Paul Is Dead and other fun recorded conspiracies...
 

My current favorite is 2Pac saying "Suge shot me" at the beginning of THE 7 DAY THEORY.

That you can hear the sound of glasses smashing against microphones on Metallic KO. I've got, I listen to it, you can't.

awesome.

If you rearrange the letters in the album title "Makaveli The Don Killuminati The 7Day Theory, you can make the sentence "Ok on tha 7th u think I'm dead yet I'm really alive".

nice one!

It's at the very end, after Louie Louie.

I hate (F)aul

I have it, I listen to it, i own shit speakers.

My favorite is that the Beatles really sang and played on their albums. They didn't. It was all done by studio musicians.

Where'd you get that one from?

Around.

Well, it has no basis in fact.
How do you imagine that they could keep that one under wraps? Just wondering.

True, there may be a few uncredited musicians on particular pieces, but The Beatles definitely played on their albums.

And their influences have been well-documented too. The BBC doc John Lennon's Jukebox (click for full video), for instance, is relatively recent and chronicles various song elements John lifted from some of his faves.

There's the 'Elvis never played guitar' one. One of those exciting ones where, ultimately, it makes no difference to the world at large either way. There was a great article on it in Record Collector sometime towards the end of the last century.

Yeah, Elvis was an intermediate. And as you also know, he didn't strum and pick all that much
except on the early Sun records and the '68 Comeback Special as a rhythm player.

Rumor has it that none of the Comeback Special was scripted and that Elvis only decided right before what songs would be featured on the setlist.

I dunno. I heard a rumor that different 60s bands took turns making the Beatles albums. Sgt Pepper is actually the Stones imitating the Beatles. The White Album is Frank Zappa and Capt Beefheart. Abbey Road, the Partridge Family, of all things!

And what about The Monkees?

That's a wack rumor. Believe me, I have plenty of outtakes, and it's them.
It's either that or you have to think that they dubbed in the sounds of their voices (George Martin too, I suppose) in conversation. But toss that, because it's obvious that's not the case.
And they played live fairly well.

Their pre-Capitol earliest recordings and demos and even some of the later demos and outtakes are a little rough in spots. And they also lip-synched on a few TV performances. They also were known to include some live elements in the mix of a lip-synched version.
Funnily enough, the actual live versions of some of their lip-synched live videos ("Revolution" for instance) sound completely fine as they were.

Beatles, The
Acoustic Masterpieces: The Esher Demos x2
The Acoustic Submarine
The Alternate Abbey Road Sessions
The Alternate A Hard Day's Night
The Alternate Beatles For Sale
The Alternate Help!
The Alternate Revolver x2
The Alternate Rubber Soul
The Alternate Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and A Little More x2
The Beatles cartoon series (episodes 1-15) vcd x4
The Beatles in America (live compilation)
The Beatles Press Conferences
The Black Album x2 (Let It Be outtakes)
The Complete Rooftop Concert & Extras sbd
The Complete Christmas Fan Club Messages Collection 1963-1969
The Corn of the Apple
David Frost Show Videos 1968 (pro) vcd
DIY compilation set Rarities, Demos, & Live Performances vols 1-5
DIY compilation of Beatles videos & video rarities x3
The Ed Sullivan Shows
From Kifauns to Chaos x2
John, Paul, George and Stu (The Silver Beetles) Paul's House
Liverpool 1960 (different than ??/??/60)
Last Night in Hamburg Star Club, Hamburg 1962
Let it Be Sessions 1969
Live at the BBC x2
The Lost Beatles Message
The Lost Pepperland Reel (Sgt. Pepper outtakes)
Magical Mystery Tour Outtakes
The Peter Sellers Tape (White Album outtakes)
Revolution (the Vigotone bootleg)
The River Rhine Tapes x2
Rockin' at the Star Club Hamburg, Germany 1962
Sgt. Pepper's Sessions x3
Sour Milk Sea (White Album outtakes) x4
Strawberry Fields Forever (Vigotone bootleg)
The Swedish Radio Show 1963
Turn Left At Greenland (Beatles in America raw footage and press conferences) dvd
Wildcat! (The Beatals (pre-Quarrymen or Silver Beetles)) x 2
??/??/60 The Quarrymen rehearsals Liverpool
??/??/62 Star Club, Hamburg
12/07/63 Empire Pool Liverpool, UK
2/11/64 Washington, D.C. The Beatles in Washington, D.C.
2/23/64 appearance on Mike & Bernie's Big Night Out vcd
4/06/64 Copenhagen, Denmark, 5/06/64 Treslong Hillegom, NL, 6/06/64
Veilinghall Blokker, NL Danmark & Nederland June 1964
6/07/64 Victoria Province, Australia Live in Melbourne
9/02-3/64 Live in Philadelphia & Indianapolis (Indiana State Fair) sbd
6/20/65 Live in Paris (pro) vcd
6/24/65 Velodromo Vigorelli Milan, Italy
6/27/65 Teatro Adriano Rome
8/15/65 Shea Stadium NYC
8/19/65 Sam Houston Coliseum, Houston, TX, USA (early & late shows from sbd, but source was deteriorating cd-r)
6/30/66 Nippon Budokan Hall Tokyo
6/30/66 Nippon Budokan Hall Tokyo (pro, b&w & color) vcd
8/29/66 Candlestick Park San Francisco

Mick Jagger was such a perfectionist that he overdubbed vocals onto live bootlegs on more than a few occasions and put the doctored ones into circulation.

Haha. I never knew that. I knew that Get Yer Ya Yas Out is heavily overdubbed, but I had no idea about bootlegs.

Yes, there's been a few posted to dime. And yeah, Ya-Yas has some overdubs.

Strangely enough, the versions with the overdubbing don't really sound as good to me by and large.

The Residents are actually The Beatles.

I have no idea what the basis of that one is, but just the idea of it is funny/awesome as fuck.

Isn't there some crap about how you can play Dark Side of the Moon along with The Wizard of Oz and the beats somehow match up with shit in the movie or something? Somebody told me something like that once and I thought it was so absurd. I mean, how the fuck would someone even discover that??

Check it out for yrself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmCfvcfHwKA
More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Side_of_the_Rainbow

Cobblers, of course.

The Echoes/2001: A Space Odyssey synch is pretty cool too.

There was another one I tried with Atom Heart Mother/A Clockwork Orange that supposedly works well. I thought it was pretty lame. I'm glad Floyd didn't do the soundtrack for that movie.

John Lennon's favorite album of all time was supposedly Safe as Milk.

Roger McGuinn was supposedly the only Byrd to play on Mr Tambourine Man.

That's funny, but the Residents are Homer Flynn and Hardy Fox.

http://www.youtube.com/user/rossarooney has some actual pictures of the Residents.

Also, an album mentioned on here a while back, Cromagnon's "Orgasm", seems to have many similarities to the Residents, so members of them were probably in the Residents.

This lends support to the rumors.

Yes! I'd heard that as well. I know they overdubbed Ya Yas, but I also heard they overdubbed things for some boots. The better sounding quality recordings on boots from around 69 through 73 supposedly had considerable cooperation from Keith and Mick.

Some of the best Stones boots sound like they come from very high quality sound board recordings. No ordinary bootlegger gets stuff of that quality.

Some people think the Sex Pistols never played on Never Mind the Bollocks. And they think Malcom McClaren wrote the songs.

Works with The Smashing Pumpkin's Siamese Dream and Fantasia as well. That one is amazing, if you get it all right.

You can also sync up the movie Cabin Boy with Ween's THE MOLLUSK. Seriously. It's weird. Things like a cloud with a face blowing wind while "Cold Blows The Wind" starts...

Well that would mean that new Residents albums are just Paul. I dont' buy it, but wouldn't be shocked if the Residents were largely made up of musicians that we really do know more famously in some other way.

What's the rumor about Phil Collins' "In The Air Tonight" ?

...favorite at the time at least.

Atari, was that list of Beat-legs your collection? If so, that's pretty impressive.

Yeah, it's an okay list. The Sour Milk Sea one is really nice. The four-disc set of White album outtakes was seeded many years ago around the time dime first started and I haven't seen it since. It's the fortieth anniversary this year, and still no repeat postings to torrent sites or blogs; at least that I'm aware of anyway. (Then again, I haven't searched again in the last couple of weeks).

Anyhow, here's the Lennon (with some studio stuff thrown in):

Acoustic (Capitol/EMI Records, 2004)
Borrowed Time: The Best of the Lost Lennon Tapes (outtakes compilation)
Brandy Alexanders & the Wall of Sound (outtakes compilation)
Come On, Listen To Me x2 (outtakes compilation)
It's Gonna Be Alright (Plastic Ono Band Outtakes) x2
The Jann Wenner Tapes NYC 1970
Live In New York City 1972 (pro) vcd
Memories (outtakes compilation)
Remember New York City x2 (outtakes compilation)
Sir John Winston Ono Lennon (outtakes compilation)
Sometime in New York City x2 (Capitol/EMI, 1972)
Unfinished Music #1: Two Virgins
Unfinished Music #2: Life with the Lions
incl. Cambridge 1969 (with Yoko Ono)
Unreleased Home Demos The Dakota, NYC '77-'80
The Wedding Album
9/10/71 Syracuse, NY Let's Have A Party (31st birthday with friends) audio
9/10/71 Syracuse, NY Let's Have A Party (with friends) vcd
3/31/74 John Lennon's Beach House Los Angeles (with Paul McCartney, Harry Nilsson & Stevie Wonder) A Toot & A Snore in '74

3/31/74 John Lennon's Beach House Los Angeles (with Paul McCartney, Harry Nilsson & Stevie Wonder) A Toot & A Snore in '74

Damn, son. Is this ANYTHING like PUSSY CATS? I mean... Stevie's up in there TOO? What?? Wow. Tell me about this one.

& did you see/what did you think of CHAPTER 27?

here it is in mp3 at a blog
http://rawkblog.blogspot.com/2007/07...-toot-and.html

They were intoxicated during this. There are a few comments made here and there, hence the boot title. It marked the last time John and Paul ever played together.


Here's some youtube action of it with the music and archival photos to serve as the video. Additional links in the right margin, as always.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IONPHdCQ-Ak