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

I don't suppose anyone can share an invitation code to green demon?

Sure, whats your email address?

Yeah it sounds like remastered 09 stuff soundwise. Pretty amazing! The new DLMD footage, well it's new to me at least, looks like clips from a completely different edit of the rooftop concert.

The quality of this series is good, but there are some promos with watermarks (some of the Let It Be footage has a Japanese Space Shower TV logo oddly enough...) and some of the quality is still sort of lacking compared with some stuff I've seen. For instance, some of the videos have been shown in part on the Anthology series in stunning remastered video quality, and it seems sort of odd they wouldn't just rip those shots and insert them in w the others.

But this is me nitpicking. Pretty wonderful and essential to have all these songs, and frankly it's stupid that Apple can't do this and we have to rely on the black market. God only knows why Apple bypassed putting out a DVD after a huge remaster project & big iTunes marketing effort.

Thanks!

.. and now the book!: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0316729604?ie=UTF8&tag=thebeabib-21

ADVANCE INFORMATION The Beatles – The Complete Story

Key Editorial Points: UK Publication Date: 01 September 2011 Edition: Hardback

First part of the definitive three-volume biography of the Beatles

ISBN-13: 978 0 316 72960 4

UK Pub Price: £25.00

Classification: Biography

The Book: Format && Size: R (234 x 153 mm)

Illustrations: 16pp of b/w photos Extent: 800 pp

The Beatles are the cultural phenomeon of our time, arguably – unarguably? – of all time.

In addition to their outstanding and clearly timeless music, their influence still pulses around the world in unaccountable aspects of everyday life. FAB has one aim: to be the all-tile standard word on the Beatles. Comprehensive, objective, unexpurgated and the product of definitively deep-level research, it will set down the whole story, easily, in three volumes.

Volume One tells the early part of the story in two parts: 'Passion' from 1940-62 discusses the beginnings of the band, and 'Explosion' focuses on 1963, the year when everything changed.

Mark Lewisohn is the author six previous Beatles books and has been described by the Independent as the band's 'Emeritus Professor'.

Backlist:

The Beatles Live!, The Beatles: 25 Years in the Life, The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions, John Lennon: In My Life, The Complete Beatles Chronicle, The Beatles' London

Reviews: 'Mark Lewisohn stands supreme. His dedication in getting all the true facts, coupled with a style of writing that is most readable, leaves him with no rival. Time and again he has proven that he knows far more about what we did than any of us' George Martin.

WANT

oooooooh. Nice.

Being a huge fan of their music, and generally a huge fan of music literature, I still tend to be a bit sceptical when it comes to Beatles articles/Beatles books. Is there really anything new about them that hasn't already been told anyway?

That's Lewisohn's pension taken care of, then.

Cause it's Lewisohn, I think this will be pretty good.

^^^

A monochrome version will also be available for £35.

Black & White was how the Beatles wanted their photos to be seen, claims Geoff Emerich.

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/02/22/apple-reportedly-looking-to-offer-24-bit-music-files-in-itunes-store/

*cough* Beatles *cough* a bloody fortune *cough*

this thread title should be changed to "This is the thread where we let the Beatles take all our money"

That 24-bit format is what they used in that little green usb apple thingy, and it sounds amazing.

Can't wait to see how much Apple thinks we'll pay for that.

The apple usb stick was, like, $200 for the works. For comparison.

I'm waiting for the ProTools files, at which point I'll gladly mortgage my house.

Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau) points out on the Let It Be thread that THIS is the next boot off the block in Fabs world:

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-yPQHInLjTUo/TW455ysbg6I/AAAAAAAACqE/ADIGRKDA3l4/s400/letitbefrontbeebdvd.jpg

You can expect to see a new version of the Let It Be film on DVD, distributed on the internet in about 2 weeks time. Specs are:

- NTSC format
- 1.66:1 anamorphic picture
- Completely new hifi audio track assembled from the film crew's Nagra reels and stereo mixes
- Original mono audio option

This new transfer has been made from an original, undamaged VHS recording of the BBC2 repeat from Christmas 1979. Unusually, the Beeb screened the widescreen 35mm theatrical print with black bars at the top and bottom. When officially released on VHS and laserdisc some years later, this widescreen version was cropped severely at the sides to produce a full-frame image. Here it is presented unaltered.

Although the film was shot at 24 frames per second, BBC2 aired it in PAL format at 25 fps. For this disc it has been slowed down to 23.976 fps and presented in a compatible NTSC format, thus preserving the correct speed and pitch of the original. The actual picture area has been scaled up to 480 pixels and encoded in anamorphic format so as not to lose any resolution.

http://wogew.blogspot.com/2011/03/widescreen-let-it-be-dvd.html
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seriously i mean God bless these guys.

movie is depressing and kinda pointless tho, unfortunately

mm there's THAT like of course. according to WogBlog the original planned 3 disc 5.1 dvd from '05 which was shelved was meant to include this:

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS: A collection of rare footage of The Beatles recording in the studio (none of this is "Let It Be" era material). The footage listed includes And I Love Her, Paperback Writer, Rain, All You Need Is Love, Hey Bulldog, Lady Madonna, Helter Skelter, Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da, Blackbird, Tutti Frutti, Hey Jude (this track alone went for 20 minutes), St Louis Blues.
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man what i'd give to see that...

Lots of that kind of thing on Youtube - better quality and longer on the dvd presumably, but this is still pretty cool. Loled at a stoned George bothering GM talking about how all music is the same, man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig2JhPTgE-Y

I dunno about stoned, but GHarrison would be fairly pissed off at this point, as he had been bounced off the session as his suggested guitar motif had been nixed by Paul.

"Hey Jude".. dwing dwing

Ahahaha. No, George"

like that.

Would anyone be willing and able to slip me an invite to this Green Demon thing so that I can see these Unsurpassable videos?

If so, pjmiller68 [at] gmail dot com.

Kthx in anticipation.

check ur email

Thank you very much!

(I have two now...)

Carnival of Light

In 1996 McCartney tried to release the track on the compilation album The Beatles Anthology 2, but George Harrison voted to reject it. According to McCartney, the reason was that “he didn’t like avant garde music” and referred to avant garde as ‘avant garde a clue’ (“haven’t got a clue”).

wiiiiiiiin

whoa is this for real?

the mp3 of carnival of light i mean

more like Carnival of ____ amirite

I haven't been able to get the file yet but a) that's because it's busy, so if other people are grabbing it that means it will pop up elsewhere soon and b) no one's shut the site down yet

ooooh I stand corrected - d/ling now!

I haven't heard this, but how do we know it's legit? Wouldn't it be pretty easy to fake? (well, not "easy," but no way to compare it to the real thing)

Mm Ian Mcdonald makes that same point in Revolution In The Head. Although he'd actually heard it. Mm.

listening now - roughly 13 minutes long. I have no idea if this is "real" or not

Downloading now. Big file!

there are some bass tones in this that make me a little suspicious, tbh

Twitter seems to be saying it's out-takes mixed with fakes by some joker/s.

?!how crap is that poster.
http://vuvuvuvuvu.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/carnival_of_light012.jpg

you'd think if you had Macca contributing at your night that you'd at least make his name clear on the poster.

most telling aspect is I don't hear anything that remotely resembles Macca or Lennon's voice

like, in their other cut-up stuff of the period (the Xmas singles, Rev. No. 9) there are a lot of "silly voices" sorta bits that are readily identifiable as the lads'. not so here. and again, there are some suspiciously thick fuzz bass sounds on this - nobody sounded like this in 1967.

i like the drums on the 'reel to reel' segment whoever it is.

right well the bit with *Cookie Monster* isn't from 1967. and i've heard that 'the Watusi..the Twist' loop before. it's off a Go Home Productions thing i think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRWBaJKRz0U&feature=fvwrel

now i'm confused.

me too!

Haven't heard this yet (still at the office) but Shakey's description makes it sound like something (fake) I heard before (grungy bass, no L&M voices, 12-odd minutes long)

yeah it's a series of fakes /bits of studio excerpts. there's no "Barcelona!" bit on it either.

not even any attempt to be convincing here, just trying to get their loop-based remixes an audience.

they are on the weird side & I must admit I enjoyed them. 'liverpool sound collage' should have been more like this.

oh sorry. the last track is the real attempt to trick us. neither convincing or interesting.

and overall segment 3 was the only one I enjoyed, the others not as much