Don't forget the singles "with" Revolver were "Paperback Writer" and "Rain". Very heavy stuff!
And "Helter Skelter" was The Beatles' attempt to "out-Who" The Who, so musical influences worked both ways.
walrus
"Paperback Writer" and "Daytripper" were actually recorded during the
Soul sessions (see my comments above about the Martin/Epstein "release schedule" and along with "Rain" are also some of my favorites , but what I was trying to say was that the schedule disintegrated
after Revolver.
And don't remember hearing that about Helter Skelter either but it's one of those "10" on "the White Album" for me.
What's funny is that I do have a lot of love for the Who, and I
could pick one absolute favorite of theirs above all the others, it'd be "I Can See For Miles".
The only complaint I ever had about "Live At Leeds" was that they didn't include it on there, but I don't think it was part of the set list at the time. It was basically the
Tommy promo tour.
Has deservedly been nominated as the best live rock album of all time, though, and I'd tend to agree, only a couple of close seconds like
Allman Brothers at Fillmore East and
Bless It's Pointed Little Head
Another influence we tend to overlook is the Kinks, "You really Got Me" and "All Day (and All of the Night)", maybe because they were banned from touring here in '65 and lost a lot of ground here.
Coupla Wiki excerpts:
"There were only a few bands that had this sorta really rough-sounding, what we used to call 'R&B' style in the Sixties. There were the Yardbirds, there was us, there was the Pretty Things, as well."
—Dave Davies, interview with the Austin Chronicle
(He's talking about the '64-'66 period.)
"And while much has been made of the Beatles' 'Norwegian Wood' because it was the first pop record to use a sitar, it was recorded well after the Kinks' clearly Indian 'See My Friends' was released."[41] Pete Townshend of the Who was particularly affected by the song: "'See My Friends' was the next time I pricked up my ears and thought, 'God, he's done it again. He's invented something new.'
I'd submit that while the bass on "My Generation" was revolutionary, overall Pete was more "jangly" than "crunchy" up until "...Miles"
While we got a different picture in the US, the most serious domestic competition for the Beatles from '65-'66 was actually the Yardbirds and then the Stones.
The Stones didn't actually come on really strong until "Satisfaction" in late '65.
Here in the US the Byrds were just starting to displace surf music.
I mean, when I was 9 it was still cool to be able to mimic the drum solo to "Wipeout". :biggrin-new:
Although there was a high-school garage band next door practicing Beatles tunes.
Also let's not forget that in England they didn't have "Commercial radio" like we do in the US.
Legitimate BBC exposure was limited to Ready Steady GO TV show and Top of the Pops.
Many bands's street creds were established by ship-based offshore stations known as "pirate radio".
No, maybe un-human.
