[noisereductions]

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

[radarmaker]

But Paul IS dead.

[demonrail666]

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

[noisereductions]

Originally Posted by radarmaker

But Paul IS dead.

awesome.

[atsonicpark]

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".

[noisereductions]

nice one!

[mangajunky]

Originally Posted by demonrail666

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

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

[Rob Instigator]

I hate (F)aul

[demonrail666]

Originally Posted by mangajunky

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

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

[gmku]

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

[noisereductions]

Where'd you get that one from?

[gmku]

Around.

[atari 2600]

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.

[Glice]

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.

[atari 2600]

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.

[gmku]

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!

[atari 2600]

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

[Pookie]

Similar thread with a few good stories

[atari 2600]

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.

[demonrail666]

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