#underdub

[i-am-the-oyster]

Have yous streamed the 'underdubbed' version of Band on The Run (song) yet? It's weird and wonderful to listen to.

They've taken off a lot of the electric guitar, and my favourite moment is where you can hear Paul do a phrase of the electric line vocally.

It's on youtube for those of you who don't stream.

[stardust-bridges]

Club Furies Premiere: CIOFFI - Open Mind [Underdub Records]

Brazilian producer from São Paulo, Ricardo CIOFFI, or just CIOFFI, presents his new work on one of our favorite labels of the moment. Hailing from Porto, Portugal, Underdub Records presents this producer’s debut EP on the label. Entitled Lesson, it is a captivating journey that immerses listeners in a rich sonic tapestry of musical discovery. It is comprised of three original mixes along with…

[tenitchyfingers]

Anyone listening to the underdub for Band On The Run and being really worried about this re-release? Because like, I still haven’t bought the album and the guy who runs my record shop said he’s not buying any more BOTR albums and he’s just buying the new anniversary one, but like… I don’t like it. I like the song as it was originally!! 😫😫😫

[krispyweiss]

Album Review: Paul McCartney & Wings - Band on the Run (Underdubbed Mixes)

Released to mark Band on the Run’s 50th birthday, the (Underdubbed Mixes) collection is underwhelming.

Featuring a revised running order and - like the original U.K. release - no “Helen Wheels,” this iteration of Band on the Run is to Wings fans as socks are to a 5-year-old unwrapping gifts.

These mixes fall somewhere between demos and alternate takes, and the album is about as exciting as 2003’s Let it Be Naked, another McCartney brainchild.

So, this is how we wind up with the title track’s back half stripped of all accoutrements while the intro is unchanged; McCartney wordlessly indicating the phantom horn charts on “Jet;” an instrumental “Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five,” and other uninteresting iterations.

The tracks on Band on the Run (Underdubbed Mixes) are too close to being finished to provide any insight to their genesis and with just one take each, there’s no learning about their evolution, either. Which makes the exercise of listening not only not particularly enjoyable, but entirely pointless.

Grade card: Paul McCartney & Wings - Band on the Run (Underdubbed Mixes) - C-

2/13/24

[beatlesblogger]

'Band On The Run' at 50

To mark the 50th anniversary of its release in December of 1973, most fans were expecting an LP of Paul McCartney and Wings’ Band On The Run in Half Speed Mastered form. This would follow the pattern of similar releases for McCartney, RAM, Wings Wild Life and, earlier this year, Red Rose Speedway. What we didn’t expect was that Band On The Run would be accompanied by a whole bonus LP of…

[kraftwerk113]

Life´s too short for weird music Tagesempfehlung 18.02.2024

Classic Album of the week: Wings / Band on the run (1973)

Track: Bluebird (underdubbed vers.)

Das dritte Album der Wings - Band on the run - wurde im afrikanischen Lagos unter chaotischen Umständen eingespielt. Nachdem Paul McCartney kurz vor Aufbruch nach Lagos die halbe Band abhanden kam, spielte er im Alleingang mit Ehefrau Linda McCartney und dem in 2023 verstorbenen Denny Laine das Album ein. In Lagos entstanden die Underdubbed Mixes, die dann zurück in London von George Martin soundtechnisch überarbeitet wurden, ehe Band on the run als Album Ende 1973 erschien. Auf dem Album schafft es McCartney sich musikalisch endgültig von den Beatles loszusagen und aus dem Dunstkreis der seit der Beatles- Trennung in 1970 sehr erfolgreichen Kollegen zu treten. Zum 50. Jubiläum von Band on the run erscheinen nun erstmals offiziell die underdubbed versions von Band on the run. Obwohl McCartney – anders noch als bei Let it be (1969/70) mit der finalen Veröffentlichung von Band on the run zufrieden war, erscheint nun als Ergänzung zum 50. Jubiläum Band on the Run als Doublealbum – ergänzt um die – wenn Sie so möchten – Demo-Tapes der Tage in Lagos. Und insbesondere Bluebird in der underdubbed version zeigt, dass McCartney zu den besten Songwritern der Seventies zählte. 

[longliverockback]

Wings Band on the Run Underdubbed Mixes [50th Anniversary Edition] 2024 MPL Communications ————————————————— Tracks LP One: Band on the Run US Version 01. Band on the Run 02. Jet 03. Bluebird 04. Mrs.Vandebilt 05. Let Me Roll It 06. Mamunia 07. No Words 08. Helen Wheels 09. Picasso’s Last Words (Drink to Me) 10. Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five

Tracks LP Two: Underdubbed Mixes 01. Band on the Run 02. Mamunia 03. No Words 04. Jet 05. Bluebird 06. Mrs.Vandebilt 07. Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five 08. Picasso’s Last Words (Drink to Me) 09. Jet —————————————————

Denny Laine

Linda McCartney

Paul McCartney

* Long Live Rock Archive

[javelinbk]

Paul McCartney introduces the ‘Underdub’ mixes of Band On The Run on Spotify, December 2023

[foldback]

Paul McCartney & Wings - Band on the Run (Underdubbed Mixes)

There have been a few additions to the shelves this week. This one, the 50th anniversary edition of Band on the Run, has the original record remastered, and an "Underdubbed" version on the second album — essentially, the rough mixes before overdubs and the like.

It's kind of wild to hear "Band on the Run" without the lead guitar part, for example, or to hear gaps where the lyrics would be finished later. But "Let Me Roll It" somehow packs an even bigger punch with a few of the layers peeled off. The same goes for "Jet," too. And the sound on all this is so clear and deep. It's as close as I could possibly get to being in the control room listening to playback without spending thousands and thousands of dollars on tape machines and speakers.

It also hit me today that Band on the Run was one of the first albums I got on vinyl in the late '90s, when I was going to flea markets and yard sales and the one record store within 20 miles of my house to try to feed this weird, arcane habit. And it's served me well. But, with the first record in this set, it's nice to have another option to toss on the turntable now and then.

[nedison]

Listening to the 'Underdubbed' version of Bluebird, I still can't help but hear that iconic sax solo...

[franklyimissparis]

yeah crying over this actually

[stardust-bridges]

Club Furies Premiere: CIOFFI - Backpack [Underdub Records]

Brazilian producer from São Paulo, Ricardo Cioffi, or simply CIOFFI, is soon to return to one of our favorite labels of the moment. Hailing from Porto, Portugal, Underdub Records presents the Brazilian artist’s second release on the label, called Colors. A collection of three tracks of galactic dimensions and dense sonic structures. Backpack is a techno charge waiting to be detonated on the…

[jamieprimack]

UnderDubs made a dub of a Spamton and W.D. Gaster comic I made a few years ago and I LOVE IT omg !!!

[radioprune]

dusting off the ol' wings wednesday because this came on my shuffle and i think it will be the inaugural underdubbed ww post 👐 honestly it goes hard idc if it makes me a macca shill

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[krispyweiss]

Paul McCartney Burnishes Stoner Bonafides with Remastered “Mamunia” Video

- Wings track re-released in runup to Band on the Run 50th-anniversary edition

Anyone who didn’t know Paul McCartney spent the 1970s baked out of his mind need only to see the restored “Mamunia” video for a reminder that the Cute Beatle had really good pot on board.

Out to tease the Feb. 2 arrival of McCartney & Wings’ Band on the Run 50th-anniversary edition, the hippy-dippy-trippy video follows the so-called underdubbed mix of the title track. And it’s even more stoned than the audio, with animation that mixes equal parts Monty Python and Wall-era Pink Floyd - guess where their inspiration came from? - to create a bong-smoke-hazy scenes of smiling suns, ornery rain clouds and people who are cool with whatever happens, maaaaan.

Here’s hoping viewers feel the same as the restoration is, frankly, pretty weak, leaving the video looking very much its age.

1/22/24