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26 January 2017
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John’s voice on A Day In A Life breaks in a really interesting way, like an extremely rapid vibration that adds a lot of inflection to certain words like “film” during “I saw a film today oh boy”
Ringo’s drumming on Penny Lane is masterful. Come Together is always cited as the best example of how hard he can groove a song without doing much at all, I present the snare on Penny Lane . Minimalist but extremely in the pocket. The overall production on that song is as good as any song ever.
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2.28am
7 November 2022
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John’s voice on A Day In A Life breaks in a really interesting way, like an extremely rapid vibration that adds a lot of inflection to certain words like “film” during “I saw a film today oh boy”Ringo’s drumming on Penny Lane is masterful. Come Together is always cited as the best example of how hard he can groove a song without doing much at all, I present the snare on Penny Lane . Minimalist but extremely in the pocket. The overall production on that song is as good as any song ever.
Certainly the sound of Ringo’s snare is perfect, and he deploys a satisfying emphasis on it throughout, 98% of the time just accenting the upbeat (or is it the downbeat — I always get those mixed up). However, and this might be as blasphemous as a Catholic saying the Pope is wrong, but I’m sometimes disappointed in Ringo failing to use the hi-hat, ride cymbal, and crash cymbal. As I listen to Penny Lane , and it occurs to me, I’m missing the inclusion of hi-hat, ride cymbal, and crash cymbal. The only hi-hat I can detect is occasionally used with one hit in synch with the snare. Otherwise, it seems utterly absent — either due to Ringo avoiding them, or the engineers basically minimizing them so much you can’t hear them.
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1 December 2009
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There are a few Ringo tracks where he does seem to be doing very little; “Revolution ” is another. I don’t know whether this would’ve been Ringo’s choice, or a suggestion by songwriters Paul or John, or some combination of those…
Song fragments that really grab me:
Ringo in “I’m Only Sleeping “, the way he ends each verse with 5 glorious crash-cymbal hits – a very splashy sound, and especially effective & appropriate while it’s emphasizing the phrase “…float upstream.” (I imagine the unusual activity of floating up-stream would necessarily involve some splashing…)
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.
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