THE BEATLES – COMPLETE A/B ROAD SESSIONS / 83 CD’s IN 2 DVD’s ( Mp3 Data )

Description

The sessions began Jan 2nd-15th, 1969 at Twickenham Film Studios in London, then continued at Apple Studios Jan 21st-31st, 1969.
There was no “proper” recording done at Twickenham, but the majority of the sessions at both locations was captured by the film sound crew, on 2 Nagra Tape Machines. One was assigned to Camera A, the other to Camera B.
The 2 machines were generally running at the same time, so both the A rolls and B rolls have a lot of duplication between them. But each set of rolls also has a lot of material that was unique.

Each roll of tape lasted approximately 16 minutes. Often when The A Roll would run out, The B Roll would continue, while reels were changed on the other machine (and vice-versa). Thus, it is often possible to edit the 2 sets of rolls together, creating uninterrupted rehearsal segments, some lasting 3 hours or more. Some segments last only a few seconds, due to the start/stop action of the cameras or sound crew.

All of the “Available” Get Back material from these Nagra reels fills about 127 discs. But again, there is quite a bit of duplication between the A rolls and B rolls. This collection edits together all of the available recordings, in their proper order, without duplication. So 127 discs will be pruned down by about 1/3.

Sound Quality is excellent throughout. Bits and pieces of lesser quality have been patched in from lower quality (bootleg) sources when the original tapes were missing or unavailable. (Some 40 Rolls out of over 500 are known to be “missing” from the sessions, but a few fragments from some of these rolls have cropped up on various boots). But the edits are very smooth, and on the whole, quite listenable, considering the material.

COMPLETE SET

• 83 CDs
• 2187 tracks
• 97 hours, 44 minutes, 7 seconds

Part 1: Twickenham = 40:39:10 (1042 Tracks)

Part 2: Apple = 57:04:57 (1145 Tracks)

Total Time = 97:44:07 (83 CDs, 2187 Tracks)