Money Can't Buy Me Love, but...

[JoeM]

davester wrote:
Wow! You still have your 45s!? I still remember going in to buy my first ever 45 (I Feel Fine/She's a Woman) in 1964 in a record shop in Gosport, England. I wish I still had it for nostalgia's sake. I do still have most all of my (well-worn but in surprisingly good shape still) Beatles LPs.

Yeah, they have been sitting in the same 45s cases that we bought back in the early 60s. I was a real Beatle fanatic back then so I had a number of mags, their "baseball type" cards and all sorts of stuff. I had the original published music folios for Rubber Soul, Revolver and Sgt Pepper. The transcriptions were pretty much perfect. Much didn't survive unfortunately. I just moved so I am finally getting everything gathered up thats left.

You are right about comprehending and appreciating them or other music from older time periods. The times themselves are in a large part responsible for how we perceive music along with our experiences from those times.

Also,the sonic evolution of instruments, recording and playback devices have an immense influence. Who had ever heard anything like the opening of I Feel Fine or so many other records at that time?

To hear those sounds for the first time now is a very different experience.

[davester]

I watched the Beatles perform "I Feel Fine" in the studio on the amazing british TV program "Top of the Pops". While Paul played the feedback on his guitar, John pretended to be using the microphone as an electric shaver. There's a bit of Beatles trivial for ya. I had my mum take me out the next day and bought the 45 with my allowance money. Also, I just looked through the Top of the Pops website and realize that I watched the very first episode in 1964, which included The Beatles, Dusty Springfield, Dave Clark Five, The Hollies, The Swinging Blue Jeans and The Rolling Stones, all with new songs, all on the same show!

I also had tons of Beatles junk (i.e. Beatles cards, which we traded at school) and begged my mum to buy me some Beatles boots (which had elasticized sides and pointy toes we called winkle-pickers). She finally semi-relented to some shoes styled like Beatles boots.

[JoeM]

Tops of the Pops was so cool. The amount of great music and style coming out of GB was just staggering and a major influence on so many of us here. We couldn't get enough.

I remember my first pair of Beatles boots and I'm sitting here laughing thinking about all the outfits we wore trying to look like our cousins across the pond:



Edit: Yes, look close, those were leather pants:turbo:

[RAMd®d]

I'll break it open later tonight, and make a CD for the car.

I'll rip 'em later and listen to them more later.

Later.

[JoeM]

I listened to Rubber Soul in the car going to work this morning. These guys did a really, really nice job on the remaster. Nowhere Man is pretty amazing. Yoyodyne ArtWorks is really right. You can really appreciate how hard they could rock from these.

Can't wait to get home and listen on my Mackie 824s. Hope the new neighbors like the Beatles.