It's a shame about the quality of the vocal. And a bit of a surprise. I've just been listening to the Strawberry Fields demo's recorded at Kenwood, and the quality of the vocal recording is mostly far superior.
sorry, I wasnt clear on that point--I meant Jeff Lynne's older association w/ Roy Wood, not producing.
and as far as SFF demo...of course it sounds better
I think some of those final demos of John's sounded like they were recorded up in the Dakota's bathroom w/ some cheap Phillips tape recorder propped up on the sink--a far cry from Kenwood, or for THAT matter, the "cavern"ous (sorry for pun),Abbey Road.
All you've got to do is choose love. That's how I live it now. I learned a long time ago, I can feed the birds in my garden. I can't feed them all. -- Ringo Starr, Rolling Stone magazine, May 2007
For all I know, Ringo might be a yogi disguised as a drummer! - George Harrison
I think this is an amazing song...the demo sounds a little unfinished,but i heard macca was gonna do something with this song. Wouldnt it be great if he released it along with the launch of all the beatles albums on i-tunes. We live in hope eh?
"Wings IV introduced Jimmy McCulloch, a spunky lead guitarist with grit, able to spur Paul on unlike any previous soloist. His debut track, the magnificent single `Junior's Farm', stands as one of Wings' finest emotional and technical releases."
"Few people on this planet know as much about Jimmy's musical history than you."
The Abbeyrd's Beatles News Page described it this way: While this sounds very professionally produced, we don't think this is anything more than a clever, but unauthorized, mash, thanks to the overuse of echo and the audio from Beatle songs woven through it. A mash, but a well-done one, at that.
I would have thought that the tapes are well and truly under lock and key. Probably in a farmhouse in Sussex! I don't recall hearing any booted outtakes from Real Love, and Free As A Bird (but then I haven't looked for them, so I may be wrong), so I wouldn't have thought that this would have got out. A good fake, I'd say.
I was actually refering to the Iamaphoney series of Paul is dead videos and that there is to be some kind of resolution on February 9th. Not the Now and Then thing.
Sorry about the confusion, this 'Now and Then' video and arrangement originally comes from Iamaphoney, whoever that is. He claims to have cracked the 'Love' album code and has reported it to Apple and will be collecting his prize on 9th of February, that's what I assume anyway.
The videos are very profesionally edited, the hypnotic splices he creates by using the reversed "backmasking" bits really are good.