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5.26pm
1 December 2009
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I’ve only now noticed something different in the new 2018 mix of this: Giles brought way up several seconds of John’s saxophone-mouthpiece squeals right near song’s end, during Ringo’s climactic three cymbal smashes and all throughout his blister complaint. I heard it played a couple of times last week and thought “what? have I missed that for years, was that always there?”
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Richard, Rube, kelicopterGEORGE: 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.
4.23pm
21 February 2024
Offline There is the common argument whether Helter Skelter or “I Can See For Miles” by The Who – the former being written in competition of The Who – I can say now that THE BEATLES WON!
“I Can See For Miles” is sung more lower and tries to be ominous, but Helter Skelter is 4 minutes of literal screaming from Paul McCartney , all the while sound effects and drumming and whining guitars make it sound like the apocalypse, and even influenced a serial killer (Charles Manson) to kill Sharon Tate.
The original Heavy Metal song is not to be beaten by anything before it!
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America is SAFE Again! 47
11.47pm
21 February 2024
Offline Who plays the guitar on this song, because there is a guitar piece which sounds like a motorcycle idling. It’s pretty cool, because its like “Hell’s Angels”. Well done, Paul.
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America is SAFE Again! 47
4.49pm
1 December 2009
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I was thinking the other day about this song’s lyrical dichotomy (of up/down, ascent and descent), and how the various guitar parts convey those very up/down suggestions:
– Song begins with a quick slid chord down the entire neck of the guitar
– Next, Paul sings “When I get to the bottom I go back…” over a descending pattern of 8th-note chords (two-string?)
– Chorus, and the song’s title is three times sung, each followed by a 7-note scalar descent.
– Finish of chorus involves repeatedly picking a high note as the string is bent upward a full tone, before dropping abruptly in returning to the verse.
– Guitar solo has quite a few whlle-note bend/releases up or down
– And finally, during the first false finish, around the 3-minute mark, the drums and bass drop out; and we’re treated to a series of eight neck-slides, which themselves begin from slightly lower down the guitar neck each time.
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sir walter raleigh, Ahhh GirlGEORGE: 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.
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