Favorite Beatles Album

[row_33]

16 minutes ago, Greybeard said:

        Interesting in that it sounded like PM was singing along with himself in some pieces of Hey Jude.   BTW, keep these coming.  I am starting to look forward to these as much as I do the TIL's.

 

thanks, this is the best year of them for this huge lifelong fan....

 

for the films, Paul's bass for HJ and then Nicky Hopkins' piano for Revolution are without representation

 

 

 

 

 

[T&C]

New McCartney Lp coming out... here is an early soft review:

 

http://www.baynews9.com/fl/tampa/ap-online/2018/09/07/review-new-mccartney-shows-hes-still-yearning-learning

[Rico]

Macca just finished a “surprise” free show in Grand Central Station, the replay is on YouTube right now.

[row_33]

Not much with the boys on this day in 1968.

 

In 1969...  Two films produced by John and Yoko are exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London: 'Rape' and 'Self-Portrait'.
During the evening (7.00pm-about 12.00pm), two people sit on stage shrouded in a white bag.

 

 

I was very young back then and still can recall a few adults in my life wondering what the heck John was doing with his life and talent and mind.

 

 

[row_33]

Takes 1-34 of Glass Onion

 

Each take was roughly the same length, apart from take 15 which became a six-minute jam. The group's penultimate attempt, take 33, was considered the best, and overdubs began the following day.

 

 

[row_33]

Sept 13, 1968, cover of Life Magazine and excerpt from the Hunter Davies whitewashed bio

 

https://books.google.ca/books?id=Vz8EAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

Edited September 13, 2018 by row_33

[row_33]

Work on Helter Skelter/I Will/Cry Baby Cry and Birthday over the next few days

 

Engineer Geoff Emerick resigned during the recording of "Cry Baby Cry", though his departure was precipitated by Lennon and McCartney's obsessions over the recording of both "Revolution" and "Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da", respectively, and the overall tensions of the White Album sessions. Emerick would not work with the Beatles again until the session for "The Ballad of John and Yoko" nine months late

[row_33]

Tracks 1-22 of Birthday

 

[row_33]

Piggies takes 1 to 11

 

[bbb]

[T&C]

Whiskey A Go Go, Sunset Strip 1970

 

[row_33]

1968...

 

Recording: 'Happiness Is A Warm Gun In Your Hand' takes 46-70.  The working title.

 

Mono mix is much better, bass and drums are barely present at times for stereo...

 

 

[Greybeard]

5 hours ago, row_33 said:

1968...

 

Recording: 'Happiness Is A Warm Gun In Your Hand' takes 46-70.  The working title.

 

Mono mix is much better, bass and drums are barely present at times for stereo...

 

 

                   Sometimes you have to wonder what the producer was thinking when they mixed it.  My #1 Beatle example of this is "In My Life."  Having the singing all on one side is really annoying.   In early times, I used to frequent the Newsgroups and a guy there did a remix of "In My Life" with better vocal balance and something a little bit different in the instruments.  It became my go to for that song.

[The Real Buffalo Joe]

Just now, Greybeard said:

                   Sometimes you have to wonder what the producer was thinking when they mixed it.  My #1 Beatle example of this is "In My Life."  Having the singing all on one side is really annoying.   In early times, I used to frequent the Newsgroups and a guy there did a remix of "In My Life" with better vocal balance and something a little bit different in the instruments.  It became my go to for that song.

It was literally just experimentation. Day Tripper, Yellow Submarine, and a few more I can't remember off the top of my head do this. 

 

The positive thing about it, is if I has speakers or headphones not working, I play Yellow Submarine, and I know that if I'm hearing instruments and no vocals, my right speaker isn't working, or vice versa. So I just keep that playing on repeat till I get them working. Lol. 

[row_33]

1 hour ago, Greybeard said:

                   Sometimes you have to wonder what the producer was thinking when they mixed it.  My #1 Beatle example of this is "In My Life."  Having the singing all on one side is really annoying.   In early times, I used to frequent the Newsgroups and a guy there did a remix of "In My Life" with better vocal balance and something a little bit different in the instruments.  It became my go to for that song.

 

They did what they could at the time, uneven recordings and mistakes abound, the squeaky bass drum pedal in All I’ve Got To Do is a good one. 

 

it is my understanding that Paul was the most active Fab in mixing it from mono to stereo, why he allowed the Mother Superior section to remove him and the cymbal crashes is a mystery to me. Paul didn’t seem the type to shy away from enhancing his bass presence starting with Rubber Soul.

 

white album diffs in mono for the speed of Don’t Pass Me By and parts of Sexy Sadie and Helter Skelter make it better for me in mono at times.../

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The recent long interview with Macca in GQ is depressing, but he is what he is.

 

 

[row_33]

https://www.gq.com/story/the-untold-stories-of-paul-mccartney

[DaBillsFanSince1973]

[row_33]

Remixes of Happiness, Glass Onion, and What's the New Mary Jane, and Paul's sane song  I Will

 

 

 

[The Real Buffalo Joe]

On 9/24/2018 at 5:08 PM, row_33 said:

 

They did what they could at the time, uneven recordings and mistakes abound, the squeaky bass drum pedal in All I’ve Got To Do is a good one. 

 

it is my understanding that Paul was the most active Fab in mixing it from mono to stereo, why he allowed the Mother Superior section to remove him and the cymbal crashes is a mystery to me. Paul didn’t seem the type to shy away from enhancing his bass presence starting with Rubber Soul.

 

white album diffs in mono for the speed of Don’t Pass Me By and parts of Sexy Sadie and Helter Skelter make it better for me in mono at times.../

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The recent long interview with Macca in GQ is depressing, but he is what he is.

 

 

You seem to have this disdain for Paul McCartney. From all I've read, John seemed to have been the @$$hole of the group. What resources do you have that point to this?  Don't take this as an attacking question, I genuinely want to know and read it.

[row_33]

2 hours ago, The Real Buffalo Joe said:

You seem to have this disdain for Paul McCartney. From all I've read, John seemed to have been the @$$hole of the group. What resources do you have that point to this?  Don't take this as an attacking question, I genuinely want to know and read it.

 

You can listen to the White Album in mono and stereo and hear the diffs for yourself. 

 

No secret Paul was the most involved of the 4 in final mixing, and no secret he thankfully pushed his bass into the foreground for albums starting with Rubber Soul, you can probably sing along to his bass work on Everybody’s Got.... My Monkey and Hey Bulldog.  I will argue he was one of the best bass players in pop history, at the very least he pioneered pushing it into the foreground, while at the same time penning several of the greatest songs of the 20th century and singing lead or background on almost all of them.

 

the GQ interview is flimsy and pointless, I wish he had more to him but that’s who he is and his more serious and deeper colleagues are sadly no longer with us.

 

I will argue for eternity that I Will is one of the more sane songs on the White Album, and that it was Paul’s song.

Edited September 27, 2018 by row_33