Interesting, I've never heard that, but it doesn't surprise me. In any event, I am a little suspicious of the new discoveries, being made left and right, that the last two years of the Beatles career were actually Not That Bad -- the White Album session tapes show a band having fun! The Get Back sessions have lots of magic in them! I can't say I've listened to every available Nagra tape, but the vast majority of what I've seen and heard sounds like the work of people with a lot less inspiration, having a lot less fun, than, say, the lovely "Think for Yourself" session tapes where they're joking around and singing beautifully. A lot of the "fun" stuff seems like they're all making an effort, but it's not really genuine. Visually, seeing a clearly strung out, uncommunicative John with Yoko forming a physical barrier against the other three means the warm-fuzzy-Beatlemania stuff doesn't ring true to me, either. This was a dysfunctional year for the band. But I'm still intrigued.
The only information we have is that the movie is being edited by Peter Jackson and that the original edit will have a release too.
I don't think that is the case. In fact, the original film makes Paul look too good compared to everyone else, so the contrast is overly obvious. Or it makes Paul look like the main actor, with the others as supporting characters. Plus Paul worked with Hogg on many video projects throughout the 1970s. Paul liked what Lindsay-Hogg did (under the circumstances), and presumably had the best friendship (out of the Fabs) with Lindsay-Hogg.
I knew it, after re-inventing the White Album as a happy album, now also the Let It Be sessions are being re-eveluated through the positivity ionizer. The idea of Beatles ever arguing or being miserable must be erased from history! I guess they’ll have 14547338844 re-shoot the last episode of Anthology too…
Great stuff and great news, for sure that means we can at least add a Blu-ray to our collection...and I'll do UHD if they offer it for the benefits outside of pure resolution that it offers.
I would never have thought Let It Be getting a Blu Ray release first and Bowie's video hits collection still on DVD.
So i wonder if eventually "The Anthology" series (Blu-Rays) will be meticulously restored by Peter Jackson's team...everyone should go see the ww1 film "They Shall Not Grow Old" Unbelievable the results Peter realized in that 100 yro silent b&w footage!
I took that to mean non-theatrical; also, since laserdisc doesn't really count, there's never been a proper "digital" release of LiB.
Glyn's selections for his final compilation are solid, and the basis of what followed, but I can't say I'm wild about all his mixing decisions. Some of the spacey reverb.... However, this announcement is great news. Just fantastic.
Which is why i would absolutely love to have Get Back reconstructed and remixed, using Johns’ compilation - 1st one please - as a template, to provide better sound and a slightly more-polished album. This would deliver the Get Back we were “promised” mid-69 by the Rolling Stone article and the early boots, and expecting in September. It would provide some closure on that unreleased album, “warts-and-all”.
He certainly didn't, but in MLH's defense, that project was a sh*tshow. I just listened again to the Nagra tapes and it's a wonder any of them survived Twickenham. Michael is so painfully at sea amidst The Beatles' indecision and miscommunication that I suspect he walked out of that shoot with PTSD. Anyone directly involved in the filming and recordings seems not to have been able to step back and get any perspective on the whole thing, which is why I think Glyn's compilations all fall flat. I don't like Spector's orchestras and choir overdubs, but I think he generally managed a better album of the whole thing simply because he wasn't there at the time it was recorded. A month of misery will do something to you.
What about a stand-alone soundtrack to the Peter Jackson film (which would probably be some combination of the original album masters and newly released outtakes...hello a longer "Dig It" and other snippets of busked covers), then a separate cleaned up/remixed Glyn John's "mix" of GET BACK is included as a bonus disc in the inevitable LIB50th box set? The discs on 7-Disc LIB50 could be: CD1 - Original LP (2020 Remix) CD2 - Twickenham Rehearsals CD3 - Apple Sessions CD4 - Rooftop Show CD5 - 1969 "Get Back" Mix (Glynn Johns) Blu-ray1 - Hi-Res Audio Blu-ray2 - Original edit of LET IT BE film ? Of course if Apple is smart they'll package the Peter Jackson Film Blu-ray with a soundtrack on CD as a two-disc package.
So you’ve got two “completed” albums - LIB and Get Back, which should be a given for a deluxe edition. There are a number of ways to address the additional material including 1 disk per venue (Twickenham, Apple, Rooftop). A new soundtrack compilation might be interesting, or simply distributing the “new” tracks across the sessions by venue.