
I GOT IT FROM THE GUY WHO USED TO DRIVE MR SHALIT OF MELODISC AROUND, AND WHO SAID HE FOUND IT WHEN THEY WERE CLEARING SOME ITEMS AT THE OLD EARLHAM STREET PREMISES.
SO PERHAPS IT WAS GOING TO COME OUT ON BLUE BEAT.
I HONESTLY DON'T KNOW, BUT WHAT I DO KNOW IS THAT IT IS EXTREMELY RARE.
IT HAS BEEN IN MY POSSESSION SINCE THE MID TO LATE SIXTIES, AROUND THE TIME I STARTED MY SOUND SYSTEM, WHEN THE ONLY PLACE TO GET REGGAE & SKA IN COVENTRY WAS THE LONG GONE "G G PATEL" RECORD SHOP ON STONEY STANTON ROAD.
MR SHALIT HAD JUST STOPPED OFF TO DELIVER SOME RAVI SHANKAR LP's, AMONGST OTHER THINGS AND HIS DRIVER NOTICED THAT I WAS LISTENING TO BLUE BEAT SINGLES IN THE SHOP.
HE WENT TO THE CAR AND CAME BACK WITH THIS ACETATE AND SAID "HERE YOU CAN HAVE THIS, I FOUND IT THIS MORNING AT THE BACK OF A CUPBOARD".
IT WAS THE FIRST TIME I HAD EVER BEEN GIVEN A RECORD FOR NOTHING (APART FROM A TEDDY BEARS PICNIC 78 GIVEN TO ME BY MY UNCLE ALBERT).
I AM GOING TO START THE BIDDING AT THE RIDICULOUSLY LOW PRICE OF UNDER 20 QUID, AS I LOVE TO SEE THE FLURRY OF BIDS IN THE LAST 10 MINUTES OF BIDDING.
PLEASE BID SENSIBLY. THIS ACETATE IS REALLY RARE. I'VE NEVER SEEN ANOTHER ONE AND YOU PROBABLY WON'T SEE ONE AGAIN.
