The Beatles trivia thread
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I can't find anything about Linda on the White Album now. Guess it was all in my mind.
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dappa-macca:
I can't find anything about Linda on the White Album now. Guess it was all in my mind.
No it wasn't! I just told you I read it.
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Nancy R:
dappa-macca:
I can't find anything about Linda on the White Album now. Guess it was all in my mind.
No it wasn't! I just told you I read it.
Here it says Linda was the only one who did not sing on The White album: http://www.funtrivia.com/en/Music/White-Album-12431.html It's in a green heading.
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The Beatles Bible site has a lot of good info, and according to their White Album entry Linda is not credited (or uncredited): http://www.beatlesbible.com/albums/the-beatles-white-album/ Maureen, Yoko, and Patti are there though.
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I was just going by a book I have that said that some sources said Linda sang on it (Birthday)
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dappa-macca:
Something I just learned... the opening to The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill there is a flamenco guitar. But it's not a flamenco guitar. It's the mellotron. I had no idea. Pretty cool.
Is this confirmed? I was talking to a friend last night that said that could not be a Mellotron. A mellotron uses tape loops assigned to each key. Id' be curious how they got tape loops to sound like that if it's true.
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Erik in NJ:
dappa-macca:
Something I just learned... the opening to The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill there is a flamenco guitar. But it's not a flamenco guitar. It's the mellotron. I had no idea. Pretty cool.
Is this confirmed? I was talking to a friend last night that said that could not be a Mellotron. A mellotron uses tape loops assigned to each key. Id' be curious how they got tape loops to sound like that if it's true.
According to wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Continuing_Story_of_Bungalow_Bill The song opens with a flamenco guitar solo (taken from a seldom-heard Mellotron bank of Spanish guitar runs). The solo involves all seven notes of the Phrygian mode, including a Spanish-sounding flat2, a natural seventh from the harmonic minor scale and a blues-sounding flat5.
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Cool. Unless that is a single loop, I don't know how they could have gotten it so seamless at that speed. But then again, I'm not that familiar with how a Mellotron works. Prett whacky instrument.
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Erik in NJ:
Cool. Unless that is a single loop, I don't know how they could have gotten it so seamless at that speed. But then again, I'm not that familiar with how a Mellotron works. Prett whacky instrument.
According to the entry on the Beatles Bible the mellotron had seven-second samples. So the whole piece was a sample, rather than the individual notes: "The guitar flourish was one of a number of seven-second instrument samples included on the Mellotron Mark II." http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/the-continuing-story-of-bungalow-bill/