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Post by berkley on Oct 19, 2016 10:48:24 GMT -5
I'm a bit of an 801 fan, believe it or not, and had their one studio album, Listen Now, on vinyl. But I think their best record was 801 Live, from which this track is taken. I've only heard parts of it on radio, never have come across the cd. Phil Manzanera and Brian Eno from Roxy Music were members and of course that's Eno's very recognisable vocal on the TNK cover. |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Oct 19, 2016 11:30:22 GMT -5
I'm a bit of an 801 fan, believe it or not, and had their one studio album, Listen Now, on vinyl. But I think their best record was 801 Live, from which this track is taken. I've only heard parts of it on radio, never have come across the cd. Phil Manzanera and Brian Eno from Roxy Music were members and of course that's Eno's very recognisable vocal on the TNK cover. I was a Roxy Music fan during their initial 5 or so albums as well as a Brian Eno fan when I stumbled upon Another Green World when it came out in the 1970s. I never knew about 801 until I started listening to it this week. I found the CD in the library about 2 years ago |
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Post by Rob Allen on Oct 19, 2016 13:28:29 GMT -5
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Oct 24, 2016 23:29:41 GMT -5
Just got from the library the CD Live At The Hollywood Bowl as featured on the recent Beatles doc Eight Days A Week. It's basically a very well done remastering of the original Hollywood Bowl album from the mid 1970s. The 13 songs are in the same sequence and there are 4 bonus tracks too-You Can't Do That/I Want To Hold Your Hand/Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby and Baby's In Black
You get a booklet of 12 pages of photos and liner notes, well written by David Fricke, about the film and concert. It also includes the original album's liner notes by George Martin
It's an essential for any Beatles collection
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Nov 12, 2016 9:47:22 GMT -5
February 1964 and 9 year old Ish goes to his favorite store which is a combination luncheonette/candy store/magazine shop. Probably went there to pickup a new comic and a chocolate bar. Lots of adults there, all talking about something they saw on TV the night before
"Do you think that was their real hair?"
"Naw, it had to be wigs"
So I listen in and figure out they are talking about some performers who were on the previous night's Ed Sullivan show. Now at that point in my life I was aware of pop radio but didn't pay attention to who sang the songs. But all this hub bub from the adults certainly piqued my curiosity and I soon learned they would be back on the Sullivan show the following Sunday.
So, I saw them for the first time with their 2nd appearance on Ed Sullivan later in February 1964 and that was the start of not only my adoration of The Beatles, but of Rock N' Roll in general. It was a week or 2 later that I bought my first 45 RPM record (not sure which Beatle single it was but I also purchased Shirley Ellis' The Name Game single with it).
Why am I flashing upon my introduction to The Beatles. I'll tell you next time
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2016 9:50:47 GMT -5
Have you seen the pic of Meriem (Cavewoman) with the Beatles? You might need to snort coffee straight from the jar after that one  |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Nov 12, 2016 9:57:53 GMT -5
Have you seen the pic of Meriem (Cavewoman) with the Beatles? You might need to snort coffee straight from the jar after that one No, I googled and came up blank. But I'll be wide awake soon if you want to PM it to me cuz it's not safe for the kiddies. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2016 10:03:24 GMT -5
*whistles innocently*
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Nov 12, 2016 10:25:54 GMT -5
Well, I'm back sooner than expected because after you snort coffee, you get a bolt of energy. And if you really want a rush, make sure it's instant coffee. I'm gonna run some laps after I'm done here
Anyhoo, so I started buying Beatle singles as they came out and in those days they were being released once a month it seemed. And very soon after, I'm buying their albums, the first albums I ever owned. Now what I didn't know back then was that America was almost a year behind with Beatle music, them being a big hit in their native country before arriving on our shores. So when the first American album was released, they already had 2 albums out in Great Britain. And the American albums were configured differently then their British counterparts. Generally they were shorter, less about 2 songs per album and in a different song sequence. Eventually America caught up. There were 2 extra catch-up albums released. One was titled The Early Beatles, the other Beatle VI. England had some Beatle EP's, America didn't. By the time Revolver came out later in 1966, America was all caught up and the albums were now the same on both sides of the Atlantic
So I grew up with the Americanized albums and it wasn't until the CDs came out, which I immediately bought of course, that I finally heard it the British way, the way it was meant to be. And everything was hunky dory. Years later I disposed of my vinyl's (another story all together) and that was that
But now I found at the library The Beatles box set on CD of the Americanized albums. In fact each album has the stereo and mono version of all the songs. So of course, I had to take them home and download them for keeps.
So I now, finally, I have it both ways. The Beatles albums as I grew up with them and the versions as they were meant to be. And I just spent all this time relating something no one else probably cares about. But that's OK, I'm still wired from that coffee and I'm out the door
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Nov 23, 2016 23:15:47 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2016 23:26:32 GMT -5
I see all those women from the 60s running down the guys in the band and I wonder...if I'd ever do that in that time-frame. I didn't find them as good looking as the guys in Duran Duran <--- I used to go screaming after them instead especially at Wembley. Was Ringo really that hot? What am I not seeing? |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Nov 23, 2016 23:56:19 GMT -5
I see all those women from the 60s running down the guys in the band and I wonder...if I'd ever do that in that time-frame. I didn't find them as good looking as the guys in Duran Duran <--- I used to go screaming after them instead especially at Wembley. Was Ringo really that hot? What am I not seeing? Well, it was Paul that was the "cute" Beatle, but each had their own distinct personality and admirers. And you had to be able to put yourself into the tone of that particular time. I can only speak as an American, but the fact they had British accents made them seem exotic. The kids at that time were rather dorky with crewcuts and hadn't been much rebellious to any great extent. The Beatles exuded personality, vitality and fun. Plus Americans had just gotten over the assassination of JFK a few months before the Fab Four arrived and were a much needed breathe of fresh air. It had been a long time since the prior teen sensation to that extent. You'd have to go back to Elvis in 1955. |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Dec 3, 2016 7:25:26 GMT -5
I've read in recent days several references to a relatively new ruling instituted in Europe in regards to older music. It seems, that after 50 years, if recorded music has not been released by the owner, it automatically becomes public domain and available for anyone to publish it. In anticipation of losing the rights, more and more CDs and boxsets are being produced with 1960s rock n roll material by the major studios, of concerts, studio demos and alternate versions before someone with a bootleg version profits from it
For instance, I read where those Bob Dylan official Bootleg series, now up to Volume 13, will start to be released faster before someone else does it. Huge collections from The Who and The Rolling Stones are in the works. I would expect lots of Beatle material will soon come out from the late 1960s in the next few years
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jan 22, 2017 0:01:32 GMT -5
Way way back on page 2 I posted a Youtube video of a cassette tape retrieved from a parallel universe where the Beatles never broke up. The video clip had 4 songs from an album they recorded there in the late 1970s Here's the actual website that has the fill story and full album-11 songs I finally got around to listening to it today. It's rather well done and fun to compare our versions which appeared on the various individual member's solo albums thebeatlesneverbrokeup.com/ |
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Post by berkley on Feb 21, 2017 22:50:27 GMT -5
One thing we haven't talked about is Beatles-inspired fiction: I was just searching wiki to see when the Beatles cartoon was on the air, I came across this: a novel called Beatles by a Norwegian author named Lars Saabye Christensen, about four Oslo kids who idolize the Fab Four. I stopped reading the article after the first few lines because I think I might want to read the book sometime. And then there's the recent novel Beatlebone by an Irish writer I've been meaning to try, Kevin Barry. This seems to be a fictionalised account of part of John Lennon's later years, when he lived in NYC. I'm always a bit leery of writers trying to imagine the internal voice of a real-life person, but I was already curious about Barry's earlier novel, City of Bohane, so now this one has got my attention as well, even though I still haven't read anything by this writer. Anyone else heard of anything along these lines? I suppose the Beatles cartoon and the two live-action movies would fall under this heading as well, being fictional stories about the band. |
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