I know many of you think contacting Sir Paul or Yoko Ono is a joke, but you should try it. Send a respectful, to the point, letter or e-mail with as much specific detail that you can provide about the video, with a copy to Apple. You may be surprised what you get back. Artists like real-person contact with their fans.
That sounds like John's appearance with "The Dirty Mac" in the Rolling Stones film "The Great Rock n Roll Circus".
The band was a one-off with Eric Clapton, Keith Richards on bass and Mitch Mitchell from the Jimi Hendrix Experience on drums. They did "Yer Blues" and then Ivry Gitlis, a great classical violinist, and Yoko joined them for about five minutes of racket.
Geoff
Why? Rights to beatles music were sold long time ago to michael jackson. Advice from paul himself.
So you are no longer chasing non remastered beatles records, you are now chasing memory!
I quickly scanned the replies and did not see it mentioned. You mentioned that you were looking for the original Capitol records versions. The ones we grew up with. Assume you mean on CD. These are available on CD as The Capitol albums Vol 1 and Vol 2. I purchased mine on eBay (new) but it appears that Amazon also has them.
Back to the OP, I've been a lifelong Beatles fanatic, and given my age, have a rather large collection of different versions of Beatles CDs and LPs.
These range from battered, party-worn original Australian pressings to imports from the UK, the transparent red mono Japanese pressings of the first seven albums, the first CD issues, half speed masters LPs, the 2009 remastered box set and the expanded issues of Sgt Pepper, The Beatles, Abbey Road, Let it Be Naked, etc etc.
It's really hard to say which versions have the 'best' sound. For starters, my old LPs were played on inferior student level equipment, whereas our system now is pretty good. Having said that, the red Japanese LPs sound great: clean, no surface noise or rumble. No idea which masters were used for their production. The UK pressed Sgt Pepper LP sounds great, much fuller than the original CD issue.
I also really like the expanded re-issues, mainly because the bass and drums are a bit clearer. Whatever the medium or version, once the music starts I just listen and enjoy - well, except Revolution 9.....
Geoff
These range from battered, party-worn original Australian pressings to imports from the UK, the transparent red mono Japanese pressings of the first seven albums, the first CD issues, half speed masters LPs, the 2009 remastered box set and the expanded issues of Sgt Pepper, The Beatles, Abbey Road, Let it Be Naked, etc etc.
It's really hard to say which versions have the 'best' sound. For starters, my old LPs were played on inferior student level equipment, whereas our system now is pretty good. Having said that, the red Japanese LPs sound great: clean, no surface noise or rumble. No idea which masters were used for their production. The UK pressed Sgt Pepper LP sounds great, much fuller than the original CD issue.
I also really like the expanded re-issues, mainly because the bass and drums are a bit clearer. Whatever the medium or version, once the music starts I just listen and enjoy - well, except Revolution 9.....
Geoff
I don't have any of the Capitol CDs or LPs so I don't know the sound.
Until Sgt Pepper, none of the Capitol albums had the track listing The Beatles intended and there were fewer tracks per LP (usually 11 or 12 instead of 14) so the listening experience is quite different.
Geoff
Until Sgt Pepper, none of the Capitol albums had the track listing The Beatles intended and there were fewer tracks per LP (usually 11 or 12 instead of 14) so the listening experience is quite different.
Geoff
Yea, it's the vinyl I compare everything to so when there's something missing it's obvious. Very annoying.
The one album you perhaps don't really want is the "Collection of Beatles Oldies..." a UK and Oz LP which has really thin, weedy sound, whichever pressing you get. Nothing wrong with the songs of course, but to me it has the worst sound of any Beatles album. Tracks are all available elsewhere, such as on the Past Masters One collection.
Geoff
Geoff
Perhaps a bit off-topic, but does anyone know of a currently in-print DVD or Blu-Ray compilation of all Beatles promo films, such as the ones released to the American market for broadcast on the Ed Sullivan show; the world-wide video broadcast of Hey Jude; and the like? If not, are there out of print titles that I could search for at places like AbeBooks?
The Beatles 1 CD and Blu-ray deluxe limited edition is available over here on Amazon.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cd-Bluray-...atles+1+cd+and+blu-ray+edition,aps,116&sr=8-1
The attachment shows the single Blu-ray edition.
