It was 50 years ago today, The Beatles taught the world to play

[ka jowct]

I would not rate Revolver higher than Pepper.

[hal]

My beatle opinions are still morphing. Sgt Pepper was my favorite most of my life, but Revolver overtook it some years ago.

[Krackle]

Dennis S wrote:
[quote=$tevie]
I would have bet money that the 50th was last year. All these Beatles half-century anniversaries are starting to blend in, I guess.

1967. I remember buying it in June. I remember my garage band trying to learn some of it and we gave up, it was so hard.
It is hard..those songs sound so deceptively simple and sweet in so many ways..just try em..and then..to make them sound decent?..playing AND singing em? Get a guitar part down and then start working on the vocal arrangements?

class of their own, very tough to bring it to where it can leave your bedroom...and you can't hide behind distortion on almost all of them

Such an incredible record.

[Yoyodyne ArtWorks]

ka jowct wrote:
The Beatles were not just a breath of fresh air; they were an inspiration to "think different", to grow, to escape.

Hell yeah! Younger people just don't understand the seismic impact the Beatles had on the world, not just in musical terms but in cultural terms. The world was a very dreary, conformist place until the Beatles hit...and sweet Jesus on a cracker, they hit hard!

[Krackle]

The same thing happened to me..Got re-obsessed with Tomorrow Never Knows a while back via a tape of isolated bass and drum tracks.. and it was all over..such a cool record.

[Don C]

Beatles festival Abby Road on the River is going on in Jeffersonville, IN at this very moment.

http://www.arotr.com/site/?page_id=4695

This year AROTR moved across the Ohio River from its Louisville roots. Rain and storms seem to be holding off so the concerts are swinging.

[jdc]

Every year some new boy band comes along and gets the "better/faster/stronger/more than the beatles!"

And they are all gone... my kids used to say "one direction blah blah" -- they will be forgotten soon enough...

[DP]

I liked it but at the time I was disappointed because I thought a band should make music that they could perform live.

[Will Collier]

Krackle wrote:
[quote=Dennis S]
[quote=$tevie]
I would have bet money that the 50th was last year. All these Beatles half-century anniversaries are starting to blend in, I guess.

1967. I remember buying it in June. I remember my garage band trying to learn some of it and we gave up, it was so hard.
It is hard..those songs sound so deceptively simple and sweet in so many ways..just try em..and then..to make them sound decent?..playing AND singing em? Get a guitar part down and then start working on the vocal arrangements?

class of their own, very tough to bring it to where it can leave your bedroom...and you can't hide behind distortion on almost all of them
And that's the case for almost all of their materiel. My wife and I worked up "Can't Buy Me Love" for a charity gig recently. One of their simplest songs, and it is damn hard to get right. It also says a lot about Lennon & McCartney's talents as composers that they could get a happy pop hit out of mostly minor chords. You look at the sheet music for that one and think, "This should sound like Death Metal," but it doesn't.

[OWC Jamie]

Never liked Sgt Peppers all that much for some of the same reasons members of the band itself never thought much of it.
John Lennon oft referred to it as "a load of crap" and I'd have to agree.
It always seemed to me to be nothing more than a mocking parody of the media's fascination with "the Beatles" .