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Post by theman on Sept 25, 2011 13:15:05 GMT -5
This recent interview with Olivia in the New York Times is very disappointing. No remasters of "Dark Horse" or "Extra Texture"? No George CD "Anthology"? No" Let it Roll" Vol. II? No full concert DVD of the Japan Tour? Here is the quote that is worrisome.... Q. (New York Times) With the release of the documentary, does it feel as if you’re closing a chapter in your life? Is this the last substantial thing you want to say about George? A. (Olivia) This is the definitive story. It is the definitive project for me. I don’t think there’s anything more I can do. That’s one reason I tried to just open up, as much as I possibly can. You can’t do this again. Marty’s told this story. It’s a whole life from beginning to end. There isn’t anything else to be done. There’s a lot of music that was never finished, beautiful tunes, beautiful guitar riffs, just vamping over and over, that I could listen to forever. But I don’t know what one does with that. I have some other projects I want to do, and they are sort of to do with George, but not overtly. Here is the full interview... artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/ ... ss&emc=rss
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Post by winstonoboogie on Sept 25, 2011 13:59:49 GMT -5
I noticed that, too, theman. :-/I commented on the other thread before I saw yours. I know Dhani already said in an interview that he was more interested in pursuing his own career than in caretaking his father's legacy ( not worded nearly as harshly, but you get the drift!) Too bad they couldn't hire someone like Giles Martin to remaster/remix the CDs (or even the team that did the Beatles remasters!). If only....
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Post by John S. Damm on Sept 25, 2011 23:22:56 GMT -5
I think old sour George put conditions on his Estate distribution: follow my directives or you are cut off of all funds. Olivia was the lucky young, pretty secretary who caught George on the rebound from his divorce from Pattie. Olivia can't rock the probate boat or she is working fast food in California with her qualifications(zero). Dhani graduated from an elite East Coast college but apparently has no qualifications either other than making the most boring music in the history of the world and, like his dad, is afraid to let rip on an electric guitar. Dhani ain't going to rock any boats on Dad's Will either. This is George's final laugh on us fans whom he always despised: you get shit from me.
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Post by beatleroadie on Sept 28, 2011 9:48:56 GMT -5
In one of his last interviews, George himself said he wanted to do "Portrait of a Bootleg" as a release of some stuff he had archived over the years. It sounded like he'd even done a lot of the work collecting/listing which tracks he wanted to put on it. At some point in the future a rarities disc will be released, probably based on George's plan, it just may fall to Dhani to do it rather than Olivia, which means we will have to wait a lot longer than any of us want to. I'm sure at some point, maybe 4-5 years from now Dhani will want a break from his own music career and take a couple months off to put together an album of his dad's unreleased music. Still baffles me that its not being released in conjunction with the documentary, but whatever. One day it'll happen.
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Post by vectisfabber on Sept 28, 2011 10:51:08 GMT -5
"Portrait Of A Leg End"?
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Post by wooltonian on Sept 28, 2011 11:14:06 GMT -5
My fantasy ending to the Olivia interview... This is the definitive story. It is the definitive project for me. I don’t think there’s anything more I can do. That’s one reason I tried to just open up, as much as I possibly can. You can’t do this again. Marty’s told this story. It’s a whole life from beginning to end. There isn’t anything else to be done. There’s a lot of music that was never finished, beautiful tunes, beautiful guitar riffs, just vamping over and over, that I could listen to forever. But I don’t know what one does with that. I have some other projects I want to do, and they are sort of to do with George, but not overtly. In the meantime, the timing now feels perfect for the release of the 'Let it be' DVD. The sooner the better, in fact.
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Post by lowbasso on Sept 28, 2011 13:13:14 GMT -5
My fantasy ending to the Olivia interview... This is the definitive story. It is the definitive project for me. I don’t think there’s anything more I can do. That’s one reason I tried to just open up, as much as I possibly can. You can’t do this again. Marty’s told this story. It’s a whole life from beginning to end. There isn’t anything else to be done. There’s a lot of music that was never finished, beautiful tunes, beautiful guitar riffs, just vamping over and over, that I could listen to forever. But I don’t know what one does with that. I have some other projects I want to do, and they are sort of to do with George, but not overtly. In the meantime, the timing now feels perfect for the release of the 'Let it be' DVD. The sooner the better, in fact. I wonder whether Olivia has ever even seen the LIB movie. Can't imagine George ever desired to keep a copy of it at his Estate so he could re-live how much "fun" he was having at that point in his career with The Beatles....especially with Paul.
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Post by Panther on Oct 10, 2011 12:52:35 GMT -5
Olivia was the lucky young, pretty secretary who caught George on the rebound from his divorce from Pattie. Olivia can't rock the probate boat or she is working fast food in California with her qualifications(zero). John, I think you're a bit out of order here. Being a "young, pretty secretary" is not a character flaw. While I would also like to see a George CD of rare tracks at some point, I much prefer the way Olivia has quietly maintained George's legacy to the way Yoko has loudly, and with considerable calculation, tried to re-imagine John's.
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Post by John S. Damm on Oct 10, 2011 16:04:12 GMT -5
Olivia was the lucky young, pretty secretary who caught George on the rebound from his divorce from Pattie. Olivia can't rock the probate boat or she is working fast food in California with her qualifications(zero). John, I think you're a bit out of order here. Being a "young, pretty secretary" is not a character flaw. While I would also like to see a George CD of rare tracks at some point, I much prefer the way Olivia has quietly maintained George's legacy to the way Yoko has loudly, and with considerable calculation, tried to re-imagine John's. I was probably too harsh on Olivia, I was mad and popped off. She seems to have more common sense than anyone else in the Beatles family. Somewhere at my mother's home I have two letters letter on Dark Horse Records letterhead(it had that cool multi-headed horse) signed by Olivia's sister Linda Arias who worked for DHR and for years I thought that was Olivia using a pet or nickname until the internet came along and I could do some research on her. I bought a defective vinyl album of 33 1/3 and took it back to the record store. That was in the days when they would actually put it on the store's turntable to confirm the defect whereas nowadays Wal-Mart or Best Buy don't, they throw the claimed defective c.d. in a bin and give you a new one. It was warped and played slow because of the warping. They finally gave me a replacement and damned if that one wasn't also warped beyond salvage. The record store wouldn't replace the second one!! What jerks but I was a 14 year kid they could push around. I wrote to Dark Horse Records and this Linda replied by letter asking that I ship the record to them(at my expense! ) and they would "test" it. Dark Horse sent me a new one and yes, that was defective in that it skipped on "Dear One." Needless to say, I thought that Dark Horse must make shoddy vinyl albums. ;D So I had two letters from Linda Arias not knowing the connection directly to George but as I say, I thought in the early 1980's that this was Olivia's signature which by then I knew George had a child with and married an Olivia Arias. DHR was a tight-knit company in the late 1970's.
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Post by mikev on Oct 10, 2011 20:50:45 GMT -5
John, I think you're a bit out of order here. Being a "young, pretty secretary" is not a character flaw. While I would also like to see a George CD of rare tracks at some point, I much prefer the way Olivia has quietly maintained George's legacy to the way Yoko has loudly, and with considerable calculation, tried to re-imagine John's. I was probably too harsh on Olivia, I was mad and popped off. She seems to have more common sense than anyone else in the Beatles family. Somewhere at my mother's home I have two letters letter on Dark Horse Records letterhead(it had that cool multi-headed horse) signed by Olivia's sister Linda Arias who worked for DHR and for years I thought that was Olivia using a pet or nickname until the internet came along and I could do some research on her. I bought a defective vinyl album of 33 1/3 and took it back to the record store. That was in the days when they would actually put it on the store's turntable to confirm the defect whereas nowadays Wal-Mart or Best Buy don't, they throw the claimed defective c.d. in a bin and give you a new one. It was warped and played slow because of the warping. They finally gave me a replacement and damned if that one wasn't also warped beyond salvage. The record store wouldn't replace the second one!! What jerks but I was a 14 year kid they could push around. I wrote to Dark Horse Records and this Linda replied by letter asking that I ship the record to them(at my expense! ) and they would "test" it. Dark Horse sent me a new one and yes, that was defective in that it skipped on "Dear One." Needless to say, I thought that Dark Horse must make shoddy vinyl albums. ;D So I had two letters from Linda Arias not knowing the connection directly to George but as I say, I thought in the early 1980's that this was Olivia's signature which by then I knew George had a child with and married an Olivia Arias. DHR was a tight-knit company in the late 1970's. Wow-mine also skipped on Dear One. I bought mine around 1979. I think Woman Don't You Cry For Me also skipped.
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Post by debjorgo on Oct 11, 2011 18:12:50 GMT -5
Almost all of my solo Beatle discs skipped on the first song.If you look at Band on the Run, it came down from the edge in a 45% angle. The needle hit that and then just slid right down and kept going.
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Post by John S. Damm on Oct 11, 2011 20:27:40 GMT -5
Almost all of my solo Beatle discs skipped on the first song.If you look at Band on the Run, it came down from the edge in a 45% angle. The needle hit that and then just slid right down and kept going. I am delighted that JoeK is rediscovering vinyl but it is anecdotes like these that make me not miss vinyl. I had three defective 33 1/3 vinyl albums and never heard that album without a skip or slowness from warpness until it came out on c.d.!
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Post by Joe Karlosi on Oct 12, 2011 6:54:58 GMT -5
Almost all of my solo Beatle discs skipped on the first song.If you look at Band on the Run, it came down from the edge in a 45% angle. The needle hit that and then just slid right down and kept going. I am delighted that JoeK is rediscovering vinyl but it is anecdotes like these that make me not miss vinyl. I had three defective 33 1/3 vinyl albums and never heard that album without a skip or slowness from warpness until it came out on c.d.! I never had a problem with either of these vinyl albums back in the day, and I was fine on the very first listen! I don't know how in the world "almost all solo albums skipped".... I think I know what you mean by "coming down on an angle", but by placing the needle on the record manually and carefully to start it off, this is easily avoided. To each his own, but I am still having a WONDERFUL time with my vinyl! I am going out and rebuying all the solo stuff a little at a time and I feel like a kid in a candy store! I am now convinced of the warmness of records compared to the sterile coldness of impersonal digitized CDs! P.S. - Hey, JSD -- for you and I, one other nice thing about vinyl is that when we play BAND ON THE RUN, we get "Helen Wheels" as it ought to be!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2011 3:45:09 GMT -5
John, I think you're a bit out of order here. Being a "young, pretty secretary" is not a character flaw. While I would also like to see a George CD of rare tracks at some point, I much prefer the way Olivia has quietly maintained George's legacy to the way Yoko has loudly, and with considerable calculation, tried to re-imagine John's. I was probably too harsh on Olivia, I was mad and popped off. She seems to have more common sense than anyone else in the Beatles family. Somewhere at my mother's home I have two letters letter on Dark Horse Records letterhead(it had that cool multi-headed horse) signed by Olivia's sister Linda Arias who worked for DHR and for years I thought that was Olivia using a pet or nickname until the internet came along and I could do some research on her. I bought a defective vinyl album of 33 1/3 and took it back to the record store. That was in the days when they would actually put it on the store's turntable to confirm the defect whereas nowadays Wal-Mart or Best Buy don't, they throw the claimed defective c.d. in a bin and give you a new one. It was warped and played slow because of the warping. They finally gave me a replacement and damned if that one wasn't also warped beyond salvage. The record store wouldn't replace the second one!! What jerks but I was a 14 year kid they could push around. I wrote to Dark Horse Records and this Linda replied by letter asking that I ship the record to them(at my expense! ) and they would "test" it. Dark Horse sent me a new one and yes, that was defective in that it skipped on "Dear One." Needless to say, I thought that Dark Horse must make shoddy vinyl albums. ;D So I had two letters from Linda Arias not knowing the connection directly to George but as I say, I thought in the early 1980's that this was Olivia's signature which by then I knew George had a child with and married an Olivia Arias. DHR was a tight-knit company in the late 1970's. I wonder if George "banged " the sister......being a renowned lothario and all...
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