File:The Beatles - Fading Image 5 - Jams 1

Volume 5 contains a series of instrumental jams from all 4 of The Beatles during the Get Back sessions. All bands do instrumental jams when they are practicing, but rarely have we heard such a thing from the most famous band in history. Some are hard rocking and others find the line between rock and experimental art. Many have the melodic catchiness found naturally in all Beatles songs. Some titles (in parenthesis) are purely my own invention, created only as nickname reminders to distinguish each improvisation from another.

The Fading Image series is a collection of Beatles recordings from the January 1969 Get Back sessions for the film "Let It Be", in which the Beatles were recorded and filmed every day for almost a full month. Red Hector, a life long Beatles fan, decided to listen to all 97 hours from various existing collections and compile a deeper level of intersting material beyond what was already put on the Let It Be and Anthology albums. Audio and mastering software was also used to selectively edit, compress, normalize volume, reduce noise and background speaking voices, and even add a few ambient or reverb effects. (Not quite to the Phil Spector level) The result is a very clear sound that makes these outakes, covers, alternative versions, improvistions, and other hidden gems much more listenable.

Hopefully Apple will someday release the Let It Be Film, with many of these as DVD/Bluray extras, since most are sourced from film + audio. Beatles fans deserve more than the smattering of recordings from this period beyond Anthology and Let It Be Naked. For now this is Red Hector's personally biased and altered "Fly On The Wall" collection that spans 6 volumes.

01 Bluesy Tuning 0:00 02 Improvisation 7.114 (Scrapper) 2:59 03 Improvisation 7.134 (Fugged) 4:08 04 Improvisation 3.30 (Tremeloed) 5:48 05 Improvisation 7.133 (Give In A Cry) 8:10 06 Improvisation 24.09 (Wah Guitar) 13:00 07 Improvisation 23.60 (Ole) 15:51 08 Your Name Is Ted 19:54 09 Feedback Improvisation 22:54 10 Improvisation 26.68 (Train-Whistle) 25:41 11 Session Jam (Part 2) 31:22 12 Don't Start Running 14.43 34:27 13 One After 909 6.32 (Instrumental Jam) 37:50 14 Improvisation 27.28 (The Muffin Man) 39:33 15 Instrumental 25.64 (Moon Queen) 44:06 16 Instrumental 9.17 (Piano) 46:44