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Beatles forums => Albums => Topic started by: Euan Buchan on November 10, 2023, 10:08:49 AM

Title: The Red & Blue Album 2023 Edition
Post by: Euan Buchan on November 10, 2023, 10:08:49 AM
These albums with extras tracks including Now & Then are out now anyone getting them? I will I’m listening just now on Spotify.
Title: Re: The Red & Blue Album 2023 Edition
Post by: nimrod on November 10, 2023, 11:49:16 PM
These albums with extras tracks including Now & Then are out now anyone getting them? I will I’m listening just now on Spotify.


I don't buy physical recordings anymore, but they sound awesome. Like Giles said you can hear Ringo's kick drum in A Hard days Night !

Trivia question;
Who played the bongos in the verses ?

https://youtu.be/bEhibeAJRl4?si=WQjaavb2_SsLY-Ak (https://youtu.be/bEhibeAJRl4?si=WQjaavb2_SsLY-Ak)
Title: Re: The Red & Blue Album 2023 Edition
Post by: Moogmodule on November 11, 2023, 12:23:43 AM
Is it Norman Smith?
Title: Re: The Red & Blue Album 2023 Edition
Post by: nimrod on November 11, 2023, 12:29:00 AM
Is it Norman Smith?

Yes apparently so Moog.
Ringo couldn't quite cut it so Norman just said "Give em here" and did it perfectly  glassesslip
Title: Re: The Red & Blue Album 2023 Edition
Post by: Moogmodule on November 11, 2023, 12:41:32 AM
Yes apparently so Moog.
Ringo couldn't quite cut it so Norman just said "Give em here" and did it perfectly  glassesslip


Norman was a jazz drummer or something wasn’t he?
Title: Re: The Red & Blue Album 2023 Edition
Post by: Moogmodule on November 11, 2023, 04:46:51 AM
I don't buy physical recordings anymore, but they sound awesome. Like Giles said you can hear Ringo's kick drum in A Hard days Night !

Trivia question;
Who played the bongos in the verses ?

[url]https://youtu.be/bEhibeAJRl4?si=WQjaavb2_SsLY-Ak[/url] ([url]https://youtu.be/bEhibeAJRl4?si=WQjaavb2_SsLY-Ak[/url])


I’ve listened to a few with ear phones. Yeah. The drums and bass come through much stronger.  icon_good  Interesting that he pans the guitars fairly hard (rhythm on A Hard Days Night and the distorted guitar on Revolution for instance )
Title: Re: The Red & Blue Album 2023 Edition
Post by: nimrod on November 11, 2023, 09:18:42 AM

Norman was a jazz drummer or something wasn’t he?

Yes he was a very talented musician.
Title: Re: The Red & Blue Album 2023 Edition
Post by: Moogmodule on November 11, 2023, 10:03:35 AM
Yes he was a very talented musician.


Of course who can forget when he became Hurricane Smith!

https://youtu.be/wJdkCs5RdQg?si=dYFQ_tgbvgU15rxd (https://youtu.be/wJdkCs5RdQg?si=dYFQ_tgbvgU15rxd)
Title: Re: The Red & Blue Album 2023 Edition
Post by: Normandie on November 22, 2023, 04:22:03 AM


Wouldn't it have been great to attend this! Sigh. . .

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cz6wd8craQT/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D (https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cz6wd8craQT/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D)

https://www.thebeatles.com/orchestral-celebration-red-and-blue#:~:text=A%20private%20audience%20was%20treated,Studio%20One%20at%20Abbey%20Road. (https://www.thebeatles.com/orchestral-celebration-red-and-blue#:~:text=A%20private%20audience%20was%20treated,Studio%20One%20at%20Abbey%20Road.)

Title: Re: The Red & Blue Album 2023 Edition
Post by: blmeanie on November 22, 2023, 12:00:56 PM
The drums and bass come through much stronger. 

i agree, the bass and drums are cranked forward in the mix.  For the most part I enjoy it this way, there was one song, now I forget which it was, I thought "uh, not better".  It was on the blue album, let me have another listen and get back.

I like most of the extra tracks also, could have changed a few choices maybe but good overall