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Post by mikev on Aug 29, 2008 17:33:34 GMT -5
I've posted this on other boards, but there seems to be a lot of know how here.
On 30 Days, there is a Nagra version of All Things Must Pass with Billy Preston (at Apple) later in the month. It may be the most complete version, but George's vocal is faint on the mix.
Is it possible that this version was also tracked?
I always felt that was the one gem that they blew off.
Can you imagine a real Beatles studio version with a score?
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Post by vectisfabber on Aug 30, 2008 5:05:00 GMT -5
I've never seen anything to indicate that All Things Must Pass was ever recorded by the group anywhere other than rehearsal passes caught on Nagra.
That said, I'll repeat one of my mantras, namely that modern digital techniques (pitch correction, time stretching etc.) mean that all the group Nagra passes could be transferred to digital, and the best bits used from each, digitally corrected as necessary, to construct an excellent group version of the song.
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Post by mikev on Aug 30, 2008 7:25:54 GMT -5
With two Nagra machines, some have already produced quasi stereo versions of some rehearsals.
I would guess then that in addition to film, they were also selective with the multitrack and that it wasn't always running they were at Apple when.
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Post by John S. Damm on Aug 30, 2008 19:16:10 GMT -5
On the YouTube video(s) of The Beatles rehearsing "All Things Must Pass," there are brief moments when John and Paul are singing backup vocals and it is very tantalizing. Paul is really singing high while John is singing low but then the magic stops as there is an interruption in the take.
John and Paul were selfish, wanting to do their own songs, yet they were adept at recognizing good songs like they did with "Something" and "Here Comes The Sun." I am always amazed that they didn't, or couldn't, recognize the brilliance of ATMP.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2008 19:51:01 GMT -5
On the YouTube video(s) of The Beatles rehearsing "All Things Must Pass," there are brief moments when John and Paul are singing backup vocals and it is very tantalizing. Paul is really singing high while John is singing low but then the magic stops as there is an interruption in the take. John and Paul were selfish, wanting to do their own songs, yet they were adept at recognizing good songs like they did with "Something" and "Here Comes The Sun." I am always amazed that they didn't, or couldn't, recognize the brilliance of ATMP. I always think that Paul and John could not except that George was now writing songs of a quality that rivalled their own,the original pecking order was ingrained and they couldn't see beyond that..... hence the scant regard they paid to some of his songs...
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Post by GeoffB on Aug 31, 2008 0:24:19 GMT -5
ATMP is definitely a song the Beatles should have recorded, I think, but the surviving takes are all rehearsals and sound like it. George's February demo take of the song (on Anthology 3) is by far the best version of the song, in my opinion.
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Post by mikev on Aug 31, 2008 5:43:59 GMT -5
A few years back I created a Cheatleg, where I added John and Paul's backing vocals from a take and mixed them into the album version. It came out great, but I've since lost it.
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