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November 16, 2006

New Beatles - LOVE

Obviously, calling any Beatles stuff "new" is a stretch, but to accompany the Fab Four-celebrating Cirque du Soleil show LOVE, Paul, Ringo, Yoko, and Olivia Harrison poured over the master tapes from Abbey Road studios to create some experimental mixes of the band's classics. Sir George Martin and Giles Martin then took over to produce the tracks, to be used during the show and released later this month as an album.

Sometimes stripped and intimate ("While My Guitar Gently Weeps"), sometimes with new orchestral arrangements (the intro to "Octupus's Garden"), sometimes retooled entirely ("Strawberry Fields Forever"), the remixes are worth a listen for Beatles fanatics (i.e. you). The changes are often subtle (if at all apparent), but hear 'em for yourself at Sound Mojo.

The LOVE show is now running in Sin City (with tickets ranging from $69-$150) and we're wondering if any of our Las Vegas readers seen it. We're also wondering: do we even have any Las Vegas readers? If so, do you just loooooove Sam's Town? What up with "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas?"

LOVE is out 11/21 on Capitol.

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Not sure about vegas readers, but your LA readers definately make it to sin city every once in a while. Quite a few angelinos have seen LOVE already and from what I hear, its entertaining, but similar to the other cirque shows, except this one has a cooler stage.

Posted by: burz at 11/16/06 1:57 PM  | Reply
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has anyone ever been to sams town? its a dump. junior high kids hang out there to see the lastest will ferrell movie, and elderly woman show off there new gold handbags to one another. i dont believe the killers are from vegas i really dont.

Posted by: heidi at 11/16/06 2:09 PM  | Reply
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has anyone ever been to sams town? its a dump. junior high kids hang out there to see the lastest will ferrell movie, and elderly woman show off there new gold handbags to one another. i dont believe the killers are from vegas i really dont.

Posted by: heidi at 11/16/06 2:09 PM  | Reply
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has anyone ever been to sams town? its a dump. junior high kids hang out there to see the lastest will ferrell movie, and elderly woman show off there new gold handbags to one another. i dont believe the killers are from vegas i really dont.

Posted by: heidi at 11/16/06 2:09 PM  | Reply
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I went to Vegas in August and saw the show. I have seen two other Cirque shows and, as a rabid Beatles fan, this blows them away.

The sound and stage are phenomenal and the execution is nothing short of amazing. Go! Make it the reason to go to Vegas.

Posted by: mandy* at 11/16/06 2:19 PM  | Reply
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a vegas reader here - i haven't been to see 'love' but i've heard from anyone who's gone that it's pretty great. i refuse to pay the exorbitant ticket prices in this town, which encompasses pretty much every show or concert. but if you're into the beatles, i'm sure it's worth it.

yes, sam's town is a dump. it's a locals casino on the east side of town, teeming with tons of old people and white trash shitkickers. it's also the home of the world's largest western clothing store, which is where brandon must be getting his colonel sanders ties from.

brandon flowers once worked at the gold coast casino, which is somehow shittier than sam's town. so look out for the 'gold coast' lp in 2008!

Posted by: kevin at 11/16/06 2:27 PM  | Reply
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that octopus's garden intro is just the string part from the white album's "good night".

Posted by: mew at 11/16/06 2:27 PM  | Reply
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a vegas reader here - i haven't been to see 'love' but i've heard from anyone who's gone that it's pretty great. i refuse to pay the exorbitant ticket prices in this town, which encompasses pretty much every show or concert. but if you're into the beatles, i'm sure it's worth it.

yes, sam's town is a dump. it's a locals casino on the east side of town, teeming with tons of old people and white trash shitkickers. it's also the home of the world's largest western clothing store, which is where brandon must be getting his colonel sanders ties from.

brandon flowers once worked at the gold coast casino, which is somehow shittier than sam's town. so look out for the 'gold coast' lp in 2008!

Posted by: kevin at 11/16/06 2:49 PM  | Reply
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This album is significantly less interesting if you've heard the anthology — because most of the alt. takes can be found on there. Still nice though.

Posted by: KingHarvest at 11/16/06 2:49 PM  | Reply
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> This album is significantly less interesting
> if you've heard the anthology — because most
> of the alt. takes can be found on there.

Figured as much. Those Beatles are so savvy at making money. Except when it comes to downloading music.

Posted by: scott at 11/16/06 3:18 PM  | Reply
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another (expatriot) vegas reader here with a little dirt on the killers:

1. nobody in vegas heard of them until about a year after they blew up huge. vegas is the least. hip. city. in. america. it's the d-bag capital of the universe, people. don't expect them to have culture, let alone good taste in music (cirque being the lone exception).

2. sam's town a dump? sam's town is gross. i don't know anybody that's been there in a long, long time.

3. brandon flowers once said something in an interview akin to "anyone in involved with ska bands and the ska 'era' of music should be shot." i'm paraphrasing, but the point: drummer Ronnie Vanucci drummed for Attaboy Skip, Vegas's prominent ska band back in the day. also ironic: faux-glam-rock is going to prove to be as fleeting as ska, swing, latin, punk, or any of the megapop trends of the last ten years.

Posted by: fek at 11/16/06 4:22 PM  | Reply
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i've seen love, i saw it about 2 weeks after it opened. i was in the 6th or 7th row. $300 for just 2 tickets BUT it was worth the money. it was so great. i'm not even that much of a beatles fan, i listen to them occasionally but i still loved it. if you're in las vegas. go see it.

Posted by: josh at 11/16/06 4:37 PM  | Reply
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i've seen love, i saw it about 2 weeks after it opened. i was in the 6th or 7th row. $300 for just 2 tickets BUT it was worth the money. it was so great. i'm not even that much of a beatles fan, i listen to them occasionally but i still loved it. if you're in las vegas. go see it.

Posted by: josh at 11/16/06 4:39 PM  | Reply
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I think the new version of Lady Madonna is terrific.

Posted by: dudeasincool at 11/16/06 6:39 PM  | Reply
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I live in SC, but I saw LOVE while in Vegas last month for the Adobe MAX conference. I'm a Beatles freak, always found Cirque vaguely creepy, but I found it amazing, mostly just for hearing the new mixes. My full review's here:

http://honeyfly.blogs.com/honeyfly/2006/10/here_comes_the_.html

Posted by: honeyfly at 11/16/06 9:00 PM  | Reply
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As an album, Love doesn't hold up very well. Review of it at www.retrolowfi.com

Posted by: Marc at 11/17/06 12:37 AM  | Reply
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i hope they didn't ruin all those master tapes by pouring over them

Posted by: ... at 11/17/06 3:08 PM  | Reply
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Great ripoff! Something as Reader's Digest's shortened classic novels for stupids. Who needs this shit? Got some original ep's and singles from 60's, and I sure don't need this. Sir Macca needs some money, eh? Sad shit this is...

Posted by: labbai at 11/23/06 11:53 AM  | Reply
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i really dig the "new" beatles album.


everyone's a freaking cynic/critic.

Posted by: janea at 11/24/06 2:52 PM  | Reply
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All you need is cash indeed,, what a crock of shite, a died in the wool fan smells a stinking rat.

Posted by: Bigi V at 12/03/06 7:40 PM  | Reply
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I saw the show LOVE in Vegas twice and will see
it again and again. Sir George Martin is a genius!

Posted by: Lou Ra at 01/22/07 11:17 PM  | Reply
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