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All Things Must Beat. Share Anything Beatles!!

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Sorry, but I just had to steal this from @Das Jugghead over in the Post a funnier picture than the one above - Parallel Universe Edition thread.

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Anybody recognize the tribute band? Rain? The Fab Four? Help! ... ... anyone? ... ... anyone? ... ... Buehler? ... ...
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G-Dog said:
Although Depends is a more modern product, The Beatles' live audiences needed them in the '60s!

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So that meme was just adding to the authenticity of the live Beatles experience!!
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Jagger spoke about that phenomenon in a rare panel discussion with the Bishop of England and a couple others on a Sunday evening program. As I recall seeing.
 
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I always loved this cover of a Beatles tune....not done like the original, but done in a great way IMHO. I am 65, LOVED The Beatles and still do. Eventually I went in a much "harder" direction, but never lost my love for the Beatles. Saw John and Yoko at a rally in NYC, was trying very hard to meet John when he lived in NYC, but it never happened. I did hang out and play with David Peel (RIP) mostly because I heard he knew John and realized it was true when I saw he had an album on Apple, and also he did play on TV with him. Unfortunately, I never met him. Used to go to Strawberry Fields in Central Park often, then moved from NYC a number of years back.
 
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jtees4 said:


I always loved this cover of a Beatles tune....not done like the original, but done in a great way IMHO. I am 65, LOVED The Beatles and still do. Eventually I went in a much "harder" direction, but never lost my love for the Beatles. ... ... ...
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Despite the obvious misnamed song title and the classical sounding introduction (which doesn't sound like any Beatles song I recognize), I find this to be done (arranged, at least) almost exactly like the original "We Can Work It Out", but a little "harder", with a bit of distorted guitar and more complex descants. Same tempo, if not same key. The vocals, especially, sound very John & Paul-like, to me. :D

I usually don't like many Beatles covers, or "tributes", but I like this one. It sounds very faithful to the original, but with judicious use of modern & classical instrumentation and production. I prefer it without the distracting classical intro, though. YMMV. :thumbsup:

Thanks for sharing.
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Paulabass said:
I was never a fan of early Beatles. They were a competent pop band. Earlier posts about seeing them at the Cavern club...meh.
EVERYTHING changed with Rubber Soul, and Revolver. They became the most original band on the planet.
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I have a different opinion about their early songs: You can hear plenty of unusual chord changes and modulations, and imaginative vocal harmonies, plus they grooved like a well-oiled machine. Even *they* did admit later that the early subject matter was limited to love, but they still managed to do different things, such as a novel point of view in "She Loves You" (the singer talks to another man about the latter's girlfriend), and they slipped in risque stuff ("Please Please Me" suggests oral sex, and "Day Tripper" has "she's a big teaser" which McCartney said was a way of hiding "prick teaser").
Of course, their development over the next years was staggering, but I've always felt that a lot of people tend to miss the revolutionary qualities of the pre-"Rubber Soul" period.
 
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@Paulabass and @dougjwray, I was 13 when the Beatles burst onto the American scene. I loved a lot of their early stuff AND a lot of their later stuff. In those early days, they sure did do a fine job on a lot of their covers. McCartney's vocals were awesome on "Long Tall Sally", "I'm Down", and other rockers. "Twist And Shout" and "Please Mr. Postman" were also excellent. "I Saw Her Standing There" blew me away the first time I heard it. Bottom line is that there was some fine stuff throughout their relative short time together. A lot of my favorites of theirs were songs that were not their "big hits".
 
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I was hooked the first time I heard "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" in late '63. It was obviously different from most other pop songs. Then the whole "Meet The Beatles" album was just hit after hit, to me.

I was ready to sing along with their first appearance on Ed Sullivan. I'd noticed lots of other pop bands obviously lip-syncing on TV to records. But, it was very gratifying to see The Beatles actually play & sing, very competently, live on stage!

As I caught up to their "Please, Please Me" album, via VeeJay Records' "Introducing The Beatles", I began to recognize how much more excitement they put into their covers than the originals did! "Anna" and "Please, Mister Postman" really wake up and move! And Paul's voice ... ? To be able to go from "'Til There Was You" to "Long Tall Sally" is extraordinary! And I thought I could usually tell who was singing lead, but George's voice often threw me a curve. "Do You Want To Know A Secret" is terrific! And "Devil In Her Heart" is a real gem of a cover!

To say they were competent is an understatement. They passed that stage at least a year, or more, before bursting forth on Ed Sullivan.
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I was hooked the first time I heard "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" in late '63. It was obviously different from most other pop songs. Then the whole "Meet The Beatles" album was just hit after hit, to me.

I was ready to sing along with their first appearance on Ed Sullivan. I'd noticed lots of other pop bands obviously lip-syncing on TV to records. But, it was very gratifying to see The Beatles actually play & sing, very competently, live on stage!

As I caught up to their "Please, Please Me" album, via VeeJay Records' "Introducing The Beatles", I began to recognize how much more excitement they put into their covers than the originals did! "Anna" and "Please, Mister Postman" really wake up and move! And Paul's voice ... ? To be able to go from "'Til There Was You" to "Long Tall Sally" is extraordinary! And I thought I could usually tell who was singing lead, but George's voice often threw me a curve. "Do You Want To Know A Secret" is terrific! And "Devil In Her Heart" is a real gem of a cover!

To say they were competent is an understatement. They passed that stage at least a year, or more, before bursting forth on Ed Sullivan.
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I was six when I saw that first Ed Sullivan appearance. I remember how the news had been reporting their huge popularity in England and their impending trip to America. People were curious, because of that crazy success in England.
Along with their nuclear Ed Sullivan performance itself, I remember feeling this sense of awe that something which had been advertised as worth seeing, and was maybe pretty good, was in fact earthshatteringly good. You could sense that a new era had suddenly arrived, and not just a new era in music.
A couple of days before the Sullivan show, my mother was cooking and listening to the radio, and she abruptly ran into the living room where I was playing with some dominoes. She exclaimed, "I've just heard the freshest, most exciting thing!!" It was "I Want to Hold Your Hand." She found it electrifying.
 
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dougjwray said:
I love Paul's story about singing "Yesterday" solo on a subsequent Sullivan show.
He was very nervous. Before the show, a stagehand asked him if he was nervous. Paul kind of squeaked out "Ummm... no..." The stagehand replied, "You should be. 60 million people will be watching." :D
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Somewhere I have a bxw photo that I took of Paul from directly from my little black&white TV in my basement. It was such a cool moment. I lost track of things when I moved two years ago...but I will look when I have some time.
 
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beans-on-toast said:
One of the few live act shows on TV was Sullivan. The rehearsal was recorded in the event of a technical issue. Sometimes backing tracks were used, Momas & The Papas for example, but the vocals were live. In the case of the Beatles, some off site performances were pre-recorded. Ed preferred performances to be live.

I remember this happening.
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Ha! Lucky for the DC5 there was no DVR or social media then. They would have been roasted like Ashlee Simpson. The older generation probably would have gone on about how no one can pull off playing live anymore like Glenn Miller and Louis Armstrong did.;)
 
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