I've been doing two "drivetime" 7 - 9 am airshifts lately on WPKN 89.5 FM Bridgeport lately - my regular Monday morning one and, for a bit, the Tuesday morning slot too, covering for a world-wandering Steve Di Costanzo. I like doing these shows live, as I can announce times and give weather reports and even traffic news if I can find and organize it (which I'm not too good at yet). But I live in Mystic CT these days, and because of the massive Sunday snowstorm, I was asked to pre-record my Monday and Tuesday shows, and...

While I like how the pre-recorded shows come out, I spend too much time on them, trying to make them "perfect", and prepping Monday's "blizzard" show was exhausting. So when I finished that one, I decided I would do a replay of a REVOLVER thing I did at the time the massive (and expensive) REVOLVER box set came out, in fall 2022, using - as its base - a syndicated radio special created by NYC FM radio hero Dan Neer. What you hear here is a greatly expanded 80-minute-ish version of that special, featuring many of the re-mixes and outtakes from the original 1966 sessions, plus interviews with the Beatles themselves and both George and Giles Martin (many from a cool crowdsourced internet-only audio series called "The Beatles Anthology Revisited") plus additional commentary from... Beatle nerd me.

The remaining half-an-hour of the show is a melange of interesting basic tracks, overdubs and pieces from 1969's ABBEY ROAD sessions, plus a John Lennon run-through of "Julia" from 1968's WHITE ALBUM sessions, all intersperesed with soundbites and noises from John, Paul, George and producer George Martin. Not everyone will agree, but for me and (I know) for some of you - this stuff is endlessly fascinating. I listened to the whole shebang this morning on an Amazon Dot and I was shocked - not only at how good the remixes sounded through that little speaker, coming from its tiny compressed WPKN signal - but how much astonishing energy, creativity and brilliance is captured in all those tracks. In 1966, they were more united and ambitious than ever, and they were untouchable.

(Oh - we started off with the new remix of "Free As a Bird", which I think is just fine.)

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Free As a Bird (2025 mix)

Paperback Writer (excerpts from takes 1 & 2 + 2022 mix)
Taxman (2022 mix)
Eleanor Rigby (strings session + partial 2022 mix)
I’m Only Sleeping (Take 2 + Mono mix RM1)
Love You To (Take 7)
Here, There and Everywhere (Take 6)
She Said She Said (Mono mix)

Rain (2022 mix)

Good Day Sunshine (2022 mix)
And Your Bird Can Sing (Second version/Take 5 + 2022 mix)
For No One (Take 10 + 2022 mix)
Doctor Robert (Take 7)
I Want To Tell You (Take 4 + partial 2022 mix)
Got To Get You Into My Life (second version + partial 2022 mix)
Tomorrow Never Knows (2022 mix)

The Ballad of John & Yoko (John speech + basic track)

Julia (Paul speech + John rehearsal performances)

Sun King/Mean Mr. Mustard/Her Majesty (medley in progress)

Come Together (George Martin speech + Take 5)

You Never Give Me Your Money (basic track)

Something (George speech + Take 39 – strings only instrumental)

Ain’t She Sweet (7/24/69 impromptu version)