Re: John On Glyn Johns' Vs. Phi Spector's LiB Mixes

Johns once said something to the effect that he strove to convey to the
lister what it was like to be in the room with the band.  While the
versions of the songs he mixed aren't all good, I suspect they are fair
representations of how the band were on those occasions.
Spector's approach, to my mind, consisted in slathering the band's
performances in goop.
There are interviews with McCartney going way back in which he expressed
the wish to release the original (Johns) recordings.  He said that,
while they would have sounded raw at the time of the original release,
they'd be hip by contemporary standards.  He eventually hit on LiB
Naked, of course -- still a reaction against the Spectorized versions.