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

i can't remember which thread we talked abt the Lewisohn book

anyway I read the book on kindle originally...and I just bought myself the hardcover so I can reread it. #ineedhelp

here's the chap

Beatles biographies?

oh and some bits in this

The Beatles

i got the hardcover enoromo version and still haven't even started it.

Finally got round to listening to the Mono Vinyl box that I got in a last minute Amazon scam* round Christmas.

It's ridiculous.

its the Owsley acid of Beatles masters.

semi-scam = jump on item in Amazon Warehouse, buy for 30% off, complain about condition, receive additional discount. = Mono box set £180 or £16 per album (less than stereo versions).

works for everything, but I use it for vinyl mostly. At the moment they have the massive Lewisohn bio for £50.

Could have bought it on ebay for less.

http://www.superdeluxeedition.com/news/remixed-expanded-the-beatles-live-at-the-hollywood-bowl-due-in-sep/

Hollywood Bowl reissue/remix!

Singing a song called "Boys" - Ringo!

It's insane how loud the audience is on these recordings, especially considering they weren't miked (that is, not even a single ambient mic pointed at the crowd).

love the beatles but i have zero interest in hearing the hollywood bowl recordings unless they magically delete the audience

demix technology!!!!

here's a song from our new album.....lp?......album.....

Just had a listen to the original on Youtube, god what a fucking racket. I guess you could take the crowd out fairly easily now.

Lol, 'Demix' technology is just obfuscation, what they're probably doing is using Izotope RX5 Denoising software.

They probably sound lousy underneath the audience noise, anyway. I'll stick with Live at the BBC.

http://orig09.deviantart.net/d314/f/2013/229/b/8/the_beatles_colorized__1969__by_gqrodrigues-d6ifod9.png

WE INVENTED THE DEMIX!

xpost

(I guess it's nice to have out there for "historical" reasons, though.)

kind of want to do some insanely sensitive noise reduction / eq'ing and see what's left

http://www.beatlesauction.co.uk/

Singing a song called "Boys" - Ringo!

― Miami Jeeves And The Ties That Bind (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, July 20, 2016 10:23 AM (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

And here it is, in all its newly-DEMIXED glory:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/premieres/hear-beatles-newly-remixed-boys-from-hollywood-bowl-w437147

I can't tell much (if any) difference between this and the 1977 pre-DEMIXED version.

hmm, i dunno, still kinda rough going there.

holy shit Candlestick Park (final ever gig unless the rooftop counts) was 50 years ago today.

Christgau of course loved the original release--unlistenable imnho

it's fun as an artifact, and i thought the boys sounded pretty damn tight considering they couldn't even hear themselves play. but yeah, it's not much good as an actual album to listen to for enjoyment

yeah, most impressive thing to me is that they pretty much nail the backing vocals, which could not have been easy.

chap from the unfortunately-titled WogBlog gives the new movie a sound thrashing. i mean he's an obsessive fan so he's bound to have gripes, but what excellent gripes they are!

http://wogew.blogspot.co.uk/

Ringo said: "When we saw the first cut there were a lot of other people doing a lot of talking, which I believe he’s cut out now and it’s mainly me and Paul talking and it’s better.”

never change Ringo.

Just as long as they didn't cut that one Irish guy with the yellow glasses.

i'm a huge beatles nerd and even I'm rolling my eyes at that review

i mean, i get it..but jeez

I dunno, I think that review gets it right. The film struck me as Anthology Lite, with shitty (and totally unnecessary, and distracting) colorization. Showing clips with Jimmy Nicol without mentioning him was weird, and there was far too much emphasis on the films and studio records for a film purportedly about their live performance days.

Hamburg got short shrift, especially considering George always maintained that was their peak ("our best stuff was never recorded"). As did the Cavern -- George Martin was so impressed with their show that he initially wanted their first album to be a live recording.

In Anthology, they all talk about the allure of America being the music they loved -- the Shirelles, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino (who appears in the film, but is not identified), and especially Motown. No one thought to ask their feelings on playing in Detroit, where their heroes were from (and who were their stiffest competition on the US charts)? Instead, we get John talking about Fred Astaire, which, fine...but I think Smokey Robinson and Marvin Gaye deserved mention (in the clip with Murray the K, John is phoning him to request "Pride and Joy").

I saw the film this weekend and I thought it was embarrassingly dull. I liked George's rather dry comments, but most of his extracts were from Anthology. I enjoyed the Shea Stadium extra more than the film itself.

hmm..

Yeah, think I'll leave this just here..

http://www.deagostini.com/uk/collections/beatles-vinyl-collection/index.html

http://www.deagostini.com/uk/collections/beatles-vinyl-collection/assets/images/logo.png

hmm, that was good.

http://www.deagostini.com/uk/collections/beatles-vinyl-collection/assets/images/sfondo-num1.jpg

https://www.amazon.com/Peppers-Lonely-Hearts-Anniversary-Deluxe/dp/B06WGVMLJY

You want remaster? Have six discs of it!

I'm seriously struggling to think of how they would fill those 6 discs ... obviously, there'd be the LP (in mono and stereo), other singles and B-sides put out in '67, possibly some Anthology-type stuff... the internet would lose its shit if 'Carnival of Light' was on there, which I would expect to be a listen-once-and-then-meh kinda deal anyway.

here's some info / preview trailer
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/D1SlZaoXPGS.mp4

Disc 1: Album remixed (in stereo) by Giles Martin

Disc 2-3: outtakes and extras

Disc 4: Mono mix on CD

Discs 5-6: DVD/Blu-ray containing restored The Making of Sgt. Pepper

144 page book, posters, insert

http://www.beyondblackwhite.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/bottom-of-the-barrel1.jpg

probably my least favorite of their psychedelic period releases tbh

I am the kind of clown that would almost shell out for just the two discs of just Sgt. Pepper's "outtakes and extras," even though I know the Anthology must have already sopped up the juiciest stuff. Don't care, I'll listen to random other takes of "Lovely Rita" or whatever else you've got. But a six-disc pacakge for $150...whoooof!

I would happily lose my shit if "Carnival of Light" was on there. But my guess is it's mostly false starts, breakdowns, and isolated instrument/vocal tracks.

one disc is an entire reel's worth of abbey road room tone accidentally recorded when geoff emerick accidentally knocked the 'record' button before heading out to lunch

Shakey OTM. I listen to Magical Mystery Tour and the first half of Yellow Submarine far more these days.

Surely McCartney must be aware by now that, fifty years down the line, Sgt. Pepper's generally isn't considered to be their finest work.

stunned that a man with such a rich, lustrous and widely-remarked-upon head of natural chestnut hair could be out of touch with public opinion

👏 WHERE 👏 IS 👏 CARNIVAL 👏 OF 👏 LIGHT 👏

Surely McCartney must be aware by now that, fifty years down the line, Sgt. Pepper's generally isn't considered to be their finest work.

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i don't know i feel like it still gets the canonical props? but not in the real headz know the deal circles

yeah outside of rockist circles I think it's still considered a bit of a gamechanger

i will definitely buy this and listen to all of it but then again i've always thought mark lewisohn was one of the luckiest ppl in history for getting to sit there and listen to every single beatles recording session for his book

in Beatles fan circles people moaned like fuck about how they missed the Revolver 50th and how there'd been no package to commemorate it, so they were damned if they did/didn't really. meanwhile in Liverpool there's a whole slew of anniversary dos across 2 months
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/sgt-peppers-lonely-hearts-club-band-50th-anniversary-beatles-album-liverpool-plans-celebrates-a7645231.html

Christ, if people in Beatles fan circles were whining about this music not repackaged yet again for the zillionth time, then...

*being