All Things Must Pass 50th Anniversary sets due to be announced tomorrow
Per Dhani and Hicks: George Harrison’s ’All Things Must Pass’: Inside New Reissue - Rolling Stone I guess we’ll find out if we like it in August when it’s released. A couple samples from youtube; https://youtu.be/NvoEtEx95tk |
Dhani Harrison and Klaus Voormann in a Rolling Stone article: Equally fascinating, the core All Things Must Pass has been subtly remixed — both to bring added sonic clarity to Spector’s lovingly dense and echo-heavy arrangements and to adhere to Harrison’s own wishes before his death in 2001. “He hated the reverb,” Dhani says. “He said this to me a million times: ‘God, that reverb!’” Voormann also recalls Harrison making similar comments to him years later about the multiple overdubs: “I remember him saying, ‘It’s too much,’” Voormann says. George Harrison’s ’All Things Must Pass’: Inside New Reissue - Rolling Stone |
@jafant, I’ve got the 5CD set but I’m not at home to listen to it . I listened to the remixed album through a sound bar with sub streamed from Amazon Music and I liked it. The vocals and some of the instruments were pulled out of the wall of sound and spotlighted a little. If you go to the Steve Hoffman Music threads that I linked in my OP, the dynamic range (DR) has been checked and all the stereo digital versions have been compressed, but it doesn’t sound ’in your face’ like the Stones’ Blue and Lonesome, for example. Some of the reverb has been removed and it sounds clearer. The bass has been boosted and sounds boomy on some tracks (maybe all?). That bothers some people and probably has some effect on the lower DR numbers. Of course there are people who as soon as they saw the DR numbers said they wouldn’t buy it. Kind of like georgehifi here. The reaction over there has been largely positive. People really like the demos and outtakes too. So from what I’ve heard and read it’s a successful remix. YMMV, of course. |
