So the bootlegger did NOT have 4 years to get the tapes to sound that way.
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Posted on 04/07/2009 11:04:43 AM PDT by a fool in paradise
On September 9, 2009, after a nearly 22-year wait, digitally remastered versions of all of the Beatles studio albums will be released, a press release has confirmed. Each album will feature the track listings and artwork as it was originally released in the U.K. and come with expanded booklets including original and newly written liner notes and rare photos. For a limited time, each of the Fab Four’s 12 proper albums will be “embedded” with a brief documentary about its making. The rereleases will include the Beatles’ 12 studio albums and Magical Mystery Tour as well as Past Masters Vol. I and II, which will be packaged as one collection. All 14 discs will be available with DVDs of the documentaries in a stereo box set, and a set titled The Beatles in Mono featuring 10 discs will also be released.
A crew of engineers at London’s Abbey Road Studios have spent four years working on the remasters using new technology and vintage equipment, the press release says, in an effort to preserve “the authenticity and integrity of the original analogue recordings” and ensure “the highest fidelity the catalog has seen since its original release.”
9/9/09 promises to be a huge day in Beatles lore, as it’s the same day The Beatles: Rock Band will hit stores. This weekend brought a bit of Beatles news, too, as Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr reunited onstage at a New York benefit for David Lynch’s Transcendental Meditation foundation (see photos here). Preorders for the remasters are already popping up on Amazon.co.uk. Demand for Beatles remasters has steadily increased since 1987, when Capitol/EMI first released the Beatles’ discography on CD with what many audiophile fans deemed substandard sound quality compared to the original vinyl.
While it seems like other artists remaster their entire catalog every several years, Capitol/EMI have barely touched the Beatles’ discography since 1987, with the exception of 2004’s The Capitol Albums, Vol. 1 box set, which compiled and remastered the band’s first four American releases in stereo and mono formats. The soundtrack for the Beatles’ Love show also gave listeners a brief tease of how fantastic the band’s songs would sound if properly remastered.
The Beatles in Mono will include the 10 albums originally mixed for mono release, as well as two additional discs the press release says features similar songs to those on the Past Masters compilations. The mono versions of Help! and Rubber Soul will boast bonuses: the albums’ original 1965 stereo mixes, which have not been previously released on CD, per the press release. The mono collection, like the stereo one, will include all original inserts and label designs, and the CDs are designed as tiny vinyl replicas.
The press release didn’t include news regarding a possible deal with iTunes or another digital-music vendor to distribute the catalog digitally: “Discussions regarding the digital distribution of the catalog will continue. There is no further information available at this time,” the press release reads. Both Apple Corps. and Paul McCartney have expressed reluctance to release the Beatles’ music digitally until all the albums had been remastered. The solo work of each of the four Beatles is available on iTunes.
The Beatles Remasters:
Please Please Me With the Beatles A Hard Day’s Night Beatles for Sale Help! Rubber Soul Revolver Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Magical Mystery Tour The Beatles (The White Album) Abbey Road Let It Be Past Masters Yellow Submarine
A crew of engineers at London’s Abbey Road Studios have spent four years working on the remasters using new technology and vintage equipment, the press release says, in an effort to preserve “the authenticity and integrity of the original analogue recordings” and ensure “the highest fidelity the catalog has seen since its original release.”
It says something about CDs when it takes 4 years of work to get them to sound like the records did.
Oh goodie. Something else I won’t buy which then will save me money. Waste of good coin, this.
So the bootlegger did NOT have 4 years to get the tapes to sound that way.
Oh yeah, they’ll sell it it to ya again and again.
What I want to see are remastered first three Stones albums, as released in the UK, as well their BBC Sessions and demos. ABKlein owns all those masters, unfortunately.
Seriously, how many times can the Beatles issue a “remastered” copy. More than anyone else the Beatles have milked every last ounce of commercial exploitation out of each album.
Sheesh.
"Hey, let's milk this musical cow some more, whaddya say?"
I think it was insurance against England not extending copyrights.
The Beatles’ catalog could go/have gone the way American pop music went in Europe. 50 years of copyright with no further extensions (public domain after that).
Since we are now at 1959 recordings going PD in England, the Beatles’ complete catalog could have gone PD within the next 10 years. So this is the last grab for cash before competing volumes came out.
In the end, last I read, England DID decide to extend the copyrights. But works that lapsed do NOT get to restore copyright. I see no good reason to change the law JUST because the Beatles and other British Invasion acts would be facing the SAME limited terms that all other acts (especially US acts) faced under British law.
Those Parlophone (and Stones’ Decca) UK albums were originally pressed on heavy vinyl, which beat the quality of the later thin releases by a nautical mile.
Not the albums you are looking for, but The Rolling Stones are doing the same with their last 14 albums. Apparently something extra special with Exile on Mainstreet.
Interesting point. Thanks. Obladee.
Why do you say this? Just curious.
I wonder if that would mean we could get a definitive Kinks collection over here.
Well, the Stones and Klein did remaster their later UK albums a couple of years back, but not the first three for some reason.
Not a big Beatles fan. Some of their songs were good, then they went into some odd directions.
I’m a huge fan but every year they try to squeeze a little more out of it.
I think I’ll pass on one after 9/09.
(UK) Musicians urge copyright change (now that the British Invasion may go public domain) (BBC News Wednesday, 26 November 2008 no byline)
A video message on behalf of 38,000 UK musicians has been sent... many of whom have worked with major artists, say they risk losing their income under current laws.Performers' copyright runs out after 50 years but for composers and authors it extends for 70 years after their death.
The European Commission is backing an extension to 95 years from release, but the UK government is not supportive.
Under current copyright laws, royalties will soon dry up for session musicians who played on classic tracks released in the 1960s, campaigners say...
But the Open Rights Group, a lobbying organisation which specialises in digital rights issues, says performers are "misguided" if they believe a copyright term extension will significantly increase their incomes.
"The European Commission's own figures demonstrate that term extension is likely to benefit ordinary performers as little as 50 cents (33p) a year," says executive director Becky Hogge.
"If Europe passes the directive to extend the term, the vast majority of financial gains - which will come direct from consumers' pockets - will go to the world's four major record labels and a handful of very famous performers."
Since then, many hundreds of Beatles boots have been released....
Wonder if these remasters will suck or not...?
And yet, they were pro-Commie.
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