Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: super70s Newsgroups: rec.music.beatles Subject: Re: John On Glyn Johns' Vs. Phi Spector's LiB Mixes Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2025 11:22:44 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 24 Message-ID: <101n7gk$4mg5$1@dont-email.me> References: <87f6e7dbe0a46af94b2739ced7883d42@www.novabbs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2025 18:22:44 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="f447654e58557ecf5a50ab9349cb5e66"; logging-data="154117"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18NJqaNKSwQsL9J2YWxYp4aJv3kHHjLoj0=" User-Agent: Unison/2.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:nc1r0WNQdeE0aK8SaYWyTQmDssA= X-No-Archive: yes 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.