CD: The Beatles - A/B Road Complete Get Back CD Box Set AB Live Lennon McCartney

Complete set of all Nagra camera A and camera B rolls (83 CDs!).
The high-quality color discs are stored in individual sleeves that are bound in 3 translucent hard cases.
Each volume includes a complete track listing and full-color photos from the sessions.

This set is a unique issue of Twickenham and Abbey Road sessions, recorded January 2 - 31, 1969. Hear the band write and rehearse songs that would appear on ''Let It Be'' and ''Abbey Road'' as well as many other improvisations and cover songs that have never appeared on album. Includes the complete Apple studio performance and rooftop performance. Listening to this set, you will hear over 97 hours of live recordings in excellent quality.

The audio found on this set was recorded by the ''Let It Be'' film crew. Two Nagra mono reel-to-reel tape recorders were utilized to capture nearly every moment of the sessions. One tape recorder was assigned to each camera and, each time that camera began filming a beep would be heard on the tape to allow for later synchronization with the picture. Short reels running at a very fast speed were utilized capturing only 16 minutes per roll. Since two tape recorders were running nearly all the time, the time it took to thread up a new reel would theoretically be captured on the other machine. At Twickenham, the rolls for each recorder were simply numbered consecutively, and these numbers were announced (when the soundman remembered) at the start of the roll with the appropriate camera designation (A or B) added on. A total of 223 rolls were recorded in this fashion at Twickenham. When filming moved to Apple the recording process remained the same, but the numbering system differed slightly. The sound rolls that corresponded with each camera were still numbered consecutively, but the A rolls were arbitrarily restarted at #400, and the B rolls at #1014. 307 rolls were recorded at Apple, making for a total of approximately 530 rolls.