Ayestrain
11-17-2008, 12:53 AM
Paul McCartney Hopes To Release 14-Minute Beatles Track
November 16, 2008 10:01 AM EST |
LONDON — Paul McCartney says it's time an experimental Beatles track saw the light of day.
McCartney says he wants to release "Carnival of Light," a 14-minute experimental track the Fab Four recorded in 1967 but never released.
The band played the recording for an audience just once, at an electronic music festival in London. It reportedly includes distorted guitar, organ sounds, gargling and shouts of "Barcelona!" and "Are you all right?" from McCartney and John Lennon.
McCartney said during a recording session at Abbey Road studios he asked the other members of the band to "just wander round all of the stuff and bang it, shout, play it. It doesn't need to make any sense."
"I like it because it's The Beatles free, going off piste," he told the BBC in a radio interview to be broadcast Thursday. Extracts of the interview were published Sunday in The Observer newspaper.
McCartney said he still had a master tape of the piece and "the time has come for it to get its moment."
McCartney, usually regarded as the most melodically minded Beatle, told the BBC he had a long-standing interest in avant-garde music. He said "Carnival of Light" was inspired by experimental composers John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen.
He said he had wanted to include the track on the Beatles' "Anthology" compilation, but was vetoed by his bandmates.
McCartney would need permission from Ringo Starr and the widows of Lennon and George Harrison to release the track.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/16/paul-mccartney-hopes-to-r_n_144138.html
I'm all for hearing some unreleased Beatles--but this sounds like a steaming pile of dogshit--and like something that wouldn't have been out of place on John & Yoko's "Two Virgins" album..
This really has to be the bottom barrel scrape as far as unreleased Beatles studio music..I did kind of jump out of my chair at first when I read the headline..
November 16, 2008 10:01 AM EST |
LONDON — Paul McCartney says it's time an experimental Beatles track saw the light of day.
McCartney says he wants to release "Carnival of Light," a 14-minute experimental track the Fab Four recorded in 1967 but never released.
The band played the recording for an audience just once, at an electronic music festival in London. It reportedly includes distorted guitar, organ sounds, gargling and shouts of "Barcelona!" and "Are you all right?" from McCartney and John Lennon.
McCartney said during a recording session at Abbey Road studios he asked the other members of the band to "just wander round all of the stuff and bang it, shout, play it. It doesn't need to make any sense."
"I like it because it's The Beatles free, going off piste," he told the BBC in a radio interview to be broadcast Thursday. Extracts of the interview were published Sunday in The Observer newspaper.
McCartney said he still had a master tape of the piece and "the time has come for it to get its moment."
McCartney, usually regarded as the most melodically minded Beatle, told the BBC he had a long-standing interest in avant-garde music. He said "Carnival of Light" was inspired by experimental composers John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen.
He said he had wanted to include the track on the Beatles' "Anthology" compilation, but was vetoed by his bandmates.
McCartney would need permission from Ringo Starr and the widows of Lennon and George Harrison to release the track.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/16/paul-mccartney-hopes-to-r_n_144138.html
I'm all for hearing some unreleased Beatles--but this sounds like a steaming pile of dogshit--and like something that wouldn't have been out of place on John & Yoko's "Two Virgins" album..
This really has to be the bottom barrel scrape as far as unreleased Beatles studio music..I did kind of jump out of my chair at first when I read the headline..