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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?
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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.
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3.58pm
4 September 2010
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One thing's for sure, it sounded TERRIBLE on Maxwell's Silver Hammer.
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5.18pm
1 May 2010
Offline I sort of like it on Here Comes The Sun , it gives the song kind of a trippy feel.
I sat on a rug, biding my time, drinking her wine
7.00pm
1 May 2010
Offline 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)
Here comes the sun….. Scoobie-doobie……
Something in the way she moves…..attracts me like a cauliflower…
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8.31pm
27 February 2010
Offline 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.
I'd like to say "thank you" on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we passed the audition.
John Lennon
9.06pm
31 March 2008
Offline 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).
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11.50pm
1 December 2009
Offline 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.
GEORGE: In fact, The Detroit Sound. JOHN: In fact, yes. GEORGE: In fact, yeah. Tamla-Motown artists are our favorites. The Miracles. JOHN: We like Marvin Gaye. GEORGE: The Impressions PAUL & GEORGE: Mary Wells. GEORGE: The Exciters. RINGO: Chuck Jackson. JOHN: To name but eighty.
1.20am
13 November 2009
Offline 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?
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10.34am
31 March 2008
Offline 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.
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10.51am
22 September 2009
Offline Yes, George was one of the first to use a Moog on any recordings.
2.31pm
13 November 2009
Offline Even the little one is intimidating. There were no manuals with the early ones, right?
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5.20pm
1 December 2009
Offline 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.”
GEORGE: In fact, The Detroit Sound. JOHN: In fact, yes. GEORGE: In fact, yeah. Tamla-Motown artists are our favorites. The Miracles. JOHN: We like Marvin Gaye. GEORGE: The Impressions PAUL & GEORGE: Mary Wells. GEORGE: The Exciters. RINGO: Chuck Jackson. JOHN: To name but eighty.
5.40pm
1 May 2010
Offline 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 
Here comes the sun….. Scoobie-doobie……
Something in the way she moves…..attracts me like a cauliflower…
Bop. Bop, cat bop. Go, Johnny, Go.
Beware of Darkness…
11.51pm
1 May 2010
Offline 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 sat on a rug, biding my time, drinking her wine
8.57pm
27 February 2010
Offline 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.
I'd like to say "thank you" on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we passed the audition.
John Lennon
1.27am
1 May 2010
Offline Ok sorry for my ignorance.. but what's exactly trippy? To me, it's a song that sounds as if you were high..
Here comes the sun….. Scoobie-doobie……
Something in the way she moves…..attracts me like a cauliflower…
Bop. Bop, cat bop. Go, Johnny, Go.
Beware of Darkness…
1.31am
13 November 2009
Offline 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.
Ad hoc, ad loc, and quid pro quo! So little time! So much to know!
5.15am
1 May 2010
Offline 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. 
I sat on a rug, biding my time, drinking her wine
5.23am
1 May 2010
Offline 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! 
Here comes the sun….. Scoobie-doobie……
Something in the way she moves…..attracts me like a cauliflower…
Bop. Bop, cat bop. Go, Johnny, Go.
Beware of Darkness…
