The Beatles-Live At The BBC (1993)


 

Artist: The Beatles

Title: Live At The BBC

Label: Apple/Capitol

Format: 2XCD

Cat #: CDP 7243 8 31796 2 6

Year of Release: 1993

Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1993

Listed Condition: VG+/VG+

Sell Date: 10/21/21

Sell Price: $3.99

Discogs Last Sold: 7/30/21 $4.00 VG+/VG+

Low: $2.99

Median: $3.81

Average: $4.01

High: $6.99

Current low price: $3.00

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 63

Have/Want: 1265/41

Where Sold: Brooklyn, NY

Time it took to sell: 10 years

Where and When Bought: Tower NYC new upon release

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A+

Sad To See It Go: No

The first "official" stab at making the Beatles 1963-1965 BBC recordings for the general consumer instead of a multiple bootleg volumes that had been circulating for years.  Of course, when it is official, it is never "complete."  Just a reworking of the approved tapes.  It took until 2013 for another set to come out officially, but there have been a myriad of box sets from bootleg land to pick up the slack.  There has been a big "back to flat" movement in recent years to get away from studio enhancements that come with official product.  It's an aesthetic all to itself.

Much of this was familiar and essential for me when it came out.  I dropped $30 or so on it, played it once, acknowledged it's perfection and filed it away.  Now it has sold for $4, and that shocker is not a one-of-a kind event due to the devalue of physical cds in general that sold platinum level in the 90's.  

The cuts that were crucial to me before this came out were the covers not found anywhere: "I Got A Woman" by Ray Charles, "Young Blood" by The Coasters, "Too Much Monkey Business,"  "Johnny B. Goode," "Memphis" and especially "Sweet Little Sixteen"  by Chuck Berry were my baseline favorites long before this ever came out.  George's guitar wails on Little Richard's "Lucille."  Of the originals, "From Us To You," the Christmas 1963 reworking "From Me To You" would always garner a vocal "Us" out of me then and now cuz it's ya know...different!  George sings "Honey Don't," and "A Hard Day's Night" has no fade out that was ingrained in all our heads.  Even the studio chatter has impactful quotable quotes like "we brought you the flowers...and the grapes!"

Scarcity and quality are indeed two different things.


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