25 years ago tonight.

[daveman]

Re: 25 years ago tonight.

personally i blame the beatles for pop music

that imo is an incredibly shitty thing to say and makes me wonder if you really know anything about the beatles music and their history. not to mention the way they were pushing sound and music to levels that no one in that time period could even comprehend.

i have had disscussions with several people (and i know it is a stretch) but i feel that in certain ways the music production that the beatles and in particular john put together were very much like the mixes and production used in electronic music today.

you have to think that back then there was only a 4 part recording to the tape tracks that they were using. look at certain tracks on Sgt. Pepper or the White Album for instance. full orchestra, random sounds, their music, and their vocals all had to be laid out on just those 4 tracks. the use of tempo changes, backwards recordings, volume adjustments for effect, and speeding up or slowing down sounds to create feelings and emotions. imo. this is the very early stages of the things that dj's are trying to continue to push today.

if you have to blame someone for the birth of "pop music" i would blame the monkeys, the worlds first boy band.
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[bart_smastard]

Re: 25 years ago tonight.

It's not often a scouser earns a mancs admiration but this guy was different class .
A life ended way too soon IMO

[shan]

Re: 25 years ago tonight.

chapman killed him because of the whole thing about jesus FYI. pathetic

for those in the USA who have the YES network, tune in tonight for the best of mike and mad dog, they had the ABC correspondent who cooincidentally was the person who broke the story. he had been in an accident and was in roosevelt hospital's emergency room hallway waiting for a room when john was brought into the ER. he was lying next to lennon while the doctors worked on him and he is the one who phoned into ABC's news desk what happened and let cossell break the news to the world, he also was immediatly on the radio from the hospital bed with ABC news radio. he tells of the whole ordeal with amazing deail and was a brilliant listen.

fuck id love to hear that

[thesightless]

Re: 25 years ago tonight.

SHAN and whoever want to hear it.

https://www.wfan.com

it is a sports station in general, but go down the main page a little bit to the Mike and mad dog area. there are two links about lennon interviews from yesterday. the interview i frist spoke of is the alan weiss interview,. the second is also a great listen.







to explain.

thier early ed sullivan/shea stadium type material was indeed very sugary boy band type pop. thier later stuff was what i really love. weird to think of it like that, but when they were suit wearing, head bobbing guys they were just to much towards pop music rather than rock. i wanna hold your hand is the example i use. thier later material was deeper, more constructed music. look at the difference of the 3 frontmen after they broke up. lennon and harrison had brilliant music while mccartney kinda went mainstream with his quirky smile and hand waving stadium concerts while harrison did the bangladesh type work and lennon, well, he just made world changin music and ideas. give peace a chance and strawberry feilds shit on thier initial work IMO>

[shan]

Re: 25 years ago tonight.

thanks for the link man