![]() So when they were redoing the film, the film was in a pretty sorry state so they had to kind of go back to the negative, clean it up, really fix it up and do alot of work on it. But what happens is- technology keeps advancing, you know. We said, 'Yeah, that’s how we want it to sound.' So to be any different from that, in our minds, would spoil it. PAUL: "Ideally I’d never remix Beatle songs, because the four of us sitting there were always at every mix we ever did. So we went in and listened to all these new, fully remixed tracks, and they really are good, with the sound coming all around you."ġ999 (regarding the Surround mixes for the DVD release) This engineer, a fellow named Peter Mew, did a lot of the work with a guy called Allan Rouse, who's kind of in charge of all the Beatles catalog. And also, with all the old equipment and all the compressors and the stuff that we used in those days, you'd spend ages trying to improve the final 4-track mix you figured you were stuck with. ![]() GEORGE: "So for the first time you've actually got a much bigger, cleaner mix, because you've got the original bass and drum and guitar tracks unmixed-together, you know. Q: "In other words, the individual tracks on the basic tapes were rediscovered, allowing you to separate each of the original, incremental tracks." So what they've gone doing in these new mixes was to connect all the four tracks together and have the first four tracks all separated." You see, alot of the time the Beatles were only working on 4-track tape, so we'd get to the fourth track and then what we'd do is mix the four tracks onto one track of another 4-track machine, and then we'd do another three tracks. Because when they set up to this new, wraparound five-speaker mix for the film, they were working away doing that for months and months at Abbey Road. GEORGE: "Everything has a different mix on it now. Looking back now, it most definitely is a piece of it's time, and you can't escape the fact that it was very innovative."ġ999 (regarding the newly released 'Yellow Submarine' DVD with Surround mixes) Basically I thought it had alot of very clever sequences, but nothing more. ![]() The end result was that 'Yellow Submarine' just didn't draw me into it. and said, 'We think you're further out now.' So from being rather childish, which the (saturday morning) cartoon series most definitely was, they wanted to go completely psychedelic! So they went ahead and made something that 'at the time' I wasn't wild about because it lacked the ingenuity and warmth and over-all magic you associate with Disney. sort of more classic 'Pinocchio' or 'Snow White.' Right away, they (Broadax and Segal) made it clear that they weren't keen to do just a straight Disney thing. At the start, all four of us hoped for something a little bit groovier. PAUL: "Al Brodax talked to us about the possibility of doing a feature and we met at my house in London. You know, 'cuz you needed to be more cartoon-like and our voices were pretty cartoon-like anyway, but you know, the exaggeration that you've got with the other actors voices- I think it suits it."ġ996 (remembering the 'Yellow Submarine' project) I'm not sure why we never did our own voices, but the actors probably did it better anyway. GEORGE 1994: (regarding the cartoon voices) It's still great and I'm glad we were involved with it." RINGO: "I loved 'Yellow Submarine.' I thought it was innovative with great animation. They wanted another song, so I knocked off 'Hey Bulldog.' It's a good-sounding record that means nothing." Brian (Epstein) had set it up and we wanted nothing to do with it. JOHN: "It was the third movie that we owed United Artists. Got any ideas for the film?' And I'd just spout out all this stuff, and they went off and did it." They used to come to the studio and chat. The idea for the Hoover- the machine that sucks people up- all those were my ideas. ![]() JOHN: "(Producer) Al Brodax got half of 'Yellow Submarine' out of my mouth. Does this mean you're finished with him?" Q: "The cartoon makes a bit of fun at the Maharishi. PAUL: (laughs) "It's a new career piece." "Yeah, we're only gonna be cartoons forever now,īecause they really put us off. Mystery Tour' put you off making a film completely Beatles Ultimate Experience: Movies - Yellow Submarineġ968 (following the release of the 'Yellow
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