10-23-2009, 02:34 AM
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.