it's quite fortunate that Lennon wasn't allowed to re-mix Beatles tracks in an attempt to satisfy his own ego.
I agree. Like I said, I wouldn't let him !
But I can also understand where he was coming from. In 1970 when talking about "Ticket to ride" he said something like "if you give me the tracks, I'd remix them and then you can see what the song should really sound like." I've been listening to it a lot this week and for the first time in over 40 years, his 1980 statement that it was one of the first heavy metal songs written doesn't sound like utter stupidity.
I can actually hear it as a heavy rock song if the guitars are up louder and there's more bass content and volume on the drums. So he obviously heard it a certain way and George Martin's production rather emasculated it for him. He was none too complimentary about George Martin as a producer in 1970.
But it does fall broadly in line with some of where DM60 was coming from when he spoke of the gulf between what you hear in your head and what you actually lay down.
Perfectly recorded or not, every recorded Beatles song, 60 years later, remains broadcasted by radio stations throughout the world daily.
I agree.
Quite a few of the early songs ain't all that great when it comes to production though.
But I love them.
That's a testament to the importance and the impact the Beatles had made on music history.
I agree again.
The great thing about the general listening public is that they don't care about the things we recording folk do. At the same time, we have that rare ability to hear things as an ordinary listener
and as a recorder.
IMO, it's impossible that there we'll ever again see a four man band do what they did when they opened the doors for other English musicians to walk through.
I agree for the fourth time in a row.
And I agree because the world is so different from the world they were born into, grew up in and met head-on on terms they didn't even have any inkling of until it was nearly over.