Chains, Song Extension

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I've always liked the harmony at the tail end of "Chains" and I was wondering if the song has ever been released without the fade, in bootleg or official form. I looked around a bit yesterday and didn't see it anywhere.
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My non professional opinion..which means nothing…is that the fade was done “on the fly” as they recorded it…but Chains…Boys..etc are all on the session tape that is presumably lost so a definitive answer will probably never be known
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I did a fake ending to "Baby It's You'" by amplifying the fade out and tacking on the end chord of a song from "With the Beatles". Unfortunately I can not find it anymore.
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The versions recorded for the BBC have the ending. Bizarre that they would cut it off as it's a great ending.
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Engonoceras wrote: Sat Oct 07, 2023 10:52 pm I did a fake ending to "Baby It's You'" by amplifying the fade out and tacking on the end chord of a song from "With the Beatles". Unfortunately I can not find it anymore.
I did a more cheesy version of that. I cranked up the fade to get the final "Chains" harmony, and then just edited the normal fade back on after that.
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Lord Reith wrote: Sat Oct 07, 2023 11:11 pm The versions recorded for the BBC have the ending. Bizarre that they would cut it off as it's a great ending.
I found one of those so I now know how they ended it in concert, but the sound quality on what I heard was pretty bad.
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