"The Beatles as Musicians" .........the Walter Everett books | Page 2 | Fab forum

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I enjoy your posts because you ARE very passionate, but like you say yourself, you sometimes forget others aren't quite into the real 'nitty-gritty' of the recordings and you give off the impression they are not worthy!

I look forward to some more discussions about Everett et all, so don't go too far away.  I've just finished reading about the recording of Revolver in Everett's second volume.  My, that was a lot different to anything before wasn't it? Talk about ADT overload! To be honest I think I need to read over it again whilst listening to the actual tracks.

Being  very passionate about something is great but overstepping your boundaries  can be annoying , I agree.

Something about the Beatles music going through those vacuum tubes in the recording console to me is pure magic. The thought of the electrons being amplified in those tubes  can not be described in any book. Just think of the orchestral  crescendo in " Day in the Life" going though those tubes, it just  amazes me. Those tubes should have been kept and displayed in a music museum with the caption " These vacuum tubes  amplified the Beatles  music , created their amazing  sound, and a took one hell of a beating"

You could  right a book  just of the recording consoles alone, and it would be highly fascinating.

Enough of my own  ADT overloading.  Vocal overdub  track 2, the light is one !!!

I need to check out  Everett's book maybe, I am missing some information that I should know about.

John Senchak Beatlogist john@antihotmail.com

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You haven't got them  Oh my goodness………….what are you missing out on! You'll need to take recluse in a darkened room after digesting those I tell you! You MUST invest and I await your findings with MUCH INTEREST

I will tell you this,  their is no other Beatles book better then  " Recording the Beatles" It is the defacto holy grail  of Beatles Books.

I am looking through pages of the book  "Beatles as Muscians" right now on the Barnes and Noble website.

John  Senchak  Beatlogist  john@antihotmail.com

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I'd love to read that but the price tag is a little off-putting.  I'd find it quite hard to justify that purchase to Mrs MJB

Trust me , the book is the  holy grail of all Beatles Books. It is worth the $100 asking price just for the sheer volume of knowledge that is contained.  When  I first opened up the book, it opened to the floor plan of Abbey Road Studios and  I was down right shocked in what I saw.  My thought  was always for years that Studio two was directly off the back of the house, and that that famous control room   window was a original second floor window ( it's actual now a door into a vocal booth for Studio three, or the original control room when the Beatles did Revolver). Studio  two  was actual   built  after the  original back addition was completed, which  was before  EMI  bought the next door building ( the same building that the Beatles are looking down on the Red and Blue  Albums )  to build  another addition  in the back.  The actual window (control room 2)  in Studio two actual  looked out into the next store property. Studio two  with (echo chamber two)  actual may  have  never   had   existed if EMI  didn't  obtained the neighboring property and building   But do you  get my point here,  you wouldn't know this unless you read the book, and most books don't include valuable   stuff  like this.  This is just the tip of the iceberg.

What more, the same  Steinway grand piano that McCartney  used in Hey Jude ( which was recorded at Trident) can be heard on David Bowie "Changes"  (song) and   Elton John's  "Good Bye  Yellow Brick Road"  (song) Oh it's true !!!!  Hey Jude is  the same song that McCartney (according to Emerick)  says the "F word " right  around in the middle .  

I would  talk Mrs MJB  into  buying the book  when it comes available again. Keep in mind that it's rather technical , the some of the information that is contained within  is quite incredible .

John Senchak  Beatlogist john@antihotmail.com

Ground  control, to Major Tom, Planet earth is Blue and everything  revolves around the Beatles

Joe said:

Both MJB and I are based in the UK. Although I'd gladly pay $100 for a copy of the book (someone I know has one, and it truly is great), the shipping costs overseas are pretty frightening. I think it just about doubles the price.

Incidentally, when I was at Studio Two back in November there was a Steinway grand. I don't know if it's the same one, but I did have a quick touch Pictures here: http://www.beatlesbible.com/20…..d-studios/

Hmm. Maybe we should have a rolling books thread. Feel free to start one, anyone.

I just looked at the link and noticed the google earth view of Abbey Road Studios. You can clearly see  Studio two coming off the center hallway.   I could not imagine standing any place  inside Abbey Road Studios.    The magic that occurred there, must have been  down right phenomenal  during the sixties. You just can't write about that magic, you can't put it into words, it's to abstract for most people to comprehend. Yes you can discuss lyrics , chords, rthmns,  charts, timing, music notes but it's just more then that. Clearly  it was a revolution bigger then anyone could have  have dreamed about when the four  walked into studio two for the first time in 1963. 

To define Beatles music, you must discuss how the recording equipment  at Abbey Road  Studios made their songs possible and the lenghts  it took to change their sound over a period of time.   You can get into some deep discussions about this and would be a better thread.

Don't  even get me going about Pet Sounds and the Wrecking Crew and how it relates to the Beatles and Abbey Road

Studios. 

John Senchak  Beatlogist  john@antihotmail.com

"The fool on the hill, see's the sun going down, and the eyes in head, see the  world  spining around"