| Author | Message | ||
| flaxattack
Senior Member Username: flaxattack Post Number: 1538 Registered: 4-2004 |
it was 40 yrs ago today, sgt pepper taught us how to play........... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/31/AR2007053101848.html?hpid=opinionsbox1 | ||
| jacko
Senior Member Username: jacko Post Number: 1189 Registered: 10-2002 |
Surely that would be 60 years ago today? 20 in the song plus 40 since it was written;-) (they made the same mistake on BBC radio 2 this lunchtime) Graeme | ||
| chuckc
Member Username: chuckc Post Number: 51 Registered: 7-2004 |
Ditto, Jacko. My Beatles tribute band is playing this weekend and we start off with Sgt Pepper. I am planning on changing the lyrics to reflect " It was 60 years ago today, Sgt Pepper taught the band to play" | ||
| olieoliver
Senior Member Username: olieoliver Post Number: 1381 Registered: 2-2006 |
One can only imagine where modern music would be today had we not had the Beatles. | ||
| chuckc
Member Username: chuckc Post Number: 52 Registered: 7-2004 |
With all due respect to those that came before, I fear we may have been overwhelmed with a plethora of I IV V progressions........Yikes!!!!! | ||
| 811952
Senior Member Username: 811952 Post Number: 1028 Registered: 10-2003 |
Hippy (sic) Birthday, Sarge! | ||
| dnburgess
Senior Member Username: dnburgess Post Number: 510 Registered: 1-2003 |
Wow - it seams like only a nano-second that it was 30 / 50 years ago today. Ok, well maybe 5 minutes. | ||
| 57basstra
Senior Member Username: 57basstra Post Number: 646 Registered: 4-2005 |
"..You say it's your birthday It's my birthday too--yeah They say it's your birthday We're gonna have a good time I'm glad it's your birthday Happy birthday to you. Yes we're going to a party party Yes we're going to a party party Yes we're going to a party party. I would like you to dance--Birthday Take a cha-cha-cha-chance-Birthday I would like you to dance--Birthday Dance You say it's your birthday Well it's my birthday too--yeah You say it's your birthday We're gonna have a good time I'm glad it's your birthday Happy birthday to you. ...." To me the Beatles will always be the Greatest Band ever and Sir Paul is the reason I picked up the bass. Thanks guys | ||
| bigredbass
Senior Member Username: bigredbass Post Number: 1189 Registered: 9-2002 |
For the children in the audience . . . . I was 12 years old and attending elementary school in Beaumont, Texas. Remember this is a much smaller world: Three TV stations, AM-only Top 40 radio, even a long distance phone call was a big deal. Satellite communication was an adolescent technology, we're even a few years before eight tracks. Yet we all KNEW the day this record was coming out. We did not know what it was going to be, but something BIG was coming, I could just feel it. It was foreshadowed by two singles that sure didn't sound like 'I Saw Her Standing There': 'Penny Lane', shot through with its inherent 'Paul-ness', but deep in found sounds and imagery, and John's 'I Am the Walrus', a swirling dose of 'what the hell was that?', the obvious settlement of a lot of arrangement hammering between John and George Martin. Certainly different, but fine. In a way though, you could see them going in a different direction through 'Rubber Soul' and 'Revolver', as well. Her mother bought it (The first day it was available) while we were at school, went straight to her house from school and here's this album cover with them in mustaches and satin military band outfits. ? . ? And the rest of the people in the cover montage . . . Ripped it open, played it through, and was dumbstruck. Godsmacked. My world changed sitting in her room listening to that record. At a time when they owned the world, it would have been real easy to play it safe. Even easier to aim for something different and come back with something way too experimental that nobody got or liked, like a lot of their later solo projects. For them to walk into the void, come out with that, was/is a work of spontaneous genius and huge courage I've never seen matched before or since. EVERYTHING was different after that one. But you know . . . I've always wished for an alarm clock that would BLAST 'Good Morning, Good Morning!' to wake me up every day. J o e y | ||
| 57basstra
Senior Member Username: 57basstra Post Number: 647 Registered: 4-2005 |
Magnificently expressed, beautifully writen, Joey. drr | ||
| zach
Junior Username: zach Post Number: 24 Registered: 4-2007 |
Sounds like a magical moment Joel. Is it just me or do you not get that amount of ingenuity and generally ground breaking stuff nowadays? the closet I think i've come to a moment like yours was the first time i listened to a led zep album, I think that was the moment i fell in love with rock. Sgt Peppers is a truly brilliant album, and has stood the test of time, to the point that two of my friends and myself had an argument because one let it slip that he doesn't like the beatles (strange boy...). | ||
| davehouck
Moderator Username: davehouck Post Number: 5058 Registered: 5-2002 |
I agree with Flax; it was 40 years. In paraphrasing the lyric, Flax is pointing out that 40 years ago this album taught us a new paradigm for writing and playing and appreciating rock music. It changed the course of rock music, perhaps more than any other album before or since. | ||
| olieoliver
Senior Member Username: olieoliver Post Number: 1384 Registered: 2-2006 |
Wow, 40 years ago I was only 4 years old. I wouldn't pick up a bass for 8 more years. But that album definately had a lasting affect on my playing. Very cool story Joey and I agree, "beautifully written. Olie |
