Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

The Beatles' 'Sgt. Pepper' album to get deluxe 50th-anniversary edition
Los Angeles Times ^ | April 5, 2017 | Randy Lewis

Posted on 04/05/2017 10:23:45 AM PDT by EveningStar

The most ambitious reissue yet of an individual album from the Beatles’ catalog is coming May 26 with an expanded and newly remixed edition of the Fab Four’s 1967 pop masterpiece, “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.”

Consistently ranked by critics and fans among the most influential rock albums of all time, “Sgt. Pepper” is being reissued in multiple formats and editions, including new stereo and surround-sound audio mixes along with nearly three dozen previously unreleased recordings from the same sessions.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; History; Music/Entertainment; Society
KEYWORDS: 50; 50th; 50thanniversary; beatles; halfcentury; sgtpepper; thebeatles
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-91 last
To: Pelham

Jorma played our Franklin theatre last year I think

Wifey and I were going to our foodie joint with our buddy at the bar....the Red Pony and I noticed Jorma Kaukonen Live Tonight

I was damn wish I’d known....course A had no idea who he was

Jefferson anything is Starship to her and even then she was like 11

It’s a little two block Main Street with buildings dating from 1815 and preserved nicely and anyhow it’s a little restored movie theatre from 1930

Very intimate with incredible acoustics and speaker system

Seats around 350 max and owned by the Heritage Foundation of which we’re members for all the historical plethora around her

Heavily sponsored they can pay larger booking costs than the seats merit so you get some decent shows for a 300 seat joint

Here’s early Water version

Note Creach...lord got me misty for a second...what a sound


81 posted on 04/06/2017 8:11:47 AM PDT by wardaddy (We're gonna have to kill a lot of them eventually which is hard to fathom)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 78 | View Replies]

To: Pelham
water song 73
82 posted on 04/06/2017 8:13:30 AM PDT by wardaddy (We're gonna have to kill a lot of them eventually which is hard to fathom)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 78 | View Replies]

To: Pelham; wardaddy
I liked most of their music through Rubber Soul and Revolver.

Rubber Soul and Revolver are the Beatles' best, imo. I did like their '67 - '70 albums as well, just not as much. The White Album would've been much better if pared down to a single record. Way too much filler on it.

The Stones' Their Satanic Majesty's Request was a misguided attempt to make a Sgt. Pepperesque album. Even Keith said he was embarrassed by it. The Stones really hit their stride after that with their best run (from '68 - '72....Beggars, Bleed, Sticky, and Exile), which imo might've been the best of all runs from anyone.

If the Beatles took the 5 best songs from Pepper and combined them with the 5 best from Magical Mystery Tour (released later that year), it would've been a much better record.

83 posted on 04/06/2017 8:48:47 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo (The Left doesn't want to win the debate, they want to CANCEL the debate)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 56 | View Replies]

To: wardaddy

Jorma is an underrated guitarist. He can really play.


84 posted on 04/06/2017 8:50:45 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo (The Left doesn't want to win the debate, they want to CANCEL the debate)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 81 | View Replies]

To: Mr. Mojo; wardaddy

Good observations, all.


85 posted on 04/06/2017 10:47:34 AM PDT by Pelham (Liberate California. Deport Mexico Now)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 83 | View Replies]

To: wardaddy; Mr. Mojo

Starship was an abomination. Hard to imagine how they had the gall to hitch that mess to the JA name.

You ought to have Annette give Surrealistic Pillow a listen. For me that’s what JA was all about.


86 posted on 04/06/2017 10:50:55 AM PDT by Pelham (Liberate California. Deport Mexico Now)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 81 | View Replies]

To: Pelham
The first Fleetwood Mac around 1968 had no women, just Peter Green, Fleetwood, McVie and Spencer, I think, followed by Kirwan. This was a blues band plain and simple. What followed was AOR pap.Unfortunately, I was not in CONUS when they played San Diego. I missed a couple of acts due to deployment schedules. Hendrix. The Who.
87 posted on 04/06/2017 10:57:54 AM PDT by VietVet876
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 72 | View Replies]

To: VietVet876; wardaddy

“This was a blues band plain and simple.”

Blues plus some folk. IIRC they cut one album with one of the American folkies- maybe Dave Von Ronk, I just don’t remember offhand. Not the the later AOR pap for sure.


88 posted on 04/06/2017 12:48:31 PM PDT by Pelham (Liberate California. Deport Mexico Now)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 87 | View Replies]

To: Pelham

Surrealistic Pillow is their best

I did like the crunch acid rock by Jorma found on Baxters which you might note he visited again on Tunas Yellow Fever

Worst Of is also a great compilation album

Annette did hear Pretty as You Feel and liked it

That song and Lawman are decent later career songs


89 posted on 04/06/2017 1:33:50 PM PDT by wardaddy (We're gonna have to kill a lot of them eventually which is hard to fathom)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 86 | View Replies]

To: Pelham

IIRC Paul Kantner was pretty much the only real hard-core Lefty in the band.


90 posted on 04/06/2017 1:36:19 PM PDT by dfwgator
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 86 | View Replies]

To: dfwgator

Kantner may have been the only connection between the two bands- or was Slick there too?

Musically there sure wasn’t anything


91 posted on 04/06/2017 2:31:03 PM PDT by Pelham (Liberate California. Deport Mexico Now)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 90 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-91 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson