Both sets 8 and 9 have much louder vocals with a little bit of echo so it is possible the PA was tweaked and improved by Adrian Barber towards the end of the month. And the overwhelming crowd response on Twist And Shout is very similar to the Johnny And the Hurricanes set recorded just after midnight New Year’s Eve, so it seems at least possible that some of these songs are from that night.
Following on from this there is another set which has the longer “Here We Go” version of A Taste Of Honey, while the Christmas set has the shorter version, suggesting that the song underwent a trimming towards the end of December. The first set with Horst has a version of I Saw Her Standing There (or “Seventeen” as it was known at that point) that is less formed than the other version which is squarely placed circa Christmas Day by the surrounding audience chatter. But it is my opinion that the tape is more or less chronological. Fortunately we have the Record Collector article to tell us the order for the songs contained within each set… if not the order of the sets themselves. So this is probably the best we’re ever going to get, short of some surreptitious copy slipping through the cracks. There’s more likelihood of a Beatles Comeback Tour than a Star Club Deluxe Box. “Well, wouldn’t it be nice if Apple took George’s pristine copy with all the missing songs and shared it with us? Fat chance. The eq for the other two sources was determined by choosing songs which have a similar sonic makeup from the eq’d Source 1.” Importantly these allow for the correct eq to be found for all of Source 1. Accounting for some damage over time, these more or less match the fidelity of the Harrison tape. Also, Ted Owen put up a sampler tape when Larry Grossberg auctioned off the original Ted Taylor reel a few years ago. These raw dubs sound head and shoulders above any source we’ve ever glimpsed before. Fortunately Allan Williams sold George Harrison a copy of the tape in 1973, and two extracts (Nothin’ Shakin’ and Roll Over Beethoven) seem to have been included in the Scorsese doco Living In the Material World. None of these are straight copies so the trick is to determine what the original eq was. “The mono version is compiled from three different sources: a fairly okay dub of part of the raw tape the Yellow Dog release a while back of a different part of the tape and the Larry Grossberg edit.
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