Posts tagged the beatles
The Very End of Abbey Road with all the faders up.
I can’t tell if this is actually cool or if I just want to think it’s really cool.
Dhani Harrison (son of George), George Martin and Giles Martin (son of George) fiddle around with the mix of “Here Comes The Sun” when they discover George Harrison’s guitar solo, which was left off of the record and which nobody recalls hearing before.
Oh. My. God.
Oh my. This is new to me as well. Goosebumps.
Gonna find something neat to post real quick, sit tight.
(via themattsmith)
The Beatles - Hey Bulldog
dat bassline
Honestly, how does he do that!?
It’s been a while since I posted one of these.
For those of you who get it: yes, I do have the rest of it. Yes, it is what you think it is. Yes, it is awesome.
For those of you that don’t: sure, if you want it to be a karaoke track, it’s a karaoke track.
Trailer: George Harrison Documentary (Directed by Martin Scorsese)
Scorsese’s latest rock doc, a 2-part biographical look at the so-called “quiet Beatle” titled George Harrison: Living in the Material World, will finally hit HBO on October 5th and 6th, complete with a host of interviews from former friends, surviving Beatles, and collaborators, including a priceless mention by Eric Clapton of his infamous battle for the love of Pattie Boyd. Given his work on No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (among other music-related classics), Scorsese is the perfect choice to give such an important figure in rock history his due, I’d say. Check out the all-star-featuring trailer above (via Yahoo).
I had heard rumblings about this several months ago, but now I’m excited. I know where I’ll be two nights in October…
The Beatles - I Saw Her Standing There - D.C. Coliseum, Washington D.C. - 2.11.64
We do love isosecretchord around here…and Ringo is a fine bloke too!
Yesterday in 1962, Ringo Star signed on as drummer for the Beatles. In tribute to this event, we give you said Beatles performing a rocking live version of “I Saw Her Standing There” from 1964.
The Beatles were really just a great garage band who got huger than any other garage band.
Ringo’s drumming on this is SICK, BTW.
Truth, Ringo is punk rawk. He’s beating the crap out of those things. I love how the band goes from (mostly) nice and polished studio sounds to full-on attack mode on stage. It’s a combination of no monitors, screaming kids and adrenaline, but it’s so awesome to watch. I love sloppy chords and messed up harmonies.
August 8th, 1969,
The photo session for the cover of The Beatles ‘Abbey Road’ album took place on the crossing outside Abbey Road studios. Photographer Iain McMillan, balanced on a step-ladder in the middle of the road took six shots of John, Ringo, Paul, and George walking across the zebra crossing while a policeman held up the traffic. The band then returned to the studio and recorded overdubs on ‘The End’, ‘I Want You (She’s So Heavy)’ and ‘Oh! Darling’.
The British have contributed dozens of wonderful things to modern culture. Top Gear. The Rolling Stones. Fawlty Towers. Mr. Bean. Monty Python. The Beatles. The Kinks. The Who. The Queen. Most of the Formula 1 grid. Breakfasts with sausage and eggs and more sausage and bacon and a tomato.
But for all of those things, there is this. Mr. Blobby. I do not understand Mr. Blobby.
The Beatles - Hey Bulldog
We have to pick out a bassline to show in my theory class. This is mine. The verse bassline? So. Fucking. Good.
McCartney is the best melodic bassist ever. Ever.
(via partywok)
Getting Better by Gomez
originally by The Beatlesc/o 45andsingle
Oh man, I love Gomez. I even love them covering The Beatles.
Lovely. That piano line is just great.
Yup weekdujour, I’ve gone there.
Recorded in the last week in Grossinger Studio B, it’s us pretending to be the Beatles.
(Yours truly on drums & background yelling, WDJ on guitar and lead yelling. A non-tumblrer on bass & other background yelling.)
I should be in bed… But I’m up watching Last Call with Carson Daly. And he’s interviewing the music director for Glee, Adam Anders. And as much as I want to hate this guy, really, I do, really really, I can’t.
He’s quiet, reserved, down to earth. Realizes what he’s a part of, appreciates it, and goes to work every day putting together tunes for the organization-thing with more charting singles than The Beatles.
What?
Yeah… Glee has had more charting singles than the most important band in rock and roll music. But Anders started off his interview by pointing that out, saying he felt wrongly about it, and wasn’t looking forward to passing Elvis either. Though he did acknowledge that it was bound to happen, so there’s some points off I guess.
The point here (such as it is) is that I’d like to hate the guy in charge of making Glee what it is, but I can’t, because he seems like a pretty chilled out dude. Good for him.
April 28, 1973
Think about rock and roll, from both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, from the years of roughly 1965 to 1977 with piano in them. The piano line from The Stones’ Monkey Man? Clapton’s Let It Rain? Every piano note on The Who’s first album My Generation? Quicksilver Messenger Service’s Edward The Mad Shirt Grinder? The Airplane at Woodstock? Volunteers?
I could go on. The list of credits that Nicky played on is extensive and exhaustive. He’s one of those players, (like Bruce Hornsby and Randy Newman) who are immediately identifiable. You know when Nicky laid down a piano track. The man was a genius.
“We laughed a lot. That’s one thing we forgot about for a few years - laughing. When we went through all the lawsuits, it looked as if everything was bleak, but when I think back to before that, I remember we used to laugh all the time.”
-George Harrison
Because that’s really the point, isn’t it?
(via fuckyeahthebeatles)
Last weekend, I had the distinct honor to fill two hours on one of New York’s most historic radio stations. I was on air at WBAI (99.5 on the FM dial) where (amongst other things) George Carlin’s infamous “Seven Words” bit was first aired, unedited and unfiltered, for the biggest radio market in the country to hear.
I wasn’t doing anything quite as revolutionary or incendiary, but I still had the freedom to play whatever I wanted (as long as it didn’t include those now-famous words).
Pops worked the board, since I was freaking out half the time trying to find the next tune, but I think I did pretty alright, considering we threw a pile of CDs in a big bag as we left around 11:30 on Saturday night. From one to three in the morning, a slice of the airwaves in New York broadcast some tunes that I’m sure haven’t been heard since they were new.
It was awesome.
The show is up here in horrible 64kbps quality, with some random drop-outs and crackliness. I’ve got it on two CD-Rs right off the board though, if you’re crazy like me and really want a nice-sounding copy.
Or, if you’d rather throw together your own version, here’s what our set ended up consisting of. Songs with asterisks were used as bed music while we backlisted or otherwise spoke:
White Summer - Yardbirds*
Memphis Soul Stew - King Curtis
Sandpaper Cadillac - Joe Cocker
Sunny Afternoon - Kinks
Neighbor Neighbor - Jimmy Hughes
Baby Please Don’t Go - Amboy Dukes
Time Is Tight - Booker T & The MGs*
We Gotta Get Out of This Place - Animals
She’s Not There - Zombies
Don’t Bring Me Down - Pretty Things
Is She Really Going Out With Him? - Joe Jackson
I Want To Tell You - Beatles
Itchycoo Park - Small Faces
Product of DK - Blue Van
Over Easy - Booker T & The MGs*
Creampuff War - Grateful Dead
Talk Talk - Music Machine
You Belong To Me - Elvis Costello
I Don’t Want To Go To Chelsea (Basing Street Studios Alternate Version) - Elvis Costello
Easy To Slip - Little Feat
Shady Esperanto & The Young Hearts - Stephen Kellogg & The Sixers
Bluebird - Buffalo Springfield
Hang Em High - Booker T & The MGs*
Needles & Pins - Searchers
Incense & Peppermints - Strawberry Alarm Clock
Paper Sun - Traffic
Live For Today - Grassroots
This Whole World - Beach Boys
Happy Jack - Southern Culture on the Skids
Wait So Long - Trampled by Turtles
Have You Seen Her Face - Southern Culture on the Skids
Fuquawi - Booker T & The MGs*
Rag Mama Rag (From The Last Waltz) - Band
Comin Home - Delaney & Bonnie and Friends
Well All Right - Los Lonely Boys
Rave On - Buddy Holly
Rumble - Link Wray
Something I Didn’t Write Down - Booker T & The MGs*
Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks
At this point, the show should have been over. But, ‘BAI being ‘BAI, something went wrong, and the next show, which was supposed to be delivered digitally, was not playing. We jumped back behind the board and threw on some more tunes, the titles of which now escape me. Eventually, the engineer on duty, Sydney, fixed the problem (and delivered a beautiful rant on the perpetual derelict state in which WBAI finds its studios) and we all went home.
Being on the radio is a blast, and I highly recommend it to anyone and everyone who finds themselves with the opportunity to do so.
Rock & roll.
