At least as far as the rooftop concert goes, there are two elements at play. The concert itself was rather short, as CD durations go for it to stand alone. I suppose if they *are* re-re-mastering these discs that they may as well move forward with the entire Let It Be album tracks, but we know what happened with the official anniversaries since Pepper onwards--- virtually zilch.zed wrote: Next year will be the 40th anniversary of the Rooftop concert. Do you think we'll see a DVD of the Rooftop concert with bonus footage and a "Making of" documentary? Probably not.
Don't know how to explain it, really. It's kind of baffling.
But, Ringo was quoted as saying something about the entire Let It Be movie not being released. Evidently, he and Paul had considered it but were quite depressed over the process of sorting through so many hours of unhappy footage of the the band's demise that they couldn't bear to see it through to completion. The "Let It Be-Naked" project was the only other offering in that regard, sans DVD, and perhaps the only one we'll see, unfortunately.
Still, it's remarkable to consider the depth of interest for The Beatles after all these years still thriving in so many ways and I am among the many who hope that there will be better digital remastering of these classic collections yet to come.
It's encouraging, however, to see a group like Lifehouse create some interesting music and clearly tap into the sounds of the Casinos, the Rickenbacker 4000 series basses, Vox amps, etc. I saw a recent concert video of theirs in HD surround and was quite impressed with their sound they got. The blend of the more Beatley instruments they used on certain tunes was wonderful to hear, and it was quite clear that such a combo of instruments was not merely a coincidence. Hearing two Casinos and a Rickenbacker bass used again was immediately reminiscent of textures first heard on Revolver. Their music is not particularly Beatley (for as nice as it is) but hearing those instruments being put to good use again was as strikingly Beatley as it was subtle.
And so we have Studiophonik with an unusual array of Beatley guitars. One simply doesn't see Rickenbackers, Hofners, and Gretsches in sample libraries in quantity very often.
This is a serious consideration for me. The group buy is already down to $20 above its rock bottom price anyway, so this is going to be a hard one to pass up. When looking at my non-orchestral collections my VIs are rather small in number. I have FabFour and EZ Drummer, but that's about it outside of a few REX multi-channel drum loops. What better time to get into something this than now when I'm in my classic rock revival?
Thanks again for the reminder, Zed.
