Bobby Whitlock on All Things Must Pass.

The Beatles solo work seemed to start off pretty good, All Things Must Pass, Plastic Ono Band/Imagine, Band on the Run etc but by 73 they were more or less done.

Whatever had made the Beatles no longer existed. 

George in particular seemed to suffer without having a good team around him, and has been pointed out had some of his best moments with the Wilbury's.  It would seem as if Phil Spector gave both him and John the confidence they sorely needed at that time. At least 3 of the Beatles also seemed to love that heavily reverb drenched sound that Phil was famous (notorious?) for.

It's also interesting that the Beatles may have owed some of their US success to the Capitol versions of their albums as opposed to the UK ones which were felt to be too 'dry' stateside.

I've always been a fan of a little added reverb and echo but obviously some folks aren't, are they Paul?

You can remix these albums as much as you want as long as the demand is there but ATMP 2021 is no more likely to replace ATMP 1971 as Let It Be Naked replaced the original.

At best I believe this might be an interesting, if an oddly priced adjunct. If it is more than that it would be a pleasant surprise as most Phil Spector productions are usually best left alone.

Anyway we shall soon find out for ourselves as August 6th is only weeks away.


Full details below.

https://www.georgeharrison.com/atmp50/

Yup tostado, Paul is one fine musician. I still really love his first few albums (I have them on UK LP’s), and they have held up very well. I lost some respect for him, however, when Denny Seiwell (Wings’ drummer) told those of who attended the drum seminar he gave at the Pro Drum Shop on Vine Street in Hollywood during the late-90’s that Paul was paying him only $150/wk salary. C’mon Paul, you can afford to do better than that!

Everybody knows of my love for The Band (so did George, and Ringo---and Clapton---continues to), so I will be forgiven for dragging them into the conversation. Few know that pianist Richard Manuel plays drums on about half the tracks on the s/t "brown" album, the song signature-parts long attributed to Levon Helm. Very funky drummer! And a great, great singer, one of Clapton’s very favorite.

Loved the album, hated the over production.

@rwwaer, It's good to know I haven't been alone in feeling as I have since the original releases of ATMP. And to learn that George himself had misgivings and eventually regrets about Spector's production of the album.

Bobby Whitlock enthusiastically endorses the new mixes, stripped of Spector's unnecessary and inappropriate post-recording production work. To me, it's like colorizing a beautiful black & white film. Why? Because it's the only style of production Spector understood. My question is: Why did George hire Spector in the first place? He had already ruined the Let It Be album.

I'm happy that we will finally hear the music in a better presentation (Dhani likens the work done on the album to that of restoring an old painting), and sad that George didn't live to see it made available.

Something must have happened between the mixes Bobby & Coco were sent and the pressing of the vinyl, because the negative  reaction they posted today was pretty visceral.