vcalzone
09-01-2009, 08:19 PM
In a great interview from Blast with Eric Brosius, Harmonix's resident audio guru (http://blastmagazine.com/the-magazine/gaming/gaming-news/2009/09/beatles-rock-band-harmonix-audio-lead-eric-brosius/) (originally posted in the Rumors and Facts thread by GloiGloi), we get this...
BL: Did you sit down initially and say, ‘We know we’re going to have forty-five songs,’ and then get a list of the catalog and cross things out, or did you start with a blank page, and say, ‘We have to have this one, and we have to have that one?’
EB: Well, we knew that we were going to have roughly forty to fifty songs, but we didn’t know exactly until the whole deal was worked out. So basically, everyone wrote down sixty or seventy of their favorite songs, and it was a bunch of the higher-ups at Harmonix, and the people at Apple, and Giles, and everyone, and we all kind of got together and came up with about forty-five, and then once in a while Giles would say, ‘Oh, I know this one can’t work, because this was actually just recorded on one track,’ and we would just kind of work it out.
Knowing as we do that it has been said before that Help! was on one track, this sounds like confirmation that Harmonix wanted Help! and then learned they couldn't do it. So this might mean... never.
BL: Did you sit down initially and say, ‘We know we’re going to have forty-five songs,’ and then get a list of the catalog and cross things out, or did you start with a blank page, and say, ‘We have to have this one, and we have to have that one?’
EB: Well, we knew that we were going to have roughly forty to fifty songs, but we didn’t know exactly until the whole deal was worked out. So basically, everyone wrote down sixty or seventy of their favorite songs, and it was a bunch of the higher-ups at Harmonix, and the people at Apple, and Giles, and everyone, and we all kind of got together and came up with about forty-five, and then once in a while Giles would say, ‘Oh, I know this one can’t work, because this was actually just recorded on one track,’ and we would just kind of work it out.
Knowing as we do that it has been said before that Help! was on one track, this sounds like confirmation that Harmonix wanted Help! and then learned they couldn't do it. So this might mean... never.
