Конверт - Ex (след от скотча вдоль клапана -cм.фото 4) Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd.
Пластинка - Ex (Тоненькая поверхностная косметическая царапинка на 2й стороне,на звучании не сказывается)
Необычное сочетание матриц. Вот что в Англии пишут про этот вариант :
BEATLES-RUBBER SOUL-MONO 1965-THE RAREST PRESS OF ALL PARLOPHONE YELLOW & BLACK -Considered by many and please don't let me dissuade you from this,to be the rarest of Rubber Soul pressings,rarer even than a "Loud Cut" is one of these.
EMI's 1st attempt to correct the anomaly caused by the 1st pressing being released with the wrong mix. The story of this record is pretty well ingrained in the record collecting psych now,but briefly EMI pressed the 1st lot with the wrong final cut,these have the matrix suffixes -1 and aren't after all is said and done that rare (remember the advance orders for this album were 500,000 and they had done many thousands before it was noticed.
There was then a hurried rejigging and the corrected version was pressed with the standard -4 or even -5 matrix suffixes.
But true to form and symptomatic of the rush that things were done in those days someone managed to screw even this up,and what you have as a result is very limited run,no-one knows the true figure,but they don't surface all that often,of a pressing that is both "loud" and "normal" sometimes its a -4/-1 or as with this copy a -1/-4. Sometimes referred to as a "half cut" being a pun on the english expression for being drunk but capable.
