I have had it up to here waiting for the Beatles catalogue to be remastered

btw, song w vocal recorded for Wonderwall sdtk but initially 'lost' and not released until 1999

The movie's not so bad.

Yeah that amazing song is on the DVD release. Plus the movie has The Fool in it, that Dutch art collective that painted the side of the Apple building and Eric Clapton's guitar and did some album covers (including ISB) had a cool freak folk record of their own as well:

http://img.maniadb.com/images/album/287/287713_1_f.jpg

Woah!

"The Fool's best known artworks are those they created for The Beatles in 1966–67. They include:
the original (rejected) cover and the inner sleeve for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band;"

elsewhere...

"Originally a Dutch group called the Fool made a design for the center fold of the album.

Miles: "Simon and Marijke painted a dream landscape of stylised mountain peaks and wonderful birds, like an LSD-influenced Chinese willow-pattern design. The sky was rainbow-ed with two oval panels for text, one of which was filled with stars and comets. A further empty panel had a flower border with a peacock draping its tail over the side. Tiny figures of the Beatles peeped out from among the flora. The style was Euro-psychedelic, owing much to Mucha, Beardsley, art nouveau and nineteenth-century children’s book illustrations. Unfortunately they got the dimensions wrong, but even with a border added, the work looked somehow second-rate. The Beatles, however, loved it."

But Fraser saw it differently. He felt it would be judged by posterity as simply another piece of sixties acid art. Robert suggested a series of portrait shots instead. For this picture the Beatles all looked in the camera and tried to express a feeling of love to their fans. "And that’s what that is," declares Paul "if you look at it you’ll see the big effort from the eyes".

Here's an interview by Dutch Beatlesexpert Azing with Simon Posthuma (The Fool), made in March 2, 1996.

Azing: Can you describe the design? We have no idea what it looked like.
Simon: It was very colorful. It was a gatefold (three-part) cover with a square filled with dancing people and many rainbow colors. Very lovely - like everything in those days. Flower power, you know?
Azing: What happened to the original design?
Simon: John took it and hang in on the wall at his house. I think it's still on the wall at Yoko's."

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t263/frequentflyer909/FoolSgtPepper.jpg

huh never seen that before

it is kind of dopey tho. they made the right choice

didn't derek taylor have the Fool cover pulled? it says in Macca's book which i don't have to hand. they did the Apple painting which i always quite liked
http://theselvedgeyard.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/apple_boutique_01.jpg

love the "classic" sign next door too lol

(That 'Classic' is a cinema and there's still a cinema there these days - 'Screen on Baker Street)

For this picture the Beatles all looked in the camera and tried to express a feeling of love to their fans. "And that’s what that is," declares Paul "if you look at it you’ll see the big effort from the eyes".

According to John, two of the Beatles were 'flying' (presume he means tripping) on the Sgt Pepper cover, unknown to the others. One has to be John, but not sure who the other was was. According to John, George was 'very heavy on acid' - and Paul was known to be wary - so I'd guess it was George.

Macca had taken it already a few times by the time of the Pepper sleeve mind.

and he does look pretty out of it in that session:

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lbv0oe5BXn1qb2mtno1_500.jpg

haha yeah.

They all look pretty out in that particular photo though.

the voice of experience

i thought that when the announcement was that the washington coliseum concert was available "streaming from itunes" it meant it was actually available in itunes like a movie preview, but I guess it's just on a webpage? lame-o.

40 W Beatles Hey Jude

Least popular track is What Goes On apparently - 14 downloads. Revolution 9 downloaded 48 times!

Poor ol' rings. (where is this list?)

Those figures were tweeted by Music Week News earlier.

http://twitter.com/MusicWeekNews

ha:

EMI Publishing has secured deals with two of the hottest new bands, putting pen to paper with Mona and Brother.

Will hear nothing futher from these bands...

UK Top 40 singles has 'Hey Jude' at number 40. That's it.

Yep.

I have had it up to here hearing about The Beatle's catalogue being available on iTunes.

I feel like we all need to go back and geek out about the re-releases again. The Itunes thing feels very much like a non-starter.

happily..

lets talk about unsurpassed promos and when it will be available?

really looking forward to it.

The new DVD project is a 4 disc set under the title "Unsurpassed Promos" collecting not only all the Beatles' official promotional music videos from 1962-1970, but a version of every song they mimed to on tv, songs from their films and something like 350 still photos from the shootings of the promo films. Each video will be presented in the best quality available and every effort has been made to avoid videos that have station logos. The set will also include the last 30 minutes of "Let It Be" in stereo. The promos have been synched to the mono CD's, but whenever a promo features an alternate mono mix, that mix will be included as an audio option. Some of the videos have had to be pieced together from various sources in order to get the best quality. The fan behind the project is the same guy who gave us the "Unsurpassed Broadcasts" collection, as well as the "Empire Strikes Back" DVD and CD. Naturally, because of his reputation, when he announced his plans for this set, he was contacted by people who sat on superior material they offered for inclusion.

When "1" was released back in 2000, then head of Apple Corps Neil Aspinall was asked what the next step was, perhaps a collection of The Beatles' music videos? His answer was that "No, that would be too obvious". As you can see by the titles I have mentioned and linked to in this post, that statement made for a bootlegger's paradise, as does the absense of an official "Let It Be" DVD.

The "Unsurpassed Promos" project is made by fans, for fans, and for free. The 4-disc set will be leaked to internet download sites and traded among fans. Undoubtedly, bootleggers will rip the set and offer it for money somewhere along the line, but that's not something that can ever be avoided, neither with official nor unofficial products.

http://wogew.blogspot.com/2010/10/unsurpassed-promos.html

Sounds great. Frankly, tho, im swimming in Beatles boot DVDs, so i sure hope the quality on this is thoroughly stunning.

Oh yeah, looks like its up on the green demon right now...

The first 2 discs at least....

little bit off topic, but i'm kinda curious about the Modern Jazz Quartet records that Apple put out (they've just now been reissued on CD, along with the other Apple Records). Had no idea they were on Apple! Weird pairing. Anyone heard them?

Oh, that old thing..

Actually, I remember telling Alice about the version of "I feel fine" I'd read about, where they recorded a video that basically consisted of them sitting round and having their dinner of Fish and chips out of newspaper, while miming slightly. Not thinking that I'd ever see this (it was sent off to the far east, or something)..

But no, it got compiled and there it is.

i'm trying to be more of a locavore in deed and spirit.

Wasn't he the singer in Dr Hook?

― Mark G, Thursday, November 18, 2010 2:38 PM (5 days ago)

^^^ I just got this (really obscure) reference! LOL!

About to check out the Washington show, which is an interesting 'new release' incentive because i probably first saw it on a grey-market VHS 15 years ago or something. I remember this is the show where you can see Ringo relentlessly pounding the shit out of the bass drum.

Wow that 'Unsurpassed Broadcasts' is *twelve* discs? Did they really do that much BBC session stuff? I had no idea. Never liked 'At The BBC' much mind.

the washington one is with the revolving stage, right? saw that at a beatles convention in the 70's. so, um, its been a while.

Ok, what's Green Demon?

Is the Washington one the same one that was in the Maysles doc?

That alternative I Feel Fine clip that Mark G mentions upthread
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zhQ7nCoRp4

I've never seen it either until now! Seen many stills from it over the years.

Also, their version of "A midsummer night's dream"..

It wasn't until I saw a full production of the play, that I realised it's supposed to be as raucous as their version is. (It's the play from within the main body of the play, at the end..)

Ok, what's Green Demon?

― nate woolls, Tuesday, November 23, 2010 1:21 PM (51 minutes ago) Bookmark

The last word in your question + this creature you're supposed to avoid

http://30.media.tumblr.com/yYVS2ZIYLkftsh0kydBiMQHQo1_400.gif

ah! the pizza devil!

It's taken me about half an hour to figure out who the hell that is, and now I need an invite. Sorry to be that guy but can anyone help me out?

Nate, check ur email.

That's brilliant. Thanks a lot.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2010/11/beatles-itunes-first-week.html

Apple announced Tuesday that 450,000 Beatles albums and 2 million individual tracks were downloaded during the first week they went up online. That translates to well more than $8 million spent on Beatles downloads out of the gate, using the single album download price of $12.99 and $1.29 per song. It doesn’t take into account several double albums priced at $19.99 or the digital Beatles box set that iTunes offers for $149.

At the same time the Beatles finally joined the digital world, Amazon began discounting the remastered physical CDs that were released last year, with individual albums now selling for $7.99, double sets for $11.99 and $12.99 and the 16-CD stereo box set priced at $129.99, making the tangible versions cheaper than the virtual ones. Consequently, six Beatles titles are in the Top 100 of Amazon’s ranking of its bestselling music titles as of Tuesday.

weird

Amazing to me that someone would rather pay almost twice as much for an iTunes download than a physical CD. Guess Steve Jobs really is a genius.

amazon is discounting them, not apple.

Right - I mean that you'd pay $12.99 for an iTunes download vs. $7.99 for a new CD from Amazon, like these 450k people did.

blah