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ShardEnder
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Jeff reunites with The Beatles (sort of)... Sept 16, 2015 20:18:00 GMT livinthing, BSJ, and 1 more like this

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Post by ShardEnder on Sept 16, 2015 20:18:00 GMT

I'm sure most of you will already be aware that The Beatles are releasing their first ever music video collection on DVD and Blu-ray in time for Christmas, based on the popular 1 compilation, but what's not being so well promoted is the fact no less than Jeff Lynne has remixed Free As A Bird and Real Love for their appearance as part of the expanded 1+ edition that includes a second disc of extra songs not originally featured on the 1 compilation. From what I've heard of the new reworked Free As A Bird from a teaser trailer, he's used a higher quality source for John Lennon's original demo, meaning that his vocals are now much clearer. Also, the drum sound appears to have been dialed back a little compared to Jeff's usual post-ELO "Wilbury" sound, with the snare in particular having very different characteristics. While it's likely the former change was possible due to advances in technology and what the archival team had at their disposal, I'd be curious to see whether he was convinced to scale down the production approach due to pressure from Paul or Ringo, since it was this aspect that generated a lot of criticism to begin with...

(Has it really been 20 years since the Anthology series first aired? Now I feel old!)

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Jeff reunites with The Beatles (sort of)... Sept 19, 2015 17:22:06 GMT

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Post by PowWow on Sept 19, 2015 17:22:06 GMT

Funny thing really, when you mentioned the Anthology series it brought me back to last year when I bought the CDs and read the liner notes in those albums (Remember those? because I for one actually bothered to read them

). Anyway Jeff stated that polishing up those two "new" Beatles songs with modern (at the time) production methods when the source material each came from a pocket-sized, monaural tape recorder that's entirety made up of rough piano/vocal works outside a recording studio would inevitably produce a myriad of problems... I mean, that 60 cycle mains hum didn't remove itself!

To what end these remixes will achieve I don't know but what I do know is that it'll be a totally anemic contribution compared to the bigger 1+ campaign.

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