It’s a stormy night in the southern Appalachians and a good night for a stormy sounding tune. Welcome to this week’s Beatles Rarity Of The Week. Back in November 2007, Paul McCartney released his UK single Ever Present Past in three formats: digital download bundle, CD single and vinyl single. The B-sides were all live performances of songs from the Memory Almost Full CD. All were recorded at Paul’s June 27, 2007 concert at Amoeba Records in sunny Los Angeles, CA, but were different tracks with each format. The digital download bundle contained Only Mama Knows and That Was Me, while the CD single contained Only Mama Knows and Dance Tonight. The vinyl B-Side is this week’s BROW: a melody given a somewhat poetic treatment by Paul called House Of Wax. It’s funny how something so recent can already be considered rare. I don’t see the digital download bundle on Itunes anymore, and the CD singles have all been bought up and at the time of this writing, only two used ones are available on Amazon Marketplace and the cheapest of them is $161.64. The vinyl single containing House Of Wax is nowhere to be found. A couple of weeks ago (on Jan. 27) Amoeba Records issued a CD EP called Amoeba’s Secret containing four songs from Paul’s concert at the LA store. Two of them had already been issued as the B-sides from the digital download bundle (That Was Me, Only Mama Knows) and two of them were previously unissued (I Saw Her Standing There – which was nominated for a Grammy this year, and the Wings hit C Moon). But the other B-Sides including the live account of House Of Wax are now lost to obscurity save for those that already have a vinyl copy and the lucky Moggers that happen to find this post.

Amoeba Records Promo poster for Paul's concert there in 2007.

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