Revolver is an incredible album. Arguably the best one but it's so hard to choose. What I can say is The Beatles will always be the best band in the world.
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I was 13 in 1970 and Rubbersoul was one of the first three records I ever purchased. Played on my funky portable stereo. It was pure magic, the sound and feelings ✨️ 🎶 were unimaginable. Cheers 🍻 👏 peace ✌️ ☮️ 🕊 🙏
I love the get back documentary. It's cool to see them at the end of their run and the dynamics going on still. But I really would have liked to seen a doc about the recording of revolver. When everyone was at the top of their game. From all four Beatles to George Martin and Jeff Emrik. That would have been truly fascinating to watch
@@CantTellYouagreed. Imagine having 3 hour fly on the wall documentaries on each Beatles album's recording sessions. I guess we're lucky that there is already so much film and photography of them, as it stands.
That concert they gave on the roof doing the song Get back & seeing all the crowd down on the street was great! That kind of fame is really overwhelming & frightening to me! They held up well while they were young, but as they started getting older they became more serious & touchy & fighting amongst themselves.
It’s insane that with all the engineering genius that Emerick & Martin put into this album…Lennon still continued to buy into “Magic Alex” and his grift lol
OH, that was fascinating! Revolver was the first record I bought, ever, at age 10. My mom, a classical pianist, made me throw it away. Fortunately, that was also the last record she ever made me throw away. I reacquired it a year later -- by then we were in the summer of love, and Sgt Pepper was in the air -- everywhere. And the Beatles WERE more popular than god.
There’s no mention here of Paul walking out during the recording of she said she said. Apparently Paul was mad that George’s guitar was mimicking John‘s vocal. Also, George Martin had asked George Harrison to help John finish the song, apparently Paul couldn’t be bothered. So Paul was already in a bad mood. He got upset and he left mid session. John just said, let him go we’ll finish it ourselves. It’s the only Beatle song Paul didn’t play on.
I think Paul left after the basic track. He can be heard just before the take they used, and the bass sounds like him rather than George. Where you can tell Paul isn’t there is the vocals, especially in George being the one to repeat John (flatly) at the end, “I know what it’s like to be deeeaaaaaad.” Paul is definitely not SINGING on the song. The high part sounds nothing like him throughout. He had to have left before vocals were done.
Classic tune, too. In my opinion way more impactful than Got to Get You Into My Life or Good Day Sunshine. Those songs are corny, never mind how well-produced.
Nah. It’s good, but there are a few Beatles albums that are better. For some reason Revolver sounds better when looking at the track listing than when listening to it.
from the moment I first heard this in '66, I loved it, and George's 'I want to tell You' , with the Cosmic Piano, was stuck in me head for the next 58 years.
Revolver didn’t get the praise it deserved until the late 1980’s when the cd release let the American audience hear the U.K. version for the first time.
That was the other reason it didn’t do well. Capitol Records ruined the album by removing songs from it and putting them in an earlier compilation album, Yesterday and Today, which completely ruined the way the album was supposed to be heard in America…
@@RollingThunder572 The British "Revolver" contains six songs by John, five by Paul and three by George. All three of the songs removed for the U.S. release were John's ("I'm Only Sleeping," "Dr. Robert" and "Nowhere Man"), which left the album unbalanced. After "Revolver" Brian Epstein renegotiated the Beatles' record contract, which among other things stipulated that future albums had to be released worldwide with the same contents.
@@RollingThunder572 All of side 2 of Magical Mystery Tour had already been released as singles in the UK, therefore there wasn't really a need for a whole album and that's why it was only released as an EP there.
Tomorrow never knows is one of my favs from Revolver. That one, I'm only sleeping and And your bird can sing. Side note, I never knew Paul did the solo on taxman and that those comical vocals on yellow submarine was John. Always thought that was Paul Thanks for the work you put into these videos 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
As an Englishman, John should have instinctively understood, that if he wanted engineering done, he should avoid Greeks bearing claims of being gifted.
John came up with the original idea for Yellow Submarine, but Paul helped later and pretty sure he suggested it for Ringo to sing. The demo on the Revolver super deluxe was John alone.
Yeah, it’s a real outlier in that John definitely came up with the basic verse motif, but the ultimate music (with Chorus) and lyric is more Paul’s contribution overall. That pretty much never happens in their discography. Usually the initiator is the main contributor.
1966 was my very favorite year for 'Beatle Hair' in 1966, my hair wasn't there, yet The USA version of 'Revolver' had ONLY 2 Lennon songs on it ! When I bought this album, 1966, I sat in my bedroom and listened to it, endlessly. Beatles4Ever
25:45 erm..no, 'phantom power' is just 48V with a high impedance, it does not even hurt, let alone kill anybody. Source: trust me bro, I'm a sound engineer
I bought the Parlophone vinyl in 1978, at Tower Records in Sacramento from the "Import section" it cost at least 5 dollars more than the Capitol release. Totally Worth It! $5 was a good chunk back then!😎
In my eyes “Revolver” is and remains the best Beatles album. It’s the most innovative album, the biggest jump forward. You might be able to find even stronger tracks here & there on other albums and singles. You might even be able to find more coherent albums. But when it comes to innovation and experimentation nothing tops “Revolver”. There might be some reasons behind this (-in my eyes) fact. The drugs and the inspiration from the whole counter culture is one thing. Another reason is the fact that The Beatles had decided to stop touring. Would it even be possible to go on as the no. 1 band in the world without disposing their music live - something no one had ever tried before. At least no one in their position and with their prestige... For The Beatles it was make it or loose it at this point. And making it meant boldness when it came to risking it all throwing themselves into a whole new and insecure direction. Interesting to hear in what order the songs were really made. Great video😊👍
Good points! One small correction, however: The Beatles went on their final tour right after Revolver was released in Aug of '66. They did 18 concerts in 13 days, the last show being at Candlestick Park. And that's when they said "NO MORE!"
@@mpemberton7760 i know😊 The final decision had not been taken yet before the recordings. But after the Manilla incident the “bigger than Jesus” incident (or was that on the 66 tour?) and other things The Beatles were getting sick of touring. Especially George… Surely they felt that their future was making misic in the studio. Were they also inspired by seeing what The Beach Boys acomplised by letting Brian Wilson stay at home conposing… Hmm…🤔
@@kjeldpedersen666 John's "more popular than Jesus" remark was from an interview he'd done in March that year. It didn't cause a ripple in the UK, but once the good Christians of the southern US got wind of it a few months later, they were caught up in anti-Beatles mania. This was right before their American tour, and Brian Epstein thought about cancelling it out of concern for their safety. After that, they were ready to pack it in...not just touring, but they were done being The Beatles. Then Paul came up with this crazy concept about an alter ego band...
The BEST Beatles album, for me. Compared to Pepper, THIS is the Beatles masterpiece and NOT Pepper. But it is a good thing the Beatles quit touring. Because the majority of these songs, they would not be able to play live.
I think this might be your best video on the Beatles yet. Loved the inclusion of examples of something the Beatles did that you were talking about like when you spoke of Ringo's introduction to Yellow Submarine that was scrapped back in 1966
1:56 - The album featured no catchy hooks? The narrator is insane. How does one of the most hooky songs of all time open this album and this guy doesn't even notice?
This era of everchanging music (and lyrics) is still amazing to look back on. And the sheer volume of it only magnifies its significance. As briefly alluded to early on here, album sales in rock were iffy. AM radio dictated short (routinely less than 2:30) catchy tunes.
Brilliant video dude !! Subscribed straight away after watching this. Gonna binge watch a lot of these with a spliff ! Keep doing your thing brother 🙏🔥
1966 was also the year that bands like The Yardbirds, The Beatles, Troggs and Jimi Hendrix (before his 1st album) were getting their hands on the very first 100 watt Marshall and VOX amplifier heads. You could hear the power and distortion suddenly start jumping out of the record grooves on those 1966 records.
In June of 65 Yardbirds released the album "Four Your Love", which features one of the first truly fuzzed tone songs, "I'm Not Talking" and I Ain't Done Wrong. By "Nov 1965 Yardbirds released Having a rave-up, Jeff's use of the tone Bender is quite evident with songs like Train Kept A Rollin, Mr Your A Better Man Than I( especially the solo ), and Heartful Of Soul. The Beatles released a month Later, Rubber Soul. The other thing about the Yardbirds, Jeff's fuzz tone was also present in their 1966 live performances. Something the Beatles didn't do live, as they played mostly their earlier stuff. Before Jimi's first album, Jeff Beck was the BEST guitarist out there. While most players still played their guitars chest high, Jeff slung his ax low, the epitome of a rock guitar hero.
@@Yardbird68If you watch the Japan concert(not sure which performance but they weren't wearing the black suits?)John kicks on somekinda fuzz during the beginning of "She's a Woman"
One of the reason why I think revolver stands as they’re best album is just the sheer vibes and creativity that went into it. It was a full on project and not in the way sgt pepper was forced.
Here's 1 for you 19 for me, tax man" "If you walk to fast I'll tax your feet, tax man" And you're working for no one but me" Sound familiar people? George, one of the best song writers in the group.
Funny how John and George looked down on Paul for being the last to try the wonder drug LSD and yet he came up with all those freaky sounds they use in Tomorrow Never Knows and at this point in the Beatles career McCartney was listening to really advanced stuff like John Cage and others.
Paul was taking drugs too but weed and cocaine were his choices. Pepper is the result of Paul's prodigious imagination, fuelled by cannabis and coke, and a sumptuous side order of Lennon acid and Harrison mystic!
@davecostello560 Agreed but Paul did take acid just not as much as George and especially John. I love George's comment in some interview about how you really only need to take LSD once and then later saying he's taken it lots of times!
Yes ,Harrison used to say 'we had our dentist experience John and me well before Paul so we had that early bond ',A dentist introduced it after their dinner with their coffee, nice dessert.
I always found it interesting the classical musicians became big babies whenever something wasnt "the way it has always been done" during their sessions with The Beatles. Maybe thats why classical music isnt as popular nowadays. They dont think out of the box like rock music does.
35 years ago, as vinyl was being replaced by CDs, I went to my local record shop and bought RUBBER SOUL, REVOLVER, ABBEY ROAD, and LET IT BE, my four favorite Beatles Albums, and Revolver might be my favorite. Today anyway....,
Being a hammond tech i know why john wanted to be sudpended from the ceiling. Likeky it was for tomorrow never knows, which conbined the effect of tape phasing with the phasing of a leslie cabinet... and john liked the sound of the leslie so much that he wanted to be suspended and spun in the same way the leslie did... i don't think he was allowed. Lol
The description is always from the celebrity point of view. They were doing this and we watched in amazement. It would be fun to have a we were doing this and here is what was amazing. Because I can tell you, I was doing this and it was amazing. Drugs morphed into physical experience, but there was gold and them their hills in consciousness.
I'm surprised there was no mention of the argument between Paul and the others that caused Paul to leave the session for She Said She Said. George plays bass on that one.
Tomorrow never Knows was the game changer, it opened up the Portals to what we now call Progressive music. The album should be looked at historically as the greatest single catalyst to everything that followed.
George Martin got the idea for the strings on "Eleanor Rigby" from Bernard Herrmann's score for the shower-murder scene in Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho."
There i was in 8th grade in my room in a tiny midwest town in iowa at the time going to church and thinking the Beatles would never do drugs listening to that album with my other yesterday and today... Not until my little third grade neigbor let me borrow Sargent pepper and Lucy in the sky came out did i start to believe just maybe they did do drugs.. but those two albums of mine got me through my lifes journey and school with profound meaning as much as church did .. revolver was definitely the best of the Beatles and now I know why.. it took me a second to understand where John was coming from when he said they were more famous than Jesus..
John matured / healed a lot emotionally in the 60s and 70s, mostly right in the public eye. He was at peace with himself in the world by 1980. He´d be fine.
Got to get you into my life is the first Wings song. Great Album, so much variety and such a clean mix. Same with Rubber Soul. Twin Albums The Beatles Recording of Revolver (with a side story of a shyster named Magic Alex).
@@lewisb07 in the future possibly. ATM I’m working on the sgt pepper sessions. A Halloween video about the movie secret window.. and a documentary on the Phil Spector trial.
I remember playing Tomorrow Never Know. In parts it had an ultra high organ note that just droned on and on. I have not heard this note on recordings since the 1980's. What a crime in loss of fidelity.
Revolver is an incredible album. Arguably the best one but it's so hard to choose. What I can say is The Beatles will always be the best band in the world.
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They never rested on their laurels. The Abbey Road album was obviously the Coda to their tenure as The Beatles. How could they surpass that?
This album IS a masterpiece.
🦋☀️🌬
A magicalexterpiece!
Yea Yea Yea!
It's my favorite album ever made.
'And when your band starts playing different tunes..."
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"I can't get no satisfaction" - the Grateful Dead
"I'll see you on the dark side of the moon".
@@fredbates7693 erm actually it's "the band you're in" not "your band" 🤓🤓🤓🤓😭📐🌈
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I was blown away by Tomorrow Never Knows, it was brilliant!
This might be my favourite Beatles era. Magnificent video once again, thank you for blessing us on this Saturday morning
it’s only a matter of time until the stoned recording of rubber soul video🙏
👏🏽 indeed
I was 13 in 1970 and Rubbersoul was one of the first three records I ever purchased. Played on my funky portable stereo. It was pure magic, the sound and feelings ✨️ 🎶 were unimaginable.
Cheers 🍻 👏 peace ✌️ ☮️ 🕊 🙏
I love the get back documentary. It's cool to see them at the end of their run and the dynamics going on still. But I really would have liked to seen a doc about the recording of revolver. When everyone was at the top of their game. From all four Beatles to George Martin and Jeff Emrik. That would have been truly fascinating to watch
I'd love to see that !😊
Absolutely. It’s a shame (and blessing in many ways I’m sure) that cameras weren’t always prevalent during _all_ of their sessions
@@CantTellYouagreed. Imagine having 3 hour fly on the wall documentaries on each Beatles album's recording sessions. I guess we're lucky that there is already so much film and photography of them, as it stands.
That concert they gave on the roof doing the song Get back & seeing all the crowd down on the street was great!
That kind of fame is really overwhelming & frightening to me! They held up well while they were young, but as they started getting older they became more serious & touchy & fighting amongst themselves.
Just like the Pyramids of ancient Egypt, we have no real idea how they made them, but we are lucky enough to have them.
my absolute favourite all time album ever...this album changed my life
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"How DARE you vote for Paul over Faul?!"-William Shepard
So much talent and creativity between them all.
It’s insane that with all the engineering genius that Emerick & Martin put into this album…Lennon still continued to buy into “Magic Alex” and his grift lol
OH, that was fascinating! Revolver was the first record I bought, ever, at age 10. My mom, a classical pianist, made me throw it away. Fortunately, that was also the last record she ever made me throw away. I reacquired it a year later -- by then we were in the summer of love, and Sgt Pepper was in the air -- everywhere. And the Beatles WERE more popular than god.
Revolver is my favorite Beatles album & Tomorrow Never Knows is my favorite song on that album.
same!!! fav album and fav song
RAIN is FAB.
There’s no mention here of Paul walking out during the recording of she said she said. Apparently Paul was mad that George’s guitar was mimicking John‘s vocal. Also, George Martin had asked George Harrison to help John finish the song, apparently Paul couldn’t be bothered. So Paul was already in a bad mood. He got upset and he left mid session. John just said, let him go we’ll finish it ourselves. It’s the only Beatle song Paul didn’t play on.
On Revolver Box set outtake Paul's voice can be heard
I think Paul left after the basic track. He can be heard just before the take they used, and the bass sounds like him rather than George. Where you can tell Paul isn’t there is the vocals, especially in George being the one to repeat John (flatly) at the end, “I know what it’s like to be deeeaaaaaad.” Paul is definitely not SINGING on the song. The high part sounds nothing like him throughout. He had to have left before vocals were done.
Classic tune, too. In my opinion way more impactful than Got to Get You Into My Life or Good Day Sunshine. Those songs are corny, never mind how well-produced.
Well, John appears alone on Julia. The only solo recording of his Beatle years.
No wonder it’s so great.
Revolver is (in my opinion) THE BEST ALBUM OF THE BEATLES
It's my favourite
Agreed
an opinion is all it is ... favorite might be another way of saying it.
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Nah. It’s good, but there are a few Beatles albums that are better. For some reason Revolver sounds better when looking at the track listing than when listening to it.
from the moment I first heard this in '66, I loved it, and George's 'I want to tell You' , with the Cosmic Piano, was stuck in me head for the next 58 years.
John: Just played this track again to see what you meant and, yes ….Cosmic Piano …. great description.
@@sylviaroberts8103 as a Fab Fanatic it stood out on a superior album. Their best? Maybe. Me faves Abbey Road
Revolver didn’t get the praise it deserved until the late 1980’s when the cd release let the American audience hear the U.K. version for the first time.
That was the other reason it didn’t do well. Capitol Records ruined the album by removing songs from it and putting them in an earlier compilation album, Yesterday and Today, which completely ruined the way the album was supposed to be heard in America…
@@RollingThunder572 The British "Revolver" contains six songs by John, five by Paul and three by George. All three of the songs removed for the U.S. release were John's ("I'm Only Sleeping," "Dr. Robert" and "Nowhere Man"), which left the album unbalanced. After "Revolver" Brian Epstein renegotiated the Beatles' record contract, which among other things stipulated that future albums had to be released worldwide with the same contents.
@@mgconlan Lol then how do you explain Magical Mystery Tour? The American version was ironically better for that release
@@RollingThunder572 All of side 2 of Magical Mystery Tour had already been released as singles in the UK, therefore there wasn't really a need for a whole album and that's why it was only released as an EP there.
@@kathryngrace6750 No ik lol but still was much better to have all the singles put into one album rather than have to listen to each separately
Fantastic insight into the recording of another great Beatles Album.
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Tomorrow never knows is one of my favs from Revolver. That one, I'm only sleeping and And your bird can sing.
Side note, I never knew Paul did the solo on taxman and that those comical vocals on yellow submarine was John. Always thought that was Paul
Thanks for the work you put into these videos 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
That was the best álbum of the Beatles
coulda been the best , but me faves Abbey Road
I was born in April 1966. This has been my lifelong favorite album.
As an Englishman, John should have instinctively understood, that if he wanted engineering done, he should avoid Greeks bearing claims of being gifted.
John came up with the original idea for Yellow Submarine, but Paul helped later and pretty sure he suggested it for Ringo to sing. The demo on the Revolver super deluxe was John alone.
Indeed, I think I like the John's original demos better than the released version.
Yeah, it’s a real outlier in that John definitely came up with the basic verse motif, but the ultimate music (with Chorus) and lyric is more Paul’s contribution overall. That pretty much never happens in their discography. Usually the initiator is the main contributor.
And what a revelation that short demo was!
I believe it was Donovan who suggested 'Sky of blue and sea of green'?
@@dominicbugattiofficialWoW!
1966 was my very favorite year for 'Beatle Hair' in 1966, my hair wasn't there, yet
The USA version of 'Revolver' had ONLY 2 Lennon songs on it !
When I bought this album, 1966, I sat in my bedroom and listened to it, endlessly. Beatles4Ever
For no one and Here, There and Everywere are two underrated máster pieces
Here, There, And Everywhere is not under-rated. Everyone loves it.
For No One is my favorite Paul song
@@staggerlee7301 it's mine too
@@staggerlee7301 Yeah, that song is a timeless bomb of greatness! I hear the song and I FEEL those lyrics having experienced it myself before
25:45 erm..no, 'phantom power' is just 48V with a high impedance, it does not even hurt, let alone kill anybody. Source: trust me bro, I'm a sound engineer
PHANTON 48 is a toothless tiger, you'll be right sonny Jim, give it a lick.
I particularly loved the guitar sounds on the album. It's right up there among my favourite Beatles albums.
Revolver is a Mastetpiece Still as original and fresh ss it was 58 years ago
This album is so revolutionary it's incomprehensible.
with this record i became a fan---->
“This is where the fun begins”
The earlier stuff is more fun. This is where it got intellectual.
Agreed. The stuff before is good but this is where they became THE BEATLES to me
Every era of beatles is fun.
To the people who have sex, I’m just quoting Star Wars lol
I bought the Parlophone vinyl in 1978, at Tower Records in Sacramento from the "Import section" it cost at least 5 dollars more than the Capitol release. Totally Worth It! $5 was a good chunk back then!😎
In my eyes “Revolver” is and remains the best Beatles album.
It’s the most innovative album, the biggest jump forward.
You might be able to find even stronger tracks here & there on other albums and singles. You might even be able to find more coherent albums.
But when it comes to innovation and experimentation nothing tops “Revolver”.
There might be some reasons behind this (-in my eyes) fact.
The drugs and the inspiration from the whole counter culture is one thing.
Another reason is the fact that The Beatles had decided to stop touring. Would it even be possible to go on as the no. 1 band in the world without disposing their music live - something no one had ever tried before. At least no one in their position and with their prestige...
For The Beatles it was make it or loose it at this point. And making it meant boldness when it came to risking it all throwing themselves into a whole new and insecure direction.
Interesting to hear in what order the songs were really made. Great video😊👍
Good points! One small correction, however: The Beatles went on their final tour right after Revolver was released in Aug of '66. They did 18 concerts in 13 days, the last show being at Candlestick Park. And that's when they said "NO MORE!"
@@mpemberton7760 i know😊
The final decision had not been taken yet before the recordings. But after the Manilla incident the “bigger than Jesus” incident (or was that on the 66 tour?) and other things The Beatles were getting sick of touring. Especially George…
Surely they felt that their future was making misic in the studio. Were they also inspired by seeing what The Beach Boys acomplised by letting Brian Wilson stay at home conposing…
Hmm…🤔
@@kjeldpedersen666 John's "more popular than Jesus" remark was from an interview he'd done in March that year. It didn't cause a ripple in the UK, but once the good Christians of the southern US got wind of it a few months later, they were caught up in anti-Beatles mania. This was right before their American tour, and Brian Epstein thought about cancelling it out of concern for their safety.
After that, they were ready to pack it in...not just touring, but they were done being The Beatles. Then Paul came up with this crazy concept about an alter ego band...
Revoler was when the Beatles turned to butterflies.
Is that a good thing!?
@@ApolloSuns - I don't know, since there's no such thing as Revoler.
@@ApolloSunsIt depends...
Nigga what does that mean?
lovely comment...
These keep getting better and better. Thank you 🙏🏽
Their greatest album where they were all working together!!
The BEST Beatles album, for me. Compared to Pepper, THIS is the Beatles masterpiece and NOT Pepper. But it is a good thing the Beatles quit touring. Because the majority of these songs, they would not be able to play live.
I think this might be your best video on the Beatles yet. Loved the inclusion of examples of something the Beatles did that you were talking about like when you spoke of Ringo's introduction to Yellow Submarine that was scrapped back in 1966
Brilliant.
1:56 - The album featured no catchy hooks? The narrator is insane. How does one of the most hooky songs of all time open this album and this guy doesn't even notice?
This era of everchanging music (and lyrics) is still amazing to look back on. And the sheer volume of it only magnifies its significance. As briefly alluded to early on here, album sales in rock were iffy. AM radio dictated short (routinely less than 2:30) catchy tunes.
Brilliant use of film and photography in this engaging documentary.
Thank you for a great video! It is very well edited with a great narration. Keep up the good work👍
Magic Alex knew how to control John. It was like that psychologist or psychiatrist that knew how to control Brian Wilson….!
"Control" is the perfect word here. And not necessarily in positive ways.
John often seemed to be easily swayed by strong willed people of somewhat dubious talents-Magic Alex, Yoko Ono, etc.
@@CBrolley finally someone who understands what went on….!
Revolver changed everything. Overshadowed by Pepper.
Brilliant video dude !! Subscribed straight away after watching this. Gonna binge watch a lot of these with a spliff ! Keep doing your thing brother 🙏🔥
The great thing with that strategy is you forget most of the video´s content (I know) and are able to watch it again later. :-)
@@johnmarshall2722 now you’ve said it John !! Ideal
Well done, sir.
This is my favorite Beatles retrospective that is done by an independent.
Still my favorite Beatles record and one of my favorite records of all time.
Song: Tomorrow Never Knows it's a masterpiece
another amazing video
Rubber Soul and Revolver are awesome works of music
1966 was also the year that bands like The Yardbirds, The Beatles, Troggs and Jimi Hendrix (before his 1st album) were getting their hands on the very first 100 watt Marshall and VOX amplifier heads. You could hear the power and distortion suddenly start jumping out of the record grooves on those 1966 records.
In June of 65 Yardbirds released the album "Four Your Love", which features one of the first truly fuzzed tone songs, "I'm Not Talking" and I Ain't Done Wrong. By "Nov 1965 Yardbirds released Having a rave-up, Jeff's use of the tone Bender is quite evident with songs like Train Kept A Rollin, Mr Your A Better Man Than I( especially the solo ), and Heartful Of Soul. The Beatles released a month Later, Rubber Soul. The other thing about the Yardbirds, Jeff's fuzz tone was also present in their 1966 live performances. Something the Beatles didn't do live, as they played mostly their earlier stuff. Before Jimi's first album, Jeff Beck was the BEST guitarist out there. While most players still played their guitars chest high, Jeff slung his ax low, the epitome of a rock guitar hero.
@@Yardbird68Truly the start
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Ohhhh wowwwwwwwwwwwwww. "Got the 'Axe' low mannn. Wowwwwwwww. " 🤡@@Yardbird68
@@Yardbird68If you watch the Japan concert(not sure which performance but they weren't wearing the black suits?)John kicks on somekinda fuzz during the beginning of "She's a Woman"
Revolver and Abbey Road were their greatest albums! Loved them both.
One of the reason why I think revolver stands as they’re best album is just the sheer vibes and creativity that went into it. It was a full on project and not in the way sgt pepper was forced.
Wonderful Album and a very informative video! Keep up the awesome work!
Here's 1 for you 19 for me, tax man" "If you walk to fast I'll tax your feet, tax man" And you're working for no one but me"
Sound familiar people?
George, one of the best song writers in the group.
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Uhh yeh it sounds familiar. Its from the song Tax Man by The Beatles.
1966 The year the music changed for good.
And for worse
@@azloii9781 no way. Started changing for the worst in the 80s. the 70s was incredible.
Those amps were not used in the US ‘66 tour. They used the «Vox Super Beatle». Also, Paul switched from Hofner to Rick on the Rubber Soul recordings
I think he means those amps kicked off the 66 tour in both Europe & the far East.
@@bobbystereo936 if you watch the Budokan concerts on YT you’ll notice ac100’s. The days after the received the UL’s, witch you can see on fotografs
The Beatles are in a genre all their own. No Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd without the GOATS🎸😎
Great review of one of the Beatles greatest albums, with Rubber Soul & Sgt. Pepper’s, the holy trinity of mid-60s Beatles LPs 🌟🌟🌟
Your Beatles docs are spot on.
Without a doubt, Revolver is the greatest album ever made.
Funny how John and George looked down on Paul for being the last to try the wonder drug LSD and yet he came up with all those freaky sounds they use in Tomorrow Never Knows and at this point in the Beatles career McCartney was listening to really advanced stuff like John Cage and others.
Paul was taking drugs too but weed and cocaine were his choices. Pepper is the result of Paul's prodigious imagination, fuelled by cannabis and coke, and a sumptuous side order of Lennon acid and Harrison mystic!
@davecostello560 Agreed but Paul did take acid just not as much as George and especially John. I love George's comment in some interview about how you really only need to take LSD once and then later saying he's taken it lots of times!
Me too, it's a classic!! 😂@@tunesdonebyone3428
Yes ,Harrison used to say 'we had our dentist experience John and me well before Paul so we had that early bond ',A dentist introduced it after their dinner with their coffee, nice dessert.
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Nice,,,I remember listening to savile in the 70,s making shit stories up about pop stars,I knew he was bullshit then
He was an evil man. A pea dough file
Your channel is one of my prep time favorites for the future biopics we're gonna be watching in 2027.
I always found it interesting the classical musicians became big babies whenever something wasnt "the way it has always been done" during their sessions with The Beatles. Maybe thats why classical music isnt as popular nowadays. They dont think out of the box like rock music does.
Great video! Just when you think the Yellow Submarine session couldn't get any crazier, they take it up another notch!
Very cool! All the details you provide enhance the experience of listening to Revolver.
Just keep in mind that a lot of them are wrong.
35 years ago, as vinyl was being replaced by CDs, I went to my local record shop and bought RUBBER SOUL, REVOLVER, ABBEY ROAD, and LET IT BE, my four favorite Beatles Albums, and Revolver might be my favorite. Today anyway....,
Being a hammond tech i know why john wanted to be sudpended from the ceiling. Likeky it was for tomorrow never knows, which conbined the effect of tape phasing with the phasing of a leslie cabinet... and john liked the sound of the leslie so much that he wanted to be suspended and spun in the same way the leslie did... i don't think he was allowed. Lol
Hahaha
The description is always from the celebrity point of view. They were doing this and we watched in amazement.
It would be fun to have a we were doing this and here is what was amazing.
Because I can tell you, I was doing this and it was amazing.
Drugs morphed into physical experience, but there was gold and them their hills in consciousness.
I was astonished to find this album came before the Sgt. Pepper's because this sounds even more psychedelia on much of it's tracks
Fascinating to see the Beatles, in all their hairy laid back hipsterness, working with George Martin and his white shirt and tie crew.
Emerick and the engineers at Abbey Road were brilliant and their creations live on.
Revolver is MY SGT PEPPER. This album is the best of early Beatles and the later Beatles together on one album !!
Absolutely,,,fabulous performance music. "Fab Four" ...BEST.
I'm surprised there was no mention of the argument between Paul and the others that caused Paul to leave the session for She Said She Said. George plays bass on that one.
Tomorrow never Knows was the game changer, it opened up the Portals to what we now call Progressive music. The album should be looked at historically as the greatest single catalyst to everything that followed.
So much rigmarole in creating g this...but it WAS a classic. Arguably their best.
What is g this?
Rain is a much better song than Paperback writer and should have been the A side. To date it is my favorite Beatles song.
The Music Stars ⭐️ from the MTV years (600) of them voted this the best song 🎶 of all time
The story of 'Eleanor Rigby's strings is a prime example of how important George Martin was to the Beatles' music.
Yes, Rubber Soul and Pet Sounds were indeed - masterpieces
Pet Sounds to me!
George Martin got the idea for the strings on "Eleanor Rigby" from Bernard Herrmann's score for the shower-murder scene in Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho."
Taxman was such a strong song you can't forget it.
I'm one of a handful of people that took LSD back in the day, the truth is is that you never come back quite the same.
There i was in 8th grade in my room in a tiny midwest town in iowa at the time going to church and thinking the Beatles would never do drugs listening to that album with my other yesterday and today... Not until my little third grade neigbor let me borrow Sargent pepper and Lucy in the sky came out did i start to believe just maybe they did do drugs.. but those two albums of mine got me through my lifes journey and school with profound meaning as much as church did .. revolver was definitely the best of the Beatles and now I know why.. it took me a second to understand where John was coming from when he said they were more famous than Jesus..
ASK AND YOU SHALL RECEIVE! THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS :)
John was so easily duped by conmen. I can’t imagine what he’d be sucked into in the hell year of 2024.
John matured / healed a lot emotionally in the 60s and 70s, mostly right in the public eye. He was at peace with himself in the world by 1980. He´d be fine.
Brilliant! 🙃🫠🤗
Lovely video. Very comprehensive.
Dr Robert was the original Dr Feelgood. The Beatles did it 20+ years before Mötley Crüe.
Did you really say "Motley Crue," in the same breath and league as the Beatles? That's like comparing Mozart with a jester
@@KevinSim-mp1cl No. I never said anything about Mötley Crüe being in the same league as the Beatles. Do you have a reading comprehension problem?
Got to get you into my life is the first Wings song.
Great Album, so much variety and such a clean mix. Same with Rubber Soul. Twin Albums
The Beatles Recording of Revolver (with a side story of a shyster named Magic Alex).
masterpiece of album, masterpiece of video as well.
Hey man, love the Beatles videos, would you consider doing a video on George's "All Things Must Pass" sessions? I'd love to see it. Thanks!
@@lewisb07 in the future possibly.
ATM I’m working on the sgt pepper sessions. A Halloween video about the movie secret window.. and a documentary on the Phil Spector trial.
@filmretrospective5334 Awesome, thanks for the reply, look forward to seeing them!
My favorite Beatles' album - and that's a hard choice!
Yes, Pet Sounds, even Paul said that the best song ever written is God only knows
Love your videos!
I remember playing Tomorrow Never Know. In parts it had an ultra high organ note that just droned on and on. I have not heard this note on recordings since the 1980's. What a crime in loss of fidelity.
Oops- i meant she said she said.
Oh yeahhhh
Favourite Beatles album and Abbey Road
Mine too