So, I love the Beatles, but some times — usually a couple times a year — I REALLY REALLY love the Beatles like OMG OBSESSED. This recent bout could be a result of SEVEN HOURS of Beatles Rock Band play, last Saturday. If you heard George Harrison spinning in his grave, surely it was to my musical stylings on “Here Comes the Sun,” which were vehemently booed by the virtual crowd.
I’ve also been scouring the YouTubez for rare rehearsal video, and I just love this clip of Paul noodling around during the While Album sessions.
This is a classic,”Lah-di-dah, I’m just going to sit in this corner and be a genious” McCartney moment. “What’s that, George Martin? Oh, I was just playing around with this bit. Going to be a musical gem for the ages. Boom, McCartney’d.”
Speaking of the White Album, my friend Andrew, who works with my FAVE PROFESSOR, Glenn Gass, sent him my Ultimate White Album post. (More like, he mentioned it offhand, and I yelled, “You HAVE to send him this, I MUST know that he’s read it.”)
And The Great Professor said: Now that’s great! What a nice thing--thanks. And I would buy her album(!)
My Life = Infinitely Better.
PS. If you’re reading this, and you live in Indianapolis, you should HEAVILY consider coming out to Lockerbie Pub tonight. You can see my new bangs (Beau convinced me to get them again), and there will be dancing.
March 2nd, 2010 at 8:31 pm
are those Royal Bangs you’re wearing?
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March 2nd, 2010 at 11:03 pm
My roommate got Rock Band for the Wii the day the remasters dropped. I was at waiting at Best Buy before it opened so I could get my hands on a Mono box. I got the last one, which was pretty sweet. I also got the stereo box about two months after because I wanted to hear the differences. There are a few. “Help!” uses a different vocal track in the mono version than the stereo. Pepper is quite a different beast as you probably knew from Glenn’s class. And “Helter Skelter” in mono doesn’t feature the false ending and Ringo’s exclamation about his fingers.This video is a pretty succinct explanation of the differences.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0p6tOVlKK8 Glad that Glenn seeing that and commenting on it brightened your day.You should send him an e-mail, I’m sure he’d love it.Andy and him usually play a gig at the Bluebird at the end of the semester. I don’t know if they did that while you were at IU, but they’ve done it since at least 2007
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