Thread: Ask me about The Beatles!!!

I never said the stabbing killed him.... just that it was a crazed obsessive fan type that did it.

Originally Posted by Ric W

Altered the course of music? Yeah okay... so the fact that they did the same thing every other band has done before and after them, which was copy the best bits of other artists....

Like Bill Haley and the Comets, Elvis, The Beach Boys, and the Byrds.

Music isn't created in a vacuum. You don't have to reinvent the wheel to be an innovator. Surely you can understand this.

Originally Posted by Ric W

As for creating new sounds, don't look to the Beatles, look to EMI's sound engineers at the time who were up for a challenge.

While Geoff Emerick certainly did a fantastic job working on the Beatles' later work, the Beatles' greatest legacy is one of musical creativity and genius, not of creating new and interesting sounds.

Originally Posted by DuB

Music isn't created in a vacuum. You don't have to reinvent the wheel to be an innovator. Surely you can understand this.

While Geoff Emerick certainly did a fantastic job working on the Beatles' later work, the Beatles' greatest legacy is one of musical creativity and genius, not of creating new and interesting sounds.

Innovative..... no, I'll have to disagree. Creative - Yes. John Lennon had a knack of creating little passages on the guitar and piano that would just stick in your head.

I don't particularly like or dislike the Beatles, but there are tunes that stick.

It's always going to be difficult to attribute the sounds, but I think it was a group process with the engineers, that was started by the demands of the Beatles to have a different sound for every album.

Regards

Ric

Originally Posted by Ric W

Innovative..... no, I'll have to disagree.

Every classic rock musician disagrees with you big time, and so do I.

Originally Posted by Ric W

John Lennon had a knack of creating little passages on the guitar and piano that would just stick in your head.

So did Paul McCartney, perhaps even more so. John expressed jealousy over how he believed Paul's songs were catchier and would live on longer than his.

Originally Posted by Ric W

It's always going to be difficult to attribute the sounds, but I think it was a group process with the engineers, that was started by the demands of the Beatles to have a different sound for every album.

Yes... Their producer, George Martin, was literally the 5th Beatle. It is no exaggeration.

More than Ringo maybe...

My personal favs are Abbey Road and Sgt. Pepper because I've always enjoyed pure melody more than anything else, and the beautiful, colourful production of those albums tops it off wonderfully. The White Album seems like a bit of a sprawling mess to me save a few very good songs, and Revolver is so heavy going that you can't listen to it for very long periods.

I'd caution against ignoring their classic material though, there's some amazing stuff there... Help, for example, has Ticket to Ride, You've Got To Hide Your Love Away, I've Just Seen a Face, Yesterday... great songs.

Bump

How many times does the Taxman solo appear on Revolver?

Well I gotta be completely honest with you, I had to cheat for this one
But anyways I believe twice, the other one for Tomorrow Never Knows, which was edited alot to do that, and is also a friggin awesome song XD

3 if you include 2 on Taxman.

Yeah, TNK is one of my favourites. What a trip.

Originally Posted by Xei

3 if you include 2 on Taxman.

your right

Just wanted to say
I've been stuck on I Am the Walrus lately.
God the Beatles were effing amazing.



That is all
please continue.

Originally Posted by Mysteryhunter

Just wanted to say
I've been stuck on I Am the Walrus lately.
God the Beatles were effing amazing.



That is all
please continue.

lol XD