Beatles "Free As A Bird" Sessions-the unreleased stuffd

[Dr. Winston]

This is kinda off topic for this board but I just gotta ask---where is all the video and/or audio outakes for these sessions?Other than brief clips I haven't seen much--for the most anticipated rock reunion of all time with the surviving Beatles it was pretty low key which is probably how they wanted it.....but I beleive the cameras and recorders were rolling constantly--were there any notable jam sessions?. Also does anybody know exactly when these sessions started and when they ended?. Thanks fellow board members.

[Paul L.]

There is a brief mention of the Free As A Bird and Real Love sessions at the excellent site that was given on here a few days ago: http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/beatles/var-1994.html

[czeskleba]

Originally posted by Dr. Winston O'Boogie:
Also does anybody know exactly when these sessions started and when they ended?. Thanks fellow board members.

Here's a site that provides info on the Beatles' 90s recordings, in a format similar to Lewisohn's book: http://www.vex.net/~paulmac/beatles/rs/gobnotch.html

[Unknown]

I used to have all kinds of tape-trading connections, but sadly they've all dried up or vanished. But I'm with you, Doc — where's the stuff? I know someone's got it on a cassette somewhere....

[Sergio Ruz]

There's a demo of "Free as a bird" with Paul overdubbing his vocals, on the 2 CD bootleg "Anthology more" (a nice but not really revealing set). I don't know about anything else coming from those sessions, yet.

[czeskleba]

Originally posted by Sergio Ruz:
There's a demo of "Free as a bird" with Paul overdubbing his vocals, on the 2 CD bootleg "Anthology more" (a nice but not really revealing set). I don't know about anything else coming from those sessions, yet.

The version of FAAB on Anthology More is not a genuine outtake recording from the sessions. It actually is a very clever outfake, done by using out-of-phase stereo to extract some guitar and Paul/George vocals from the released version of the song, which they then combined with John's original demo. The result is a "remix" which actually sounds much better than the official version, and manages to rescue some of the charm of John's original song from the Jeff Lynne overproduced sludge.