And stop screaming, will ya?īut Ringo’s Nashville-recorded Beaucoup Of Blues album (his 2nd) I quite liked. WAAAY yonder too personal I’m not interested in your deep internal and intimate problems, John. Of course, by that time I-and a lot of others-had had my tastes permanently realigned by The Band’s 2nd s/t album, itself very small and intimate.Īnd I REALLY didn’t like Lennon’s first album, and still don’t. More intimate and "inviting", ATMP too bombastic and, again, over-produced. I just want the music.Īt the time of ATMP’s initial release-shortly after McCartney’s first solo album, a very "small" recording-I found McCartney’s much more to my liking. I’m leaving out the $500 ultra-deluxe package, which features a wooden crate. I haven’t decided how far I’m going to go-it’s being made available in everything from the basic/original 3-LP (and corresponding 2-CD) song line-up, all the way up to an 8-LP boxset. It’ll be interesting to find out who was involved in making decisions in regard to the new mixes, removal of the tacked-on reverb and echo, song selection, etc. I didn’t pay much attention to those two reissues, so didn’t absorb that info deeply enough to recall it.Īnd I myself haven’t heard about Dhani being involved in the All Things Must Pass 50th, though I also don’t know that he didn’t. Yup, ya’ll are of course correct, it WAS Giles Martin, not Dhani. He does a great "air drum" imitation of the playing of both, for those interested in learning the difference between "ensemble" playing and, as Bobby put it, constantly soloing (ala Keith, Ginger Baker, etc.). Hundreds and hundreds of hours of music.īobby is as big a fan of Jim Gordon's drumming as am I (he refers to Jim as the best Rock 'n' Roll drummer of all time), and explains in one video why he couldn't play music with Keith Moon, another of his close friends when he was living in England. Bobby says the tape was constantly rolling the entire time they were in the studio (just being installed in George's Friar Park home). Lots and lots of alternate takes, unreleased songs, and the early jams the band did in order to get to know each other, musically. Bobby was sent the files, and was very pleased with what he heard. We're finally going to hear the sound the band created. Bobby in an earlier video says the core band on ATMP (Bobby on organ, piano, and other assorted instruments, bassist Carl Radle-as well as Klaus Voorman, drummer Jim Gordon-along with Ringo and Alan White, Bobby identifying the drummer on each song, and George and Eric Clapton on guitars, with George, Bobby, and Eric singing) created it's own "wall of sound", no need for Spector to add to it electronically. I love Spector's Girl Group productions, but that approach to the recording of a Rock 'n' Roll band doesn't work for me. IMO Spector got carried away, overdoing it. But imo ATMP was in serious need of "fixing"-it sounds like the mics were at the far end of a cement tunnel, the voices and instruments at the other.
Pepper, Abbey Road), first and primarily because I'm not that fond of those two albums (a minority opinion, I realize). Just for the record (no, you know, pun intended): I have no interest in nor see the need for the past remixes Dhani did of Beatle albums (Sgt. I CANNOT wait for the newly-mixed version of the recordings (without Phil Spector’s gratuitous, grossly-excessive echo and reverb), to be offered in many different forms. The first video in the queue is entitled "All Things Must Pass 50th/Just The Facts". The video is very easy to find: Once on YouTube, do a search for "Bobby Whitlock", and click on his name. He and his wife/musical partner Coco Carmel recorded the video in their Texas home, and you may watch it on YouTube. His recounting of the recording of the album is FAN-FREAKING-TASTIC! An utter joy to watch and hear. If you have any interest in George Harrison’s All Thinks Must Pass album-especially in it’s upcoming 50th Anniversary incarnation-you have GOT to watch Bobby Whitlock’s new YouTube video about the recording of the album! Bobby is the organist/pianist/harmony singer (and player of other assorted instruments) on the album, as well as the same (along with songwriter) in Derek & The Dominos.īobby was very recently contacted by George’s estate regarding his recollections of the recording of ATMP, as his memory of that event far surpasses that of any other still-living participant, including Ringo and Eric Clapton.
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