Beatles - It’s Not Too Bad, Peg Boy 1997
Taken from original CD, extracted by NeroMix, converted to flac by Nero Mix
A complete history of Strawberry Fields Forever, from demo to (nearly) final version. Two tracks have been removed as they exist in similar form on commercial release.
Santa Isabel Demos:
1. Warm-up
2. Take 1
3. Take 2
4. Take 3
5. Take 4
6. Takes 5 and 6
7. Rehearsal
Kenwood Demos
8. Electric Guitar Overdub Rehearsal
9. Electric Guitar Overdubs onto Instrumental Demo
10. Demo Playback with chat
11. Vocal Overdub onto Demo
12. Demo Playback
13. Electric Guitar Demo 1
14. Electric Guitar Composing Sequence
15. Electric Guitar Demo 8
16. Mellotron/Vocal overdubs onto Composing Sequence
EMI Sessions
17. Take 1 (Removed from torrent – re-mixed version available on “Anthology”)
18. Take 2
19. Takes 3 and 4
20. Takes 5 and 6
21. Take 7 (Tape Reduction Take 6)
22. Take 7 (RM3)
23. Take 25
24. Tale 26
25. RS5 (Removed from torrent – remix of commercial version of song)
Full info can be found at http://www.bootlegzone.com/album.php?name=pb1008§ion=1
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Arcorman, November 2006 :
I got this one from Easytree, some lightyears ago.
I found that ( more detailed ) infos :
This is the complete work by John Lennon and The Beatles on the song Strawberry Fields Forever, from the first demos to the final releases.
Santal Isabel Demos: John was residing in Santa Isabel, Spain, for the filming of How I Won The War. The first demos of Strawberry Fields Forever took shape there (the song was called It's Not Too Bad at that time).
Kenwood Demos: after his return from Spain and before his return to the studios with the Beatles, John had some time to spend at his home at Kenwood. He used his private home studio to go on working on his demos.
EMI sessions: The Beatles went back to the studios on November 24th. Strawberry Fields Forever was recorded in 26 takes and the song was finally finished by the end of the year.
1 It's Not Too Bad 0:29 Santa Isabel Demos - Demo- 1966
2 It's Not Too Bad 0:49 Santa Isabel Demos - Demo take 1 - 1966
3 It's Not Too Bad 1:20 Santa Isabel Demos - Demo take 2 - 1966
4 It's Not Too Bad 1:31 Santa Isabel Demos - Demo take 3 - 1966
5 It's Not Too Bad 1:48 Santa Isabel Demos - Demo take 4 - 1966
6 It's Not Too Bad 2:15 Santa Isabel Demos - Demo take 5 & 6 - 1966
7 It's Not Too Bad 0:16 Santa Isabel Demos - Rehearsal - 1966
8 Strawberry Fields Forever 1:05 Kenwood demos - Electric guitar overdub rehearsal - 1966
9 Strawberry Fields Forever 2:11 Kenwood demos - Electric guitar overdub onto instrumental demo - 1966
10 Strawberry Fields Forever 0:18 Kenwood demos - chat & demo playback
11 Strawberry Fields Forever 2:16 Kenwood demos - Double tracking lead vocal onto demo - 1966
12 Strawberry Fields Forever 0:33 Kenwood demos - Demo playback - 1966
13 Strawberry Fields Forever 0:39 Kenwood demos - Electric guitar demo take 1 - 1966
14 Strawberry Fields Forever 4:04 Kenwood demos - Electric guitar composing sequence Takes 2-7 - 1966
15 Strawberry Fields Forever 1:58 Kenwood demos - Electric guitar demo take 8 - 1966
16 Strawberry Fields Forever 4:11 Kenwood demos - Mellotron/vocal overdub - 1966
17 Strawberry Fields Forever 3:17 EMI Sessions - Take 1 - 24 November 1966
18 Strawberry Fields Forever 3:13 EMI Sessions - Take 2 instrumental - 28 November 1966
19 Strawberry Fields Forever 3:38 EMI Sessions - Take 3 false start + Take 4 - 29 November 1966
20 Strawberry Fields Forever 4:43 EMI Sessions - Take 5 false start + Take 6 - 29 November 1966
21 Strawberry Fields Forever 3:34 EMI Sessions - Reduction of Take 6 to Take 7 - 29 November 1966
22 Strawberry Fields Forever 3:09 EMI Sessions - Take 7 (RM 3) - 29 November 1966
23 Strawberry Fields Forever 3:50 EMI Sessions - Take 25 instrumental - 15 December 1966
24 Strawberry Fields Forever 3:49 EMI Sessions - Take 26 - 21 December 1966
25 Strawberry Fields Forever 4:53 EMI Sessions - RS 5 & John recording backward speech- 29 December 1966
http://www.maccafan.net/Bootlegs/ItsNotTooBad/NotTooBad.htm
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