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| 7th Apr 2017, 9:51 PM | #21 REPORT | |
 | TopPopper Member since Mar 2013 2612 Points | Surely sticking with George Martin and Abbey Road was the best thing the Beatles could have done. Can you imagine a top LA rock producer helping formulate something like Yesterday or A Day In The Life? Or the complex and highly original arrangements for I Am The Walrus or Strawberry Fields? Many of the Beatles' songs were very English and retrospective - Penny Lane, When I'm 64, In My Life. I can't imagine anything like them would have emerged from an American studio. (Not dissing American studios, by the way - just that the Beatles were on their own wavelength.) |
| 8th Apr 2017, 1:39 AM | #22 REPORT | |
 | Apollo59 the future ain't what it used to be Member since Feb 2013 459 Points | Hi Top Popper, To some degree, yes I can imagine such. Yesterday was a lot straight out of the Burt Bacharach camp. When I'm 64, written by Paul when he was a young teenager is pretty much vested in George Formby, albeit without the uke. It;s hardly a blue-print to undiscovered further opportunities. First off though it would most probably be impossible to top Walrus or Strawberry, which absolutely proved the incredible world of Lennon. But I would ascertain that post-Pepper there was definitely a creeping air of Americanisms coming forth that was certainly influenced by Dylan & The Band. As for "Englishness", for want of a better expression, perhaps the likes of the earlier In My Life was more of an Italian flavour. We Brits weren't quite as naturally disposed to write our hearts on our sleeves with such transparency. Whilst Penny Lane is like an old folk song, centuries old, almost sea-shanty-ish, just sung in a higher key. I just wished that they had taken the opportunity to make a few changes post-Pepper or Magical Tour era. These Esher sessions indicated some possibilities. It didn't always have to be layers of oohs and aahs and Ringo's high-hat ringing red hot all the time. And mostly the White Album results were refreshing. Then it stopped for nearly a year and a badly wasted year at that, because they were in this rut recording crap like Teddy Boy, Octopuses Garden and Maxwell's Silver Hammer - the nadir of their career, imho. Had they gone elsewhere perhaps that wouldn't have happened and other outside, new and refreshing influences may have helped to cure the rot. Isn't this why George disappeared to hang out with Dylan for a bit? Didn't do him any harm did it, considering what he came up with not too long after. Whereas McCartney embarrassed himself with mostly dreadful dreck without a cherry on the top. It's no wonder Lennon howled with derision, with or without Janov's instruction. |
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