I have always had a love for stripped down versions, so the Esher Demos is really right up my alley. Not that I don't love the released versions but I have a love for sparse versions
Also, he barely touched the "hole in the middle" stereo image of Rubber Soul, which is the main problem of the original stereo mix.
Isn't it true that by the time of LOVE interviews and promo, George Martin had forgotten he remixed Help and Rubber Soul in 87? He was of advanced age at the time but still. Might explain just how little thought/time he personally put into those remixes, perhaps not all that much.
I did read an interview with him and he talks about remixing those 2. He called the original stereo mixes "Wooly" or something like that - don't quite know what that means, but they had huge stereo separations.
That interview you mention Jerry may have been in the late 80s or 90s. I'm pretty sure I read an interview in the 2000s where he'd forgotten about remixing those records for CD...
I may be reaching, but I believe in '87, as he went back into the masters, he already thought of them as "premixed." By that I mean his four-track tapes were so well organized that - newly given good setups, with formats he remembered successfully using, proper compression levels applied (maybe already printed?) and "modern" reverb used sparingly - maybe he felt he could then basically supervise while his "potboiler" recordings took care of themselves. I just don't see him glued to the faders with this material. And possibly this is why remixing them in '87 wasn't particularly memorable to him. PS JerryJ, I remember his "wooly" description, too, which I recall he felt he'd remedied. I must go dig that one up...
Yeah, the interview I read was quite a while ago - not much later after the 1987 CD releases - so late 80's, early 90's is about right.
The outtake, I'm on my iPad in bed 'til morning, Uncut isn't with me but he made distinctions between the quite album version and the outtake which is louder but not in DR values.
Wonder what ol' Schnitz will think of this version when he hears it?! Still Hey Jude to close the LP or...?
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Reply to NumberEight (I couldn't get a screen grab of your cover, oops) but... This U.S. fan walked by his local record store every day on his way home from school and HAD to stop to look in their window, where the White Album sat as an open gatefold. I'd stand there and read those mad, wonderful titles, trying to imagine what the music could be which accompanied such words. Another month, another month, I'd tell myself each time, then continue on home. It was as impossible then as it's becoming now. Sound unheard, I was obsessed with this album from minute one in '68. I'm absolutely no better now. Counting the days again.
But 23 days goes so much faster when you're 50 years older, doesn't it? It'll be here in a blink of an eye. I'm busy enough that I'm not thinking about it constantly, maybe that will help.
Good old Schnitz is probably still in White Album Denial and will probably swear to me again that It will never happen
unfortunately cannot be done, reviewer copy files are watermarked and traceable back to my friend if it wound up in the wrong hands. Which Is why I never share unless it is a direct CD rip. And this is not
