Category: Jam Session
hi all.
from watching videos of the beatles concerts on youtube, i found out the fans are screaming a lot, and i even read tht they are crying, and even fainting.
i am a new beatles fan, and my question is why is that?
Two words: sex appeal.
Not only that. The Beatles came at a time in american history where the
teenage generation hadn't really had an exotic star that sang their kind of
music. Before the beatles the big star was Elvis, and he got the same thing,
though not as much. His rock was aimed more at the south than anywhere else,
bordering on rockabilly. The beatles, at least from 1964 to about 1966 or 1967,
sang exactly the kind of songs that every teenager wanted to hear and dance
too. And they were the only ones doing it. The beach boys did it later in sixty-
five and sixty-six, but not nearly to the same extent. The Beatles did it first, and
they did it well. So people screamed. It was a unique rock sensation that hasn't
really happened since. Though, back then, it happened quite a bit, especially
with Frank Sinatra.
While I'm totally sick of hearing about them, one of these days I'm gonna grab the Beatles In Mono box set. The mono mixes often pack more of a punch than the stereo ones, because stereo was more of a novelty thing back then and usually thrown together quickly as an afterthought. I've also found it interesting reading about their innovations in recording techniques.
oh my god, well... i wonder how their hearing is okay now, from reading about them last night i read that even the other people had to cover their ears when they came up stage.. sounds really sick.
Earplugs. Smile. Musicians wear them all the time.
Every now and then they get a new push. Even Starbucks gave away some unreleased recordings a few weeks ago in what they call there tip of the week.
Also, when you are on stage, you don't get the full sound of the crowd. I forgot to say that.
You play behind the speakers and such. It is the reason monitors have to be used on stage as well.
I'd not say I'm a staunch fan, but I like many of the songs, and the song writing skill.
You have 2 to 4 minutes to say something catchy, and they did it well.
Though you aren't wrong Wayne, with the beatles its slightly different. If you
read some of the interviews and things they gave back in the sixties, they say
that frequently they couldn't hear at all. They used hand signals and that kind of
thing. Often they'd make up new lines on the spot, no one could hear them
anyway. Its one of the reasons so few live recordings of the Beatles were made
from their concerts. You get a lot of TV performances, but few concerts. You
simply couldn't hear the music over the crowd.
Kind person, if you want to learn about the beatles, there is a fantastic book
called "Can't Buy Me Love". Its on audible, and the recording is very good. Its a
long book, but it'll teach you a lot about the beatles and their influences and
that kind of thing. I highly suggest it.
They called it beatle mania and even the beatles said they couldn't hear anything. Look up the Hollywood bowl concert and the shea stadium concert on the internet and you can see why nobody could hear anything. The stereo recordings had quality taken out of them I thought. We never had any group like that before and their looks shocked the grownups with the hair style, and teens loved that fact; between the music and looks they took the country over musically for a long time.
I'd forgotten about that.
Wild indeed.
I've seen some of the TV stuff, but not much of the live.
I once went to a movie as well, and that was just out there. Lol
I think another at least partial reason for their popularity was the times. They came to America just four months after JFK was assassinated, and Americans, especially young Americans, were looking for something to take their attention off the sadness and the funk the whole country was in at that time.
Not so much that as the music got boring with folk songs and serf music. The Beatles added a completely new sound.
Anyone care for the communist manifesto in a song format, I direct you kindly to Imagine.
I use to enjoy the beatles, but after I began to analyze there lyrics, no thank you! I find them interesting to listen to for rather liberal rhetoric and for further political analyzation reasons, but no thank you for other reasons.
Imagine is not by the Beatles. Its by John Lennon. John Lennon was part of
the Beatles, he was not The Beatles, and imagine was released nearly ten years
after the beatles broke up. So you're kinda comparing apples and oranges
there. I will grant you that some of the Beatles lyrics are weird though. I mean,
no one's going to deny that "Yellow matter custard, dripping from a dead dog's
eye" is kinda messed up as a lyric, but then, that entire song was messed up.
Blue Velvet is right also, JFK's assassination had a lot to do with their
popularity when they first arrived, but so did the fact that pretty much anything
British was popular. America had been taken over after Elvis kinda retired in
1957 by something called the Brill Building. It was basically mass production of
sappy love songs. Bands like the Coaster, The Drifters, The Sherrells and The
Four Tops were given songs written by other people, carol King for example,
and then they'd perform that song in a set way. It was false and fake and
shmalty and people stopped liking it. Add to that all the rules that Dick Clark
had on his TV program American Bandstand, and the Payola scandal that
brought Dick Clark and another radio DJ in front of congress to testify about the
corrupt nature of the music business, and the time was just right for a new
sound.
As for folk music and surf music, all both of those were after the Beatles.
Bands like the beach boys made it big with their surf music in 64 to 65. By that
time the beatles were already heavily played in america, though they wouldn't
perform in America until february of 1964. The folk movement, though it had
been around since the time of slavery, was not popular with the record buying
crowd. It was more for the college age kids of the fifties, when Elvis was still
swinging his hips. Bob Dylan and others would make it big around 1965 to
1966. Before then it was a political movement, not a musical one. That's why
Bob Dylan performed on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial right before Martin
Luther King Jr gave his "I have a dream speech".
so there you go. a brief history of rock and roll before the Beatles released
Revolver and changed everything.
Imagine is not by the Beatles. Its by John Lennon. John Lennon was part of
the Beatles, he was not The Beatles, and imagine was released nearly ten years
after the beatles broke up. So you're kinda comparing apples and oranges
there. I will grant you that some of the Beatles lyrics are weird though. I mean,
no one's going to deny that "Yellow matter custard, dripping from a dead dog's
eye" is kinda messed up as a lyric, but then, that entire song was messed up.
Blue Velvet is right also, JFK's assassination had a lot to do with their
popularity when they first arrived, but so did the fact that pretty much anything
British was popular. America had been taken over after Elvis kinda retired in
1957 by something called the Brill Building. It was basically mass production of
sappy love songs. Bands like the Coaster, The Drifters, The Sherrells and The
Four Tops were given songs written by other people, carol King for example,
and then they'd perform that song in a set way. It was false and fake and
shmalty and people stopped liking it. Add to that all the rules that Dick Clark
had on his TV program American Bandstand, and the Payola scandal that
brought Dick Clark and another radio DJ in front of congress to testify about the
corrupt nature of the music business, and the time was just right for a new
sound.
As for folk music and surf music, all both of those were after the Beatles.
Bands like the beach boys made it big with their surf music in 64 to 65. By that
time the beatles were already heavily played in america, though they wouldn't
perform in America until february of 1964. The folk movement, though it had
been around since the time of slavery, was not popular with the record buying
crowd. It was more for the college age kids of the fifties, when Elvis was still
swinging his hips. Bob Dylan and others would make it big around 1965 to
1966. Before then it was a political movement, not a musical one. That's why
Bob Dylan performed on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial right before Martin
Luther King Jr gave his "I have a dream speech".
so there you go. a brief history of rock and roll before the Beatles released
Revolver and changed everything.
Imagine is not by the Beatles. Its by John Lennon. John Lennon was part of
the Beatles, he was not The Beatles, and imagine was released nearly ten years
after the beatles broke up. So you're kinda comparing apples and oranges
there. I will grant you that some of the Beatles lyrics are weird though. I mean,
no one's going to deny that "Yellow matter custard, dripping from a dead dog's
eye" is kinda messed up as a lyric, but then, that entire song was messed up.
Blue Velvet is right also, JFK's assassination had a lot to do with their
popularity when they first arrived, but so did the fact that pretty much anything
British was popular. America had been taken over after Elvis kinda retired in
1957 by something called the Brill Building. It was basically mass production of
sappy love songs. Bands like the Coaster, The Drifters, The Sherrells and The
Four Tops were given songs written by other people, carol King for example,
and then they'd perform that song in a set way. It was false and fake and
shmalty and people stopped liking it. Add to that all the rules that Dick Clark
had on his TV program American Bandstand, and the Payola scandal that
brought Dick Clark and another radio DJ in front of congress to testify about the
corrupt nature of the music business, and the time was just right for a new
sound.
As for folk music and surf music, all both of those were after the Beatles.
Bands like the beach boys made it big with their surf music in 64 to 65. By that
time the beatles were already heavily played in america, though they wouldn't
perform in America until february of 1964. The folk movement, though it had
been around since the time of slavery, was not popular with the record buying
crowd. It was more for the college age kids of the fifties, when Elvis was still
swinging his hips. Bob Dylan and others would make it big around 1965 to
1966. Before then it was a political movement, not a musical one. That's why
Bob Dylan performed on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial right before Martin
Luther King Jr gave his "I have a dream speech".
so there you go. a brief history of rock and roll before the Beatles released
Revolver and changed everything.
I'm starting to discover the way Paul McKartney played his songs in partocular. Since I'm mostly into intricate musical styles, I find this kind of music more appealing than those with repetitive chord progressions. O:-) I'm in the midst of learning two songs. Blackbird and Yesterday.
The remaining Beatles should join the remaining members of The Who, and call themselves The Hoodles.
Fun fact, Yesterday was originally Scrambbled eggs. The lyrics were
"Scrambled eggs. Oh my baby how I love your legs." Try singing that one next
time you're broken up with.
How about helter skelter and Charles manson twisted interpretation? *shivers*
*gets goosebumps* now thanks for making my day!
I thought I'd share something I got from one of the e-mail lists I'm subscribed to. Yes, I already knew about Scrambled Eggs, but according to the article, Paul wasn't quite satisfied, so one morning he woke up from a dream and was writing down the notes and remembering the rhymes, yesterday, today, away, play, stay, etc.
Yesterday, All those backups seemed a waste of pay.
Now my database has gone away. Oh I believe in yesterday.
Suddenly, There's not half the files there used to be, And there's a
Milestone hanging over me. The system crashed so suddenly.
I pushed something wrong. What it was I could not say.
Now all my data's gone and I long for yesterday-ay-ay-ay.
Yesterday, The need for back-ups seemed so far away.
I knew my data was all here to stay, Now I believe in yesterday.
Darrel
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"Do You Want to Know a Secret" has always scared me, the weird chord progression, and that doo dah doo thing. Oh and the minor chords at the beginning.
Which song is this? The way I understand it is that the guitar is tuned two steps flat. Parts of the G-major chord is played, then an F-sharp minor bar cord, then a B(dominant)7th chord, followed by an open E-minor chord, then an open E-minor chord with the open D, and then a C(Major)7th, D(dominant)7th, back to G without the thirds, then it does a transitional line from G to an E-minor seventh, A-major, and G-major. Frankly, I think it sounds kind of mellow, especially when played with the guitar tuned a whole step below standard tuning. In fact, every song I was used to playing in the standard tuning sounded more relaxing.
Not sure. It's just uncanny to me.