There are many musicians who speak about how that Ed Sullivan performance had a huge impact on them and paved the path for them to pursue music as a career.
The Beatles
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by the way - RAY WILSON has a nice cover of "Golden Slumbers" on his new record
Just regarding that - yes, it's nice. But Phil did it better.
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Listening to a lot of Beatles songs since I joined a Beatles cover band a few weeks ago. This far every song gives me this: "Oh I know that one from memory...Wait, what? That's what they play in the backing track???" Beatles songs aren't as easy as memory tries to make them
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Listening to a lot of Beatles songs since I joined a Beatles cover band a few weeks ago. This far every song gives me this: "Oh I know that one from memory...Wait, what? That's what they play in the backing track???" Beatles songs aren't as easy as memory tries to make them
Agree that they can be trickier than one might think. It is one thing to strum one casually hanging out with friends. It is more challenging to try to replicate them in a faithful way.
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Listening to a lot of Beatles songs since I joined a Beatles cover band a few weeks ago. This far every song gives me this: "Oh I know that one from memory...Wait, what? That's what they play in the backing track???" Beatles songs aren't as easy as memory tries to make them
Agree that they can be trickier than one might think. It is one thing to strum one casually hanging out with friends. It is more challenging to try to replicate them in a faithful way.
Plus of course, depending on which phase of their work, some of it wasn't designed to be played live. Once they became studio-bound and started getting more innovative with their sounds and production they made music that was too far ahead of the then-currrent live capabilities. Their layering, bouncing-down, tape-looping etc gave weight, colour, substance to their work that was near impossible to reproduce live. So when we come to play the songs we're so familiar with that are embedded in our minds we're wrong-footed by what's actually going on in those originals!
Schrottrocker what's in your cover band's setlist currently?
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So when we come to play the songs we're so familiar with that are embedded in our minds we're wrong-footed by what's actually going on in those originals!
Schrottrocker what's in your cover band's setlist currently?
Didn't know either of you are in bands. What are they called.
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The set list is mixed, this far we have been practising mostly later songs though:
Let it be
Happiness is a warm gun
Get back
Come together
Oh Darling
Money (That's what I want)
I've got a feeling
Don't let me down
I want you (She's so heavy)
Here comes the sun
While my guitar gently weeps
I saw the set list includes earlier stuff too, A Hard Day's Night, Norwegian Wood, You've got to hide your love away etc.
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The set list is mixed, this far we have been practising mostly later songs though:
Let it be
Happiness is a warm gun
Get back
Come together
Oh Darling
Money (That's what I want)
I've got a feeling
Don't let me down
I want you (She's so heavy)
Here comes the sun
While my guitar gently weeps
I saw the set list includes earlier stuff too, A Hard Day's Night, Norwegian Wood, You've got to hide your love away etc.
Cool list. Happiness is a Warm Gun is a good example of a song that can be tricky, because of the time signature changes. Same with Here Comes the Sun.
Another one I have always found trickier than it seems initially is She Said, She Said. The switch to the bridge section particularly can mess me up.
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The set list is mixed, this far we have been practising mostly later songs though:
Let it be
Happiness is a warm gun
Get back
Come together
Oh Darling
Money (That's what I want)
I've got a feeling
Don't let me down
I want you (She's so heavy)
Here comes the sun
While my guitar gently weeps
I saw the set list includes earlier stuff too, A Hard Day's Night, Norwegian Wood, You've got to hide your love away etc.
Good stuff there (though I'm not keen on the Harrison ones), agree with Dr. John about Happiness and its metrically labyrinthine structure so yes quite a challenge, vocally too along with Oh Darling so you must have a hell of a singer. In Happiness Lennon goes through virtually his entire range - terrific song.
Another one I have always found trickier than it seems initially is She Said, She Said. The switch to the bridge section particularly can mess me up.
Again, that classic thing where Beatles songs turn out to be far more complex than you'd think. They were pretty damn good weren't they? This is a real favourite of mine on an album that's packed with strong songs. Like so many Lennon songs, based on a real incident - Lennon getting angry with Peter Fonda going on about a supposed near-death experience to the extent he had Fonda thrown out. The final track recorded for Revolver, as a trio as McCartney had stormed out following an argument (Harrison's on bass).
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The Carpenters also did Ticket To Ride (and Please Mr Postman, buit that of course was also covered by the Beatles). As Ticket To Ride is one of my favourite Beatles songs I have never taken to the Carpenters' version. But Help! was right for her, and how great to see her playing drums in it.