Rehearsal

Hand numbered edition of 1000 copies. Tracks 1-17 Studio Rehearsals, London 1978; Tracks 18-21 from the film All You Need Is Cash. Many songs introduced by excerpts of dialogue from the film All You Need Is Cash. In December 1970 Dirk sued Stig and Nasty; Barry sued Dirk; Nasty sued Stig and Barry; and Stig sued himself accidentally. It was the end of an era. However, amid squabbles and lawsuits, the band were recording a new album. The project was abandoned and the master tapes were buried. As was reported at the time, all of the tapes were placed in a time capsule and buried in a secret location. Announcing that action, a spokesman for The Rutles stated that this was "to thwart bootleggers. And tax authorities." Furthermore, the capsule would "stay buried for a thousand years." He added that the album wouldn’t be released unless it was "discovered by archaeologists or whoever digs these things up." This led to Rutles fans dubbing the interred recordings the ‘Archaeology’ tapes. As all fans know, the basis of the Rutles’ new album Archaeology are the famous "Archaeology Tapes". These tapes were rehearsal tapes from early Rutles recording sessions in the 1960’s, and included several songs that were never released. thought to be buried These tapes were found by Barry’s dog in a shed in 1995, and the rest is archaeology. Somehow, the original "Archaeology Tapes" have leaked out to the bootleggers, and are now reportedly available for the first time ever on a bootleg CD called Sweet Rutle Tracks. Besides the tracks that were used and enhanced on Archaeology, the rehearsal tapes include "live" rehearsal versions of all of the Rutles’ big hits. In addition, the tapes include the rehearsal of one Nasty/McQuickly song still as yet unreleased called Plenty Of Time.