{"id":1815,"date":"2008-05-08T19:48:43","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T00:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=1815"},"modified":"2008-05-08T19:48:43","modified_gmt":"2008-05-09T00:48:43","slug":"on-something-for-the-beatles-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1815","title":{"rendered":"On Something for the Beatles Fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From time to time I&#8217;ve mentioned &#8220;Now and Then,&#8221; a John Lennon demo that keeps getting touted as a potential release in some fashion in the coming months.  Indeed, there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qcOBb1yEedk\">a fan-created mix of the song<\/a> that I think sounds positively Beatlesque.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s all just wishful thinking.  That there&#8217;s <i>something<\/i> in the vault, something new and exciting and different, and it will be awesome.  Maybe.<\/p>\n<p>Then, I was pointed in the direction of this.<\/p>\n<p>An group of Argentinian Beatles fans <a href=\"http:\/\/virtualbeatles.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/virtual-beatles-with-little-help.html\">put together an entire <i>album<\/i><\/a>.  Lennon, Harrison, and McCartney demoes are given a polish, including rerecordings of &#8220;Free as a Bird&#8221; and &#8220;Real Love.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an interesting curiosity, this album.  Some things work, some things don&#8217;t.  The sound is maybe a little <i>too<\/i> layered at times.  &#8220;Grow Old With Me&#8221; in particular is mangled for no good reason.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll keep it. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From time to time I&#8217;ve mentioned &#8220;Now and Then,&#8221; a John Lennon demo that keeps getting touted as a potential release in some fashion in the coming months. Indeed, there&#8217;s a fan-created mix of the song that I think sounds positively Beatlesque. Maybe it&#8217;s all just wishful thinking. That there&#8217;s something in the vault, something<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1815\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Something for the Beatles Fans&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4097],"tags":[77,458,98],"class_list":["post-1815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beatles","tag-john-lennon","tag-now-and-then","tag-the-beatles","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}