A day in the life - LONG interview with Giles Martin INCLUDING this statement about the "aaaah" part. | Fab Forum | The Beatles Bible

Dark Overlord said
Great interview but i trust Geoff Emmerick since he was the only eyewitness to make a comment on the matter.

Is there any other information worth discussing in that interview besides the Ahhhs.

  

I love Emerick’s work, but unfortunately his memory is not one to be trusted. Check out this interview from 1979 – he can’t even remember who played the piano on ADITL! http://www.angelfire.com/plane…..vh9eNbJT4w

Ken Scott had a lot to say about his former colleague’s memory as well. https://groups.google.com/foru…..AIAueWS3K4

The Giles Martin interview is VERY long and EXTREMELY fascinating, but of course it’s very technical, so personally I don’t understand all of it, not even close. But you get a very good idea of how much thought and work and know how they put into the remixes.

Billy Rhythm said
well…  I was one of the fortunate souls who missed out on the original ‘A Day In The Life ‘ (“aaah part”) nonsense…  I think that I eventually commented, long after the fact, to a thread that was posthumously butchered by some unnamed participant who thought himself to be rather clever by deleting all of his posts, resulting in a fragmented highly obscured “conversation” because they understandably didn’t want to stand by their own words…

Billy, I could say a lot about this paragraph alone, but I didn’t came back to fight, seriously.

Let me just say that we obviously don’t get along well. This happens. It was mainly you and your attitude (that sadly doesn’t seem to have changed, I was really hoping for a different kind of message) that frustrated me enough to erase my postings – sorry for every inconvenience I caused by that, but it happened out of deep frustration and NOT because I “didn’t want to stand by my own words”.

Almost everybody jumped on me back then and there were just very few other people who pointed out that your attitude had not helped matters much.

So please let’s leave it at that. We don’t get along. We don’t have to. But keep it respectful.

I’ll confess to not clicking the “LONG interview with Giles Martin” for he doesn’t hold a whole lot of credibility in my world…  he wasn’t even a baby back in 1967…  his opinion holds no more weight than just about anybody elses’ outside of The Beatles’ Inner Circle (he’s heard ‘Carnival Of Light ‘, I’ll give him that)… 

 

So you think Giles Martin doesn’t know more about these recordings that “just anybody else outside of The Beatles inner circle”? Dude, you REALLY should click on that interview – even without speaking German you should get the impression of the thousands of hours of intense work he and his team spent with these recordings.

You seriously want to just dismiss that? Ask yourself, what does that make you look like.

Unfortunately his father is no longer with us, but after working along him and now literally sitting in his seat, imo it’s not possible to get ANY closer except for Paul.

[edit: OK, I’m all in now, let’s dismiss Giles Martin’s opinion together! We finally have something in common!]

his father’s does however, and Sir George’s “All You Need Is Ears” applies here and I hear BOTH John & Paul…  I’ll trust what I’m hearing over Giles’ ears, thank you very much…  it doesn’t help that this is a second generation translation (didn’t know that Giles spoke German, learn something new everyday…;-)

Your condescending joke aside, I’d love to provide that interview in English, but it’s from a German journal and I don’t have their original material. Still, “Paul” is “Paul” is German as well in English, there’s no doubt who he was talking about.

 

you do realize that ‘Sgt. Pepper ‘ was recorded on a 4-Track, right?  and…  how many musicians including The Beatles are, in fact, playing on this recording?…  you are aware that anybody has access to ‘The Beatles Rock Band’ tracks where the vocals can be isolated for their own studies, no?   yet we’re supposed to accept your deduction as gospel that Giles “might have listened to this more intensely and often than ANYBODY with the highest amount of quality and detail and background information available”?!

Dude, we all listened to the isolated vocals and surprisingly everybody seems to hear something different, which I will never fully understand, but there’s no point in denying it.

But it’s still a difference if you listen to a youtube chanel or the actual tapes, and whatever else he did with them and whatever background information you can get, HE had access to it, don’t you think? If you think you are as qualified as Giles Martin because you listened to the 4-tracks of Guitar hero at home there might be some misconception. [edit: Qualified Giles Martin may be, but he still confused Paul with John, and it was in fact Sam Okell who made the statement.]

 

I stopped taking you seriously after you were so quick to dismiss Geoff Emerick’s opinion (someone who was actually there) while pumping up somebody else who wasn’t there’s version instead…  if you want to listen to ‘The Beatles Rock Band’ tracks for yourself, I’m sure that all you have to do is ask and someone here will point you in the right direction…  you’ll be happy to know that ‘Dear Prudence ‘ (recorded on 8-Track) is also available for reference and you can listen to Paul’s drum track isolated which is absent of the overdubs so obviously played by Ringo later on when he rejoined the band for yourself as well…  as George Martin (someone else who was there) says…  “All You Need Is…”…:-)
 

 

Check out my Emerick links in that other post. And you being in on the “Ringo did the drumming on the end of Dear Prudence !” club doesn’t excactly help your own credibility.

If you don’t own the White Album 50th anniversary deluxe edition with the take that doesn’t yet have the bass, but already ALL the drums of Dear Prudence , thus proving Paul played all of it, just ask, I’m sure someone might point you in the right direction and provide it to you.

You and I both had our say, can we please talk respectfully from now on?

Ron Nasty said
@Illgetyou your Ken Scott link is linking to the Geoff Emerick interview.

  

Thanks, fixed it!

ewe2 said
If Giles says it is, that’s good enough for me, an infinitely better authority than some guy on the internets. I read the Google translation of the article (it’s mostly spot-on except for some amusing errors), there’s no way you can spend that much time and effort on original tracks and not know who is doing what. They were literally comparing takes and generations of bounces on everything: it’s actually an astonishing feat of technical ability and sheer persistence. They reinvented ADT and other physical processes just to get it absolutely right. It’s good to know that the old equipment still can’t be bettered.

  

Great words!