{"id":801,"date":"2007-08-23T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-08-16T00:56:16","modified_gmt":"2007-08-16T00:56:16","slug":"i-am-the-walrus-in-true-stereo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/i-am-the-walrus-in-true-stereo\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I Am the Walrus&#8221;&#8230;In True Stereo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/users\/frankenslade\/magic06.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"335\" height=\"340\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_legend\">Even better than the real thing<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Does anyone recall the segment in <strong>Geoff Emerick<\/strong>&#8216;s fantastic book, <em>Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles<\/em>, in which he describes his feelings over the recording of &#8220;I Am the Walrus&#8221;? Emerick details from the time he heard John&#8217;s unimpressive (in the engineer&#8217;s opinion) demo through the bizarre instructions that seemed to be covering for a less-than-stellar song through the final overdubs and mix. At the final mix, it all home for Emerick and, in his opinion, justified the entire recording process. Well, I can&#8217;t imagine a 7-year-old boy hearing &#8220;I Am the Walrus&#8221; and not having his mind blown, but Emerick&#8217;s story could apply to much of this album.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/RockTownHall\/06-I_Am_The_Walrus.mp3\" title=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/RockTownHall\/06-I_Am_The_Walrus.mp3\">The Beatles, &#8220;I Am the Walrus&#8221; (German true stereo mix)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Because I came to this song loving it without reservation, the richly textured true stereo mix of &#8220;I Am the Walrus&#8221; is very easy to love but the degree to which my experience is heightened is nowhere near that of some of the previous cuts. I do love those <strong>sawing strings<\/strong>. Who hasn&#8217;t dug this period of Beatles recordings and not wanted to jam a mic as close to a bowed instrument as possible?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even better than the real thing Does anyone recall the segment in Geoff Emerick&#8216;s fantastic book, Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles, in which he describes his feelings over the recording of &#8220;I Am the Walrus&#8221;? Emerick details from the time he heard John&#8217;s unimpressive (in the engineer&#8217;s opinion) <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/i-am-the-walrus-in-true-stereo\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}