John Lennon - Between the Lines (STU/FLAC)

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John Lennon
"Between The Lines: Complete Home Recordings 1975-1980"


Between the Lines: Complete Home Recordings 1975-1980

John Lennon

Disc 1: 1975 – 1977 - Track Notes | Lyrics
Disc 2: Late 1977 – 1979 - Track Notes | Lyrics
Disc 3: September 1979 - Track Notes | Lyrics
Disc 4: October 1979 – Early 1980 - Track Notes | Lyrics
Disc 5: Late 1979 – Early 1980 - Track Notes | Lyrics
Disc 6: Early – April 1980 - Track Notes | Lyrics
Disc 7: June 1980 (Bermuda) - Track Notes | Lyrics
Disc 8: July 1980 (Bermuda) - Track Notes | Lyrics
Disc 9: July – November 1980  - Track Notes | Lyrics
Guide to the Track Notes

The abbreviation LLT stands for the Lost Lennon Tapes, in both the radio series and the Bag bootlegs derived from it.

"8 Arms ID"s refer to entries in Chip Madinger and Mark Easter's book Eight Arms to Hold You: The Solo Beatles Compendium, and are given in the form "p.X, #Y[.Z]:a.1", where X is a page in the book, Y is an entry number, and Z stands for an optional sub-entry (not numbered in the book); after the colon is an identifier for a take/version. Thus, readers equipped with that work can easily make cross-references to it and more readily identify the recordings in question. In cases where no individual identifier is given in 8 Arms but the item is discussed in the text, a reference to the song entry under which the recording is mentioned has been supplied.

"LLT program XX-YY" in the source notes refers to transcription disc for program XX-YY of the Lost Lennon Tapes radio series, XX being the year and YY the broadcast week. For bootleg discs sourced from the shows, the broadcast week of the episode has been given in brackets; "tape" means that the bootleg was taken directly a tape source.

The following bootlegs were used in compiling the set:
The Camcorder Tape (200?:CDR)
Dreaming Of The Past (1995: CD) [Vigotone VT-CD09]
Filming The Fantasies (2000: CD) [Voxx 0009-01]
Free As A Bird: The Dakota Beatle Demos (1996: CD) [Pegboy PB-1001]
Gone From This Place (1990: CD) [Vigotone VT-CD01]
A Heart Play (2001: 2 CD) [JL 5/6]
Hidden Archives (1999: 2 CD) [Fire Power FP-038A/B]
Lennon Renumbers (1998: CD) [Bell Bottom 022]
Look At Me (1990: CD) [Vigotone VT-CD06]
The Lost Lennon Tapes Volume 29 (1992: LP) [Bag 5101]
The Lost Lennon Tapes Volume 30/31/32 (1994: 2 CD) [Bag 5102/3/4]
The Lost Lennon Tapes Volume 33/34/35 (1997: 2 CD) [Bag 5105/6/7]
The Lost Sleepy Blind Lemon Lennon Album (2000: CD) [Library Product 2341]
My Love Will Turn You On (1995: CD) [Vigotone VT-CD10]
News Of The Day (1990: CD) [Vigotone VT-CD02]
Serve Yourself (1990: CD) [Vigotone VT-CD04]
Unbootlegged 5 (2001: CDR) [No Label Records 0105]
Unbootlegged 7 (2001: CDR) [No Tapo Records 0107]
Unbootlegged 9 (2002: CDR) [No Tapo Records 0109]
Watching The Wheels (1990: CD) [Vigotone VT-CD03]
Yer Blues (1990: CD) [Vigotone VT-CD05]
Yin Yang (1986: LP) [Bag 5071]
Your Daddy's Here (1999: CD) [Geritol DPRO-79972]

DISC ONE:
c. 1975:
01. Tennessee [take 1]
02. Tennessee [take ?]
03. Tennessee [take 4]
04. Everybody
05. Sally And Billy [take 2]
06. Sally And Billy [take 3]
1976:
07. Mucho Mungo
08. Cookin' (In The Kitchen Of Love) [take 1]
09. Cookin' (In The Kitchen Of Love) [take ?]
10. Cookin' (In The Kitchen Of Love) [take 8]
11. She Is A Friend Of Dorothy's [take 2]
1977:
12. She Is A Friend Of Dorothy's [take 7]
13. I Don't Want To Lose You
14. Free As A Bird [take 1]
15. Free As A Bird [take 3]
16. ["turned out nice again"]
17. Whatever Happened To...? [take 1] *
18. Whatever Happened To...? [take 2]

DISC TWO:
Late 1977:
01. One Of The Boys [take 1]
02. One Of The Boys [take 2]
03. Mirror, Mirror (On The Wall) [takes 1-2]
04. Mirror, Mirror (On The Wall) [take 4]
05. Mirror, Mirror (On The Wall) [take 5]
06. Sea Ditties
1978:
07. Maurice DuPont (Act I)
08. Maurice DuPont (Act II)
09. Maurice DuPont (Act III)
10. Too Much Monkey Business / Subterranean Homesick Blues
11. Rock Island Line
12. Brown Eyed Handsome Man / Get Back
13. Beyond The Sea / Blue Moon / Young Love
14. Satire 1
15. Satire 2
16. Satire 3 / Maggie Mae
17. Falling In Love Again
18. I'm A Man
19. ["'twas a night like Ethel Merman"]
20. [dialogue for a silent TV]
21. The Great Wok
c. 1979:
22. I Don't Wanna Face It [take 2]
23. I Don't Wanna Face It [take ?]
24. I Watch Your Face
25. It's Real

DISC THREE:
c. September 1979:
01. [audio diary 1]
02. Serve Yourself
03. Serve Yourself
04. That's The Way The World Is
05. Don't Be Crazy [take 1]
06. Don't Be Crazy [take 2]
07. Baby Make Love To You
08. Baby Make Love To You / Girls And Boys
09. Girls And Boys
10. Real Life [take 1]
11. Real Life [take 2]
12. Real Life [take 3]
13. Real Life [fragment 1]
14. Real Life [fragment 2]
15. Real Life ["let go" 1]
16. Real Life ["let go" 2]
17. Serve Yourself
18. Serve Yourself
19. Girls And Boys
20. Girls And Boys *

DISC FOUR:
Late 1979
01. [audio diary 2]
02. Not For Love Nor Money
03. [dialogue 1]
04. [dialogue 2]
05. Sean's "In The Sky"
06. Sean's "Loud"
07. Sean's "Serve Yourself / Be-Bop-A-Lula"
Late 1979 - Early 1980:
08. She Runs Them 'Round In Circles / Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)
09. Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy) [instrumental] *
10. [improvisation] *
11. Rock Island Line
12. Many Rivers To Cross / My Girl
13. Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)
14. Howling At The Moon
15. Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy) / Howling At The Moon / Across The River

DISC FIVE:
Late 1979 - Early 1980:
01. India, India
02. Help Me To Help Myself
03. Life Begins At 40
04. Across The River
05. [instrumental 1]
06. [instrumental 2] *
07. Girls And Boys [take ?]
08. Girls And Boys [take 4]
09. Girls And Boys [take 5]
10. Girls And Boys [take 6]
11. Watching The Wheels
12. Watching The Wheels
13. Watching The Wheels
14. Watching The Wheels
15. Watching The Wheels
16. Watching The Wheels
17. Watching The Wheels
18. Watching The Wheels
19. Watching The Wheels
20. Watching The Wheels
21. Watching The Wheels
22. Watching The Wheels
23. Watching The Wheels
24. Watching The Wheels

DISC SIX:
Early 1980:
01. Watching The Wheels
02. Stranger's Room
03. John Henry
04. John Henry [instrumental] *
05. John Henry
06. Watching The Wheels
07. Corrina, Corrina
08. Stranger's Room
09. Stranger's Room
10. My Life [take 1]
11. My Life [take 2]
12. My Life [take 3]
13. My Life [take ?]
14. Serve Yourself
15. Serve Yourself
16. Memories [take 1]
17. Cathy's Clown
18. You Send Me
19. Memories [take 2]
April 1980 (Cannon Hill):
20. ["welcome to Cold Spring Harbor"]
21. Dear Yoko [takes 1-2]
22. [dialogue at Cannon Hill]
c. 1979-80
23. [blues instrumental (fragments)] *

DISC SEVEN:
June 1980 (Bermuda):
01. Dear Yoko [take 1] *
02. Dear Yoko [takes 2-3]
03. Borrowed Time
04. I'm Stepping Out [take 1]
05. I'm Stepping Out [take 3]
06. I'm Stepping Out [take ?]
07. Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy) [take 1]
08. Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy) [take 2]
08. Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy) [overdubbed (take 2)]
10. Borrowed Time [overdubbed]
11. Dear Yoko [overdubbed]
12. I Don't Wanna Face It [overdubbed]
13. Girls And Boys [overdubbed (take 6)]
14. Watching The Wheels
15. Serve Yourself
16. Nobody Told Me [overdubbed (Everybody)]
17. Memories [overdubbed]

DISC EIGHT:
July 1980 (Bermuda):
01. I'm Losing You
02. I'm Losing You [overdubbed]
03. I'm Losing You [overdubbed]
04. I'm Stepping Out [overdubbed]
05. I Don't Wanna Face It [overdubbed]
06. I'm Stepping Out [overdubbed]
07. Mr. Hyde's Gone (Don't Be Afraid)
08. The Happy Rishikesh Song / Something Is Wrong
09. Real Love [take 1]
10. Real Love [take 4]
11. Grow Old With Me [overdubbed]
12. Real Love [overdubbed (take 5)]
13. Woman [take 1]
14. Woman [take 4]
15. Woman [take 7]
16. Woman [take 8]
17. Nobody Told Me [overdub take 1]
18. Nobody Told Me [overdub take 2]
19. Woman [overdubbed (take 8)]
20. Woman [overdubbed (take 8)]
21. (Forgive Me) My Little Flower Princess [take 3]

DISC NINE:
July 1980 (Bermuda):
01. The Worst Is Over [take 1]
02. The Worst Is Over [take 2]
Early August 1980:
03. Help Me To Help Myself [takes 2-3]
04. My Life [take 1]
05. My Life [take 2]
06. My Life [take 4]
07. Serve Yourself
08. Cleanup Time
09. Cleanup Time
10. (Just Like) Starting Over [take 1]
11. (Just Like) Starting Over [take 2]
12. (Just Like) Starting Over [take 3]
Late 1980:
13. Gone From This Place [take 1]
14. Gone From This Place [take 4]
15. Gone From This Place [fragment] *
16. Dear John
17. You Saved My Soul

NOTES:
* = covered by voice-over. In the file names, ST = single tracked, DT = double tracked, TT = triple tracked.

This set includes all surfaced Lennon home recordings from the 1975-80 period. All of the audio has been carefully remastered and speed corrected from the best available sources, and the tracks have been presented in the order of recording (as far as could be ascertained) -- something which hasn't been attempted previously. For several of the demos, the actual taping order and context of the various versions is revealed for the first time.

If the complete torrented archive consisting of FLACS for 9 discs is burned on a DVD-ROM, the associated artwork can be browsed and the FLACs played from the included HTML documentation, which contains previously unpublished information on the recordings in the track notes.  (The above notes were borrowed from bootcity.)

* Superb set, get it if you can!
* This DVD is simply AWESOME.  The quality of the tracks are great.  I really liked the HTML index that included info and lyrics.  I have a new favorite in my collection.
* Download this gem if You are able to do.  It is an superb labour of love.  A big THANK YOU to the guy that did this just to share it for free
* This set is simply incredible... The songs are in great quality, and the editing (and pitch correction) of the different sources give us the best possible version of all these songs. All the info is greatly appreciated and it is nice and easy to browse through the different parts of the DVD-ROM. A huge thanks to all those involved in this project.
* Essential for any Lennon fan.
* Fantastic. Most recordings are heard before, but this is the best you can get. Most complete and in the right order.
* Don't miss this one.