Neat!  Thanks for sharing!
I read somewhere that the "harpsichord" in In My Life is actually an electric piano played at half speed then sped up because the baroque style couldn't be played at tempo.  Pretty neat and might be why it seems so "overbearing."

Neat!  Thanks for sharing!
I read somewhere that the "harpsichord" in In My Life is actually an electric piano played at half speed then sped up because the baroque style couldn't be played at tempo.  Pretty neat and might be why it seems so "overbearing."

I think U are referring to George & Georges Martins solo in the mid of Hard Days Night.

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Neat!  Thanks for sharing!
I read somewhere that the "harpsichord" in In My Life is actually an electric piano played at half speed then sped up because the baroque style couldn't be played at tempo.  Pretty neat and might be why it seems so "overbearing."

I think U are referring to George & Georges Martins solo in the mid of Hard Days Night.

I hadn't thought of that solo.  I am not sure about the story there. :)  However, I just double checked "The song was recorded on 18 October 1965, and was complete except for the instrumental bridge.[10] At that time, Lennon had not decided what instrument to use, but he subsequently asked George Martin to play a piano solo, suggesting "something Baroque-sounding".[1] Martin wrote a Bach-influenced piece that he found he could not play at the song's tempo. On 22 October, the solo was recorded at half-tempo (one octave lower) and tape speed was doubled for the final recording, solving the performance challenge and giving the piano solo a unique, harpsichord-like timbre.[11][12]" (From the In My Life Wiki page, but only because I don't have the book in front of me.  :reading:)

Hard Day's Night isn't one of my favorites, but I had a listen to see if I could hear what you are referring to here... It does sound kind of "tinny."  I wonder if they used a similar technique?

Nice, thanks!  My dad may have that.  I'm visiting this weekend so I may borrow it.  He has a few All-Things-Beatle books. :)

Surprised to see a thread dedicated to the Beatles, to be honest.  I can remember Bishop Williamson railing against them ages ago.

Their earlier music I don't like as well as their later music.  In fact, I don't like much of their earlier stuff at all.  I'm not even sure if any of it is all that great, except that hearing alot of their songs so vividly takes me back to my childhood, to a small cottage on a beach in Canada, next to an amusement park with a celebrated roller coaster, where we spent our Summers.

Whenever I hear "Woman" or "Hello, Goodbye" or "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" I go right back there. I can smell the lighter fluid for the grill, I can hear the screams on the roller coaster, I can hear the high-pitched whistle of the park train, I can smell the fishy smell of Lake Erie, I can smell the "new car smell" of my grandfather's Lincoln Continental Town Coupes (he traded them in for a new one every two years).  Wings songs like "Band on the Run" and "Mull of Kintyre" do the same thing.

Funny.

I much prefer early Beatles to the later hippy Beatles-- which apparently is the opposite view of the v2 anti-church.

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