{"id":23381,"date":"2020-04-07T17:52:46","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T21:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=23381"},"modified":"2020-04-11T09:31:59","modified_gmt":"2020-04-11T13:31:59","slug":"cutting-room-floor-classics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/cutting-room-floor-classics\/","title":{"rendered":"Cutting-Room Floor Classics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Recent mentions of magical finds of <strong>Bob Dylan<\/strong> and <strong>Beatles<\/strong> outtakes via vinyl&#8217;s bootleg golden age and legitimate releases of previously unreleased outtakes that became a staple in the all-but-dead CD age got me wondering what your <strong>Top 3<\/strong> cutting-room floor classics might be. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a kid, I never had enough money to justify the low ROI from buying bootlegs, so I got out of that game early. My close personal friend <strong>Townsman Andyr<\/strong> sunk more money into Beatles bootlegs than I was willing to sink, and whenever I&#8217;d check them out, I was amazed at how little worthwhile material they left on the cutting-room floor. Those cats were efficient!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--nextpage-->\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"I&#039;m Looking Through You (Anthology 2 Version)\" width=\"695\" height=\"521\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LQJ2ROrjbfs?feature=oembed&amp;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Even when that official <em>Anthology<\/em> set of outtakes was released, I could have boiled it down to a slim, <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/disappointing\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nashville Skyline<\/a><\/em>-length 29 minutes of essential material. The set did include, as EPG mentioned the other day, the exquisite &#8220;I&#8217;m Looking Through You, version 2.&#8221; Does anyone NOT wish that had been the officially released version of that song? I don&#8217;t dislike the original, but it always strikes me as the genesis of <strong>Simon &amp; Garfunkel<\/strong>. (And believe me, the last thing I want to do in this special healing re-opening of Rock Town Hall is strike up a friendship-threatening debate over the merits of Simon &amp; Garfunkel vs <strong>Paul Simon solo<\/strong>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So again, if you can find it in yourself to select your Top 3 previously unreleased gems discovered via bootleg or official outtake release, I&#8217;m all ears. I haven&#8217;t given this much thought yet, so I&#8217;ll play along with you. 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