Look at the bolded and how they contradict. We’re not saving anything for the 60th anniversary! It wasn’t “for this album, we’ll put on less extras.” If we are doing “Abbey Road,” we’re going to do “Abbey Road” as best as we can and not hold anything back from it. And I think with the White Album we had an abundance of riches, where, possibly because of the way “Abbey Road” was recorded, with fewer takes, more rehearsal time, no acoustic demos, etc., we had less material to use. I think we have to make sure that the quality is there. And he was a Beatle, and I think he’s got a point. Because for instance, George thought doing the “Anthology” (collections of outtakes in the 1990s) was scraping the bottom of the barrel. We don’t try and do this so it can be added to a collection.Īnd we think carefully about it. And I think the key thing we think about is that we do this so the music can be enjoyed. But the way we made those decisions is purely down to what’s good. The record label often wants to know how many tracks we would have because they’ve got to start working out how many CDs in the package. In all honesty, there’s no discussion (to pre-determine) how many tracks we’ll have. It’s a really good question, or good point. It seems like maybe there was some quality control exercised, because there are fewer outtakes on this particular set, and there are probably several different reasons for that… The book tantalizingly mentions another, faster version of “I Want You” that they did, maybe as a lark, while the engineers were doing a test, and it’s not included in here. Here's another example of Giles being stingy and just in his own world -Variety asks Giles about an Abbey Road outtake raved about in the boxset book yet it's not present in audio.
It's unclear -I'd have to go through Giles interviews again - a poster here assumed that they were Abbey Road outtakes that sounded too close to the outtakes from Anthology
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