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

I need to work out what to do with these now, but just reading that lot was immense. Big cop-out on 'How Do You Sleep?' though!

I can't help but wonder that there's too many of them, surely then it's just a little better than the solo records on shuffle?

I've never bothered with the solo records besides a couple of Lennon's; intriguing as McCartney's career is, this way is far more interesting to me right now. Besides, you need a hefty counterweight to the official boxes.

This is up there with 'If Hitler had won the war' fiction... in terms of probably best to leave well alone....

^^^ exactly. and, of course, if the dudes hadn't split and gone on to live their weird post-Beatles lives, then those lives wouldn't have 'made' them write the songs contained above.

still, i do find stuff like this bizarrely intriguing....

The thing is, there are so many solo Beatle songs that two or more Beatles played on: most of JL/POB, ATMP, Ringo's records thru 1973 or so...I haven't checked it in detail, but it's likely that the first few tracklistings here have as much Beatle collaboration as the White Album or Abbey Road.

London, 2 September 1965

Paul slowly woke up, slowly left that wonderful dream he’d just had, the one about him and John. His eyes opened to John’s sleeping face, still off somewhere dreaming. Paul could feel John’s warmth, his naked body pressed against his own. Had it really happened? Were he and John really...lovers?

John began to stir, and Paul looked again into his face. He looked so pretty lying there, half-asleep, Paul thought warmly. John opened his eyes, looked myopically at Paul and smiled. “Was it good for you too, luv?”

Paul smiled serenely at John. “Yes, Johnny.”

WHAT HAPPENED NEXT?!!!

hahaha, i'm not telling. all i can say is the internet has totally ruined the WHAT IF scenario for me.

The Hours and the Times took a stab at it.

Sort of.

Threesome with Eppy, obv

feel free to read on though:

http://lovelyrita_1967.tripod.com/slash.html

oh god...

Should be called: "The Love We Make, or, John and Paul Doin' It!"

Too many albums per year imho, and too many lousy songs. "I Don't Want to Be a Soldier" I don't think I've ever made it through an entire listen.

And I say Yoko Ono would have joined the Beatles, so there would be cool Plastic Ono Band stuff on these too. At the very least something like "Remember Love".

Someone pulled this before on a blog, though they stuck to the chronology much more. It's crazy to even fathom (would Elton John still have done backup vox on "Whatever Gets You Thru The Night"?), but I am interested in hearing how it's been "remastered" with the segues and such.

When We Was Fav

Read the typo as "When We Was Flav," imagined the slashfic possibilities.

it's likely that the first few tracklistings here have as much Beatle collaboration as the White Album or Abbey Road.

I think Abbey Road was the only late-period album where everyone played on almost every song, the exceptions being "Because" and "Her Majesty."

I thought Lennon was basically MIA on that one?

i think he's all over it, even the harrison songs. there's a tape of him rehearsing "Something" with George.

iirc, Lennon endeavored to be absent for the "Something" session(s) that produced the final master. But he later praised the song as Harrison's best. I don't think Lennon's on "Here Comes The Sun" or "Maxwell's Silver Hammer," either.

Ah, but according to this,

The original version, at eight minutes, was even longer than "Hey Jude," featuring Lennon on the piano at the end, with a counter-melody in the middle. These were cut out, the piano part going to a Lennon song, "Remember," and the counter-melody finally appearing on The Beatles Anthology 3.

Yeah that's been bootlegged for ages, it's basically a sloppy jam tacked on to the end that doesn't really go anywhere.

Apparently "Something" was demo'd during the "White Album" sessions, and for some reason I want to say it was during the recording of "Piggies" and was done on a harpsichord or organ. I really really want to hear that.

Never liked Something, but I do dig that sloppy jam.

I also never liked "Something", would like some sloppy jam plz.

Sleigh Tracks, after listening to "Silver", I would say you've done a great thing, really help people like me who shy away from the solo stuff (well, not John's) get into it more. I almost like Paul's songs now! Thanks for doing this...

I guess I need to get ahold of these somehow, but I don't have an account there.

Registration looks open. I have no idea how to use it though.

pplains, go to bit torrent and download their program--that's it!

I'm giving it a go, but at 2k/s it's going to be weeks before I hear this thing :(

If you don't mind mp3s I can stick them all in a Dropbox folder for you.

Oh man, I wouldn't expect anyone to go through that trouble, but mp3s would be perfectly fine with me. Don't really have the storage capacity for flac atm anyway.

It's no trouble for me. I'll need email addresses so I can set up a shared folder.

Can I ilxmail you? I'd rather send you my email address that way.

John Via Cheeto at hotmail dot com

Yep that's fine.

hahaha EZ!

may as well post this here

ha, that's cool. i can see why they mixed the solo out, but neat to hear. also cool to hear the moog parts a little higher in the mix.

Ok, folder's created, you should've received invites and the songs are uploading. There's 183 songs in total and it's about 1.5gb. If pplains, Ismael Klata and jon/via/chi can let me know when they've downloaded at their end, that would be good.

i'd be into hearing this too!

send me your email address!

So would I, if a lurker would be able to geg in? samatliquid6dotcom

Me too! joncroaker ~at~ g m a i l

Nate, I sent you my email address through webmail, would be great if you can hook me up too!

Hey thanks Nate! I actually have to wait til I get home from work today to dl these, is that cool?

thanks nate!

yeah no problem, I'll leave them up for a day or two so everybody gets a chance to dl them.