Пока на русских форумах тишина и покой, зарубежные форумы регулярно сходят с ума при появлении малейшей весточки о готовящихся ремастерах. Вот обобщение всех цитат из последних интервью, связанных с ремастерами:
Olivia Harrison, June 2007, asked if the downloads would be released by the end of NEXT year (i.e., 2008):
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"Oh God, yeah. Hope so ... I don't know if it would be the end of this year, but it would be nice. Imminent, let's put it that way."
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Olivia Harrison, June 2007, on it being "ridiculous" that remastered CDs weren't already available:
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"I think we're a little bit behind," and "We (the band's members and widows) all agree. It's been done. It's just trying to now get it out there."
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Paul McCartney, November 2007:
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"it's all happening soon. Most of us are all sort of ready. The whole thing is primed, ready to go -- there's just maybe one little sticking point left, and I think it's being cleared up as we speak, so it shouldn't be too long. It's down to fine-tuning, but I'm pretty sure it'll be happening next year, 2008."
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"You've got to get these things right," [Paul] explains. "You don't want to do something that's as cool as that and in three years time you think, 'Oh God, why did we do that?!"
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Yoko Ono, February 2008, on Olivia's quotes:
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Q. Last year, Olivia Harrison mentioned that the Beatles catalog was being remastered for CD and the packages would be expanded with good artwork, more photos, et cetera. What can you tell me about that?
A. We are, naturally, making it good on design. But I don’t think it’s just that. I saw what George and Giles Martin did with the Beatles songs in “Love” — that’s rather powerful, and revolutionary too, in a very quiet way. There’ll be some things that will be done that will make it much more current, I think.
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Greg Calbi, February 2008, on Beatles iTunes rumors:
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"They're not being remastered just for iTunes; they're being remastered because they got a deal with iTunes. I was partially involved in the discussions leading up to the remastering sessions; most of the Beatles catalog hasn't been remastered in 20 years."
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Apple PR spokesman, March 2008:
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"There's no date set.... I can't tell you if it's this year or next year or when."
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I know most of these quotes are old news to most of us, but I thought putting them all together in one place might be useful. Just from these vague quotes, I think we can safely assume:
A. Remastering work HAS been done, and may even be completed.
B. Additional work has probably been commissioned (Yoko's mention of Giles)
C. CDs WILL be part of the reissue campaign (Olivia's talk of the packaging)
D. They know it's taking forever (Olivia), but they want to make sure it's done RIGHT and they don't regret it later (Paul)
E. Even Apple's denial doesn't deny that there IS a reissue campaign being prepared, it just denied that a DATE was set.
(с) Взято с форума stevehoffman.tv
Сейчас форумы лихорадит последняя новость, связанная с анонсом нового номера журнала MOJO:
http://cover.mojo4music.com/uploads/Images/399x567/633555303690769669.JpegОбратите внимание на две строчки сверху.
Вот краткий пересказ статьи из журнала:
The Mojo article, written by Mat Snow, talks about meeting Guy Massey and Allan Rouse when he heard the ten tracks (Helter Skelter, Dear Prudence, Happiness is a Warm Gun, Bungalow Bill, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Martha My Dear, Don't Pass Me By, I Will, Everybody's got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey - that's 9!). Apparantly "Rouse managed a small team of remastering engineers working in pairs so that each decision concerning EQ levels and removing clicks and pop could be properly debated. The biggest issue the team faced was bass. EMI's 1960's techincal team was highley trained but extremely cautious; their cutting engineers feared too much bass would jolt the stylus out of its groove. The new remasters restore the intended, recorded bottom end. Massey has never heard any response from Paul, Ringo, Yoko and Olivia other than a unanimous thumbs-up."
The article states the team worked on the remasters for three years. Guy Massey: "It's testament to how good the songs are that I'm still not bored with them, not even when they come on the radio at home. It's been an honour".
"In 1987, George Martin remixed the stereo Help! and Rubber Soul for CD to mitigate the primitive voices-to-the-left, instruments-to-the-right sound first used. The new versions of those albums keep Martin's rebalancing. But Beatlists will want those original left-and-right mixes spruced up too so (subject to EMI's confirmation) they'll be released seperately, as well as every mono mix."
