[Tig] OT: Capitol Records/reverb

[Rob Lingelbach]

On Thu, November 29, 2007 4:02 pm, TSassoon at aol.com wrote:

>> (just what the heck do they mean by "sonically unsuited"?)
>>
>
>
> Not candy-coated enough would be the answer.

ah, right.  I guess we're lucky Capitol didn't bring in The Four
Freshmen to enhance the vocals.  (nothing against The Four Fs)

> We had all the UK
> versions,
> particularly of Hard Day's Night, the first film I ever saw, in 1964
> Bristol, UK,
> just before we emigrated to the US.

AHDN is really a good film, photographed beautifully (Director Richard
Lester; can someone remind me who was the DoP?).  Plot was subservient
quite rightly to actual music and performances, though I was always
disappointed that the performances were all lip-synced (though The
Beatles were some of the absolute best at lip-sync).  I have a video
clip
of "I'm a Loser" that is live except for the instruments, including
harmonica,
and the only way you can tell there's a backing track is when one
extra note
issues forth from John's harmonica.  He even laughs a lot because he
forgets
the words (which Paul notices prompting him also to laugh).

We should be glad A Hard Day's Night didn't become part of the
Turner Library
(shudder).

-- 
Rob Lingelbach  rob at colorist.org
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