Thirty Days - The Complete MP3 Edition

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Editor:  More For Less Productions

This CDROM compiles the "Thirty Days" bootleg from VIGOTONE (VT-218/234 - 17 CDR BOX Set) into a single volume with MP3 and HTML formats. 
The HTML pages lead you through the MP3 songs using a detailed track listing. Each song is cross-referenced to its entry in Doug Sulphy's
book "Get Back : The Unauthorized Chronicle of The Beatles' Let It Be Disaster", the authorative work on these sessions. The prefix of each number represents the day on January, 1969 on which the song was performed, while the suffix places the song in chronological order within that day. All tracks which weren't covered in that book have only a day prefix followed by the word "NEW".

The HTML pages also feature a lot of pictures, articles and documentation about these recording sessions.


 

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This MP3 CDROM compiles the following chapters of the Vigotone collection (references are made to the Vigotone audio discs, but songs from the CDROM are in MP3 format as already explained):

The Best Of The Twickenham Sessions Disc 1 - Disc 4
The Best Of The Apple Studio Sessions Disc 5 - Disc 13
The Apple Rooftop Concert Disc 14
The Complete Apple Studio Performance Disc 15 - Disc 16
Glyn Johns First Get Back Compilation Disc 17

 



"THIRTY DAYS" - THE ULTIMATE GET BACK COLLECTION

The Beatles’ Get Back sessions have been written about to death, so we'll keep it brief. The Beatles gathered on January 2, 1969 at Twickenham Studios with the intention of rehearsing brand new songs for a concert that would be televised live throughout the world. They also agreed to have the entire process filmed for an accompanying documentary. When the sessions drew to a close thirty days later, the spectacular live show had been downgraded to an impromptu concert on the roof of the Apple Building, and the live television broadcast and documentary had been combined and reconfigured into a single feature film. The Beatles left behind them a half-finished album and boxes upon boxes of taped rehearsals, performances, arguments and jams. It is from those boxes that this set is culled.

So what makes this collection "'ultimate"? First off, everything on these 17 discs has been digitally transferred with great care from master tapes. So they sound better than they ever have before! More than 500 rolls of tape were sifted through, and only the very best and most interesting performances were chosen for inclusion. In some cases, performances have even been painstakingly reconstructed from as many as three original tape sources. Secondly, the dialogue and lengthy stop-and-go rehearsals that sometimes made listening to Get Back sessions a chore have been bypassed, with only ‘takes’, serious run-throughs, oldies and the more interesting and structured jams being presented. All the performances that made up the Let It Be album (except for those recorded outside the time frame of the Get Back sessions) can be heard in their original, unadulterated form. And for the very first time, the January 30th rooftop concert has been meticulously reconstructed from ALL existing source material, while the January 31st session that produced "Two Of Us", "The Long And Winding Road" and "Let It Be" is presented in a far more complete (and enjoyable!) form than ever before.

In the track listings that follow, each song is cross-referenced to its entry in "Get Back: The Unauthorized Chronicle of The Beatles' Let It Be Disaster", the authoritative work on these sessions. The prefix of each number represents the day in January 1969 on which the song was performed, while the suffix places the song in chronological order within that day. All tracks which weren't covered in that book have only a day prefix followed by the word "NEW". Even a cursory glance at the track listings (especially those from the January 22nd to 31st Apple sessions) reveals that an avalanche of new and exciting material is waiting for the listener! And even if the song is "old". It is most often in better quality or more complete than it was on any previous issue. You can also see that in some places the authors of Get Back were incorrect with their dialings and performance placement, so the correct information is presented here. So hit "play" and enjoy the Get Back sessions like you never have before.

 Humphrey Lestouq, M.B.E.

 


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