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George Harrison – Through Many Years
EAC | CD-image, APE, CUE, LOG – 260Mb | cover | 3% recovery | rs.com + mega
Vigotone Industries © 1999, USA | CDR | VT-181

George:
1. I Live for You
2. Dehra Dun
3. Gopala Krishna
4. Going Down to Golden Green
5. Get Back
6. Pete Drake's Talking Steel Guitar
7. Old Brown Shoe
8. All Things Must Pass
9. Something
10. Deep Blue
11. Miss O'Dell
12. I Don't Care Anymore
with a little help from Ringo:
13. Octopus's Garden
14. Stormy Weather
15. The Wishing Book
16. Nashville Freakout

Tracks 1 – 6: Outtakes from All Things Must Pass
Tracks 7 – 9: George’s Solo Demos
Tracks 10 – 12: Non-LP B-sides
Track 13: Alternate version recorded for a George Martin IBA Network special broadcast on Christmas Eve, 1969.
Track 14: Outtake from Sentimental Journey
Tracks 15 – 16: Outtakes from Beaucoups of Blues

“A patchy assortment of outtakes and rarities from Harrison's early solo career, filled out with a few similar items from Ringo Starr's early solo sessions. The first half-dozen tracks are the most exciting, as all are outtakes from George's best album, All Things Must Pass, only one of which ("I Live for You") was previously bootlegged (in inferior quality). "Dehra Dun" (which Harrison briefly busked in the Beatles' Anthology documentary) and "Gopala Krishna" are pleasant, if unformed, tunes that, as their titles indicate, have an Indian influence, although they are performed by a rock band with no Indian instruments. There's also a derivative rockabilly jam ("Going Down to Golders Green"), a half-assed vamp on "Get Back", and straight from the bottom of the All Things Must Pass barrel, "Pete Drake's Talking Steel Guitar", which is exactly that. It's followed by the three solo February 1969 demos that already appeared on Anthology 3. With Vigotone's typical hubris, the (very good) liner notes describe two of the tracks as boasting superior mixes here. The early-'70s non-LP Harrison B-sides "Deep Blue", "Miss O'Dell" and "I Don't Care Anymore" are useful to completists, as they haven't been reissued on CD, although none are among his more memorable compositions. Rounding out the program are a 1969 television-special mix of Ringo's "Octopus's Garden" (including some non-Beatle musicians), a "Stormy Weather" outtake from Starr's first solo album, and two unissued tracks from Starr's 1970 Beaucoups of Blues album. The fidelity is excellent throughout the disc.
~ Richie Unterberger, allmusic