Ron Furmanek and his work for The Beatles

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  1. Anonymous says:

    Great article, Roger!

    Finally we have a suspect for the identity of Mirror Spock?

    😛

  2. Anonymous says:

    Furmanek's work and approach has certainly heavily influenced the renaissance of Apple projects following Anthology. One wonders if the concepts for 'Love' and 'Rock Band' would have happened at all were it not for his innovations in the use of the archived materials for remixing.

    I totally agree with his assessment of 'Yellow Submarine Songtrack' and am sure that the entire catalogue WILL, in the future, be made available in similar fashion as all indications suggest that the remixing work back in the mid-late 90's was not restricted to the tracks used for YSS.
    'Love' and 'Rock Band' are evidence that digital studio project-files, making use of masters and sub-masters in Furmanek fashion, are readily available to Giles Martin whose most recent work with the latest 'A Hard Day's Night' reissues, is essentially based upon the Furmanek approach.

  3. wogew says:

    I have updated the posting somewhat inserting a few more pictures of releases based on Furmanek's restorations, as well as some more text regarding the non-availability of much of his work in his Apple days. I can see the approach of Martin as similar to Furmanek's, as for the concept of basing it all on the mono mix – only for stereo. Unlike Furmanek, Martin also recorded some new stuff to insert into his stereo and surround mixes, but left the mono soundtrack unaltered. I'm puzzled that they didn't use Furmanek's mono soundtrack, though. Perhaps they didn't have it. The Miramax people butchered Furmanek's soundtrack into forced 5.1 and didn't even send him a copy.

  4. Unknown says:

    I've know Ron since we were both teen-agers…..He was like Howard Carter the man that discovered KING TUT!…Even the greatest collectors never saw the things Ron was able to find….in my next book, "1974" Ron and i head to John's apartment…Ron blows him away with footage he never saw….the talk turns to Chuck Berry and Elvis….this sent Ron on a mission!…hanging and growing up with Ron was the greatest treat a Beatle Fan could ever imagine….thanks for doing such a great piece on a FUTURE "ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAMER!"

  5. Tboneator64 says:

    Having listened to A HARD DAY'S NIGHT'S opening scene with the screams on the Criterion set, they sounded so natural that reading about these having been dubbed back in the 1980's has really thrown me for a loop! Frankly, I've never previously encountered any version of A HARD DAY'S NIGHT that had screams, and to my ears, the Miramax DVD Version sounds like the dubbed version, though I suppose that could be due to the bad 5.1 Surround mix!

    With that said, assuming that the screams were in fact, dubbed, does anyone know or have any documentation as to when this dubbing took place, and what Video Releases (If any!) had this? I do know that the 1982 VHS Version by MPI did NOT have dubbed screaming during the opening scene!

    CHEERS!

  6. Martin says:

    I hope the Beatles promos collection is released. But I also wish ABKCO would allow Furmanek access to the vast Stones archive… Like the Beatles promos,stuff like 'Child Of The Moon', 'We Love You' and the still unseen for years 'She's A Rainbow' should be out there by now… The fact there is no Beatles or Stones promos/TV DVDs available in the 21st Century is a joke (on the fans!)…

    And Miramax are bastards!

  7. Unknown says:

    To Martin. Your previous comment was from July of 2014. Thank goodness Apple has since released the double Blu-ray box set of painstakingly restored, frame-by-frame, of nearly every promotional film the Beatles ever made, or at least the songs that were #1, or at least in the Top 10. They all look incredible!
    Regards.

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