Nobody Told Me (Restored Demo)

[Hidlive]

Hey all,

Back in 2020 i had cleaned up the home demo of Nobody Told Me on the Lennon box set. Today i realized that by syncing up one of the bootlegged double-tracked mixes with the box set version, i could widen the stereo image a bit! And then, when i was about to make this post, i forgot there was a THIRD overdub (for some reason) on another bootleg. I hope there isn't any more.... anyways yeah, this sounds a lot more full than most mixes of the demo. I might try this out with any more of the '80 demos tomorrow. Feel free to critique!

hxxps://mega.nz/file/GVAlxYAQ#ze2am11iC ... FOUVCMV0jo

[alphabeatles]

That was fun, thanks!

And it reminds me, with all of the new demixing capability, these demos are ripe for mining.

[Rave O Lucien]

Hey all,

Back in 2020 i had cleaned up the home demo of Nobody Told Me on the Lennon box set. Today i realized that by syncing up one of the bootlegged double-tracked mixes with the box set version, i could widen the stereo image a bit! And then, when i was about to make this post, i forgot there was a THIRD overdub (for some reason) on another bootleg. I hope there isn't any more.... anyways yeah, this sounds a lot more full than most mixes of the demo. I might try this out with any more of the '80 demos tomorrow. Feel free to critique!

hxxps://mega.nz/file/GVAlxYAQ#ze2am11iCUnu99mxAHvxErJx_ny1kGqU3FOUVCMV0jo

I really like this!
But the vocal seemed a little buried.
So, I isolated the vocal track at x-minus.pro and laid that atop your original file.
Here it is. See what you think.

hxxps://we.tl/t-02w1BrOr1E

[Hidlive]

Hey all,

Back in 2020 i had cleaned up the home demo of Nobody Told Me on the Lennon box set. Today i realized that by syncing up one of the bootlegged double-tracked mixes with the box set version, i could widen the stereo image a bit! And then, when i was about to make this post, i forgot there was a THIRD overdub (for some reason) on another bootleg. I hope there isn't any more.... anyways yeah, this sounds a lot more full than most mixes of the demo. I might try this out with any more of the '80 demos tomorrow. Feel free to critique!

hxxps://mega.nz/file/GVAlxYAQ#ze2am11iCUnu99mxAHvxErJx_ny1kGqU3FOUVCMV0jo

I really like this!
But the vocal seemed a little buried.
So, I isolated the vocal track at x-minus.pro and laid that atop your original file.
Here it is. See what you think.

hxxps://we.tl/t-02w1BrOr1E

great job! I was so focused on getting a satisfying sound i forgot to make sure John was audible, lol.

I've been casually making more of these demo sync-ups today, but i gave up because of how there are THREE Woman demos with double tracking!!! here's all i made today: hxxps://mega.nz/folder/rUxEwa4K#eldQHRU6gftAzPAQ47O1og

[Rupert Pupkin]

great! are you Juha who was behind the amazing "John Lennon - Between The Lines" set ?

[Hidlive]

great! are you Juha who was behind the amazing "John Lennon - Between The Lines" set ?

never heard of 'em!

[Rave O Lucien]

great job! I was so focused on getting a satisfying sound i forgot to make sure John was audible, lol.

I've been casually making more of these demo sync-ups today, but i gave up because of how there are THREE Woman demos with double tracking!!! here's all i made today: hxxps://mega.nz/folder/rUxEwa4K#eldQHRU6gftAzPAQ47O1og

Thanks!
This new batch is better balanced.
I really like some of these demos better than the subsequent studio recordings. More down to earth.

[Much2Much]

These will be an interesting listen, thank you.

[Rupert Pupkin]

This is amazing!
do you have more?

I don't remember the complete intro for Beautiful Boy with John's burb before singing.
Then, Woman take 10 is superb; the stereo is amazing with headphones. To my ears it sounds better than the His Master's Choice material.
There is just a very short dropout on one channel of "Woman take 10" at the beginning.

http://lifeofthebeatles.blogspot.com/20 ... lines.html
for the track-listing

the "Between The Lines" set was a free-fan label (Pine Apple records) collecting all demos 1975-1980 John Lennon.
This was done in the late 90's; so, PRIOR the His Master's Choice label (which surfaced with new demos unbooted with "At Home", etc...)