Awards Moderator HarmonicGenerator Posted January 15, 2013 Awards Moderator Share Posted January 15, 2013 The 'Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End' medley from Abbey Road is playing on Radio 2 at the moment. God, I love the bit towards its end where they're all just fiddling about on their guitars. Â I know it wasn't the last thing they ever did, but "and in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make" and that little coda would have been a perfect bookend to the group's history. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hitman89762000 Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 Frankie and everyone else if you're interested uncut have released a "ultimate music guide" series magazine on the beatles... Includes interviews with the group at various stages of their career together, seperate interviews and a interview with brian epstein a few days before he died and a chronological review of each album. Â Its a bit pricey at Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Monkee Posted January 27, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted January 27, 2013 I might have a look for that. Sounds like a good collectors' item. I borrowed all my dad's Beatles CDs over Christmas and put them on my MP3 player. Don't know why it took me do long to get around to doing that. Also, the Abbey Road tickets arrived on Friday. I'm stupidly excited about going there. Has anyone on here actually been there before? They've done these 'sessions' over the last couple of years so I'd like to know what past ones have been like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Chilly McFreeze Posted January 29, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted January 29, 2013 Found a few cool videos on youtube recently that are worth a watch for any Beatles fan.  Firstly, a complete overview of the creation of Strawberry Fields. From the first Demo to the final song. Watching the process is utterly fascinating. Highlight for me is at 18:20, when you hear the original take of the second part of the song at it's original speed. The drums/Timphony/orchestra combo sounds truly epic.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS6wswlJCB4  next, the process John Lennon goes through to write two of his last songs, 'Real Love' (which The Beatles released in 1995) and 'Stepping Out' which was due to be on his album 'Double Fantasy,' recorded days before he died. Put together using bootlegged demos from the late 70's. It's great watching the songwriting process, the way he mix and matches each part to come up with two complete songs is wonderful. Actually hearing him finding chords on his piano is great.  Part 1: part 2:  Here's the title track from Sgt Pepper, deconstructed. It's always amazing to think they recorded this album with just a 4 track machine. This is nice example of how that works in reality. Each track is played separately:   There's quite of few of these 'Deconstruction' Beatles vids on youtube.  Dear Prudence  Hear Paul rock out on the drums from 9:15. He was a tidy drummer for sure.  https://www.youtube.com/user/judaharrison58  This channel has a few more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hitman89762000 Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 I thought Real Love got released in 96? Cheers for the vids lad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Chilly McFreeze Posted January 29, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted January 29, 2013 I thought Real Love got released in 96? Cheers for the vids lad. Â Yeah, I was gonna check but plumped for 95. You're right though, it's 96. Â I love that song though, much better than 'Free As A Bird.' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 (edited) Here's the title track from Sgt Pepper, deconstructed. It's always amazing to think they recorded this album with just a 4 track machine. This is nice example of how that works in reality. Each track is played separately  The process would have been even more amazing than that - each of those tracks would have been a fold-down of an earlier 4-track recording.  So they'd have record 4 tracks of drums, then folded those down onto a single track, then recorded rhythm guitar, then folded that down into a single track, then recorded guitar and brass on separate tracks, then folded them down to a single track, then recorded backing vocals and mixed those down, and so on.  That's what it sounds like anyway. Some of those albums of that era were hugely complicated on such simple systems.  It would have been something like this, which I snapped last time I was at Abbey Road:  Edited January 29, 2013 by Loki Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members WWFChilli Posted January 29, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted January 29, 2013 Found a few cool videos on youtube recently that are worth a watch for any Beatles fan. Firstly, a complete overview of the creation of Strawberry Fields. From the first Demo to the final song. Watching the process is utterly fascinating. Highlight for me is at 18:20, when you hear the original take of the second part of the song at it's original speed. The drums/Timphony/orchestra combo sounds truly epic.  I watched loads from that channel a few months ago and I forgot or lost the link, gutted. You lovely bastard, cheers for finding it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members eugenespeed Posted January 30, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted January 30, 2013 The Strawberry Fields video has been blocked on copyright grounds. Â Or at least it says that when I click on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Chilly McFreeze Posted January 30, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted January 30, 2013 The Strawberry Fields video has been blocked on copyright grounds. Â Or at least it says that when I click on it. Â Gutted! Must have been pulled in the last few hours. Hopefully it will be uploaded again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hitman89762000 Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 Its beatles night on bbc4 documentaries on 50th anniversary of love me do, a ravi shankar documentary and the concert from bangladesh.. Plus "sings the beatles" various celebs/bands singing various beatles songs.. Including some shite house bands version of strawberry fields forever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Houchen Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 may be my favourite Beatles song. I always thought it was a McCartney one but is it Lennon? Paul and George are really on point in this song. George was 23 when he came up with that riff. Twenty fucking Three. I think Mike Mills of REM is one of the most melodic Bass players since McCartney. You can hear the influence this song had on him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Maverick Posted February 3, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted February 3, 2013 (edited) may be my favourite Beatles song. I always thought it was a McCartney one but is it Lennon? Paul and George are really on point in this song. George was 23 when he came up with that riff. Twenty fucking Three. I think Mike Mills of REM is one of the most melodic Bass players since McCartney. You can hear the influence this song had on him. It is Lennon, Revolver is such an amazing album. Edited February 3, 2013 by Inspector Paul Solo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Houchen Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 Yep, it's certainly my favourite Beatles album. He could pen a decent tune when he wanted to could Lennon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awards Moderator HarmonicGenerator Posted February 7, 2013 Awards Moderator Share Posted February 7, 2013 I thought it when I watched Living in the Material World, but fucking hell, Dhani Harrison looks like his dad... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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