George Harrison: All Things Must Pass 50th- Audio DeLuxe Edition – What’s New?

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  1. G.D. Wilde says:
    August 10, 2021 at 12:25 pm

    Great work! (1 thing: I live For You: the 2000 version only retained vocals and slide guitar from the original recording: guitar, drums and bass weree all later overdubs, I believe)

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  2. Diego Esparcia says:
    August 10, 2021 at 4:18 pm

    Gracias, Mike. Great review, as usual.

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  3. wardo68 says:
    August 10, 2021 at 9:26 pm

    Excellent info as always! Any chance you can provide the take numbers for the album tracks without counterparts on the jams disc — My Sweet Lord, Locked Door, I Dig Love, All Things, Frankie Crisp, Awaiting, Apple Scruffs?

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  4. Terry says:
    August 13, 2021 at 10:18 pm

    Where to the musician credits for disc 5 come from? Are they included in the new album notes?

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  5. Andreas says:
    August 21, 2021 at 8:16 pm

    Thanks again for your great work, Mike. This is very much appreciated. Just three minor comments:
    1. On Isn’t It A Pity (Take 27) it is, according to Dhani Harrison, Nicky Hopkins on piano (this is quite surprising as Nicky Hopkins may have been in the US recording with Quicksilver at the time).
    2. In the archival notes of the Uber box, it is suggested Eric Clapton and Dave Mason play the guitars on Take 36 of Run Of The Mill.
    3. Your suggested line-up for Almost 12 Bar… is that for I Remember Jeep, which, however, was recorded as early as March 29th, 1969. The whole story about that track is very well covered in Vol. 2 of A Is For Apple by Axel Korinther and Ed Dieckmann.
    Best wishes, Andreas

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  6. Andreas says:
    August 21, 2021 at 8:24 pm

    Mike, thanks very much for your work. This is very much appreciated. I have three minor comments:
    1. On Isn’t It A Pity, Dhani Harrison surprisingly claims it is Nicky Hopkins on piano. Hopkins, however, may have been in the US at the time, recording with his band Quicksilver Messenger Service.
    2. In the archival notes of the Uber box it is suggested that Eric Clapton and Dave Mason share the guitar work on Take 36 of Run Of The Mill.
    3. The line-up you list for Almost 12 Bar Honky Tonk is that for I Remember Jeep, which, however, was recorded as early as March 29, 1969 after a Billy Preston-session. I don’t think Ginger Baker played on anything during the ATMP sessions from May to October 1970. Axel Korinth and Ed Dieckmann have the fully story of I Remember Jeep in their excellent A Is For Apple Vol. 2.
    Best wishes, Andreas

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  7. Ronald Ankers says:
    August 23, 2021 at 1:20 am

    Re Disc 5: The booklet in the 5CD box indicates Wah-Wah, IHYA, IIAP (both versions) and INFY were all recorded, with master takes identified, by 5 June. You have indicated the official record indicates Carl Radle and Jim Gordon contributed to those songs. I believe they only attended the sessions from 22 June. Does that mean they must have done overdubs at later dates? I have struggled to read parts of the Archival Notes on the video on the Steve Hoffman thread. Was Art of Dying completely re-recorded on 2 June and then again on 23 June? I really would appreciate sight of the Archival Notes. It seems to be small enough to have fitted in the CD box.

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  8. Nils Granström says:
    October 13, 2021 at 3:44 pm

    Thanks Mike. Great work. I’m a new follower of BB and I’ve been searchin for info about 50th ATMP. You provided the answers!

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  9. Ronald Ankers says:
    October 14, 2021 at 11:34 am

    I am still trying to decipher the contents of the Archival Notes by freezing the pictures from the video on the Steve Hoffman forum (page 313). Recording box E097547-8T is shown on what I think is page 16. It includes the first proper recording session of I’d Have You Anytime – the first 6 takes, of which takes 2, 5 and 6 were the only complete takes. The notes above indicate Take 1 was previously released on Early Takes vol. 1. The box says take 1 was a false start. There is also definitely a mistake in the scrapbook – page 39 of the version in the CD de luxe box set. It says Art Of Dying was recorded first on 26 May. It was definitely included on the second of the studio demo sessions, on 27 May. The 15 songs on CD 4 of the box set are in the same order on the old bootleg “Beware of ABKCO!”. It also seems from the Archival Notes that one take of that song was done on 10 June (probably), but the scrapbook says the recording sessions were only on 2, 23 June and 1 July. All very confusing. At least, having finally been able to read (just about) some of the contents of the recording boxes, I think I know now the master takes of each song, if not the number of takes actually attempted.

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