20-07-2013, 17:14
Magical Mystery Tour has I am the Walrus, eccentric Blue Jay Way, Hello Good Bye, the anthem of John's - All You Need is Love, Baby You're A rich Man, Penny Lane and the great track - Strawberry Fields forever...MMT song is a good one also. I saw Macca 4 years ago and I'll never forget it...sings 21 Beatle songs and 12 solo songs.
As far as just another band, Lennon and McCartney were gold together...they wrote great songs from scratch together and alone...the songs will endure the ages! Yes Martin was a brilliant producer , adding his classically trained compositions, strings, brass, woodwinds, recorded sound effects,etc. The Stones, Faces and The Who for example, had producers also, did they not?Having said all of that The Beatles played and played and played in Hamburg for a few years and improved their chops tremendously because of their extreme wood shedding!
Each song DOES NOT sound the same , that's their appeal to me...lord knows today's pop music has a bit of the "same old same old" quality ! And George's guitar !!!!...complex chordings for original riffs in Day Tripper, Guitar Gently Weeps, Ticket to Ride, In My Life, the music sheets are complex that's why the songs sound so wonderful,,,a lot of four finger augmented and diminished chords !
Their solo careers has Beatles written all over it ! It has to...Paul's poppy sound for the most part and John's edgy hard sound..Plastic Ono Band album is his best for me.
George had a respectable solo career with All Things Must Pass, Cloud Nine, and others. Ringo is Ringo, king of the novelty songs, and as a drummer friend told me, a very good drummer in his own right.
THEIR SONGS STICK IN YOUR HEAD !!!!...such fabulous melodies!
I WILL BE POSTING ALL THINGS BEATLE AND BEATLE related !
As far as just another band, Lennon and McCartney were gold together...they wrote great songs from scratch together and alone...the songs will endure the ages! Yes Martin was a brilliant producer , adding his classically trained compositions, strings, brass, woodwinds, recorded sound effects,etc. The Stones, Faces and The Who for example, had producers also, did they not?Having said all of that The Beatles played and played and played in Hamburg for a few years and improved their chops tremendously because of their extreme wood shedding!
Each song DOES NOT sound the same , that's their appeal to me...lord knows today's pop music has a bit of the "same old same old" quality ! And George's guitar !!!!...complex chordings for original riffs in Day Tripper, Guitar Gently Weeps, Ticket to Ride, In My Life, the music sheets are complex that's why the songs sound so wonderful,,,a lot of four finger augmented and diminished chords !
Their solo careers has Beatles written all over it ! It has to...Paul's poppy sound for the most part and John's edgy hard sound..Plastic Ono Band album is his best for me.
George had a respectable solo career with All Things Must Pass, Cloud Nine, and others. Ringo is Ringo, king of the novelty songs, and as a drummer friend told me, a very good drummer in his own right.
THEIR SONGS STICK IN YOUR HEAD !!!!...such fabulous melodies!
I WILL BE POSTING ALL THINGS BEATLE AND BEATLE related !
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