BEATLES 'LOST HARRISON COMPRESSED' WHITE ALBUM RARE A28 B29 MATRIX LOW #A1835247

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THE BEATLES 'LOST HARRISON COMPRESSED WHITE ALBUM' LOW # A 1835247 THAT HAS RARELY SEEN A28 B29 MATRIX WITH ALL 7 ERRORS

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This is Unprecedented Beatles History !! 'The Lost Harrison Compressed White Album' with ALL 7 label errors, Low # A 1835247 with rare historic matrix: S1-A28  S2-B27 (hand scratched out and factory restamped with B29 at Scranton !! WoW !!)  S3-A28  S4-B29..

Never seen before up for bids, with ALL 7 label errors, low number, **NM/MINT** Cover with all 4 MINT photos and MINT poster !! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to own a very rare part of Beatles history not often seen, or offered for sale anywhere in the world

I think it'll be worth more then it will eventually sell for, however, I'd like to give everyone a chance to own a piece of Beatles history !!
This is the ultimate Holy Grail of Beatles records !! Don't miss this opportunity for you will kick yourself when it's gone forever !! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I field many questions about this historic museum treasure, and the most common question is were there other plants that pressed The Harrison Compressed White album, and the answer is NO. The only pressing plant where these were pressed is documented and verified by Mr. Spizer, is at the plant in Scranton, Pa. Any stampings from Jacksonville, or Los Angeles are not compressed pressings !! ===========================================================================================================

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This is your incredible rare opportunity to own a piece of Beatles history few fans even knew exists !! If you'd like to see the finest Compressed Beatles White Album ever offered for sale item# 125515001837
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Insanely Rare Original Mastered from A28/B29 Lacquers Scranton 1968 Pressing of 'The Lost Harrison Compressed White Album'

Here's a rare opportunity to own the record that George Harrison didn't think you would hear!  A record so rare, there are less then a handful confirmed copies ever uncovered across the globe. As the story goes, just prior to the release of 'The Beatles' self-titled double LP, universally known as 'The White Album', George Harrison flew out to Los Angeles, and while there, he visited the Capitol Records LA plant to listen to an advance pressing of the record. He was horrified by what he heard. The album had compression and limitations added which altered the sound of what The Beatles had intended. George then set out to remaster the entire album. The first set of lacquers that were used to press this album were all ordered to be destroyed along with any records that may have been pressed. That, it would seem, was that...except…a few copies of the rejected album mistakenly leaked out. The way to discern this is by checking the matrix in the run-out groove for a number lower than 34. No copies of this pressing were known to exist prior to 2007, as noted by the brilliant Beatles expert Bruce Spizer.  A few copies have been discovered in the intervening years. All the legitimate copies of the Compressed White Album were SWBO-1, SWBO-2, SWBO-3 and SWBO-4. Any you may see that are X1, X2, X3, X4 were NOT pressed at the Scranton PA plant and are not true compressed White Albums that George Harrison had destroyed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Here's your chance to own one of them. This album up for auction has the following matrix numbers: A28 B29 A28 B29

The white cover is NM/MINT STUNNING front, back, inside and out. NO seam splits, ZERO SEAM SPLITS !! Very rare not to have splits. NO writing, NO stickers, NO glue residue, NO rips/tears, NO pen/marker marks, and a *MINT* inner/outer spine !! This is one of the nicest covers I've ever seen !!! Just an absolutely breathtaking copy of an extremely ultra rare treasure !! From every cover angle, everything on the cover, front, back, inner spine, outer spine, and inside gatefold looks stunning !! Hard to find this nice !!

The records, while still glossy, do show play, with some scratches and scuffs, which is completely understandable considering it is unarguably one of the earliest 'White Albums' ever known to exist today, more then 54 years after it's pressing at the Scranton PA plant. All the error labels are gorgeous and super clean with NO writing, NO names written on them,  NO stickers, NO glue residue, NO rips and NO tears. NO WRITING on the front, back or inside of the record sleeve!  It comes with all 4 MINT heavy-stock portrait photos, which includes the ultra rare photo separator sheet and the NM original poster with lyrics. It also includes the insanely rare early original solid inner sleeves WITHOUT the cut-out label hole. These were used on the earliest copies and quickly replaced by the cut out hole. They are in amazing condition with no tears, no rips, no writing, and hard to believe; no seam splits !!

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LPs with all 7 label errors have the following wax etchings:

Side 1: SWBO-1-101- A28   with △ (Scranton pressing)
Side 2: SWBO-2-101- B29   with △ (Scranton pressing)
Side 3: SWBO-3-101- A28   with △ (Scranton pressing)
Side 4: SWBO-4-101- B29   with △ (Scranton pressing)

A machine stamped △ triangle with the initials IAM indicates that the record was pressed at the Scranton, Pennsylvania plant. 'IAM' stood for the International Association of Machinists union whose members worked at the Scranton, PA plant.

This pressing is from the Scranton PA plant. The original plates were used to press this record, BEFORE Capitol recalled mother
plates 01 - 33. That any A28 or B29 mother plates existed and were not destroyed as instructed, were unknown to exist until 2007...
This is unarguably the most important Beatles White Album ever to turn up. This could very well end up in a museum one day !

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I personally corresponded with Bruce Spizer a few years ago, and he did confirm to me that this is in fact one of the very few known Lost Harrison Compressed White Albums known to exist, and was indeed pressed before all the early master lacquers were to be destroyed.

Bruce Spizer said to me:
"The albums with master numbers 28 or 29 (or any number below 34 if they ever existed) were from Capitol's original mastering of the album pressed at the Scranton plant. When George heard what Capitol had done, he insisted that the album be totally remastered. Capitol was suppose to destroy master numbers 1-33, but we now know that some 28-29 masters were not destroyed. At the time the price guide was written, only ONE of these rare masters had been confirmed"

Excerpts from Bruce Spizer:
All of this is detailed in my book "The Beatles on Apple Records" on page
118. At the time I wrote the book, I stated that there were never any numbers below
A34 cut at the Capitol Tower because all of these lacquers were destroyed. A few
years ago, someone had me examine a White Album with A28, B29, A28 and B29
for sides one through four. This was proof that not all lacquers 01 to 33 were
destroyed. These discs sound slightly different that the White Album we all
know and love. It is not a dramatic difference because the lacquers were cut
from the same master tape. We did a digital wave comparison of the discs
with A28 & B29 to a standard White Album. The difference is clearly visible.
You can see the compression on the original Capitol master. The digital wave
comparison appears on page 270 of my latest book, "The Beatles Swan Song:
"She Loves You" and Other Records." In addition, a lacquer of side one of
The White Album has recently turned up that further confirms Harrison's
remastering. The lacquer was cut at Sound Recorders Studio, 6226 Yucca,
Hollywood, CA, which is just around the corner from the Capitol Tower. An
image of the lacquer is in my Swan book, also on page 270. This is one of
the lacquers cut under Harrison's supervision. Ken Mansfield confirms that
Harrison went to that studio for the initial remastering. Obviously, the
lacquers used to cut the album were done at the Tower, as evidenced by the A and B lathe numbers.
I hope that this proves, once and for all, that the Harrison remaster story is not a myth, and is in fact true.

Bruce Spizer also writes about this rare version in his book The Beatles on Apple Records:
"George Harrison, along with Mal Evans, were in Los Angeles to produce Jackie Lomax's upcoming Apple album. He dropped by the Capitol Tower to hear the White Album. He had left London for LA prior to the banding session during which the order of the songs was selected for The White Album, and wanted to hear the finished product. He did not like what he heard and insisted that he be allowed to work with Capitol's engineers to remaster the album.
This story is told by Mal Evans in an issue of The Beatles Book (the official Beatles Fan Club monthly publication) in which he states that Capitol's engineers had "done all sorts of technical things to it that altered half the effects." As was often the practice at the time, Capitols engineers had run the sound through a limiter and compressed the volume range of the recording by cutting back the high volume peaks and bringing up the low passages. This would have been particularly noticeable on "Helter Skelter," a loud rocker with a fake fade-out ending, and Harrison's "Long, Long, Long," which has quiet passages throughout and loud distortion at the end."

So, the album was saved and sounded like George Harrison wanted it to sound. It was released in the UK on 22 November 1968, and three days later in the United States. However, it seems a few of the U.S. albums had been pressed using Capitol's compressed master by mistake. In Perry Cox' 2007 book, one such copy of the album was described: "this variant has lacquer numbers in the trail off area ending in numbers LESS than 34.  These records were pressed with metal parts generated from the initial 33 lacquers, which were supposed to be destroyed. George Harrison objected to the use of a limiter that had compressed the sound during the mastering process. He insisted that the initial lacquers be destroyed and that the album be remastered. Harrison's remastered version is found on standard copies of the album which have lacquer numbers 34 and higher. Only one copy, Scranton pressing with lacquer numbers A-28 and B-29, has been confirmed, and thought there may be one or two others out there." --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Those of you who know me, or have purchased rare Beatles records from me in the past 20+ years, know I have owned more of these then anyone else on the planet. Out of the documented handful known to be in existence over the past 50+ years, I have owned 5, and still own 3, this being one of them. I began collecting White Albums over 40 years ago. I noticed how odd the mother stamps were, having no idea what they were, but I knew they were important and historic, so I stored them away, then finding out from Bruce Spizer, these were indeed The Lost Compressed Harrison White Album !!!
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Here are all the 7 song errors on the labels:
1. "Bungalow Bill" instead of "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill"
2. "Obladi Oblada" instead of "Ob-la-di Ob-la-da"
3. "Rocky Racoon", missing the second "C" in Raccoon
4. "Goodnight" instead of "Good Night"
5. "Revolution No. 1" instead of "Revolution 1"
6. "Revolution No. 9" instead of "Revolution 9"
7. "Why Don't we do it in the road" without the question mark (?)
Error #7 without the question mark, is the rarest of all the 7


Wax Etchings:
Side 1: SWBO-1-101-A28
Side 2: SWBO-2-101-B27 (hand scratched out, replaced and re-stamped with B29, right at the Scranton plant... AMAZING !!
Side 3: SWBO-3-101-A28
Side 4: SWBO-4-101-B29

Here's all the invaluable information on how Beatles White Albums were numbered, and the meaning behind all the sequences

The first 25 White Albums were numbered with an “A” prefix and then a series of zeros preceding the number (e.g. A0000009). There are always seven digits following the “A” so if it was a single digit number it would be preceded by six zeroes or if it was a two digit number it would be preceded by five zeroes. It is not known what the “A” was indicative of (it may mean “printed in America” or “Apple” but neither is confirmed).

Numbers 26-99 were three digit numbers preceded with a zero and no prefix.

Numbers 100 through approximately 209,999 were preceded with the correct number of zeroes to make them a seven digit number
(no letter prefix was added to these low numbers).

Beginning around 210,000 up to near 590,000, they were preceded by a zero and had an 'A' prefix.

Later copies up to about 1,350,000 remain at seven digits using a leading zero if necessary and are prefixed with a large dot.

The next batch from 1,350,000 up to some point past 2,000,000 are prefixed with an “A” but it is a thinner “A” than the one previously used.

From 2,000,000 to around 2,250,000 some are prefixed with a large dot and some with the “A”

From 2,250,000 up to 3,000,000 the numbers are prefixed with the abbreviation for number (i.e. “No.”). On some of these the “o” in “No.” is raised with the period below it instead of beside it.

For the final numbers over 3,000,000 the numbers are prefixed with a wide 'A' -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shipping is Lightning-Fast via USPS 2/3 Day Priority Mail professionally packed and shipped safely in an oversized large box !! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------