I knew about the recording but missed that clips were played on the BBC. Hearing it now I'm a little surprised that it is a microphone rather than a line recording since the guy who recorded it worked at the venue. It sounds fairly distant, somewhere towards the back of the room. Maybe done in the projection booth with the micropnone(s) pointed out the opening for the film projection? Anyway yet another live performance recording not captured directly from the stage microphones and mixing desk (even if it was a very simple PA setup). And even with a boisterous audience and Beatlemania rising the clips were listenable compared to the total wall of screaming to come very soon.
The Youtube audio of the BBC interview program that played the clips is edited down to pretty much just the clips, there's one bit near the end where it sounds like the buyer of the tape was revealed but we only hear after that, where the buyer shows the tape and photos in an open safe and is said to have a Liverpool accent. Was that Neil Aspinall?
It's a shame that Apple continues to maintain a
Beatles projects are and will only be premium gold standard quality. There's an audience for these things even if they aren't worthy of a splashy worldwide major product promotion campaign. What is the point of locking them away? Are there one or two holdouts among the 4 parties who refuse to allow anything to happen?
We are on agreement. We would like to have the Cavern whatever the sound quality is. For Apple, there is the sound issue but also the quality of the performance. Even if the sound was fine, they might still veto the release performance wise.
