Now and Then

[craigb]

2 hours ago, Rain said:

This is a direct result of the album above - I learned that song off of the Live at the Star Club record, years before I even heard the (demo) studio version. Not sure I'd have ever heard such a song otherwise, to be honest. They exposed me to a lot of music.

A minute of me noodling around on a demo for a project with my then-wife and overdubbing guitars. I don't think it's quite as good as theirs, but we were going after a different energy. 

 

That sounded great!  Loved that tone!

[craigb]

Post Mortem Spasms

Embalmed Body Music

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[paulo]

I've never really understood all the fuss about Halloween. I'm always being told that I should just have fun with it. Make the effort and join in more. So this year I went all out with the scary costumes, hired a professional set and lighting designer and turned my house into a haunted house of horrors. If I say so myself I blew the neighbours pathetic attempts away. I did it better than anyone. I was the new king of Halloween.

Then these two clowns had to go and top me by digging their old friends up.

[Bapu]

I turned 11 when The Beatles arrived in America for the first time on my birthday, 7 Feb 1964. I was already stoked by them as I saw a B&W film clip of them on the Jack Parr show a few days/weeks earlier saying they were coming to America and IIRC he predicted they were going to be huge. 

[Notes_Norton]

When the Beatles arrived, I thought they were OK, but The musicianship did not impress me. I liked a lot of the songwriting, though, especially those concise B parts that took the listener out of the tonic key and back quickly.

By the time “Help” came out, the musicianship got better, and when Rubber Soul came out, I was hooked.

I agree with Revolution 9, put Rocky Raccoon and Why Don't We Do It In The Road in the ignore pile. I think the White Album could have been one good, single album by cutting half the songs.

For me, the pinnacle was the Abbey Road medley.

But like I said, I feel pretty similarly about all the artists/groups that I love. Even my all-time favorite tenor sax players, Stan Getz and Stanley Turrentine recorded more than a few dogs. Same for Shostakovitch and Tchaikovsky.

I don't get into the “who is better” comparisons, because there is no definitive answer, but I do get into who do I like and dislike.

Back OT, I still think “Now And Then” in my opinion only is “meh”. I enjoyed the new work for what it is, but it won't make it on my digital Walkman playlist. But that's just me and my personal tastes.

 

Insights and incites by Notes ♫

[craigb]

4 hours ago, Notes_Norton said:

I don't get into the “who is better” comparisons...

Wait, we started with the Beatles, added references to the Rolling Stones and now you're including the Who Bob??! ?

 

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[Notes_Norton]

10 hours ago, craigb said:

Wait, we started with the Beatles, added references to the Rolling Stones and now you're including the Who Bob??! ?

 

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Guess Who? 

[57Gregy]

13 minutes ago, Notes_Norton said:

Guess Who? 

Speaking of the Guess Who, is Burton Cummings now Burton Goings?

[michaelhanson]

On 11/8/2023 at 2:30 AM, Rain said:

Back in the days, I was so anxious to put my hands on anything by The Beatles that even poor audio quality recordings such as the ones on this record would be played constantly.

I learned every track on that thing because we always needed more songs when we played weddings and ballrooms and such. Much of it they eventually recorded on their first few albums but there were a few odd numbers that never made it on any official record. And I was still discovering their official discography, anyway. 

In many cases, it was the first time I was exposed to those songs (Be-Bop-A-Lula comes to mind).

I thought it was amusing because a lot of material was stuff that The Beatles themselves had learned because they needed to play for hours every night back then. 

Man, I love the Beatles. They weren't even around anymore when I was born and I feel I owe them so much.

 

This describes me to a tee!  They were over with by the time I was old enough to listen to music and then when I discovered them, I couldn't get my hands on anything Beatle related fast enough.  

Me with my first electric guitar.

Edited November 9, 2023 by michaelhanson

[craigb]

Hey @Shane_B.!  Look above for the correct way to play a guitar!  ?

 

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[Shane_B.]

13 minutes ago, craigb said:

Hey @Shane_B.!  Look above for the correct way to play a guitar!  ?

 

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One of the biggest regrets I have is not grabbing a left handed John Lennon Series Rickenbacker when I had the chance. My local music store called me when they got it in and said, you have to come down here, now! Hah. I just couldn't afford it at the time. I was 16 or 17.

[Heath Row]

On 11/9/2023 at 1:43 AM, Bapu said:

I turned 11 when The Beatles arrived in America for the first time on my birthday, 7 Feb 1964.

I was born on 9 Feb 1964, I persuaded my mum to wait a couple more days with the hope they all may be assassinated, alas.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I was born 9 Feb 1964, but I'm from Australia, I just seen an opportunity . . .

sit down sit down, I'll get me own coat and see meself out.

[Bapu]

17 hours ago, michaelhanson said:

 

Headed straight for the Am I presume?

[michaelhanson]

On 11/10/2023 at 9:21 AM, Bapu said:

Headed straight for the Am I presume?

You got that right! 

[Shane_B.]

On 11/8/2023 at 3:30 AM, Rain said:

Man, I love the Beatles. They weren't even around anymore when I was born and I feel I owe them so much.

Same here. The first song I learned to play on guitar without having the music in front of me was Misery. Lol. Second was Anna. I was 10 or 11. I had The Pocket Beatles paperback book with all the lyrics and chords. I used to wedge it under the front edge of our big tube TV to keep it open so I could play and read it. The binding separated and all the pages fell out eventually from jamming it under there.

I picked up a CD at a record shop one time. Ritchie's in fact, when he was in The Pocono's in PA. long before he moved out by you. The Beatles at The BBC. I think it was an import but I may be wrong. I don't think you could ever get it here in the U.S. from a retail store. It was a 2 or 3 CD set iirc. That set paints a whole different picture of them. It sounds like a studio recording but I think it was actually live. 

He also had a ton of bootlegs on CD. Somewhere, somehow, over the years, somebody got a ton of their studio tapes and put them on CD. He had a 10 disc set of nothing but studio banter and starts and stops of them doing takes. 

He wanted too much for them and I never got them. He did let me borrow a couple to listen to for a few days to try and entice me to buy them. I was pissed. I never could get my SCSI CD drive to rip and burn. ???. To this day I cringe when someone mentions scuzzy (SCSI) drives.

One of the spots on that bootleg CD that sticks out in my mind was, the recording engineer got pissed off at them for goofing off and you hear him yell at them, "TAKE FOUR!!!".

I also had quite a few bootleg LPs. Lost them all when my basement flooded one time. Had them in cardboard boxes on the floor. Because of that, to this day, I will not store anything on my basement floor unless it's in those big plastic totes. I keep most stuff on those metal racks with the bottom shelf removed so I can slide the plastic totes under it. If anything happens the water has to get at least 18" up before anything gets touched and at that pointn ou got bigger problems than just your basement flooding. Lol.

Of course I got blamed for the flooding. Iowa weather is very unpredictable. We had an early freeze one fall and I left the garden hose out because I was still using it. It froze, broke, then thawed and we didn't know it. Of course, my reply was, well you're too cheap to go let me get the sump pumps to put in the sump pump pits we paid the concrete guy an extra $2,000 dollars to put in and run drain tile from out in to the ****ing yard Mrs. Scrooge.

Ah memories. Good times. Good times.