Does Carnival of Light *Really* exist?

That's the tape where John sings "Do you want to hold a *****?" on his way to the bathroom. Classic

 

That's encouraging.

 

Yes it does exist. According to Paul McCartney, George Harrison vetoed inclusion on Anthology, along several other unreleased tracks. Very few people have actually heard the track. It is said to be random, non musical with no sense of tempo, rhythm, melody or structure. Paul McCartney told the press in 2008 that perhaps the time had come to release it.

 

Please refrain from alluding to Driving Rain in this thread. Please stay focused on the topic at hand....

 

COL was heard by the guys designing Rock Band

there is a hidden Easter EGG on the Rock Band game and it unlocks only if you buy both the SGT Pepper and Abbey Road installments and find it at a particular level (hint - studio knob)

The piece is long, very engaging but it is near impossible to hit all the chord combos to get far enough to hear the whole thing

 

It sounds like John released it as the Nutopian National Anthem

 

If only that was true

 

Let's face it some Beatles fans would want to listen to an unreleased recording even if it consisted of John farting for ten minutes.

 

Because by 2008 popular music was non-musical with no sense of tempo, rhythm, melody, or structure?

 

I'd like to hear COL. We could quantized it, edit, use pitch correction,eq, delay. Find the unused overdubs for the alternate
Mono stereo mixes.

I think we 'll want to hear it.

 

Maybe I'll book some time at Abbey Road and when the engineers have their tea and crumpet break I'll saunter over to Her Majesty's Tape Vault and ascertain what I can. "Giles, what's this then? Carnival of Light might be just what we need for our mash up."

 

It's only ten minutes?

 

I'm wondering if maybe he confused John's "Barcelona" with George's "Eldorado" in "Revolution 9." Certainly wouldn't be the first time Geoff's book has been shown to be inaccurate.

 

How is it things like the sessions album or white demos or Barrett tapes all fell into the public realm it nobody can find the last bit of stuff. What do they have plexiglass with SAS guys up there. I'm picturing a huge bank vault with laser scanners criss crossing the Abbey road tape library.

 

Are you not happy that you have all that other stuff instead of Carnival of Light?

 

I think if your last name if Martin and you're suitably attired with a white lab coat and proper tie, you probably could trundle in their with one of Her Majesty's Royal Barrows and empty the place out before anyone was the wiser.

A friend of mine stopped in there when visiting London and wanted to know if he could just 'hang out' in Studio A. He was told that it was a 'working studio' He responded "Not a problem. How about if I just rummage through the tape vault. You might have some interesting stuff in there."

 

Wasn't that already released? Unfinished Music no. 4

 

Sometimes I order the soup and salad both.

But yes given a choice I'd rather have the three double volumes of anthology.

I'd rather they just release whatever tracks are left and call it something clever like, The Beatles last anthology.

 

Onion soup?

 

A duet with Yoko? Kind of like a follow-up to side one of The Wedding Album.....

 

It was not a normal session tape, but meant to be used for the 1965 Christmas record. Notice that it cuts out all of the proper recording. Of course, none of it was used for the Christmas record (and The Beatles would continue to fail at cutting a Christmas record for a while, full of ambition but unable to yield anything good enough to release, and finally going back to the tried and true formula used for the first two Christmas discs.)

 

@Glenn Christense has a copy of COL that he won't share. So if he's posted here acting like he hasn't heard it don't buy it.

 

When McCartney occasionally plays a copy of the acetate for friends, they are strip searched before and after and must be scanned and xrayed for any hidden recording devices. They do however receive vouchers for the gift shop and veggie cafe. A new exhibit will feature a lifelike anitromic recreation of the Morse Moose session.

 

I know you're joking but that can't be too far off - everything else has been bootlegged but CoL. The Beatles know the fans are dying to hear it so have made it virtually impossible for anyone to copy.

 

I heard it. It really stinks!