The Beatles' Thread

**mogrooves** · 05-13-2017

"Tomorrow Never Knows" is definitively psych. I'd submit that "Rain" is in the ballpark as well.

**Jerjo** · 05-13-2017

Originally Posted by mogrooves

"Tomorrow Never Knows" is definitively psych. I'd submit that "Rain" is in the ballpark as well.

True, they were already moving into that direction with those songs.

Get a gander at the wall behind this system. I think I need one of those Studio 2 plaques now.

http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/thread...#post-16368447

**JKL2000** · 05-13-2017

Originally Posted by mogrooves

"Tomorrow Never Knows" is definitively psych. I'd submit that "Rain" is in the ballpark as well.

Yes, TNK definitely!

**ronmac** · 05-13-2017

Originally Posted by JKL2000

Do The Beatles have anything you'd call "psychedelic" aside from what's on Sgt Pepper, Magical Mystery Tour, and Yellow Submarine? Maybe Come Together, sort of?

Some of the solo work from the period, but not really much more than that and what was already mentioned.

Not sure why you would think "Come Together" is psych.

**JKL2000** · 05-13-2017

Originally Posted by ronmac

Some of the solo work from the period, but not really much more than that and what was already mentioned.

Not sure why you would think "Come Together" is psych.

I said maybe a little. Just seems to use those distorted vocals and imaginative emphasis on sound.

**Vic2012** · 05-13-2017

Eeesh. Someone just played Hey Jude on the jukebox. Great song, but the outtro is terminal.

**Vic2012** · 05-13-2017

Originally Posted by mogrooves

"Tomorrow Never Knows" is definitively psych. I'd submit that "Rain" is in the ballpark as well.

And I'd agree with you.

**Vic2012** · 05-13-2017

Listening to "Past Masters Vol.2" listening to "Rain." The bass is sick. I can hear the influence it had on Chris Squire.

**Luckie** · 05-13-2017

Originally Posted by Vic2012

Eeesh. Someone just played Hey Jude on the jukebox. Great song, but the outtro is terminal.

The outro's great, it's just been played too much now.

**Vic2012** · 05-13-2017

Originally Posted by Luckie

The outro's great, it's just been played too much now.

Yeah it's tired.

**Vic2012** · 05-13-2017

And now I'm hearing "You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)."

. It's insane. You think they were high when they came up with it?

**Jerjo** · 05-13-2017

Just curious, how often did the boys indulge while composing and recording? I'm assume it wasn't Keith Richards/Brian Jones levels.

**Koreabruce** · 05-13-2017

From what I've read (can't remember where), they mostly did NOT indulge while recording. I think it was Ringo who mentioned that they'd get high, jam around, think it sounded great, record it, and then the next day when they'd listen back to what they'd done, it was pure crap.

**ronmac** · 05-14-2017

Originally Posted by JKL2000

I said maybe a little. Just seems to use those distorted vocals and imaginative emphasis on sound.

Are you, by chance, thinking of a different song?

**JKL2000** · 05-14-2017

Originally Posted by ronmac

Are you, by chance, thinking of a different song?

No, I'm just saying the song is aurally interesting, I know it's not technically what you'd call psych.

**ronmac** · 05-14-2017

Originally Posted by JKL2000

No, I'm just saying the song is aurally interesting, I know it's not technically what you'd call psych.

Okay, that's cool. When you mentioned distorted vocals, I thought you were thinking of another song.

**progholio** · 05-15-2017

Originally Posted by Vic2012

Listening to "Past Masters Vol.2" listening to "Rain." The bass is sick. I can hear the influence it had on Chris Squire.

Could you imagine if Squire was so influenced by Paul he had used a Hofner bass instead of the Rick?

**Halmyre** · 05-15-2017

Originally Posted by progholio

Could you imagine if Squire was so influenced by Paul he had used a Hofner bass instead of the Rick?

McCartney did play a Rickenbacker on 'Rain'. Both he and Squire started using it around 1965.

**davis** · 05-15-2017

what's a really good book about the Beatles?

**ronmac** · 05-15-2017

Originally Posted by davis

what's a really good book about the Beatles?

For a single volume, the Anthology book is essential.

**progholio** · 05-15-2017

Originally Posted by Halmyre

McCartney did play a Rickenbacker on 'Rain'. Both he and Squire started using it around 1965.

I'm not sure the information is entirely clear on that, i've read where there was a Burns Nu-Sonic used on some of those sessions as well. Who cares, one of the best bass lines in recorded music.

**grandinq** · 05-15-2017

Can't Buy Me Love by Jonathan Gould is amazing. Puts them into historical context well.

**ronmac** · 05-15-2017

The Mark Lewisohn "Tune In" series will be the be-all end off of any Beatles story ever published. Volume one is incredible and truly riveting. Not only the detail, but the storytelling. It is out of this world. I have the short version of volume 1 and it's over 800 pages, ending only at the beginning of 1962. I'm dying for the next volumes, but it will be years.

Anything that Lewisohn did is great. Much of it is historical reference. But, he got tired of waiting for the true story to come out. So, he did it himself.

But, to me, the Anthology is the best single volume. It's the official story presented by the band themselves. Can't go wrong.

**Jerjo** · 05-15-2017

I'm reading the Hunter Davies book off and on - it seems too much of an oral history: so and so said, then Paul said, than this old teacher said, then this German girl who held Stu's cock said...