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My head hurts ...
Just got through throwing down my 1st attempt at recording a 'White Album 2.0'.
Gaps between songs are slim to none on many portions of the album, so slicing & dicing is tedious work... but I got it done.
Brought some other 1968 'singles' back into the fold and ditched a few of the original songs to make room.
Oddly enough, all of George Harrison's tracks survived the final cut - which was different than I had originally intended.
Ringo wasn't so lucky ...
The Martin remixes warmed up nicely with the transfer to tape. The bass and percussion on these mixes are outstanding, along with an entirely different sound stage thanks to the mix-board, channel repositioning & added clarity by the Martin team.
I no longer despise this album.
I'm keeping the track listing secret for the time being - in case anyone ponies up to do a tape exchange on this project
So this one is 2.0.1 and I'll also reveal -
in addition to what was already mentioned above - that I axed the Yoko inspired Revolution 9.
That's simply not music and it's a complete waste of tape space for a project like this.
That omission alone made room for a nice reconfiguration of the remaining, chosen songs from LP sides 3 & 4 into the second side of the C-90 recording.
So far the collection of songs (pseudo-album) sounds more like a complete package instead of a hodge-podge of goofy ordering and odds & ends.
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Gonna try a few different arrangements in the coming days...