It's all about "moichandising" to quote the wise Yoghurt from Spaceballs. You couldn't market the Star Club tapes to a modern audience without some serious context-giving visuals in the form of animation or CGI or something along those lines. Then people might accept it as some sort of immersive virtual experience. But just as a cd? "Nugganna happen!" as Mr Trump would say.vickrose777 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 30, 2022 3:23 am L.R. I think you said it best the last time we spoke. No matter what they release, anything previously unreleased, we will continue to buy it. I know I will. What's a shame is the blatant decline of Apple's SDE format. Seems like "yesterday" we're getting a Blu ray. Now we get an EP. Two disks worth of material stretched to five.
I was an Anthology baby. I heard that before I heard most of the albums. To me each album is getting their own Anthology now. That's an upside. I'm grateful. I also agree with alot of what I've read here. Peter Jackson has offered publicly to work on the Star Club, and I've never understood why the Beatles themselves have only acknowledged those tapes in a lawsuit. Those tapes are a HUGE piece of the puzzle! You hear Lennon talk about "back then no one could touch us," those tapes are the very end of that era...
I could go on. Yeah, no, I'm happy with it.
If you think about it, The Beatles were actually second on the bill for the Get Back series. It was Peter Jackson they were selling, because the guy is hugely famous and they knew that if he is doing a series on The Beatles then that is enough to convince large numbers of people to watch it. If it had been produced by Joe Shalabotnik then it'd have been a much harder sell and probably would have been abandoned when Covid broke, to go on the same shelf as Let It Be. Sometimes this has approach has backfired though... witness the negative reaction to the universally-loathed Eight Days A Week movie, after we were all made to suffer through that endless procession of boring celebrities. If they'd stuck to the idea of making it a film about the live years told through fan footage, then it might have stood a chance. But they thought we'd all want to watch it just because Whoopee Goldberg likes the Beatles.