Posted on 02/09/2011 8:23:57 PM PST by fightinJAG
Fifty years ago today - on February 9th, 1961 - The Beatles made their debut at The Cavern Club in Liverpool, England. The group already had a following in the dank nightclubs of Hamburg, Germany, but they had difficulty getting a booking at the popular basement club in their hometown. Mona Best, the mother of then-drummer Pete Best, had to beg the club's booker Ray McFall to secure the band even a lunchtime slot.
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Maybe on the Decca Records audition tape, or on Anthology V. 1, but I was referring to the two “official” released versions. I thought that’s what you meant.
Yes...amazing...Kenny Rogers doing on of the first mainstream popular acid-rock tunes.
Liking The Beatles was/is a shorthand for getting a comprehensive zeitgeist thing.
Past your eyes?
no- just up to my t*ts
If you are not familiar with the ENTIRE Beatles catalog - then you should be. Seriously. Lennon/McCartney multiplied each other 1000-fold.
Synergy- the sum is greater than the parts
Get a good quality sound system and crank “Hey Bulldog” “While my guitar gently weeps” “Oh Darling” and your life will be enriched.
I promise, you will thank me
You’re the first one to mention that old joke from which I took my handle.
I like music, lots of different kinds. There is so much good music in the world and easily available these days - I somehow can’t be bothered with stuff that is even a little way down my list of what I like. I will stick with stuff that ordinary people can make and enjoy...old timey stuff, Bluegrass, Gospel.
When I was 18, the girl-next-door and I left Ohio for SoCal and eventually found an apt in Hollywood.
One Saturday afternoon while listening to KRLA on a table radio sitting on top of the refrig, the "White Album" was just introduced and the entire album was being played by a "DJ" who was adding insight, stories and background into each track. The DJ was some guy named George Harrison.
Perhaps the greatest trilogy of consecutive albums was:
Rubber Soul
Revolver
Sgt Pepper
I go back and forth choosing my fav album but most times I always return to Rubber Soul but the others jump to the top from time to time.
I’m very lucky to have CDRs of all their albums (and some unreleased studio demos) burned direct from the master tapes. Being a Beatles fan from the beginning, these are absolute treasures and the sound quality is far superior to commercially available versions.
There was a sale of an Apple ITUNES gift card of some sort that claimed to be the entire Beatles collection
It took all my will power to not fork over the $149 immediately.
But I guess I should figure out what an IPOD is first...
Another question is: why haven’t we seen any bands equivalent today? The stuff that followed the Beatles and their lot was quite different. A lot louder and weirder but nearly as melodic or interesting. Today nothing comes out of either Britain or America that rivals what was produced in the sixties. Even the Beatles members post-Beatle music was mostly self-indulgent garbage,although George Harrison did produce some decent things. Are we at the end of good, popular music? My answer, especially with the dominance of rap and other degraded forms of music (Black Eyed Peas anyone?), is an unequivocal yes.
They you should make the visit. Went there five years ago. London is a very easy to get around thanks to the Underground. Also a very walkable city with a lot of things to see. (In fact, the wife and I did take a Beatle's walking tour which also featured facts about other big Brit rock stars of the day.) The bus tours are great as well.
They you should make the visit. Went there five years ago. London is a very easy city to get around thanks to the Underground. Also a very walkable city with a lot of things to see. (In fact, the wife and I did take a Beatle's walking tour which also featured facts about other big Brit rock stars of the day.) The bus tours are great as well.
I play Beatle’s music on my guitar. I’ve got quite a few music books, and no other group or person has produced nearly as many pieces of music that are good for playing on guitar. While some musicians boast about having a few memorable hits in their catalogue, the Beatles had close to forty or fifty songs that made the charts. They’re not even my favorite set of musicians, but they were great.
I just started playing a Link Wray greatest hits cd, and I can see where the Kinks and a lot of other Brit groups got their inspiration for the way they played guitar.
Just wathced The Rutles with the wife last week. Still hilarious.
There are three from the 20th century that will "pass the test" and be heard down through the ages:
The Beatles
Hank Williams
George Gershwin
In terms of sound quality, "ITunes" is at the bottom with resolution far less than a normal CD. Then you have SACD which offers even greater sound quality.
That said, the growing use of music servers is driving the newest "standard" in Hi-Rez music - the high resolution downloads in 24-bit/96-khz and 24/192 in FLAC file format. The 24/192 downloads are getting extremely close to the quality of studio master tapes.
Surf over to HDTracks.com to see the 24/96 and 24/192 downloads available - from classic jazz to hard rock to McCartney's "Band on the Run" to Peter Frampton ..and the list continues to grow.
If you’ve got CDR’s directly from the master tapes, you are very fortunate indeed! Treasure them forever.
And, my advice would be to back them up to FLAC or WAV, on multiple hard drives. Have backups of your backups on top of your backups. CDRs have been known to fail.
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