George Harrison added a long-available bootleg to the Thirtieth-anniversary reissue of his 1970 album All Things Must Go. Followers ought to thank producer and musician Pete Drake for the addition.
George Harrison reissued ‘All Things Must Pass’ for its Thirtieth-anniversary
In 2001, George spoke with Billboard about the Thirtieth-anniversary reissue of All Things Must Go.
“You know, we talked about it ages ago, but it’s just really that you want to get the whole catalog of mine back out in the shops, because it hasn’t been there for a long time,” George mentioned. “And it was just obvious to start with the first one, as the first one was probably my most prominent solo album, anyway.”
George added in any other case unavailable variations of some of the album’s traditional tunes, together with a bonus observe that had been a long-available bootleg.
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George included a long-available bootleg to the reissue
Earlier than George launched the Thirtieth-anniversary reissue of All Things Must Go, followers had entry to a bootleg of “I Live For You.” George solely included the bootleg as a result of of Pete Drake.
He defined, “I abruptly realized I’d bought too many tracks for an album — which really ended up as a double, not counting the ‘[Apple] Jam’ session — and that one observe gave the impression of we hadn’t nailed it correctly, and it sounded on prime of that a bit too fruity. I didn’t embrace it as a result of I by no means completed it.
“But coming back to it, I fixed the drums up very simply. But the main thing about it for me is the Pete Drake solo on pedal steel guitar. He died [in 1988], and I often thought if his family is still around, then suddenly they’ll be hearing him playing this thing that they’ve never heard before. I really loved his pedal steel guitar — the bagpipes of country & western music.”
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‘I Live For You” isn’t the former Beatle’s solely bootleg
The beforehand unreleased tune isn’t George’s solely bootleg. He allegedly has tons of bootlegs made throughout his time with The Beatles in his vault. In 1989, George advised Mark Rowland (per George Harrison on George Harrison: Interviews and Encounters) that the BBC additionally had some Beatles bootlegs.
“Oh yeah, we’ve got a few things that’s going to come out anyway, but we’ve got the real versions of some of the ones that were bootlegged,” George mentioned. “Yeah, we’ve bought plans to put all that out, as a result of now it’s not simply getting the lawsuit out of the approach, nevertheless it means … let’s face it, the Beatles catalogue will go on without end with Capitol and EMI.
“And there may be a lot of stuff that may come, and it simply signifies that it’s simpler now to cope with that. How are you going to cope with the future in case you haven’t tied the previous up? So this actually clears the approach, and it’s nice as a result of all types of issues can come out. I simply realized I’ve bought a actually nice bootleg tape of the Beatles, and it’s by no means been out earlier than both. It’s simply demos that we made at my home.
“It was of the ‘White Album.’ It’s ‘Back in the USSR‘ and ‘Julia’ and all them. I’ve got them on an Ampex four track. Yeah, and the BBC. They have a lot of stuff. I don’t know. There’s mainly different versions of stuff, and there’s probably a lot of stuff which is stuff that people know as bootlegs from our club days.”
Hopefully, followers will hear all of his bootlegs in the coming years. Nevertheless, it’s good that he bought to launch some earlier than he died in 2001.