'Birth of the Beatles' film from 1979

[Lord Reith]

Here is Dizzy Miss Lizzy:

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[alphabeatles]

That works!

And it reminds us that Paul played an upside-down Strat in those days, right...

[MarkRJones1970]

Here is Dizzy Miss Lizzy:

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That worked really well. You would have never known that wasn't the version they were miming to.

[Lord Reith]

Here's I Saw Her Standing There:

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[baggiod]

Superb Lord Reith, absolutely superb...ditto what Mark said, the syncing is spot on.

[JoeWadley]

Fun, Lord Reith. Especially the improved sounding I Saw Her Standing There. Has me excited for the Star Club set.

Having spent a lot of time recently with the BBC stuff, performances in the movie were too polite and thin sounding. These make it much more fun.

Did my ears fool me, or was the bass gone in Dizzy Miss Lizzie? Poor Stu.

[MarkRJones1970]

Here's I Saw Her Standing There:

https://tinyurl.com/expires-19-july

Ha! Again, you'd never know that wasn't the version the actors were miming too. Stupendous!

[HannibalTwin8]

Here is Dizzy Miss Lizzy:

https://tinyurl.com/expires-july-19

Here's I Saw Her Standing There:

https://tinyurl.com/expires-19-july

Lord Reith! You just made my day with these tests! Simply fantastic!

[Qwazi]

Made my day too!! These are fantastic!

[Lord Reith]

I did four songs quickly yesterday and they seem to work okay although synching them to Rain's versions is a bugger because their drummer's timing is absolutely shocking. Makes you realise how good Ringo was.

Was Rain really the best tribute group Dick Clark could lay his hands on? They not only don't sound like The Beatles, they are just a terrible band with a terrible singer. Synching up Roll Over Beethoven nearly made my ears melt having to listen to it over and over again!

I think the best video quality is DocRobert's dvd version. It runs at the wrong speed of 25fps instead of 24 but this is actually good because it gives clean frames that haven't been telecined and can be put through a film dirt removal tool and then slowed down accordingly. Okay, it's only vhs but it's 14:9 and uninterrupted and the audio quality is also very good (mono). And it's the extended edit. So I'll upload a new version of BOTB with two different soundtracks: the remade one and the original at the correct speed.

There's some fun possibilities here! Aside from using ISHST from the Star Club I think it will be fun to use the Cavern version of Kansas City. The hardest part will be overlaying conversation and audiences over the new audio... but, gentleman, we have the knowledge, we have the technology... we can rebuild him!