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Jan 30, 2022 0:49:18 GMT -5
Post by zenwalk on Jan 30, 2022 0:49:18 GMT -5
One of the difficulties in splainin the Beatles to those not alive at the time is they weren't alive at the time. They have nothing to compare them to. This is a video of the number one hits month by month for the decade. You'll get a taste of the weird, the flaccid, the black acts working their way into things. Elvis wasn't fat but he was mostly boring by this time earning the scorn and mimicry of 12 year olds everywhere. Then November 1963 happened. Kennedy was killed The world was stunned in a way that hasn't a modern equivalent.
Around this time American producer Ed Sullivan happened to cross paths with a mob of hysterical teen aged girls at a London airport greeting an English group arriving back from Europe. He booked them, unheard, and as of January 1964 all of Western culture would change.
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Jan 30, 2022 1:13:37 GMT -5
Post by zenwalk on Jan 30, 2022 1:13:37 GMT -5
Written for his early soulmate actress Jane Asher by McCartney this is a lovely stripped down version of Here There and Everywhere. Asher's brother Peter was the Peter of Peter and Gordon (for which McCartney wrote their hits).
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Beatles
Jan 30, 2022 1:53:03 GMT -5
Post by zenwalk on Jan 30, 2022 1:53:03 GMT -5
Harmony is an art within music that few songwriters master. The odds of being both a good melodian and harmonist are astronomically slim. I'll Get You is a little gem lost in the early Beatles songbook. It shows all the bells and whistles that will define the lads through their touring years. What solid harmony. Is it a lost art? And it shouldn't feel strange to hear happy music either.
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Beatles
Jan 30, 2022 2:15:31 GMT -5
Post by zenwalk on Jan 30, 2022 2:15:31 GMT -5
Taken from Hard Days Night. Making a music movie was uncharted territory in England. The director put out a call to anyone in England with a hand held movie camera to come help film this concert. He placed them throughout the audience to capture the mayhem. The screaming was so loud it rattled the fillings out of one guy's head. No idea how they isolated the band as well as they did.
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Beatles
Jan 30, 2022 2:21:02 GMT -5
Post by zenwalk on Jan 30, 2022 2:21:02 GMT -5
George Martin, the "Fifth Beatle," the producer who put it all together:
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Beatles
Jan 30, 2022 13:22:18 GMT -5
Post by zenwalk on Jan 30, 2022 13:22:18 GMT -5
Their early signature song:
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Jan 30, 2022 13:34:47 GMT -5
Post by zenwalk on Jan 30, 2022 13:34:47 GMT -5
George wrote Taxman. He couldn't pull off the guitar part to his satisfaction. Coming up with a solo that pulled together the bizarre timing and rhythm was beyond him. Paul ends up doing the guitar part simply by shouldering through it. There are many videos about this song, Mike Pachelli's being one of the better ones. That's a bit too long for here. This guy scratches the surface enough to show the complexity:
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Jan 30, 2022 13:55:52 GMT -5
Post by zenwalk on Jan 30, 2022 13:55:52 GMT -5
Recorded the same day as Taxman the psychedelic era was on:
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Jan 30, 2022 13:57:42 GMT -5
Post by zenwalk on Jan 30, 2022 13:57:42 GMT -5
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Jan 30, 2022 14:01:02 GMT -5
Post by zenwalk on Jan 30, 2022 14:01:02 GMT -5
Lennon loved sleeping:
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Jan 30, 2022 15:25:13 GMT -5
Post by zenwalk on Jan 30, 2022 15:25:13 GMT -5
The Beat. The Beat. The Beat.
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Jan 30, 2022 19:20:43 GMT -5
Post by zenwalk on Jan 30, 2022 19:20:43 GMT -5
‘Day Tripper’ was to do with tripping. Acid was coming in on the scene, and often we’d do these songs about ‘the girl who thought she was it’… But this was just a tongue-in-cheek song about someone who was a day tripper, a Sunday painter, Sunday driver, somebody who was committed only in part to the idea. Whereas we saw ourselves as full-time trippers, fully committed drivers, she was just a day tripper. Paul McCartney Many Years From Now, Barry Miles
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Jan 30, 2022 19:36:27 GMT -5
Post by zenwalk on Jan 30, 2022 19:36:27 GMT -5
Playing with a right hand drum set when he was a lefty gave Ringo style a distinctive micro delay that is on full display here. Ringo is tough drummer to copy despite all the stupid claims over the years to his being a light weight. Everyone is happy and glad to be here:
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Beatles
Jan 30, 2022 19:51:42 GMT -5
Post by zenwalk on Jan 30, 2022 19:51:42 GMT -5
1962 Hamburg days before they had the edge smoothed off:
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Post by zenwalk on Feb 17, 2022 12:43:16 GMT -5
And nothing was the same after.
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May 2, 2022 16:41:46 GMT -5
Post by zenwalk on May 2, 2022 16:41:46 GMT -5
The Analogues perform the White Album. They aren't a cover band, this isn't a Vegas act so much as a group of musicians dedicated to studying the music of the Beatles like scientists. You get a much clearer idea of how complicated the Boys actually were:
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May 4, 2022 10:22:09 GMT -5
Post by alienrace on May 4, 2022 10:22:09 GMT -5
The Beatles were a band I didn't appreciate nearly enough when I was younger. I understood their significance, I just didn't like them that much then. Now, with a much greater understanding for what goes into music and what true talent is, I have a fondness for them I never did.
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May 4, 2022 13:32:54 GMT -5
Post by Rael on May 4, 2022 13:32:54 GMT -5
The Analogues perform the White Album. They aren't a cover band, this isn't a Vegas act so much as a group of musicians dedicated to studying the music of the Beatles like scientists. You get a much clearer idea of how complicated the Boys actually were: I feel the same regarding "The Musical Box" and their dedication to Peter Gabriel era Genesis.
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Beatles
May 4, 2022 13:43:54 GMT -5
Post by zenwalk on May 4, 2022 13:43:54 GMT -5
The Analogues perform the White Album. They aren't a cover band, this isn't a Vegas act so much as a group of musicians dedicated to studying the music of the Beatles like scientists. You get a much clearer idea of how complicated the Boys actually were: I feel the same regarding "The Musical Box" and their dedication to Peter Gabriel era Genesis. I'll have to look into them. So your screen name is derived from Lamb on Broadway Imperial Aerosol King Rael? The Analogues refer to themselves as a vivarium which is an exhibition of something as a learning experience as opposed to an act in Vegas.
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May 4, 2022 13:47:01 GMT -5
Post by zenwalk on May 4, 2022 13:47:01 GMT -5
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May 4, 2022 13:48:49 GMT -5
Post by Rael on May 4, 2022 13:48:49 GMT -5
I feel the same regarding "The Musical Box" and their dedication to Peter Gabriel era Genesis. I'll have to look into them. So your screen name is derived from Lamb on Broadway Rael? The Analogues refer to themselves as a vivarium which is an exhibition of something as a learning experience as opposed to an act in Vegas. Is there another Rael?
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May 4, 2022 13:50:57 GMT -5
Post by zenwalk on May 4, 2022 13:50:57 GMT -5
I'll have to look into them. So your screen name is derived from Lamb on Broadway Rael? The Analogues refer to themselves as a vivarium which is an exhibition of something as a learning experience as opposed to an act in Vegas. Is there another Rael? The Imperial aerosol king!
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May 4, 2022 13:51:39 GMT -5
Post by Rael on May 4, 2022 13:51:39 GMT -5
I feel the same regarding "The Musical Box" and their dedication to Peter Gabriel era Genesis. I'll have to look into them. So your screen name is derived from Lamb on Broadway Rael? The Analogues refer to themselves as a vivarium which is an exhibition of something as a learning experience as opposed to an act in Vegas. "The Musical Box" tries to recreate the actual concerts from that era. The same equipment, stage, lighting, props, and even the same stories. They do about 5 different "tours". I've seen all but the Lamb as they don't pull that one out but once every decade or so. Through sheer repetition they are probably better at playing those songs than the original.
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Beatles
May 4, 2022 14:48:31 GMT -5
Post by zenwalk on May 4, 2022 14:48:31 GMT -5
I'll have to look into them. So your screen name is derived from Lamb on Broadway Rael? The Analogues refer to themselves as a vivarium which is an exhibition of something as a learning experience as opposed to an act in Vegas. "The Musical Box" tries to recreate the actual concerts from that era. The same equipment, stage, lighting, props, and even the same stories. They do about 5 different "tours". I've seen all but the Lamb as they don't pull that one out but once every decade or so. Through sheer repetition they are probably better at playing those songs than the original. They played at the Eastwind Ballroom in 1974 (Selling England by the Pound tour) at the end of the ballroom era. The English band Soft Machine who toured with Hendrix was playing across the street that night at the Latin Ballroom. What are the odds of two of the finest English art rock bands playing on Pulaski Highway across the street from one another in East Baltimore? I had to do an eeny meenie miney moe.
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May 4, 2022 15:06:40 GMT -5
Post by zenwalk on May 4, 2022 15:06:40 GMT -5
These guys have been my link to the Ukraine for sometime now. Leonid and Friends are a mixed Russian and Ukrainian band that are based in Kyiv. They do Chicago perfectly thanks to Leonid, the bass player, scoring them that way. I hesitate calling them a cover band since there's not a hair out of place. It's more the kind of band we are talking about. The accents are a bit hard to disguise but these guys play like they fight. I hope they survive intact:
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May 4, 2022 15:12:15 GMT -5
Post by Rael on May 4, 2022 15:12:15 GMT -5
"The Musical Box" tries to recreate the actual concerts from that era. The same equipment, stage, lighting, props, and even the same stories. They do about 5 different "tours". I've seen all but the Lamb as they don't pull that one out but once every decade or so. Through sheer repetition they are probably better at playing those songs than the original. They played at the Eastwind Ballroom in 1974 (Selling England by the Pound tour) at the end of the ballroom era. The English band Soft Machine who toured with Hendrix was playing across the street that night at the Latin Ballroom. What are the odds of two of the finest English art rock bands playing on Pulaski Highway across the street from one another in East Baltimore? I had to do an eeny meenie miney moe. I couldn't go. 1. I had never heard of either of them. 2. I was eleven.
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May 4, 2022 15:43:21 GMT -5
Post by alienrace on May 4, 2022 15:43:21 GMT -5
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May 4, 2022 15:48:11 GMT -5
Post by Rael on May 4, 2022 15:48:11 GMT -5
I learned something new today. Hey, are you in the water yet? I just got splashed today.
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Post by alienrace on May 5, 2022 6:59:37 GMT -5
Hey, are you in the water yet? I just got splashed today. Yeah, we are in - sorta - we use the drysail service at our marina, so it's on a rack during the week. We had it put in two weeks ago when it was semi decent out and took a trip over to Sue Creek (it was totally empty). I've got a lot of work to do on the boat still though. Last year I had the bottom paint soda blasted off (the bottom paint was old and peeling, and no point having it with drysail) - and it left the surface rough like sandpaper. I started sanding and polishing last year, but then it got too hot to mess with so I put off finishing it till this year. I got the "visible" area mostly done now, but the very bottom part I have to tackle, which requires me squirming around under the boat while it's on the rack with a sander and buffer. Much fun I have to replace my transom shower, and the water in the bathroom stopped working (I think there's some filter cartridge to replace), and my windlass stopped working (it was only 1 year old, probably needs to have the motor brushes cleaned or replaced). Ah the joys of boat ownership, lol.
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May 29, 2022 16:25:53 GMT -5
Post by workerbee on May 29, 2022 16:25:53 GMT -5
About $47 dollars today.
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