Feb 232009
A friend just passed this along to me. I’m giving it my first listen as I prepare this post. I see there’s already discussion on the YouTube page about the veracity of this clip, supposedly a newly surfaced, 11-minute outtake of “Revolution #1.” Regardless, I’m sharing this as a healing measure with Townsman db. We’ve had a rough day, but we’ll be better rock nerds for it, I’m sure.
Now I see what db was talking about… The Comments link has been fixed. Sorry about that. I was afraid you guys were sick of The Beatles!
Backup vocals don’t sound right to me
I really don’t know what to think. So I guess we’re supposed to believe this is an early mix, presumably by Lennon? No brass, but otherwise most of the overdubs from the White Album version are there, including Lennon’s lead vocal, which sounds double-tracked.
I was skeptical at first, but less so when it got into the jam. It doesn’t sound looped. I agree with the one YouTube poster who says that if it’s a fake, it’s an uncommonly accurate-sounding one.
It’s gone already…waited too long
So it goes…
…The way it’s goin’ no one knows!
they just played it on this morning’s “breakfast with the beatles.”
fwiw, it sounded legit to me…if only because there are new drum fills in the extended part (so it’s not looped). plus, all that mumbo jumbo at the end appears in revolution #9, but it’s radically remixed in both versions. it clarifies the reason why this song and all that mumbo jumbo at the end of the white album have related titles.