In Spite Of All The Danger - Beatles first recording in 1958! - WITH VIDEO

[des0free]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzA84wsrMdY

My cover of what I think is arguably the most important record in history!

15 year old Paul McCartney wrote this in 1958 and it was the first song recorded by The Quarrymen (including Lennon, McCartney, and Harrison), who later became the Beatles. It was recorded in a small home studio with one mic and etched directly to an acetate record. The record was lost for many years, but tracked down and included on the Beatles "Anthology, Vol. 1" release in 1995.

To imitate the noisy sound of the original record I used the Free Izotope Ozone "Vinyl" plugin set to 60s record player with high "dust" (though to preserve a bit more EQ and stereo sound I only mixed the plugin ~60%).

I then decided to make a video and to rig it to look like I was playing in the famous Liverpool Cavern Club, where the Beatles used to play in the early days. I applied an "old film" effect. I had to learn a lot of video editing tricks!  The guitar in the video is a Vox Giulietta vga-3d.

Tracks:
- Acoustic Guitars (Taylor GS mini, doubletracked)
- Vocals (recorded with AT4040 mic)
- Drums, Bass, Lead Guitar - MIDI instruments
- Recorded with Tascam US 2x2HR interface into Reaper

Video recorded with an Iphone 14 and edited with Adobe Premier Elements 2021

[StephenM]

this is really cool Doug... man you knocked it out of the park... love the cool video too...

and I loved the back story about the recording going direct to record... I had heard that was done in the old days... I remember Jeff Porcaro talking about doing that in the 70's in LA... and you had to be on your game.

cool track and video Doug.

[Farrell Jackson]

A great idea Doug (video and music)! You pulled it off with ease, finesse...like a pro! I've never heard of this Beatles' song but I'm familiar with recording straight to an acetate record. I sang a kid's song to one when I was 5 or 6 years old. I had forgotten all about that until you mentioned acetate records here. I'll have to look through my old record stacks to see if it survived. I really like what you did here Doug!!!!!

[Jean Pierre]

Excellent Doug
really well done rendering with this simulation vinyl
and great video...did you use a green background? or some other process?

[BerryPatch]

Awesome job Des! I've always liked this song, John and Paul sounded great and you are definitely emulating some of that magic. Great guitar work and tone as well, the electric part sounds stellar!

[StephenM]

A great idea Doug (video and music)! You pulled it off with ease, finesse...like a pro! I've never heard of this Beatles' song but I'm familiar with recording straight to an acetate record. I sang a kid's song to one when I was 5 or 6 years old. I had forgotten all about that until you mentioned acetate records here. I'll have to look through my old record stacks to see if it survived. I really like what you did here Doug!!!!!

yeah I would love to hear that Farrell!

[Zoltan]

This is superb, but i'm not as gullible as the others. Your cover is busted... Buster!

You're a somekind of a intergalactic troubadour stuck in the time loop between the 60s and 2000s.

That actually explains a lot!

[Mike_S]

Another that brings a smile to my face today. That's 3 SC tunes bring a fun side out and that is so cool. So needed. Wow, this is an important tune that i never knew about. Damn Paul McC was destined to do what he did. Excellent Doug. I will check out the vid when i get a chance.

Mike

[cuthbert]

Nice job on this, des! I remember listening to the original on the first Beatles Anthology CD box in the 90s. The video is also very well done - you can see it took some work to get this all together.

[StephenM]

This is superb, but i'm not as gullible as the others. Your cover is busted... Buster!

You're a somekind of a intergalactic troubadour stuck in the time loop between the 60s and 2000s.

That actually explains a lot!

I believe it.. it a credible idea... and we could write songs about it.