FABSCAPBOX2 Take 3 + 3 equals VI
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BOXSET OUTRAGE, CHAPTER 3

don't believe the coy criticisms, parishoners. this new capitol package is so much better than expected. get it immediately! and don't pay 60-70, it's out there now down to approx 40+.

Listener News:
public opinon shifts : : BEATLES VI is not a scrapheap of misdirected scattered traxx, it is an authentic fabs masterpiece for the ages. some of their best songs of the period, thrown in a cuisinart. after 39 yrs, we've now all been proven wrong.

whoda thunkit?

in fact, hardly known is the enlightening fact that Capitol was preparing the summer65 release, but urgently needed just 2 more tracks to fill a full 11trk album.... so the lads uncharacteristically jumped right into the studio to Supply the Demand! Monday May 10, 8pm-11.30pm "Dizzy Miss Lizzy" and "Bad Boy", cut and mixed and dispatched AIR FREIGHT to Los Angeles the following day!!! So there, the US market WAS of vital importance to them instantly on call, right in the thick of things!

In Recording Sessions book, Lewisohn remarks "Larry Williams evening!"

go listen to those 2 songs right now from the new Capitol box, back to back, in that order (#9 & #4 - and/or #20 & #15 for full 7"45 MONO FX), with volume at 8. pump the bass. sounds exactly like the fucking PLASTIC ONO BAND, guys.

shoulda been A SINGLE!!!!!!!!! wait, it IS a single. RIGHT NOW. I just made it one myself! BIG HOLE. rare A&B side, released in my living room.

The Beatles recorded two songs **expressly** for Beatles VI.

yup, in mid-60s tennessee i stole the beatles from the englanders, by proxy - my country was much more important for their acceptance than their own, even more$o than their frickin WHOLE CONTINENT.

nashville starr

FABSCAPBOX2 Take 2 & 3, splice reduction 6
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Topic: GREAT RECORDS
Barbara & Wim Meijnen & Kombrink wrickled:
"Well, fair's fair and you have a point by stating the pure quality of the songs and the albums involved...

But all these Capitol boxsets a missed chance! Just when the Beatle-fans (a fair share of them anyway) are waiting for decent remasters of the original (and still better) UK albums, they miss the point by releasing half baked (and wrong) versions of the Fab4-catalogue! The US Rubber Soul is a folk-album, the UK-Rubber Soul is a rocking and much more daring affair!"

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Good reply, thanks. Respectfully though, much wrong there. Allow me.
Let's please finally get over the tired argument that the US albums were NOT what was originally intended. Let's get over it! They wrote brilliant songs. They did recording sessions. They allowed the tapes to be sorted through for various release concepts. Why applaud OR criticize Capitol for changing Rubber Soul? It's what actually happened, half a lifetime ago!
How could Capitol "miss a chance" when Apple is saving the final remasters for themselves? For issue in the year 2525?
Too much hypocrisy here... "I've Just Seen A Face" and "It's Only Love" were from HELP! How dare Capitol decide to open each RS side with them? Even though they sounded perfect for the RS vibe! Didn't they? Yet, US listeners thought "Drive My Car" was a jarring track 1. Why? Weren't "You Won't See Me", "Wait" and "The Word" very UN-RubberSoulish and rocking, "daring"? Did we mind?

What difference does it make? Apples and oranges. They're merely taken from countless sessions. Not "conceptual" foresight. Compose, rehearse, tape, move on to the next...

And there's always gonna be outtakes ("Wait" from Help sessions) that miss the cut of one album/period and then are affixed to the next. Good concept? Bad? But WRONG?

"What Goes On": it is what it is; why does everyone slag this odd little Ringoshuffler? It's always been funny to listen to. Not so substandard as people claim. I don't care if may seem a bit like filler. It's what they recorded at the time. Country blues, NOT Gershwin! Spizer said "not one of the group's finest moments" - what kinda mindset izzat? Admittedly, strange to begin side 2 of UK RS with it; even stranger for Capitol to actually use it as a 45 Bside! Who is more "wrong" here? It's no matter.

"Eight Days A Week" was a fantastic US-only smash single. Was that blasphemous, to snip it from BFS like that? You think J&P sat in the studio worrying about how each song was to be presented? Fabs rekkids weren't restricted to Blighty... they were for the entire world. CapUS took em for what they were and made their own mix/match decisions, like em or not. Let various countries/territories do what they wish. Countless variations. All good.

"Nowhere Man" - should be on RS or not? Yes! No! CapUS yet again snipped and created a timeless new single. How dare Parlophone not follow their lead! :)

UK was miffed that it took so long for them to get "Bad Boy" issued! Mwah!

Countless examples like this. Do the math. Create your own best versions, sequences, mixtape comps. I know I have. How about complete chronological order? That is the absolute best way to listen. Yesterday and Today mishmash? Or "right this minute"?

I've long disagreed with this constant Parlophone vs Capitol argument. There is no "half baked" and is no "point" to miss. BEATLES IV now suddenly rocks my world, tho I never thought I'd feel that way 40 years ago. It's unarguably fantastic. Another mixtape!

Folks, there's obviously no written-in-stone rhyme-or-reason to any of it (except on paper). Never was, never will be. Just ride the wave, roll with the flow. Enjoy the wealth. Play the tracks! However you wish. But LOUD!
Where's my meds?
~New Jersey Devil in Her Heart

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{posted to rec.music.beatles newsgroup]


I can't understand it. Where is all the tittilating new discussion on the Capitol Albums Vol 2 box??

Naysayers, go away! Forever! Die! You're all out of context, off topic if you cannot hear & praise this improved fidelity. Goddammit, I'm so sick of this common modern resistance to the greatest rock band of all time. During their highest developmental period newborn.

This is a monumental time in Beatles listening. Forget all the Capitol bashing, these new discs explode! I been having a blast comparing, A/B'ing with the 80s Parlophone, loving the MONO mixes too, rediscovering this oh so boring lame twee music that we've all heard a million times. NEVER has it sounded so potent! So tis like experiencing it for the first time. Again.

And I don't care about ranking one version over the other (UK vs US, M vs ST, etc). These are 24-bit and it sounds it. They're also 2006, peak those meters! Kick ass frequency response, like my speakers never heard before.

Perhaps if Aspinall and the Applebrits had already provided the world with EMI's best mastertape sound, best orignal sequences, best value (stereo & mono versions), best singles bonus tracks, best packaging, best everything, then the Capitol thing wouldn't even be an issue. But this is what we've got. OK? And I am grateful to high heaven.

Let's talk RUBBER SOUL! This is phenomenal, people! Arguably their best, consistently favorite groundbreaking album ever. It can't get remastered much better than this.
Please cease the sarcasm, the flames, the newbie idiocy, the condescending yawns, the wax in your ears inaccurate opinions as facts, etc etc ad nauseum. I know what I'm hearing here and it's nothing short of cathartic.

The Beatles changed the world. Remember???? It's not mere nostalgia oldies..... this is our special newsgroup, and we oughta fucking know by now how to share in the aural delight. Take advantage of the rare opportunity: you got good ears, so gimme thoughts! Let's trade observations. But why oh why will this 100% approving post of mine automatically get attacked by false jokester know-it-alls? What's the point of that?

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This RS in mono (SK1 corrected) is truly wonderful. Dry, simple, in your face, realistic, unadorned, human. But how does it compare with the orig UK mono LP? Same exact mix? And what is this I read somewhere about an alternate stereo Capitol RS LP with extra reverb? An early pressing plant anomaly?

And the 1980's Geo Martin stereo remix: how different is that to this new Capitol US stereo version? I'm in the process now of checking song by song. Great fun. Still seems to be a lot of drastic separation (vocals on the right). I thought GM loathed that L/R "imbalance"?? Wasn't his point to always bring things more to the center (ld vcls, etc)?

HELP! too, is fantastic to rediscover, both stereo AND mono. One can scoff all he wishes about the incidental Ken Thorne stuff - to me, that soundtrack music is absolutely essential in the Fabs' canon. Doesn't matter a whit that it ain't them! It IS them! It's all part of the overall scope of things. Memorized it as a teenager. I was there then. I am here now. It is grand.

(Did you know Thorne also did sndtrk work on Monkees' Head? And even Magic Christian??)

I'm even enjoying burning new DVD-R's of my Help! Criterion CAV Laserdisc for friends, and am suddenly hearing much much more superb forgotten background score in the film which obviously was NOT on the Capitol LP. Sixties Bond jazz, gorgeous orch strings & lots of Indian touches throughout. Beatles. Remember???

Man oh man, this is all such a trip. Pinch me, please tell me it is NOT 2006 and MariahCareyville!

It takes splendid packages like this boxset to get me right smack dab in the middle of it all again. Decades of rediscovery and re-rediscovery. Bring it on. Historic genius art can only improve with age.

I'm way gushing. And it drives you cybergeeks crazy? Why?

Melt the guns, soldier-
RS moore
age 54, NJ

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Ignore youth. You can't have it back, it's gone immediately. Aim for the bed(pan).

Grand Opening! Have acquired extra real estate across town, now I'm a chain, gang. Branch banking, so to speak. Possibly more convenient for ya, if yer gwine over yonder. Satellite substation for further mindless commentarianisms: http://ignoreyouth.blogspot.com

Blame Butler, he jammedonon til I decided to upsize the home company.

BULK ERASE MYSPACE.COM
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Topic: Expiration Dates



"HEY RSTEVIE, WHERE'D YOUR MYSPACE WEBPAGE GO TO? WHERE IT AT?"

Warning: big rant ahead.

I regret (not really) to inform you that I cancelled my myspace.com page weeks back. I extremely loathe the teen mindset of this kind of "community" cyber presence. Adding dozens of new "friends with pics & profiles"... c'mon, it's just not how it's supposed to be done. I cannot understand the desperate need for even popular stars to maintain their own myspace page as well as their own official websites. What's the point? Why would even WFMU need to have their own page there, when they have a great official site?

I update my own huge megasite constantly, and that's all I need. As far as posting the free tunes/mp3s, then I guess myspace at least has that "exposure element" feature for newbies, but it's honestly no biggie for me. I can easily do the same thing on my site. And now I even have tons of stuff placed on iTunes for sale.

What I despise is the immature slacker interactive part. The comments, the add-me emails, a trillion young bands, the fashionable highschool creeps' cliques which permeate this new rage phenomenon. All the blatant sex/romance ads and popups. Sheesh, it's so disgusting. These kinds of kidstuff sites have been around for years, the AOL/Yahoo/Tripod/Geocities groups and forums and clubs. Must to avoid. And now the trendy popularity of everybody's frickin' BLOGS. Bah. I hate it all. Turns me off. Count me OUT! 8->

I'm frankly amused that you've gotten so into it. Different strokes, I guess. But you must surely know where I'm coming from. I don't wanna "add 1,284 friends". I simply desire desperately needed PayPal orders from serious listeners and collectors. And also to merely document my entire life's chronology with precisely organized data & historic imagery.

Also, we seem to have little or no luck here with successfully accessing any audio on myspace. Slow dial-up connection? Songs stall and rebuffer over and over, play for 3 seconds and then stop again. So it's pointless on my end. You seem to be finding lots of interesting stuff by digging deeper, and that's very cool. But who has the time to search?

And yet I guess I am admittedly glad that our http://www.myspace.com/rsmlms page is still up there (as if anyone really cared, all 10 of them). You do it. Not me.

Even the old mp3.com was never 'this' bad. It was for music only, not fashion pen pals.

Downloading schmownloading.

What am I missing here??

That's my story and I'm stickin to it.

Forgive my angry panic. My loooong struggling career is totally topsy turvy, and now I gotta cope with this latest youth competition. Arrrgghh.

RSM
Nonconformist

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Dear Abby,

How am I supposed to qualify for disability benefits if I am physically & mentally too unstable to 1) efficiently work *anywhere* OR to 2) even apply in person for said benefits? Is there some panic button somewhere I should push? Thanx in advans!

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how can someone who feels so bad, who harbors so much anger and resentment, who clearly has zero future - how can he maintain normalcy, day in day out? some wise sage once said "what's the point?" and indeed there is not one, ever. life is a big stall tactic, delaying the ultimate goal: death. anticipating great things to happen very soon. NOT. worked deep and hard and fully to reach the destination: an empty field, with dead trees, rotting grass and rock hard dirt. there is a fence around it, but everyone and anyone has trampled it for trespassing purposes. i am sitting exactly in the middle of this field; at least i am not ordered to stand up straight. in fact, methinks i shall lay me down. stretch my aching back, stare up at the cloud formations. and ride away from here once and for all.

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WIRE CHAIRS MISSING

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HISTORIC MUSIC

BLEND GOURMET OF PIPER + WARMJETS + MARQUEEMOON + PiL'COCKS =

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INKSPOTS + BEEFHEART

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Album of the Week
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Topic: GREAT RECORDS
LP rediscovery of the week:

Jan Hammer Group "OH, YEAH?"
Nemperor/Atlantic 1976

Magical Dog/One To One/Evolove/Oh, Yeah?//Bambu Forest/Twenty One/Let The Children Grow/Red And Orange

JH/Steven Kindler:violin/Fernando Saunders:bs/Tony Smith:dms,vcls/David Earle Johnson:congas

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Gimme script.

Morris Woodruff
November 26, 1980