There’s a greater depth to the Archive set, particularly to the bass lines, because this is McCartney, after all. Comparing the two side by side, there’s a slightly thin sound to some tracks on the previous discs, a sense of narrowness or confinement. Not being a technical expert, I can’t give you the science behind it, but I can say that the sound is somehow deeper and rounder than on the 25th Anniversary Edition.
McCartney personally supervised the process, working with the same team who did the recent remastering of the Beatles’ catalog at Abbey Road. The sound on the previous, 25th Anniversary, remaster was pretty good, but this is noticeably superior. The 2010 Band on the Run reissue is the first release in the Paul McCartney Archive Collection, and the remastered sound is superb. Despite the hardships of its recording process, Band on the Run went on to become a commercial and critical triumph It was number one on the US album chart three separate times, won a Grammy and sold more than 7 million copies worldwide. This probably contributes greatly to the spontaneous, energetic feeling that pervades the album. They even endured a mugging at knife point in which the thieves stole the demo tapes, thereby forcing the band to record the entire album from memory. Unprepared for the appalling studio conditions, not to mention the heat, the trio nevertheless persevered. The three, along with engineer Geoff Emerick, arrived in Lagos in August. This left McCartney, his wife Linda and Denny Laine. Practically on the eve of departure for Africa, Wings’ lead guitarist Henry McCullough and drummer Denny Seiwell quit the band. Still in legal battle over the dissolution of Apple, and coming off of disappointing reviews of his post-Beatles work, McCartney was looking to get away and record his next album with Wings in an exotic location. One of the things that is often mentioned as key to Band on the Run‘s success is the duress under which it was created. Sometimes, music fans have to ask themselves some very serious questions, things like “Do you really need another copy of this album?” If you’re a Paul McCartney fan and the record is the Wings’ classic Band on the Run, then the answer is probably, “Yes.
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