#underdubbed versions

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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. 

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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...

[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.

[charlestrask]

let your spotify predict your 2024! shuffle your on repeat playlist, and the first twelve songs represent your 2024

tagged by @big-barn-bed and @backbeatbugs fanks guys

january: for what its worth by buffalo springfield

february: you can't do that (anthology 1 version) by the beatles

march: conquistador by procol harum

april: too many people by paul mccartney

may: picasso's last words by wings

june: nowadays clancy can't even sing by buffalo springfield

july: jet (underdubbed version) by wings

august: leave by buffalo springfield

september: mission by alex g

october: idumea by reverend kristen michael hayter

november: a day in the life by the beatles

december: honey pie by the beatles

guy who has only been listening to like 3 albums for the past month....not sure this bodes well for the fall. anyways i tag @horsegirl and @hudbannon if you so wish o7

[beatlesradioshows]

Beatles, Things We Said Today #408 – Red, Blue and Underdubbed Download

      A number of correspondents have asked why the Beatles “Red” and “Blue” album reissues were not covered on Things We Said Today, so in episode 408, Ken Michaels, Allan Kozinn and Darren Devivo catch up with those releases, as well as the more recent “Underdubbed” version of Paul McCartney’s “Band on the Run.” (Allan also offers a preview of the new HMC bootleg release with earlier versions of the “Band on the Run” tracks.) For those who want to listen selectively, the news segment begins at 4’33” (yes, really), the “Red” and “Blue” discussion is at 35’, and the McCartney section is at 1’24”.

            As always, we welcome your thoughts about this episode of the show or any other episode. We invite you to send your comments about this or any of our other shows to our email address thingswesaidtodayradioshow@gmail.com, join our "Things We Said Today Beatles Fans" Facebook page and comment there, tweet us at @thingswesaidfab or catch us each on Facebook and give us your thoughts. And we thank you very much for listening. You can hear and download our show on Podbean, the Podbean app and iTunes and stream us through the Tune In Radio app and from our very own YouTube page.

[musiconanironingboard]

3 February 2024: Band on the Run, Paul McCartney & Wings. (2024 Capitol expanded reissue of 1973 Apple release)

Largesse knows no bounds when it comes to the 21st century McCartney catalog. When he's not issuing his seemingly 59th new edition of mediocre 2020 album McCartney III or abandoning his Paul McCartney Archive Collection program (largesse in reverse), there's always time to squeeze out another anniversary edition, and if you're me you slavishly buy it. (I do not buy every McCartney release, and even if I were a millionaire I wouldn't.) Here we have the third special reissue of Band on the Run. This one is for the album's 50th anniversary; in order to produce some sort of extra that wasn't on the giant 2010 deluxe box edition, they've coughed up an "underdubbed" version of the album. I've not heard it yet, but from what I've read it seems like it might as well be called "the unfinished version before we added all the overdubs in the studio." Whether I find this essential listening or not awaits to be seen, but in the meanwhile, I want my neighborhood record shop to stay in business, so week after week I special-order titles, and here it sits. Above you see the front cover, the hype sticker, and the back cover.

The fine-print information on the album's reverse comes in the form of a sticker. I guess for the underdubbed edition they wanted the cover art to be underadorned.

Open up the package once and you see this.

Open it once more and you see the below, with the "Linda McCartney Polaroid Poster" folded up and put in a slot in the middle panel.

Here is the same view with the "poster" removed.

Here are both sides of that poster. I couldn't get it to stand up on its own, so we see it at a funny angle.

Next up we see both sides of disc one's slipcase followed by the disc itself. This is simply the Band on the Run album proper, using the original artwork. I've got no idea what mix or master this is, if they did a new one or used an old one. I could look it up, but I'd have to care.

Next up, the same of disc two.

At least McCartney is now back on Capitol where he belongs, and not some expansion-team label that sounds like a hedge fund owns it.

Below we have copies of the three "recent" Band on the Run reissues. At least they seem recent to me, even though the first one here was bought by a much younger me I barely remember. This isn't even one of my favorite McCartney albums. Why do I do this? I suppose a therapist could tell you.

From left to right:

25th Anniversary Edition, which includes a bonus "documentary" CD I'm not sure I've ever played (Capitol, 1999)

The Paul McCartney Archive Collection two-CD edition, which also includes a DVD that I've not watched (I did not buy the super-deluxe edition of this version, which includes even more material) (Hear Music/Concord, 2010)

Their new friend the 50th Anniversary Edition (Capitol, 2024)

My 9-year-old nephew will want these someday, right?

[krispyweiss]

Song Review: Paul McCartney & Wings - “Band on the Run” (Underdubbed Mix)

The so-called underdubbed mix of “Band on the Run” is underwhelming.

Out to announce the Feb. 2, 2024, arrival of Paul McCartney & Wings’ Band on the Run 50th-anniversary edition, this mix is a silly way of showing love to a song and album. McCartney explains:

“This is Band on the Run in a way you’ve never heard before,” he says in a statement. “When you are making a song and putting on additional parts, like an extra guitar, that’s an overdub. Well, this version of the album is the opposite, underdubbed.”

The subtracted-from title track - a mini-suite - is virtually unchanged in the opening sections. But when the rain explode(s) with a mighty crash, part three is essentially a demo. So, what fans get is a partly complete song with an incomplete ending, which denigrates the original without providing any real insight into how the three parts came together.

The two-disc anniversary issue will feature the original 1973 U.S. release and its underdubbed counterpart.

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

12/7/23