The owner of Neptoon Records realized he had music history in his possession and now wants Paul McCartney to collect it.
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When Rob Frith picked up a tape labelled "Beatles Record" years ago, he figured it was a bootleg and ignored it. However, he recently played the tape, and was astounded. He had a real auditions tape from The Beatles on his hands.
He recorded the playing tape and shared it to Instagram. In the caption, he wrote how he thought it sounded "like a master tape."
"The quality is unreal. How is this even possible to have, what sounds like a Beatles 15-song Decca tapes master?"
In the video, the tape played the outro of a Beatles cover of "Sheik of Araby," by Django Reinhardt. This truly may be a piece of Beatles history.
A follow-up video posted on Wednesday has the tape playing "Money (That's What I Want)."
According to the comments and other outlets, the tape is believed to be the Decca Studios recording sessions, from 1962.
You can listen to the brilliant tape below.
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Rob Frith spoke to CBC about the treasured find. He is very impressed with the recording.
"It seemed like the Beatles were in the room," he said.
Considering this is a piece of Beatles history, he wanted Paul McCartney to come and pick the tape up. It's either that or he does a charity listening event.
In the comments of the most recent video, Frith shared that he plans to do the latter, so maybe McCartney won't be going down to pay him a visit.
"We will be doing one charity listening event in Vancouver," he informed. Details of the listening event haven't been shared, although he told CBC that he'll be donating the proceeds to charity.
I suppose there's still a chance Paul McCartney could pick it up, and it doesn't mean he can't do the listening event anyway. Keep an eye peeled on his socials to keep up to date if you'd like to join.
"People say it could be really valuable. I don't know. I'm glad it's preserved," he humbly said. It may be valuable, but I don't think he'll be selling it anytime soon.
