The Threetles Recording Sessions

16 Responses

  1. Anonymous says:

    Your best blog ever! AND the best blog on the Threetles project.
    NO CONTEST.

    Thank you very much for this, Sir Roger!

  2. Anonymous says:

    Great article, interesting reading. Thanks Roger

  3. Martín says:

    Great, great article. Thank you very much.

  4. wogew says:

    I really can't take any credit for this. All I did was lift all this text from faabsessions, which has been around for years, and tweak it a bit. These days this is an often overlooked resource, so I felt the contents should be brought to light again. I'd redirect further discussion to the proper forum, but it's been kind of quiet over there for a long time.

  5. Dogma says:

    Amazing! Thanks for sharing this!!

  6. James Peet says:

    Roger, we Fabheads owe you a huge amount of love and adoration for your dedication, not only on this brilliant post but on your past work. Thank you.

    Reading through the quotes from the Beatles themselves, it's telling (to me anyway) that George says the least…

  7. Anonymous says:

    Nice job, Roger, but one inaccuracy: It was Beatlefan magazine that broke the story of the Threetles recording sessions and was credited as such in the initial New York Times report you mention.

  8. db says:

    Top job. There's a couple of Threetle clips in the Scorsese film: one of P & G harmonizing together on Real Love, I think.

  9. Ole M. Olsen says:

    Roger, thanks a lot for gathering together and representing this material on the Anthology reunion!

    Sadly, "Free As a Bird" and "Real Love" are songs that mostly seem to be more or less ignored. They've always meant a lot to me, as their release meant that I finally – for the first time in my life (being born in 1971) – got to experience the thrill of experiencing new Beatles songs as they were released.

    And besides that, I think they're good songs as well. And not least touching tributes to both John and the band itself.

    So thanks again!

  10. wogew says:

    Thanks for putting that particular record straight, Bill – I have amended the original post to reflect this.

  11. Unknown says:

    Dear Roger, thanks for keeping this subject alive. I believe the most important thing we as fans can do, is lobby for, the release of Now and then (All For Love) If it exists, as well as the remaining unheard tracks like Carnival of Light, Sour Milk Sea,LIB Outtakes.Early Demo's& acetates

    You did fantastic, compiling all the various sources for this subject in your blog. Sadly your blog pretty much gathers everything published on this important subject.

    Anthology only got compiled & released after the bootleggers got under the Beatles skin.I fear if we don't press hard for explanations, answers and a release, this will be swept under the rug, and first generation fans will die of old age never getting to hear these remaining gems.I'd like to see a Lewishon book, an Anthology 4, or some type of new CD, your blog makes note, the Threetles were recorded playing many warm up takes during the FAAB & Real Love sessions, comprised of early repetoire stuff from Liverpool & Hamburg, to hear just one well recorded performance of the 3tles on 24 track tape,boggles the mind, and the live stuff from the jam not included in the ANthology film, and the xmas album, the early demos and acetates, alternate takes like the long Helter skelter, Who cares a whole lot about six additional takes of misery on bootleg 63, when there remains pristine, shiny finished Beatle records we've never heard, songs we've never heard, if Now and then is anywhere as good as FAAB or Real Love, how on earth can real Beatles fans not wanna hear that, why on earth is this thing still dragging on 2o years, word on the street, from inside, this song is finished, and all indications are the All For Love song exists too, and the warm up takes, God almighty somebody help us

    Keep up the great work, PLEASE if not you? Who? the people who ask what Paul's favorite color is, hard hitting journalism!

  12. Unknown says:

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  13. Unknown says:

    ive lost hope on now and then…..

  14. AxelD says:

    Its a shame that george and paul song had not penned in a album i dont even know that the both wrote something after the beatles break up and they do not write together as well

  15. admin says:

    To Sean Sullivan who sent me an email to help him find a quote in this article.
    It seems all my replies to this disappears in a black hole and can’t be found, neither as drafts nor as sent emails.
    I have no idea why this happens, as I’ve already replied twice, but my replies can’t be found!
    Anyway, third time succeeds, I hope: Here’s where the article stems from: https://reunionsessions.tripod.com/al/faabsessions/contents.html
    We had permission to share it, and we also linked to it in our introduction.
    The original article had sources listed, unfortunately for that particular McCartney comment, it didn’t list the source for that one.

    Cheers,
    Roger Stormo
    roger@webgrafikk.com

  16. Sean P. Sullivan says:

    Roger Stormo, many thanks!

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