Revolution 1 (Take 20) - The Beatles
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Artist:
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Album:White Album outtakes
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Track:Revolution 1 (Take 20)
Just leaked online, Take 20 of The Beatles Revolution 1. What do you think my Fab Mogger amigos?
I love the freaked out echoing sound effects throughout the beginning part of the song. This version should be renamed Revolution 1.9.
Don't forget, befor you press play, to roll 'em, smoke 'em and inhale if you got 'em. The Fabs were fans of those herbal jazz ciggies.
Let the discussion begin!
Comments (18)
Here in little ole Rhode Island cigarette papers run $6.75 (Tobacco tax don't you know)....A corncob pipe goes for $2.99.
So.....you don't mind if I smoke my pipe rather than roll it, do you? Be that as it may, I was alerted to this this weekend by a friend....as I understand it....it's authenticity has been called into question. I think its real & a gas to listen to. And it proves that once again the Fabs picked the right versions/edits to release.
It may just be a true "outfake" like most of the outtakes created by Martin and Emerick on the Anthology CD's? Maybe it's a rare track just unearthed.
Either way it sounds amazing.
I would love to hear the complete 27 minute version of Helter Skelter, can anyone mogmail me an mp3 link to that outtake?
Pipes rule... bong it if you have to. Just inhale!
OK...I'll try that.
WOW if i wasn't smokin', I would think I was. I can't believe they would even consider a version like that. I don't think it's them. If it is, i'm going back to 420 for good. I'm 65 so you know where i'm at. Somehow the word "Revolution" and smooth music just doesn't sit right. but thanks for the leak.
My bad, it's not the 27 minute version of Helter Skelter that's out there. We may never hear that version, I wish. The one I need is the complete version of take 2 as an mp3.
Now, where's that pipe? I think it's cashed, time to fill it up and start again!
Yep, let's go another bong-round. But lets put on Blonde On Blonde this time. I want to mellow to Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands....
Good choice, my Mogger amigo. Dylan and the herb are a perfect combination!
The single version of Revolution is one of the greatest Beatles songs ever. This limp, twee version was and is vastly inferior. But I like listening to the rare regardless.
I'd say this is quite real, a variation of the shuffling mix that made it onto The White Album and a deliberate recalibration of the song that gave it a more jocular, easy-going tone.
Yes this is real. So real that EMI has no demanded it's removal from YouTube. Hats off to Adrian for posting it here in time.
siiiiiiiick.
It sounds to me like the regular single version with some remix elements added (backwards reverb, noises, bass overdub). An “Outfake”, as myeverpresentpast suggested. The sustained, faded in-and-out backwards reverb is a dead giveaway. That “frozen sample” trick uses digital technology that wasn’t available until the 80’s with the AMS and Quantec digital reverbs. And WAY too overused in one song for the Beatles, even at their most inebriated. They had more taste than that.
Ahh...just got to the samples from Revolution Number 9 at the end. Yeah, definite fake. And there’s that damned frozen sample to finish it off. Lame.
I'm with dulong - The Beatles jamming out on one of the takes with some bozo dropping the 'frozen sample' on top of it. Not only did The Beatles have way more taste than this, but the white album is littered with tricks and licks and effects that happen just once. Why would they go polar opposite on this one song?
Definitely nothing to do with the regular single version of the song (i.e the electric version). This is the White Album version and has the same vocal track as said version. It is without an edit applied to the intro on the White album and it is without some of the electric guitar overdubs heard on the LP version. As for the extended fade out, the part immediately following the section where the official version fades out is authentic enough (I base that on a comparison with other boots in my possession). As for the later section with the Revolution 9 effects and loops, who knows whose experimentation that is? Lennon's or somebody making a fake? Either is plausible, however it is consistent with Lewisohn's description of the session (that may only mean that whomever created it was well read enough to know what he/she was doing). Also I don't think it's a question of The Beatles having more taste at this point either because we have to keep in mind that this was a version no one was supposed to hear at this point. John was notorious for using 'filler' for sections (hence the repeated sampling) and then going back later to add in what should be there. This is very apparent in 'A Day In The Life' just to cite an example. Mal counted and that was later covered with orchestration. It's too bad we can't get McCartney to comment on it's authenticity. After all, it was big news. It made the Chicago Tribune and all the big US papers. All I want is the truth...just gimme some truth.
I just found this on a Macca News website forum. The Revolution 1 (take 20) Outtake is from a new Beatles boot called Revolution Take... Your Knickers Off!
read the review at the link below:
http://dsulpy.proboards101.com/index.cgi?board=doug&action=display&thread=3151
Mark, you are correct about the track being the album version. I wrote single by mistake. It is indeed "Take 18" from May 30th 1968 (as documented in Lewisohn's Beatles Recording Sessions book), which also contained the beginnings of Revolution 9 in its 10'17" length. Still, the afore-mentioned digital effect (also known as "infinite reverb" or "hold") wasn't available till 1981 with the introduction of the AMS RMX-16. And that implementation of it was distinctively "gritty"-sounding and decayed away in a few hours, unlike the later smooth versions like the Quantec (on which I once left a vocal choir sustaining for three days, periodically raising the fader to listen. It was still clean when I finally shut it down). Tape loops and samplers don't even come close to that sustained effect (believe me, I've tried).
Even if we assume that John got ahold of a prototype AMS a year earlier, how likely is it that he would have taken the 1/2" 4-track master tapes from Abbey Road to New York to remix them while he was busy recording the Double Fantasy and Milk And Honey tracks?
Finally, EMI or Apple reacting to, well, anything, is just par for the course. They also went after DangerMouse. Whose remixes, or even Go Home Productions ones I'd rather listen to than this one.
Thanks dulong. It's good to hear from someone with a knowledge of this digital effect. I tend to have the naive attitude that The Beatles were capable of creating anything with sound given some of the innovation they displayed with the primitive equipment that was in place in their day. I wish there could be some sort of statement made by someone at EMI about it and expose it as a forgery if that is the case. My guess is we will never hear anything official about it.
I've been looking for this song on and off now for six weeks for a birthday present for a young lady who is about to turn 21. She is a big Beatles fan, but when I mentioned to her about 8 months ago that there was this version of Revolution, she had no idea that it existed. Since I'm a "child of the 60's" I had the 45 at one time. Wish I still did. But now I can give her this blog address and she can listen to the best version of this song and maybe I can find an mp3 copy of it somewhere. If anyone knows where I can downloand one, please let me know. Thanks.