Beatles 'treasure' found in old case: report

[rooboy]

Previously unheard songs by the Beatles could be among a treasure trove reportedly found inside an old suitcase at an Australian flea market.

Beatles experts had yet to properly examine the cache - thought to have once belonged to one of the British band's close associates - but hope tapes within it could contain new material, The Times newspaper said.

Bought in Lara, near Melbourne, earlier this year, the battered suitcase cost a British holidaymaker just $50, the paper reported today.

Fraser Claughton was simply looking for a cheap suitcase to carry his possessions but snapped up the case when he saw it contained a jumble of around 400 photographs, concert programs and sealed tapes marked "Abbey Road" - the Beatles' favoured recording studio.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/07/13/1089484335953.html?oneclick=true

[XNASA]

1. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiighttttttt........

I once sold a battered suitcase full of tapes marked "Elvis Sings Opera" and 100 'TCOB in a Flash!' bumperstickers to some guy for $100 down in Memphis.

So what? :shrug:

:D

[reprehensor]

2. You never know.

Did you know that Jimi Hendrix's original 'final' mixdown for 'Electric Ladyland' was left in the back of a taxi in NYC when he was high?

He had to re-mix the opus in a much shorter time frame to please the record label.

The original master has never surfaced.

But there sure are a lot of 'Electric Ladyland' bootlegs out there...

'Gearfab' is also an infamous boot that was hashed out from 'lost' mixdowns.

They are out there.

Except Zeppelin stuff, cuz Peter Grant would beat the shit out of you if he caught you stealing.