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Subject: Re: John On Glyn Johns' Vs. Phi Spector's LiB Mixes
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On 2025-06-03 10:01:25 +0000, Norbert said:

> Johns once said something to the effect that he strove to convey to the
> lister what it was like to be in the room with the band.  While the
> versions of the songs he mixed aren't all good, I suspect they are fair
> representations of how the band were on those occasions.
> 
> Spector's approach, to my mind, consisted in slathering the band's
> performances in goop.
> 
> There are interviews with McCartney going way back in which he expressed
> the wish to release the original (Johns) recordings.  He said that,
> while they would have sounded raw at the time of the original release,
> they'd be hip by contemporary standards.  He eventually hit on LiB
> Naked, of course -- still a reaction against the Spectorized versions.

On some of the songs ("Two of Us," "One After 909," "I've Got a 
Feeling") it's hard to get any "rawer" than what was originally 
released. Unless you want to get rid of Billy Preston's keyboards.

I think Paul's knickers got in a twist mostly over "The Long and 
Winding Road," which he considered one of his masterpieces and didn't 
want it messed with.