NEW 'I'M ONLY SLEEPING' VIDEO
Just released is a new video for “I'm Only Sleeping,” but one of the many standouts on the Beatles' Revolver collection. The tune is featured in several versions on the album's new “Super Deluxe Edition” box set. The new video, which features the original, newly remixed album track, was directed by Em Cooper and utilizes a swirling, computer-generated paint “dreamscape” to accompany the song.
One of the key sounds found across Revolver is Paul McCartney's Rickenbacker 4001 bass guitar. The Beatles' legendary late-engineer Geoff Emerick, who helped develop the bass sound on the group's latter day records starting with Revolver, shed light on how he recorded McCartney on bass: “Paul didn't like reverb. And it was that one thing when I used to with his bass, y'know, as you know I used to try everything. And I thought, well, I've got to try to place his bass. . . and I used to put a little bit of the echo chamber on it, and very slightly — but he always heard it and it was only one track I ended putting reverb on his bass. Now, Paul was very conscious of reverb and I don't know why.”