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04-07-2010, 10:14 PM
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My Fellow Americans,
Here’s a gentle reminder that you have less than one week to file your taxes. I’ve had a strange experience with this tune….
About six weeks ago I was walking in the streets of Buffalo during the time when the white snow changed to sooty ice and was melting into the sewers. I was listening to the live George Harrison recording of Taxman with my headphones. Just as he sang “Declare the pennies on your eyes” I looked down in the gutter and spotted two pennies that probably had been buried all winter. Even weirder, they were Canadian pennies,,, as in The Commonwealth.
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04-07-2010, 11:19 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Framingham, Massachusetts | | not me... i've got until may something 
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04-09-2010, 03:01 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Woking, Surrey, UK. | | | George Harrison wrote that song because the top rate of income tax in the UK at the time (1966) was 95% - literally "one for you and nineteen for me" from the Taxman's point of view. However that rate kicked it at a level that mere mortals would never earn .....
Let me tell you how it will be
There's one for you, nineteen for me
'Cause I'm the taxman
Yeah, I'm the taxman
Should five percent appear too small
Be thankful I don't take it all
'Cause I'm the taxman
Yeah, I'm the taxman
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04-09-2010, 03:17 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan | | Great of you for the reminder, and nice vid! I sent my taxes in on April 8th, for three different jobs  I'm thinking I might get a return of ~$50... That's what I get for being a university student, working during the Summer. Sigh... Oh, to be young
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04-09-2010, 03:54 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Argentina | | | I'm hearing Taxman right now, got a little surprised when I read the thread title... |
04-09-2010, 08:26 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Buffalo, NY. USA | | This tune is a perfect example of how Sir Paul added so much to simple, but already good idea that he pushed it right over the top... including the lead guitar(!) His manner of speech, his body movements... all of it is represented in his always full of life sound. 
(even though I was required to file my NY state tax, NY state as deemed that THEY will withhold my refund until they're ready)  |
04-09-2010, 09:06 AM
|  | Impersonal Confuser. | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Fresno, CA | | | Not the easiest song to sing and play bass to.
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04-09-2010, 10:31 AM
| | | | ...did The Beatles ever do "Taxman" live?
By Revolver, they were pretty much a 'studio band'.
I do have a Harrison Live In Japan disc with "Taxman" (probaby Willie Weeks on bass).
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04-09-2010, 10:38 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: North Eastern PA | | | the beatles never performed taxman live. revolver was released a week before their final tour in 66? If my memory serves me correctly. |
04-09-2010, 10:38 AM
|  | No matter where you go, there you are... | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Chicago (south suburbs) | | Quote:
Originally Posted by JimK ...did The Beatles ever do "Taxman" live?
By Revolver, they were pretty much a 'studio band'.
I do have a Harrison Live In Japan disc with "Taxman" (probaby Willie Weeks on bass). | I believe that is Nathan East with the rest of Clapton and his backup band at that time. Great album, by the way.....
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04-09-2010, 10:44 AM
|  | LICENSED TO KILL - any song I play! | | | | | There are some references to George playing bass on Taxman whilst Paul played lead.
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04-09-2010, 11:17 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Chicago | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Sonicfrog Not the easiest song to sing and play bass to. | Interesting. I find it very easy to sing and play along at the same time. |
04-09-2010, 11:23 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: New England | | Quote:
Originally Posted by So Low Bass My Fellow Americans,
Here’s a gentle reminder that you have less than one week to file your taxes. I’ve had a strange experience with this tune….
About six weeks ago I was walking in the streets of Buffalo during the time when the white snow changed to sooty ice and was melting into the sewers. I was listening to the live George Harrison recording of Taxman with my headphones. Just as he sang “Declare the pennies on your eyes” I looked down in the gutter and spotted two pennies that probably had been buried all winter. Even weirder, they were Canadian pennies,,, as in The Commonwealth.
Check the link below. | Very nice!
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04-09-2010, 12:44 PM
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Originally Posted by BIGREDSIX I believe that is Nathan East with the rest of Clapton and his backup band at that time. Great album, by the way..... | ...that's it! Weeks did play on some of Harrison's early solo records.
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04-09-2010, 12:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Exploiter8 There are some references to George playing bass on Taxman whilst Paul played lead.
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It's definitely McCartney on bass & the guitar solo.
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04-09-2010, 07:24 PM
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Originally Posted by JimK It's definitely McCartney on bass & the guitar solo. | Cool! I agree on the solo, but there have been conspiracy theories about the bass. I'm old and fat, so it won't be too long before I can ask George myself!
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04-09-2010, 10:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Buffalo, NY. USA | | | It's too bad asking Paul wouldn't help. Ringo never has anything to add either. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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