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2.43pm
13 November 2009
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I was listening to Abbey Road, and I've come to the conclusion I like the Moog in Because, but not in Here Comes the Sun. It works for me in Because because it gives it a New Age kind of feel, but in Here Comes the Sun? I would have preferred more "natural" sounds. It just takes me out of the song, which is a shame. Perhaps I'll come back to it in a month and see if I still feel the same way.
Thoughts? Feelings?
3.09pm
31 March 2008
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I don't mind it in either. But then I can't really imagine those songs with different arrangements – they got everything just right in the studio so many times.
I once read someone say that one of The Beatles' strengths was, when they got this strange new synthesizer instrument, they didn't plaster their recordings with it (well, George did on Electronic Sound, but let's ignore that). Abbey Road would have been terrible if they'd gone overboard with it.
3.58pm
4 September 2010
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One thing's for sure, it sounded TERRIBLE on Maxwell's Silver Hammer.
5.18pm
1 May 2010
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I sort of like it on Here Comes the Sun, it gives the song kind of a trippy feel.
7.00pm
1 May 2010
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I don't mind the moog in Here comes the Sun. But then again, I don't see any problem in Here comes the Sun…
(What a fantastic contribution to this topic hehehehehe)
8.31pm
27 February 2010
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GniknuS said:
I sort of like it on Here Comes the Sun, it gives the song kind of a trippy feel.
Me too! I feel exactly the same thing.
By the way: it's a moog or minimoog? I mean, the moog is huge and I readed that's very hard to program it.
9.06pm
31 March 2008
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It was a Moog IIIp, with a separate keyboard and ribbon controller. McCartney played the ribbon on Maxwell's Silver Hammer, a bit like the Tannerin on Good Vibrations.
The Moog was huge back then, you're right. The mark III apparently was the biggest, but the p stood for portable! It had two massive banks of dials and settings – there's a pic in Andy Babiuk's book The Beatles' Gear.
They also used it for the white noise on I Want You (She's So Heavy).
11.50pm
1 December 2009
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Marcelo said:
GniknuS said:
I sort of like it on Here Comes the Sun, it gives the song kind of a trippy feel.
Me too! I feel exactly the same thing.
By the way: it's a moog or minimoog? I mean, the moog is huge and I readed that's very hard to program it.
The mini wasn't marketed until 1971; and, yes, the full-on Moog took an incredibly long time to program. If they'd indeed decided to go overboard and plaster Abbey Road with its sounds, it wouldn't have been released until after they'd broken up!
BTW, I think it sounds just fine on "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" and "Here Comes the Sun" and, well, everywhere! (Including Electronic Sound.) But I admit I'm a bit of a Moog fetishist.
1.20am
13 November 2009
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GniknuS said:
I sort of like it on Here Comes the Sun, it gives the song kind of a trippy feel.
But it's not a trippy song? Oh well, I figured it was just me.
So how huge is huge?
10.34am
31 March 2008
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About this big: http://matrixsynth.blogspot.co…..12000.html
Another pic here: http://matrixsynth.blogspot.co…..-iiip.html – the ribbon controller used on Maxwell is at the front.
EDIT this wasn't George's actual Moog; the ribbon controller was similar but not the same.
10.51am
22 September 2009
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Yes, George was one of the first to use a Moog on any recordings.
2.31pm
13 November 2009
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Even the little one is intimidating. There were no manuals with the early ones, right?
5.20pm
1 December 2009
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As George says on the "Here Comes The Sun" article: "There wasn't an instruction manual, and even if there had been it would probably have been a couple of thousand pages long."
5.40pm
1 May 2010
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Joe said:
About this big: http://matrixsynth.blogspot.co…..12000.html
Another pic here – the ribbon controller used on Maxwell is at the front.
EDIT this wasn't George's actual Moog; the ribbon controller was similar but not the same.
Holy Cow!! That looks to the first ENIAC computers!! (I didn't know them, I had computer history classes)
I wonder if you had to insert those computer punch cards to program them 
11.51pm
1 May 2010
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skye said:
GniknuS said:
I sort of like it on Here Comes the Sun, it gives the song kind of a trippy feel.
But it's not a trippy song? Oh well, I figured it was just me.
I don't think it's intentionally trippy, but when I listen to it with headphones the synthesizer gives it that sort of feel.
8.57pm
27 February 2010
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GniknuS said:
skye said:
GniknuS said:
I sort of like it on Here Comes the Sun, it gives the song kind of a trippy feel.
But it's not a trippy song? Oh well, I figured it was just me.
I don't think it's intentionally trippy, but when I listen to it with headphones the synthesizer gives it that sort of feel.
I feel that is totally trippy, last remains of LSD in blood for George.
1.27am
1 May 2010
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Ok sorry for my ignorance.. but what's exactly trippy? To me, it's a song that sounds as if you were high..
1.31am
13 November 2009
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mithveaen said:
Ok sorry for my ignorance.. but what's exactly trippy? To me, it's a song that sounds as if you were high..
You've more or less defined it. It makes you feel like you're on a LSD trip.
5.15am
1 May 2010
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skye said:
mithveaen said:
Ok sorry for my ignorance.. but what's exactly trippy? To me, it's a song that sounds as if you were high..
You've more or less defined it. It makes you feel like you're on a LSD trip.
Well, that's not really what I meant, I guess trippy is the wrong word. It's just out there, it's such a positive and sensitive song, but its still George, so there's a little bit of a twist to his sentimentality. It's like your avatar mithveaen, it's just George and George is just so damn cool.
5.23am
1 May 2010
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Thanks about my avatar. I also love it. It's my all time favorite George moment, (and he wasn't even part of it)
I think I know what you mean. Here comes the Sun is a song with a very delicate balance. It's uplifting, it's positive, it's about nice cool things, but at the same time, it's not sappy, because it has the George factor, something in the song that tells you it's honest.
So yeah, It's like George… and George is cool! 
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