Walter Everett's two-volume work, The Beatles As Musicians: The Quarry Men through Rubber Soul and The Beatles As Musicians: Revolver through the Anthology, for musical analysis.
Walter Everett's two-volume work, The Beatles As Musicians: The Quarry Men through Rubber Soul and The Beatles As Musicians: Revolver through the Anthology, for musical analysis.
Hell, they ain't even old-timey ! - Homer Stokes
I have the expanded version and I still need to get to the second book. It is interesting, but to me it's a hell of a read. I often need a dictionary.Originally Posted by ronmac
It is not the only book I have. I also have the complete sheet-music, The complete recording sessions (also by Mark Lewisohn) and The Beatles Complete, the stories behind the 213 songs.
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What is Psychedelic? When you take Donovan'a style of psychedelic music into consideration then Beatles is as psychedelic band as they come. On other hand considering Pink Floyd psychedelic music make Beatles's music sound like pop. IMHO anything including and past Rubber Soul has psychedelic vibes all over it.
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Yes, some have said that 'The Word' has nascent traces of psychedelia, particularly lyrically. And of course 'Norwegian Wood' had the sitar for the first time on their records (I believe The Yardbirds recorded with a sitar before this, but that wasn't released until decades later). Rubber Soul is a watershed album for rock music generally, I think, in terms of expanding the palette. (I guess he heard the bastardised US version...but Brian Wilson cites it as being the main inspiration for Pet Sounds.)
A book I've always enjoyed is Ian MacDonald's Revolution In The Head, which covers every single track they recorded.
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The Lewisohn book is history done right. I have the audio book version of the full unabridged text, and it is something like 43 hours long. As soon as it reached the end, I immediately started listening to it again. I just did not want it to end. It was riveting!
Good luck with that. The second book isn't complete yet. The first book took ten years to research and write, but he doesn't expect subsequent volumes to take as long.
"The White Zone is for loading and unloading only. If you got to load or unload go to the White Zone!"
Ten years! Who does he think he is, George RR Martin?
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down.'- Bob Newhart
The real German made Hofner "Beatle" bass currently sells for around $2900, hardly cheap and a few hundred bucks more than what a Ric currently goes for.
His audience is dying out and may not live to see all volumes completed.
As the single biggest selling act of all time, I don't think anyone need worry too much about that.
Lewisohn's Chronicle/Sessions books are also essential.
Exactly. That audience will never die out.
Agreed, but not necessarily for the casual fan.
"The White Zone is for loading and unloading only. If you got to load or unload go to the White Zone!"
SiriusXM is starting an all-Beatles channel.
Hell, they ain't even old-timey ! - Homer Stokes
With the second book, I ment the second book in the first set. The expanded version contains 2 seperate books, one going to 1960, the second book containing the years 1961 and 1962.
But I think its the only old Höfner that got so expensive.
Oh, I get it. Yeah, that makes more sense.
"The White Zone is for loading and unloading only. If you got to load or unload go to the White Zone!"
If you want to know what they did and when, I'd say the Chronicle is a very accessible way of finding that out, even for casual fans.
Avoid Lennon books by the likes of Albert Goldman and Geoffrey Giuliano.
Any opinions of the biography of Paul by Howard Sounes - Fab?
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down.'- Bob Newhart
Agreed. But, I do think Chronicle is more of a reference than narrative. If someone wants one volume that covers it all, the Anthology book cannot be beat.
"The White Zone is for loading and unloading only. If you got to load or unload go to the White Zone!"
^And the DVD of Anthology is truly essential. If someone only ever bought one music DVD, I would recommend that to be the one.
+1 million. Every minute is riveting.
"The White Zone is for loading and unloading only. If you got to load or unload go to the White Zone!"
There was all Beatles radio station in DFW area a decade or so ago. The guy paid it from his own pocket and it obviously did not last long. Nevertheless it made for a very interesting shows, consisting of all sorts of Beatles songs, covers, Beatle's solo music and different outtakes, rarities and interviews. I hope SiriusXM version would live up to that standard.
I just ordered the DVD. I have been unable to find something good and deep on these guys and its always been on my bucket list. 20+ Years ago I saw a part of a documentary on the Beatles, that was not terribly flattering and I always wanted to see the full thing. It showed Brian Epstein and all the Beatles, warts and all during the early Germany touring days. It was gripping. I have tried to find it again. It used actors, and not the real Beatles, so its probably not perfect but it was great and I'd like to see it in its entirety.
I got nothin' :
...avoiding any implication that I have ever entertained a cognizant thought.
live samples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwbCFGbAtFc
https://youtu.be/AEE5OZXJioE
https://soundcloud.com/yodelgoat/yod...om-a-live-show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUe3YhCjy6g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VOCJokzL_s
Was it this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_of_the_Beatles
other likely suspects here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Be...alised_Beatles
It's probably Birth of the Beatles. Factually incorrect in a number of places, especially regarding Stuart Sutcliffe's death, but still interesting.
I remember Dick Clark promoting the hell out of that during the run up to showing it.. all the morning talk shows had him on. Obviously been a long time since I saw it but remember thinking it was quite good.. I didn't have the full story on the Beatles at that point and was fascinated with the Stu part of the story.. I only knew the Beatles as John Paul George and Ringo.. as I recall that's the movie where the guys got a bit frustrated and Brian sits them down and goes through the whole.. "you're the heart, your the soul, etc." pulling out the individual personalities that made the Beatles who they were.. then going on to tell them that if any one of them decided to pull away from the band The Beatles would lose the magic etc... Of course someone most likely has mentioned Backbeat which I've always felt captured that period better than any other doc. I've ever seen about the boys..
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