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| From | "Robert Sutliff" <Rsutliff@columbus.rr.com> |
| Subject | A Beatles kind of day |
| Date | Tue, 18 Nov 2003 17:03:11 -0500 |
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I bought Let It Be ...Naked and the DVD of Concert for George today. The Let
It Be disc is a bit of a scam but not horribly so. I've owned a decent copy
of the original Glyn Johns mix of Get Back for years and have always dug
it - especially the version of Long And Winding Road which is truly sublime.
Naked is neither a cleaned up copy of Get Back or a de Spectorized version
of Let It Be. It's just different. In some cases totally different takes are
used (LAWR for example) and in other cases there are songs with different
takes edited together. It sounds a bit sterile and "too clean" to me. The
version of Across The Universe is merely a minimal mix of the original multi
tracks that omits some of the original instrumentation. Different but not
particularly better. As a Beatles fanatic I had to have it but doubt I'll
listen to it much.
The George concert on the other hand is really wonderful. The love all those
guys on stage had for the quiet Beatle is pretty obvious. I thought I'd hate
Macca's ukelele version of Something but it's very beautiful. Paul's version
of All Things Must Pass is pretty much perfect also. I had a big smile on my
face watching the whole thing.
Bobby Sutliff
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