![]() ![]() I play normal bass, and then there’s this low C and the song takes off. ![]() There’s one lovely moment when it modulates to C, so I was able to use the low C of the 5-string-and that’s it, the only time I use the low one, which I like, rather than just bassing out and being low, low, low. ” I played the Wal, and what I liked was I played very, very normal bass, really out of the way, because I didn’t want to ‘feature.’ There are one or two moments where I break a little bit loose, but mostly I try to anchor the track. I don’t want to build it up too much because we’ve got to sit on it for a while, because it’s for this big TV series The Beatles Anthology.” ![]() “My favorite thing I’ve done recently on it was the new Beatles record we’ve made, which is really cool. I said, ‘Oh, that’s cool: low B, great.’ So I got one too, based on his recommendation, and I really like it. “Going Down On Love” ended up being very much sounding like a Beatle classic from ’65. In fact, I even tried to imagine what Paul might do with some of the tracks. I figured if Paul was able to flesh out some of the arrangements on this collection they would be earth-shattering. “Walls And Bridges” was a cleaner sound but it was obvious that John still had some issues with filling out his arrangements (something Paul was apt to suggest to John). His singing was oddly lack-luter as well. It result is somewhat muddy and homogenized – but the underlying music is excellent John. As I understand it, even though ‘Mind Games’ brags that John was the producer, they actually had someone else come in to clean it up afterward. He had this idea that if he filled the studio with top-notch session musicians the resulting sound will reflect that. But the difference is, once again, John’s lazy approach in the studio. Nearly everything on ‘Mind Games’ and ‘Walls And Bridges’ was at least as good as anything on ‘Imagine’. I’m not sure i like Lynne’s treatment of the drums, or his multi acoustic guitars (John might have gone against those), but given that it wasn’t 1969 any more, some differences in sound & recording would have inevitably been there if the Beatles had recorded together again. To me it’s an update on their sound, with Lynne’s stamp on it. Why would you do that if you’re producing a Beatles record? You’d want it to be pure as possible). (I read somewhere that producer Jeff Lynne asked for his vocals to be added, but only in the background of the mix at a certain point, i don’t know why. So it does have that “Beatle-y” thing of some interesting chord progressions (which apparently Paul & George added to John’s slightly simpler ones), along with their great harmonies. & of course because they were all 20-odd years older at the time they did this (1994) & there was better technology, there was more musical ability & more possibilities re arrangements & treatments. Meaning that they couldn’t really go back to 1969, but they did their best to accompany their old mate & serve him well. Ringo said “It sounds like us, but it sounds like us now”. This idea was discarded in favour of new songs, but agreed that they could only reunite musically as The Beatles if Lennon was on the recording. ![]() In subsequent years the Anthology project slowly gathered pace, and by the early 1990s Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr were considering recording some incidental music as a trio. Never completed in the studio, it was one of a number of songs he taped on cassette during his ‘househusband’ period between 19. The song was originally a simple piano demo recorded by Lennon at his home in the Dakota building, New York City. John Lennon: vocals, piano Paul McCartney: vocals, bass, acoustic guitar, piano, keyboards George Harrison: vocals, electric slide guitar, acoustic guitar, ukulele Ringo Starr: vocals, drums Jeff Lynne: harmony vocals, guitarīased on a 1977 demo recorded by John Lennon in New York, ‘Free As A Bird’ was completed by the other three Beatles 17 years later and released as the lead single from the Anthology project. ![]()
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