1st playing of Beatles Sgt Pepper, Radio London 5/12/1967

[Westerly Wood]

Saw this yesterday on YouTube about Strawberry Fields Forever. Why is Strawberry Fields Forever in A half-sharp Major. Talks about varispeed tape techniques used and merging of different takes with different BPM.

Bb?

 

[fronobulax]

I gave you a "Like" for being a contrarian!

walrus

Never seems to work for me :-(

 

[fronobulax]

I really liked Abbey Road though.

Only Beatles vinyl I bought, but I did so because I liked it

 

[fronobulax]

Bb?

I thought so but it really is "half sharp" so neither A# nor Bb. The result is an artifact of the studio and recording and not the result of instruments being tuned to A440 or a deliberate use of a non-Western tonality.

I naively believed that all recordings were made by instruments in tune to concert pitch. Drove me crazy when I tried to learn "Light My Fire" from a recording when the only way I had to match pitch was to retune my instrument. Decades later I find out that the pitch was deliberately shifted in postproduction.

 

[Westerly Wood]

I thought so but it really is "half sharp" so neither A# nor Bb. The result is an artifact of the studio and recording and not the result of instruments being tuned to A440 or a deliberate use of a non-Western tonality.

I naively believed that all recordings were made by instruments in tune to concert pitch. Drove me crazy when I tried to learn "Light My Fire" from a recording when the only way I had to match pitch was to retune my instrument. Decades later I find out that the pitch was deliberately shifted in postproduction.

sorry but i just can barely respect a band that thinks A half sharp is a good idea.

lol

 

[fronobulax]

sorry but i just can barely respect a band that thinks A half sharp is a good idea.

lol

Surely, and I am not calling you that, we can find better reasons to disrespect the Beatles. Perhaps I should open a site to sell pitchforks and torches and then start a new thread about reasons to disrespect the Beatles. Being an arms dealer and then stirring up conflict is a viable business strategy, right?

 

[geoguy]

Never seems to work for me :-(

Frono, I gave you a like just so you don't feel left out.

 

[walrus]

Frono, I gave you a like just so you don't feel left out.

Me, too! Sort of a "sympathy like"...

walrus

 

[walrus]

sorry but i just can barely respect a band that thinks A half sharp is a good idea.

lol

This made me laugh out loud! I guess "barely" respect is better than no respect at all!

It's called "creativity", or "studio trickery", or perhaps "effects of too much LSD"...

walrus

 

[fronobulax]

This made me laugh out loud! I guess "barely" respect is better than no respect at all!
walrus

Kinda like "if it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have no luck at all".

 

[matsickma]

Excellent article about Abbey Road...

The Beatles: Abbey Road Changed Music History

The Beatles Abbey Road 50th Anniversary celebrates an end of an era, but the album marked the beginning of a new phase.

www.denofgeek.com

 

[walrus]

Yes! I saw that article, it is very well done, nice link!

walrus

 

[Westerly Wood]

I love the End solo:

“The End” also includes the three-way dueling guitar solos, an idea which came from Lennon, who originally wanted to do the solo himself. Paul leads off, bending the strings on his Telecaster similarly to his leads in the song “Another Girl.” Harrison comes in second, gliding his fingers expansively on a Les Paul and leaving Lennon to steal the show with heavily distorted rhythmic bursts on his Epiphone Casino. According to Womack’s book, the three guitarists had a blast recording the solos and did it in one take. Lennon’s third and final solo gives way to the piano chords which support the album’s final couplet: “And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.”



And I also love that Lennon is the 3rd solo in each solo run, and he ends it with that grunge raw power finish. very dissonant solos were his.

 

[adorshki]

This made me laugh out loud! I guess "barely" respect is better than no respect at all!

It's called "creativity", or "studio trickery", or perhaps "effects of too much LSD"...

walrus

Tired of everything gettin' blamed on LSD. If it was too much acid, it'd be Bb half flat.
And in any case if you eat enough strawberries and then listen to it, it sounds fine.

 

[Westerly Wood]

i dont mind a good Bb....capo 3 G, or just barre chord it, sounds mean when i do that

 

[walrus]

This made me laugh out loud! I guess "barely" respect is better than no respect at all!

It's called "creativity", or "studio trickery", or perhaps "effects of too much LSD"...

walrus

Tired of everything gettin' blamed on LSD. If it was too much acid, it'd be Bb half flat.
And in any case if you eat enough strawberries and then listen to it, it sounds fine.

Well, I DID say "or"! Maybe it should have been "and/or"?!

walrus

 

[walrus]

I love the End solo:

“The End” also includes the three-way dueling guitar solos, an idea which came from Lennon, who originally wanted to do the solo himself. Paul leads off, bending the strings on his Telecaster similarly to his leads in the song “Another Girl.” Harrison comes in second, gliding his fingers expansively on a Les Paul and leaving Lennon to steal the show with heavily distorted rhythmic bursts on his Epiphone Casino. According to Womack’s book, the three guitarists had a blast recording the solos and did it in one take. Lennon’s third and final solo gives way to the piano chords which support the album’s final couplet: “And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.”

And I also love that Lennon is the 3rd solo in each solo run, and he ends it with that grunge raw power finish. very dissonant solos were his.

+1!

But Paul was not known to have a Telecaster until fairly recently (he literally just bought a '54 this year). If he played a Fender, it may have been his '64 Esquire:

walrus