@fast-city-line said in « Take these broken wings and learn to fly »:
@fast-city-line I can kind of tell, not having heard John's original, that John would have made the song very different, but possibly superior. Less complicated, sparer with the vocals and instrumentation.
I just listened to John's original, and my suspicion was correct. I DO think it's superior to the Anthology version. But it could have been done better, and I think John if he had more time and thought to re-record it would have done it right. But doing it right doesn't mean changing what he does there in the original radically, it just means refining it here and there but making sure to keep the original spirit intact, of stark simplicity, almost plaintive and just his voice and piano.
Speaking of piano I don't hear those deep piano bass notes, so I would guess those were Paul's inspired addition. If John had ever recorded it right, I would have hoped he would have added those deep piano notes. For example in John's own solo career his song Mother as it's devolving at the end into increasing screaming, he undergirds his piano chords with extremely deep bass notes on the piano probably close to the very end of the piano board -- way way over on the left.