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

Insane to think this guy has been gigging for 65+ years.

He gets away with it because he can legit look at the footage and say ‘Heh, that was all my idea’.

Saw this happen live last week and it was great, really. Very well synched up, Paul stood with his back to the audience for most of that Lennon clip watching it, and it was only for the second half of the one song. I'm a pretty big Macca defender, I'll say again: he wouldn't be doing this stuff if it wasn't giving him some kind of spiritual lift and adding joy to his life. He doesn't need to tour, he doesn't need any money, he very clearly thoroughly loves what he's doing.

Very true. Though that would be crazy af if he needed to tour. Like he blew all his money on the finest, rarest marijuana or something.

Picturing ne'er-do-well Paul hitting up Stella to float him on a loan--"Ringo said he'll 'ave me knees broken!"

There's a video of Dana Carvey's stand-up somewhere (pre-SNL) where he does a hilarious McCartney impression:

"Linda, I lost me wallet! It had a million dollars in it...I'd hate to back to the bank to get another million."

Processed Star-Club tapes?

“I’m talking to The Beatles about another project, something very very different than ‘Get Back.’ We’re seeing what the possibilities are, but it’s another project with them. It’s not really a documentary…and that’s all I can really say” https://t.co/xMNNjei2gR

— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) July 20, 2022

"i'm talking to the beatles." i love that, no matter what it might mean.

better be Yellow Submarine 2

I really he hope he isn't reviving Robert Zemeckis's puke-tastic idea for a stop-motion animated Yellow Submarine.

Probably gonna use AI to make Up Against It.

of _course_ todd rundgren did the music for the musical theatre adaptation. that's so todd.

"She accepts the proposal of marriage — to all three heroes. Ian, Jack, and Christopher wed Miss Drumgoole in a mass officiated by Father Brodie and attended by the whole happy cast, and the screenplay ends with bride and grooms in polygamous morning-after intimacy, disappearing with squeals of delight under the conjugal sheets."

god dammit i hate it when wikipedia editors can't tell the difference between polygamy and polyamory, you have _no idea_ how many wikipedia editors mistakenly believe i'm their wife

the Todd thing is so bizarre. he actually released a CD of it where he sings all the parts. its not great exactly but I was pretty damn entertained

i have the star club double album and the energy is insane, but yes i wonder if peter jackson could pull off for audio what he pulled off for film in terms of an AI cleanup cause it’s preeeeeetty scuzzy

it's not a documentary but would it not be a film? do they have the power to recreate visuals from scuzzy audiotape?!!? i'm thinking more like a concert movie. from real concert footage. but didn't they already do that with shea?

i didn’t know there was footage of the star club but in any case without good audio it doesn’t work afaict

i have the star club double album and the energy is insane, but yes i wonder if peter jackson could pull off for audio what he pulled off for film in terms of an AI cleanup cause it’s preeeeeetty scuzzy

I think I remember some super grainy footage on The Compleat Beatles doc… the Star Club album is indeed nuts as hell. “Hippy hippy shake”

There’s film of them doing “Some Other Guy” at the Cavern (used in Compleat and Anthology), but no Hamburg footage has yet surfaced, if it ever existed.

y'all are missing the obvious: Jackson plans to finally relaized the planned Beatles Lord of the Rings project, using Computer Technology to insert their faces and voices into all six of his Tolkien films.

it's obvious he's going to reanimate the Cavern-era Beatles into live holograms and have them tour the country, thus putting all their tribute bands out of work.

could also be a reboot of the Sgt. Pepper movie featuring current pop stars

harry styles, burna boy, ed sheeran, and charlie puth _are_ THE BEATLES

“I can’t say much about it but we’re taking about a shoot later this year in Libya, by the the sea with lots of candles, and 2000 arabs with torches… it’ll be beautiful…”

i'm psyched for a sequel to danny boyle's "yesterday." it will be called "tomorrow (never nose)" and will star ringo as the only person alive who remembers the beatles, and paul as ed sheeran.

could it be paul and ringo and two other people? clapton? Jeff Lynne? roy wood? marshall crenshaw? nils lofgrin? andy fairweather lowe? todddd?

Whatever Jackson's got cooking, it won't top this. https://www.theonion.com/ringo-starr-announces-26th-beatles-album-with-new-backi-1819579915

y'all are missing the obvious: Jackson plans to finally relaized the planned Beatles Lord of the Rings project, using Computer Technology to insert their faces and voices into all six of his Tolkien films

So they'll all be played by Andy Serkis then

Gotcha

Whatever Jackson's got cooking, it won't top this. https://www.theonion.com/ringo-starr-announces-26th-beatles-album-with-new-backi-1819579915

― birdistheword

real talk if this had happened it'd just mean that the beatles catalogue would include albums by todd rundgren, jeff lynne, and if we're extremely lucky, r. stevie moore - if there's one guy who _never_ has to resort to former touring guitarists for jefferson starship to back him up, it's ringo...

BBC's version of Orton's Up Aganst It is here for anyone who has a spare 90 minutes and the requisite boredom/madness. Pru Scales! Damon from Blur!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9QGhkMONvI

love how offhanded this is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o69tnRA0VJI

probably could've done with a better bass player than keef, a fun foot tap duel around 4:35

Love that!

Vague rumour that there’ll be a Revolver box set in October

Not sure there’s a massive amount of alternative take interest left unreleased for Revolver but would love you one day hear a stereo mix without extreme separation. Last year Giles Martin said the software wasn’t quite ready for the job of perfectly disentangling tracks that held mixdowns of vocals and instruments so hope they’re not jumping the gun.

love you

Does anyone know when they started saving more stuff from their sessions? I was under the impression a lot of things were erased, maybe even most things, towards the start of their career. I bring this up because one of the interesting inclusions in Anthology was a vibes track for "I'm Only Sleeping" - but only a small fragment survived as it had clearly been erased. (What survives was basically the tail end of the recording. Whatever was recorded over the take simply wasn't long enough to erase the whole thing.)

My take on the vibraphone arrangement of "I'm Only Sleeping" is that they never got around to adding vocals to it, but didn't want to take up space on the Anthology 2 set with a full instrumental outtake (though they obviously did so on Anthology 3). I think very, very little was erased after, say, 1962. The iTunes 1963 Bootleg Recordings has almost 40 minutes of outtakes, and I can't imagine that by the time they got to Revolver there was any policy in place of re-using tape. That is, "Paul's broken a glass, broken a glass" was saved, so there's probably a hefty amount of Revolver outtakes.

The main issue with Revolver is that -- and I'm leaving myself open to correction here -- they hadn't yet started bouncing down from one 4-track to another, so there are no "stems" to revisit when attempting a thorough remix.

Apropos of nothing, here are some notes I made following this afternoon’s Twitter Spaces…

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— EggPod 🍏 (@IAmTheEggPod) August 7, 2022

Soon after the Sgt. Pepper box was released, Giles Martin said there definitely wouldn't be a white album box. Soon after the white album box was released, Giles said there definitely wouldn't be an Abbey Road box. Since Giles said a similar remix of Revolver wasn't possible, it means a Revolver box is probably happening.

What are the only "official" Beatles tracks (released by 1970) where McCartney doesn't appear?

"She Said She Said"
"Julia"
"Good Night"

(He's supposedly playing the piano on "Revolution 9".)

Anything else?

Oh, "Within You Without You".

Since Giles said a similar remix of Revolver wasn't possible, it means a Revolver box is probably happening

(He's supposedly playing the piano on "Revolution 9".)

Yeah, he's singing the "can you take me back" bit which is officially part of Rev9. (even though it isn't really)

I think "She Said" is the only one where he's missing and the other three are playing.

I had to check, and someone actually uploaded the liner notes to Anthology 1, 2 & 3 online!

https://www.reddit.com/r/beatles/comments/264x59/anthology_liner_notes/

The relevant parts re: "I'm Only Sleeping" are here:

https://i.imgur.com/5tht3D3.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/HjmkTud.jpeg

(Liner notes were by Lewisohn, FWIW)

Working towards overcoming technical difficulties seems more like hpoing that "deminxing" tools improve to the point that it's viable. They almost certainly will improve but there may also be inherent limits, although I guess it could be a case of reconstructing tracks with AI tools.

deminxing lol

Who'd want that?

The relevant parts re: "I'm Only Sleeping" are here:

Thanks for posting those! I suppose if it was approached as a rehearsal, they probably thought none of it could be of immediate use and/or fit for release at that time.

re: "demixing," Giles used that process (those processes?) on the 2016 Live At The Hollywood Bowl, which sounds fine, but isn't a dramatic improvement over the 1977 mix.

reconstructing tracks with AI tools

And from there it's a short leap to a hologram reboot of the rooftop concert