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Post by maddogfagin on Mar 25, 2010 18:46:14 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2010 20:03:54 GMT
Nice to see this. I enjoy the Beatles' CD mono box set.
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Post by nonrabbit on Mar 25, 2010 22:54:10 GMT
Thanks Maddog thats another great task to add to the list - re listening to early Beatles
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Post by maddogfagin on May 28, 2010 17:39:38 GMT
When push comes to shove, what are your three favourite Beatles albums? Was with an old friend of mine last weekend who, apart from being a Tull fan, has an exaustive Fab Four collection and even he had a job of really deciding his top 3.
Mine? Well . . . .
#3 - Rubber Soul
#2 - Revolver
#1 - Abbey Road
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Post by steelmonkey on May 29, 2010 2:53:56 GMT
Sgt Pepper, White Album, Revolver, Rubber Soul, Abbey Road
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Post by tullist on May 29, 2010 5:33:17 GMT
Gear, Beatle inquiries. Dead grotty. Hey Shake, where's me boot? Could you get us some tea while you're there? Ta. Its the best larf I've every ready. My first choice will unlikely be the choice of anyone else, its the double vinyl called LoveSongs that came out in about 76, with one of my favorite shots of them on the inside gatefold, a famous Richard Avedon shot from what looks like 66. Well chosen songs, not necessarily the predictable, many close to or are perfect songs in my estimation, something I don't think Tull has ever reached on record with their long record of high reliability. Without knowing I would not be surprised if George Martin had alot to do with this release. My second choice will likely be a stand alone too, it is Let it Be Naked, not sure to what degree it is because it is relatively new, and I think a considerable sonic improvement, Long and Winding Road particularly benefits, I don't think anyone can accuse it of schmaltz minus the Spector strings, I would say very beautiful. The Beatles working thru All Things Must Pass in the Fly on the Wall segment is notable too. Third I would choose Revolver, of course it has to be the original release British version, the American version is stripped of I think 3 key songs. Probably half the rest of their catalogue would be bubbling just under, particularly the British version of Help, ditto Rubber Soul, Peppers, Abbey Road for side two and "The Beatles Second Album"
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Post by steelmonkey on May 29, 2010 13:41:09 GMT
I'll look into the latter day let it be on your recommendation, Ray
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Post by tullist on May 29, 2010 17:07:12 GMT
I think its worthwhile just to hear John say in the Fly on the wall section, "Bognor Regis is a tartan across Yorkshire". Similar attraction for me to the part in the movie where he has one of Paul's kids sitting nearby and he's playing his guitar and say's to her "Picture the fingers running across the strings" to the child's amusement. Either there in that Fly on the Wall part or the movie I really don't see where they are not getting along. Yeah there's the part where George say's I'll play if u want me to play but...big deal. John would have been 70 this year, that freakin guy who murdered him robbed us of so much.
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Post by maddogfagin on May 29, 2010 18:12:01 GMT
I think its worthwhile just to hear John say in the Fly on the wall section, "Bognor Regis is a tartan across Yorkshire". Similar attraction for me to the part in the movie where he has one of Paul's kids sitting nearby and he's playing his guitar and say's to her "Picture the fingers running across the strings" to the child's amusement. Either there in that Fly on the Wall part or the movie I really don't see where they are not getting along. Yeah there's the part where George say's I'll play if u want me to play but...big deal. John would have been 70 this year, that freakin guy who murdered him robbed us of so much. I often wonder what JL would have done musically had he been allowed to live.
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Post by tullist on May 29, 2010 20:16:28 GMT
Well amongst what we very likely would have seen is those 4 guys working together again. John vacillated but was often sounding to be up for it, particularly in his last few years. He was known to say he had 2 great loves in his life, Yoko and Paul, thru all the press I believe all 4 of those guys loved each other very much, very much evidenced by Paul's bedside visit to George shortly before his passing. Its always bothered me how so many people want to think the worst of Paul, who seems to be as nice a billionaire as u could hope to find. Cannot say I was thrilled with John's Double Fantasy upon release, but Watching the Wheels, Woman and Beautiful Boy are all classic, Beautiful Boy being that rare item that I would note as a perfect song, and one that I suspect his son has difficulty listening to. Ditto for Woman and Yoko, must be too much to hear, at the very least a very loving final statement. Like that bit at the beginning where memory says John says "If you need me just look up in the sky." btw I think Watching the Wheels was for his old friend Mick Jagger if I remember right, who could not understand why John was happy just to stay in the Dakota, where I believe Sir Mick also had a NYC dwelling. Finally, probably re posting this, I know I have posted it somewhere, I guess the last song George wrote and recorded, such a great statement of acceptance and embracing of eternity, with his great humor still intact, as I understand it, he and Paul spent most of those last two hours together laughing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VpaHhgCqaE
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Post by steelmonkey on May 30, 2010 0:57:14 GMT
You probably all know the tale...at the same time that some big mouth promoter was offering the beatles 50million to re-unite...a saturday nite live show started with the producer offering the beatles a few hundred bucks to play some songs on the show....Paul and John... a few blocks away from the NBC studio in John's NYC home...were watching and Paul said...let's do it...John agreed and they ordered a car service but in the few minutes wait John changed his mind...plead 'tired' and that was that....months later he was killed.....a long way of saying Ray is right---they loved each other and would have surely made music together again..perhaps when they were 64 !
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Post by maddogfagin on May 31, 2010 11:41:34 GMT
Just found a box of my 7" singles in the loft and located the copy of Love Me Do which I bought in 1962 in a small record shop in Croydon, opposite the church in George St which sadly no longer exists.
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Post by futureshock on Sept 21, 2010 12:55:09 GMT
around 1964 when I was just a sprout, my grandparents had a plastic ukulele and a "Mersey Beat" record of Beatle songs with no vocals. I'd play and play, especially trying to nail that distortion at the start of "I Feel Fine" on the $5 ukulele. Dig it. That is my first memory of music making an impact. Then I liked listening to "Do you know the way to San Jose" on road trips, and then the road trips got longer and my new favorite was "The Long and Winding Road". I"m telling you, music was my language and the energy flow of my cosmic identity. "Anyway, you'll never know, the many ways I've tried....." I'm still lost out on that highway, and with age and experience I've learned and become so very grateful that I never EVER again thought of one place as home. Earth is home.
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Post by futureshock on Sept 21, 2010 13:02:16 GMT
I know John Lennon didn't talk well of the song after the Beatles split up, but "She Loves You Ya Ya Ya" is not only a great song but helped me as a little kid. Positive reinforcement, you know! I didn't need to be 10 years older and drinking my face off in a British pub to know now to enjoy that song. What does Lennon know about the Beatles anyway!
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Post by futureshock on Sept 21, 2010 13:06:58 GMT
I suspect that through the 1980's he would have put out a few more not too different than his new phase with Double Fantasy and Milk and Honey. but from there after, who knows. I'd love to hear him as a 75-year old making his voice all cranky and singing "She's So Heavy!", and then Yoko would reach over and slap him. Would be a goof video.
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Post by tommie on Sept 21, 2010 17:57:34 GMT
Do you guys EVER listen to, or go out and see, any CURRENT band?! There's a lot of things that are happening now.....
[edited by nonrabbit]
Hi Tommie - yep we've got it ;D
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Post by ryanwhite on Sept 22, 2010 0:13:21 GMT
Do not respond to this post, it is the idiot wilburn trying to impersonate me. I have reported this and all his aliases to the moderators.
And thanks to all my friends here who picked up on the troll and reported it as well. As with every other place the troll infests, it winds up talking to itself.
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Post by maddogfagin on Jun 14, 2013 15:58:39 GMT
Found these in a box in the attic - two Fab 4 song sheets. 3/- what a rip off
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Post by bunkerfan on Jul 10, 2016 7:03:53 GMT
Great cover of this classic Beatles song by these 2 guys who sing in perfect harmony.
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Post by bunkerfan on Nov 11, 2020 14:32:31 GMT
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Post by newdayyesterday on Nov 12, 2020 9:39:45 GMT
Well, the U.K. did have Tommy Steele before the Beatles .....
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