This is what Dylan, and the Beatles and others need to be doing. Their music is of great cultural importance, and I'm sure that in generations to come it will be revered. This digitising and releasing creates the archive for future generations, like having Leonardo's notebooks.
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TopPopper wrote:
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This is what Dylan, and the Beatles and others need to be doing. Their music is of great cultural importance, and I'm sure that in generations to come it will be revered. This digitising and releasing creates the archive for future generations, like having Leonardo's notebooks.
While the Beatles Anthology did do a bit of that -- Macca is great at re-writing history to suit his needs -- for example -- he edited The Quarrymen's That'll Be the Day -- slicing 45 seconds off it. Anthology was also filled with medleys of snippets from various takes of songs. No wonder the bootlegs of stuff like Unsurpassed Masters sold so well.
It's a drag the way the Beatles archives have been handled. Another edit was "In Spite Of All The Danger" which lost about 40 seconds. That was the first Beatles original ever recorded, back in 1958, and is of considerable historical value - and yet they just chopped it up. The full version has never even been bootlegged, so we can't ever hear it.
The Anthology project as a whole had many such incidents. I think one 'version' of A Day In The Life was an edit of three different things - a sort of Frankenstein's Monster of a track. Conversely, the illicit discs released by Purple Chick and others present everything they can obtain, cleaned up, put into proper order etc. They really leave Apple standing, and I can't comprehend why Apple and the Beatles are so precious about their outtakes and live recordings. Streuth - practically all of it is on Youtube, so it's not as if they are keeping it hidden.
Beatles and Dylan more or less invented rock music and certainly the album as an artistic format. And self-writing of whole albums was revolutionary. The Beatles attitudes and fashions, such as long hair, and Dylan was the archetypal rebel, influencing a generation to demand a change in the social order. The about turn in Western society was enormous (compare the world of 1962 to 1969, say) and they spearheaded it.
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I can't imagine future generations wanting to listen to this.It'll be artificially kept alive for a while by the universities,the way Marx is,but once the baby boomers are all dead nobody will care.
We are the future generations. I wasn't even born when the Beatles and Dylan were doing their thing. And they're more revered now, half a century on, than they were in the day. I don't see it abating. Lennon even has an airport named after him.