(OUTDATED) Watching Rainbows - The Ultimate Get Back Sessions Remaster (BETA RELEASE)

[mitchellmichael]

I am sooooo excited for this!!! Thanks to you and the team for all the hard work.

[Derian the imp]

UPDATE 31/01/2024

So, it's been a while, and I took a full month break while keeping an eye to fellow member emptyspotlight, who decided to do a full listening of the pre-release set as a challenge. He did notice a few small errors which I quickly fixed.

As usual, here's another discovery: the January 20th test tape is, well, not from January 20th! After some investigation, we determined that it's most likely a leftover from the February sessions, since the DLMD performance heard is the single version which was played in the 28th. As such, this 48 second piece of audio will be discarded from the set.

Now the important part: the set is basically finished! All that's left is renaming some tracks, extending some of the days by a few seconds of audio, and swapping a few sources. I will also need to take the time to de-stereoize all of the tracks in the Cubase projects to export the mono version of the set. With that said, me and the team decided to release the set before the completion of the booklet. The sad truth is that, this big booklet requires tons of dedication and time, and we're only a few people (not to mention that we've had tons of personal commitments to deal with).

Watching Rainbows will be released sometime during March, including the complete newly numbered audio (both stereo-ized and mono), some artwork and a proto-booklet, containing general info, technical details and a tracklist indicating the source for each track.
A complete booklet (probably in PDF format), and a handful of extras will come out later, I'm gonna keep you updated for it.

Stay tuned!!

I can't wait for this to come out!
I am so happy that I was a part of this project!

[Mr Bump]

As usual, here's another discovery: the January 20th test tape is, well, not from January 20th! After some investigation, we determined that it's most likely a leftover from the February sessions, since the DLMD performance heard is the single version which was played in the 28th. As such, this 48 second piece of audio will be discarded from the set.

Amazing. I just played it back and I reckon Billy's keyboard is audible in DLMD. Therefore you must be right - cannot be from 20th, which is before Billy came along. Like everyone else, I never realised this! Good stuff.

Peter Jackson places it on 16th but with no music heard behind the talking. I think he's cleaned it off as if it's just background noise.

[Debbiebootleg]

As usual, here's another discovery: the January 20th test tape is, well, not from January 20th! After some investigation, we determined that it's most likely a leftover from the February sessions, since the DLMD performance heard is the single version which was played in the 28th. As such, this 48 second piece of audio will be discarded from the set.

Amazing. I just played it back and I reckon Billy's keyboard is audible in DLMD. Therefore you must be right - cannot be from 20th, which is before Billy came along. Like everyone else, I never realised this! Good stuff.

Peter Jackson places it on 16th but with no music heard behind the talking. I think he's cleaned it off as if it's just background noise.

You can still hear the DLMD in the PJ Movie.

[Mr Bump]

I can't. There's some indistinct bass frequencies which may be artefcts from what was there, but I don't hear any music.

[dinsdalep]

If you're talking about the "Apple Studio test tape" with Magic Alex counting 1-10 repeatedly, that's taken from episode 68 of The Lost Lennon Tapes, which used "Don't Let Me Down" as a musical bed under the narration. I don't think DLMD is part of the test tape at all. Presumably MAL technology cleaned it up a bit.

[Mr Bump]

That's interesting! So it might indeed be from 20th.

I thought the counting was George Martin? I'd need to listen again.

[Golem]

here's the audio from LLT
hxxps://we.tl/t-xDegCBqDn1

[Mr Bump]

Thanks Golem. Great stuff. DLMD just playing along behind the Apple recording.

[Mr Bump]

I've a question. On the morning of 8 Jan, while George is hanging around, there's a track called "Get Your Rocks Off" in which George seems to be reading out from a newspaper, a story about legalising pot and it being less dangerous than alcohol.

Here, there is a scan of a newspaper with that same story on its from page: https://theymaybeparted.files.wordpress ... -69-p1.pdf

The story is based on something which was said "last night" - and yet this was printed on 9 Jan, the day after George read the thing out. So, what's going on here? Were there two different news stories on successive days, one printed on 8 Jan? It seems like the tapes are correctly dated. Any ideas?