Individual, isloated Sgt Peppers vocal and instrumental tracks
In this little youtube (posted by Beatlepuzzle), the instrumental and vocal tracks off the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band are each played individually, having been carefully extracted and polished for your remixing pleasure. The tracks are so well-isolated that I thought it might be a fake, but it's a damned good one if so -- there are little spots where you can barely hear the nearly silent other instruments and so on. Link
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It's definitely real, and you can download more of them here-
http://homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=255196&highlight=beatles
To be clear, these tracks weren't extracted from the final "store bought" copy, but taken from alternate but orginal studio recording tracks that may or may not have been used to mix the final album we all know.
Holy Manure... this is awesome. I wish more of these type things would come about from other artists as well.
I wonder if in the future the music industry will start selling these tracks for remixing? Har! Har! Yeah, righ... well, maybe once they get... desperate for money, maybe?
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#1 the DL link from that forum is dead :(
but no wonders, the Beatles materials are waaay too hot
Maybe there's a mix of the album from the early stereo days in the few months before panning was "invented", where tracks were mixed either hard left, hard right, or centre. A good example of this is "Forever Changes" by "Love".
Only 9 years until it's public domain. That will be a day to celebrate.
9 years? Really?
9 years? Really? That doesn't sound right to me. Looks more like 17 more years, at least.
I was looking at the image in this post and a thought occurred to me. It has probably been asked before... But did the Beatles need to get permission to use the images of all of the people on the album cover?
While it's clear this is different from the album version, the tracks on the album are INCREDIBLY separated due to the new-ness of stereo at the time (I still believe it was the first pop album recorded in stereo). Anyone who has a copy of the album, just listen to the left & right channels isolated. You can easily pull the vocals out.
I used to enjoy playing Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds this way. It's not nearly as track separated as this video, but it's neat.
On a related note, "Sgt. Pepper's.." was released about the same time as the Beach Boy's "Pet Sounds" and there was some anxiety on each side as to whose record would be better.
The third CD of the "Pet Sounds" box set has cuts of just the vocal tracks for the whole album - what they call the "Stack O'Vocals". It is absolutely brilliant, fantastic to hear how complex and (mostly) perfect the vocals were.
If you can find those anywhere they make a lovely period piece to listen to back-to-back with this stuff.
It's worth reading Geoff Emerick's book, he was the actual mix engineer on almost all the Beatles albums, and contrary to the understanding of the general public, he was responsible for creating the sounds you hear. From the drum sound and loops in 'tomorrow never knows' to the guitar sounds and the mixes and to some degree the edits. George Martin handled the internal politics, musical arrangements and orchestral stuff.
Anyway, his book, http://www.amazon.com/Here-There-Everywhere-Recording-Beatles/dp/1592401791
tells you how Stereo was considered to be a rich mans novelty and that they just knocked off the stereo mixes quickly at the end of the session, while the mono mixes took much longer and were always considered the 'real' mixes.
So that's why the stereo mixes sound a little odd, because they were really equivalent to a 1950s 3d movie where a spear leaps out at the audience. In audio terms that means hard panning and silly and slightly more over the top effecting.
The book is well worth a read anyway.
The tracks of this youtube video are not separated from a mixed song. The tracks you're listening to are the separate recordings.
The soft music you can hear in the background is not the result of the separation of a single song, but the crosstalk of the headphones on the mic.
To #10. Brian Epstein's assistant did get signed releases from everyone. Apparently Sir Joe Lockwood wouldn't put the recording out without the release forms. There are a couple folks airbrushed out. For instance Leo Gorcey (empty space next to Huntz HAll) wanted a fee, so he was nixed. As was Hitler (for, ummm, other reasons).
I wonder what this process of "sloating" involves ;)
(count on me to contribute nothing of substance to the discussion.. sigh ;p).
I can't wait to hear all the wonderful hip-hop mash-ups and down tempo trip-hop remixes that get made with these seperated tracks.
p.s. that was sarcasm.
#5- bummer, I should've figured they'd get yanked pretty quickly.
Anyway, they're out there, and they're real. Pretty cool, IMO. I just wish I could get the White Album as well.
Talia @16: No, this is iSloating, which is Apple's new gadget for sloating music tracks.
#20: The hot new "must have" gadget for 2008. *adds it to her Amazon wish list*
I Sloated Paul
@Devophill: Nope, nine years. As in 2017. As in, fifty years after 1967.
Where I live, sound recordings (and films, photographs) enter the public domain fifty years after the recording was made, or made available (the latter of the two). The author's death has nothing to do with it. Nor does the copyright term in the country that produced the work.
Come to New Zealand in a decade's time. We'll have a party. And probably play some sweet, sweet PD music.
Of course, the truly amazing thing is that they made that entire album on a 4-track recorder.
Paul is a dead man sloat him sloat him, Paul is a dead man sloat him sloat him...
Do you have a citation for New Zealand's copyright law? The Wikipedia article, which is absolutely terrible and incomprehensible, says "Canada and New Zealand have not, as of 2006, passed similar twenty-year extensions. Consequently, their copyright expiry times are still life of the author plus 50 years."
Speaking of surround sound: I loved the "Love" album surround-sound mix, as well as the re-imagining of the tracks included. There are some very well-crafted "up-mix" versions of the Beatles albums circulating (and some very poorly crafted ones too).
If Depeche Mode and The Doors can re-release all of their studio albums in surround sound, why not do the same for the best band in history?
This is interesting. The YouTube takedown notice says This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by the Recording Industry Association of America, Inc.
The RIAA, perhaps oh-so-thoughtfully acting on behalf of the artist without being asked to?
Makes me wonder if the RIAA (not the label or artist) discovered the YouTube post so quickly simply because it was posted here. Maybe they have people keeping eyes on BoingBoing since there's so much copyfight activity here.
Kind of makes you go hmmmmmm.
@Fnarf: I sure do have a citation. How about the legislation itself (Copyright Act 1994), which states:
"Copyright in a sound recording or film expires:
(a)At the end of the period of 50 years from the end of the calendar year in which the work is made;
or:
(b)If it is made available to the public by an authorised act before the end of that period, 50 years from the end of the calendar year in which it is so made available,
whichever is the later."
As you can see here: http://preview.tinyurl.com/22jwft
I know, I know. Too good to be true, isn't it!