KingLouie & The Beatles

[KingLouieLouie]

The "Black Album" from the Get Back sessions would be very, very cool to own - I think my Uncle owns a box set on Laser Disc (3 or 4 discs).

The "Let It Be...Naked" is so much more superior to the original released version - I like it better than the original and I prefer to listen to it over the original. It's a definite must to own in my opinion.

Shawn

Where and how did your uncle come across his 3 or 4 disc set of The "Black Album"? That would be awesome.....

I've only heard some brief samples from "Let It Be....Naked".... Are the versions of both "Let It Be" and "Long And Winding Road" the exact same ones that were featured in the movie (the scenes with Billy Preston on organ, Paul on piano, and John tinkering with the bass)? Also, is "Across The Universe" on "Naked" the one recorded in '68 that The Beatles brought in 2 teenage girls from outside the studio to sing background vocals? I love the more up-tempo version of "Two Of Us" from the movie better than the final one.....

OMG. I have so got to meet you guys and get CDs from you. That unreleased stuff you guys have has to be amazing.

The Anthologies was/is gold to me. My favorite off that is "And Your Bird Can Sing" because you really hear the guys having fun on that...laughing and carrying on. It is so raw, so real. It seems you guys have a lot of stuff like that I haven't ever heard, but need to.

Nice to have another fellow "Beatle Maniac" join in on this thread......

Anthology 2 was by far my favorite of the series..Especially anything from the Revolver sessions and those earlier takes of "Strawberry Fields"....

We should organize a Beatles Music get together some Saturday and swap some music.

That would be awesome, however, when I moved out here from MI...I left everything behind (except clothing and the new laptop I had delivered a couple of days prior to my move)....Although, we could still sit and discuss our vast interest in The Beatles....

 

[Brian in Mesa]

Capitol boxes U.S. versions of first Beatles albums on CD

Capitol boxes U.S. versions of first Beatles albums on CD
By Chris Morris

Capitol Records will issue the first four U.S. albums by the Beatles as a boxed set, "The Capitol Albums Vol. 1," on Nov. 16.

The release marks the first time the Fab Four's evergreen early American catalog is being made available on compact disc. Priced at $69.98 (and undoubtedly a prime target for price-slashing by mass merchants), the set undoubtedly will be a sales bonanza for Capitol in the busy preholiday shopping season.

The band's initial quartet of American albums -- "Meet the Beatles," "The Beatles' Second Album," "Something New" and "Beatles '65," all originally released in 1964 -- contain many of the No. 1 singles that launched the band's career, including "I Want to Hold Your Hand," "She Loves You," "I Feel Fine" and "She's a Woman."

The box will be the first new product from the band since the Apple/Capitol hits compilation "1" was issued in November 2000. That collection entered the Billboard 200 at No. 1 and has sold 9.7 million units to date, according to Nielsen SoundScan; it remains a fixture near the top of Billboard's top pop catalog chart.

So far, the Beatles have not licensed their catalog to any digital music service.

The upcoming box is the first significant upgrade of the Beatles' earliest music since the commercial dawn of the CD format. When the Beatles catalog was debuted on CD by Capitol in 1987, the albums were issued worldwide in their original British Parlophone configurations, in mono.

Some American Beatlemaniacs howled in protest when the CDs appeared. While the English versions contained more songs than their American counterparts (which had appeared in retitled and re-edited formulations created by EMI's U.S. label Capitol), Stateside fans bemoaned the absence of the versions they grew up with and clamored for stereo versions.

Now, at the end of the year marking the 40th anniversary of the Beatles' "British invasion" (they played their first U.S. dates in February 1964), Capitol is finally releasing the American editions.

"The Capitol Albums Vol. 1" will comprise four discs, with the stereo and mono versions of the individual U.S. titles available on each disc.

The stereo versions will be either true stereo or "duophonic." The duophonic sound was created by Capitol in the '60s using two mono channels that were equalized, compressed and reverbed.

The CDs in "The Capitol Albums" will be housed in miniature replicas of the original albums, and the set will include a 48-page booklet.

The track list for "The Capitol Albums Vol. 1" follows.

"Meet the Beatles":
"I Want to Hold Your Hand"
"I Saw Her Standing There"
"This Boy"
"It Won't Be Long"
"All I've Got to Do"
"All My Loving"
"Don't Bother Me"
"Little Child"
"Till There Was You"
"Hold Me Tight"
"I Wanna Be Your Man"
"Not a Second Time"

"The Beatles Second Album":
"Roll Over Beethoven"
"Thank You Girl"
"You Really Got a Hold on Me"
"Devil in Her Heart"
"Money"
"You Can't Do That"
"Long Tall Sally"
"I Call Your Name"
"Please Mr. Postman"
"I'll Get You"
"She Loves You"

"Something New":
"I'll Cry Instead"
"Things We Said Today"
"Any Time At All"
"When I Get Home"
"Slow Down"
"Matchbox"
"Tell Me Why"
"And I Love Her"
"I'm Happy Just to Dance With You"
"If I Fell"
"Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand"

"Beatles '65":
"No Reply"
"I'm a Loser"
"Baby's in Black
"Rock and Roll Music"
"I'll Follow the Sun"
"Mr. Moonlight"
"Honey Don't"
"I'll Be Back"
"She's a Woman"
"I Feel Fine"
"Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby"

 

[KingLouieLouie]

Why Do Most Despise The Beatles?

As most of you know....I'm one of the "biggest" Beatlemaniacs out there, but several people I encounter beg to differ..saying how much they despise their music....

I've heard several reasons throughout my life....such as....their music sounds "childlike"...that they were regarded as "too-soft", or not talented as musicians... etc....

True, not one of them completely "stood-out" alone on a particular instrument, but that was mainly due to Paul/John insisting that all of them performed as equals...as a "cohesive unit".....

The Beatles for the most part have impacted/influenced several bands since and forever will......

In terms of them being soft.... one must check-out 2 of my favorite songs of theirs.....

'Rain"
http://a420.v8383d.c8383.g.vm.akama...wnload.akamai.com/8512/wmp/2/6/230_1_4_04.asf

"Tomorrow Never Knows"
http://a420.v8383d.c8383.g.vm.akama...nload.akamai.com/8512/wmp/5/6/221_1_14_04.asf

Or how talented they are when there's no constraints on their playing....

"12-Bar Original"
http://a420.v8383d.c8383.g.vm.akama...oad.akamai.com/8512/wmp/3/6/15069_1_16_04.asf

I know everyone is entitled to their opinion, but am just interested to "hear"/"read" why several despise/dismiss them......

 

[Chaplin]

I don't know many people that despise the Beatles, most people I know are just... indifferent... to them.

 

[Gee!]

Cuz theyre British.

 

[Gee!]

Oh ya Canada sux too. Buffalo included in that statement.

 

[FischerKing]

Stipe from REM has always been on the top of my hate list because he ripped on them during a Grammy acceptance speech. he's a little punk anyway.

i think i have an opposite view than you do KLL - i think a lot of people either like them or know about them but are just indifferent (don't really care). but you can't help but hear their influence all over the place - and that's just musically. how about the breakthroughs they achieved in the studio? unparalled. an entire industry has sprung up within the music world because of them and hendrix - foot pedals and outboard effects can be attributed back to them.

shawn

 

[jerryp]

Oh ya Canada sux too. Buffalo included in that statement.

Wow, what did Buffalo ever do to you man?

I've had the exact opposite experience KLL. Gobs of people I have met are die hard Beatles fans and have met very few Beatles haters.

I personally am indifferent to them. I don't like their music but don't feel the need to waste time "hating" them. I do however, have no problem hating their hordes of moron fans. I've had people tell me I wasn't a fan of music because I didn't think the Beatles were the illest band ever. I watched my aunt exclaim "How can you not love the Beatles!" to my father. I don't know lady, maybe he had more important things on his mind at the time, like his three tours in Vietnam.

This attitude led me to have "The Beatles were a boy band." as an away message when I was at school, just to rile the idiots up.

I don't push my musical taste on others, and I absolutely despise it when others force theirs on me. And Beatles fans have an annoying tendency to do just that. And when you resist they treat you like you're a musical leper. Maybe that's why you've met so many people who dislike the Beatles KLL? In reality they just hate their fans and they don't want to hurt your feelings?

 

[Ryanwb]

I feel their riffs are extremely simplistic and their sound was way too lollypop and sunshine for me. It's all opinion anyway, music appreciation is to each their own. I just knew it was all over for me when I heard Yellow Submarine the first time.... I was like, "this is a joke, right?"

If you rock out to demonic chants, more power to you..... everybody likes something different

 

[Brian in Mesa]

If you rock out to demonic chants, more power to you..... everybody likes something different

 

[vince56]

Nothing wrong with being British. Iron Maiden & Black Sabbath are British.

They're definitely not soft...

well... unless you count "Fear of the Dark"... but then again I don't know anyone that does

I respect the Beatles for being the first real "rock" group. However, I've never gotten into the Beatles because songs like "I want to hold your hand" make me cringe like I just saw two backstreet boys butt-neckin'.

 

[D-Dogg]

I haven't thought that people despise the beatles...

They are fantastic.

I despise Elvis...nice for him to take black music and get it played on the radio...nnnuuuhhuuuh. Never really cared much for Elvis at all, but the Beatles are the greatest...

 

[Rivercard]

I feel their riffs are extremely simplistic and their sound was way too lollypop and sunshine for me. It's all opinion anyway, music appreciation is to each their own. I just knew it was all over for me when I heard Yellow Submarine the first time.... I was like, "this is a joke, right?"

Well, their songs had many personalities. I never cared for the old "Hold Your Hand" stuff or the silly songs like "Yellow Submarine" and "Maxwell's Silver Hammer". But in their later period the Beatles produced many extremely cool tracks with killer riffs. McCartney's bass playing was especially riff-tastic. Stuff like "Rain", and a lot off of "The White Album" and "Revolver" features very strong musicianship. It's extremely difficult to write a great simple song without become cliched' or cheesy. That was something Lennon/McCartney were extremely successful achieving. For example "Across The Universe" is as simple as it gets musically but the song's mood and construction of melody is exceptionally creative. That's what I love about the Beatles.

 

[jstadvl]

Well

Helter Skelter, Rain, Paperback Writer, baby Your A Rich Man, The entire flip side of Abbey Road, Old Brown Shoe, Don't let me down, I want You (She's So Heavy), Listen to the riffs in these songs and tell me they were soft.
My ass!
the reason they're not liked by alot of younger people is, 1-they monopolized the market, 2 -everyone has covered them,3-too many tried to sound like them, and then there's them who's boyfrineds were in bar bands and they had to listen to rehearsal after rehearsal of Fab Four tunes.
some of McCartneys bass riffs and Harrisons background guitar work is and always will be sensational.

 

[schutd]

Count me in the "not-a-fan" set in terms of the Beatles. They wrote fantastic pop songs, and stuff like Revolver is pretty gritty, but man I just think that they were one of the most overrated bands of all time. They deserve they place in rock history, but the certainly werent very ground breaking musically or anything. Gimme the 65 Stones over the 65 Beatles ANYDAY.

 

[Rivercard]

They deserve they place in rock history, but the certainly werent very ground breaking musically or anything.

Wow. I can understand you not liking them, but Sgt Pepper was a groundbreaking record on many levels don't you think?

 

[Pariah]

Beattles good. Hermans Hermits bad.

 

[KingLouieLouie]

I guess it's time to revive this discussion....

FischerKing (or anyone)... have any of you ever watched The Beatles 7/1/66 concert from Nippon Budokan Hall, Tokyo, in its entirety? If not..I could send it to you....Probably one of the best concerts of theirs that I've seen......

Have you gotten any newer Beatle clips since the last time we discussed them?

 

[FischerKing]

Macca at Glendale Arena

Nov. 23rd, 2005

tickets are supposed to go on sale this saturday (april 23rd) - but i haven't been able to find the cost of the tickets yet.

shawn

 

[Cardinal Bob]

Bet on "astronomical".

 

[FischerKing]

Bet on "astronomical".

i've seen him twice before and it wasn't cheap.

shawn

 

[NickelBack]

Do any bands plan on booking dates at AWA anymore?

 

[FischerKing]

Do any bands plan on booking dates at AWA anymore?

i hope not - that's one of the worst venues in phoenix

shawn

 

[NickelBack]

i hope not -

I guess, but they seem to have gone cold turkey on AWA very quickly.

 

[KingLouieLouie]

"Lennon" Gets Reimagined

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/st...n?pageid=rs.NewsArchive&pageregion=mainRegion

"Lennon" Gets Reimagined

Producers making storyline more "linear" for Broadway

The producers of Lennon are reworking the musical before it hits Broadway. The show, based on the life of John Lennon, opened April 12th in San Francisco's Orpheum Theatre to middling reviews and mediocre sales. It was scheduled to begin a month-long engagement at Boston's Colonial Theater on May 31st, but that has been cancelled to accommodate script changes.

"We're retooling the first act to make the storyline more linear," says director-writer Don Scardino. "The goal is to clarify it so that people who don't know the story can connect with it . . . I was surprised to learn that a lot of people aren't familiar with John's story."

The show features two previously unreleased Lennon songs, "India India" and "I Don't Want to Lose You," but none of Lennon's Beatles material. "It was my idea that if we were going to do Lennon's story, it should be told singularly," says Scardino, a longtime Beatles fan who was at the gate when the group touched down at New York's J.F.K. airport in 1964. "To quote John, 'The Beatles were an important part of my life, no more so than any other and possibly less than some.' The Beatles catalog is well covered, and I felt the Lennon songs told the story better."

The modified Lennon will debut at New York's Broadhurst Theatre on July 28th, and Scardino thinks the San Francisco run is cause for optimism. "We put it in front of audiences to see what worked and what didn't," he says. "We discovered that we have a show that appeals across the board to a wide demographic: Kids who knew nothing about Lennon were coming and were excited, and, of course, so were baby boomers."


BILL WERDE
(Posted May 05, 2005)