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RE: Lennon & Elton at MSG 1974
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btw I bought that vinyl I mentioned, sounds better than I expected, loving it. I hadn't noticed based on listening on YouTube, but in two spots John teases the opening riff to I Feel Fine. Once as he's coming onstage right before they do Whatever Gets You Through The Night.. and then once during I Saw Her Standing There. When he slips it in ISHST it's really cool and fits perfectly! he does it juts after the 'way beyond compare'... listen for it, its pretty sweet
Oh wow, I've never heard that before! You're right. It sounds really good. Thanks for pointing that one out.
Did John also sing on Elton's stuido single version of Lucy -
It says he played guitar on the track, but definitely sounds like him singing on the chorus too.It does include background vocals from Lennon, I heard it wasn?t credited but Elton John later verified as much.. as well as his guitar. Thanks for posting that link Bday, been a while since I?d heard it. Check out the credits printed on the vinyl single pic below. Does that say ?Elton John featuring the Reggae guitars of Dr. Winston O?Boogie?? Nice
I'm listening to the Elton's studio version of Lucy right now. I like the reggae breakdown at the 3:30 mark. sweet reggae guitars from Dr O'Boogie M.D. (manic depressive)
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RE: the Nilsson thread
Whats up Nilsson shrine! ! Got more to post on you... I so love this little shrine I?ve created anyone getting the feeling yet that what you're looking at here is one man's deep-dive crash-course education and subsequent fascination with the Nilsson catalogue? I share with friends, that's just how it goes so I came across this song called A Love Like Yours (Don?t Come Knocking Everyday). It was a new one for me, I hope you enjoy it. Its an oldie written by somebody.. but Harry and Cher do a version at the link below. That site (which is amazing in itself) claims Nilsson and Spector had worked on it originally as a backing track for John?s Rock n Roll album, but when it wasn?t used he enlisted Cher and made it a single on his ill-fated Warner Bros vanity label. A NilsSony & Cher duet produced by Phil Spector Old School Dig It http://fortheloveofharry.blogspot.com/2008/02/nilsson-cher-love-like-yours-1975.html
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RE: the Nilsson thread
Have you ever watched a moonbeam as it slid across your windowpane? I tell you what.. please listen to this song called Moonbeam by Harry. From Nilsson Schmilsson. First listen and read along with the lyrics, because they are so clever; double entendre, use of the word crap, all kinds of crazy stuff going on.. I wish it was easier to write like that, he was great at it? and then check out the images that this guys put up on YouTube to go along with the song. When I watch it it?s actually semi moving for me.. so relaxing, and the song just totally takes me away.. and the images even assist that more. Dig it
Have you ever watched a moonbeam as it slid across your windowpane? Or struggled with a bit of rain. Or danced about the weathervane. Or sat along a moving train. And wondered where the train has been. Or on a fence with bits of crap around its bottom. Blown there by a wind beam. Who searches for the moonbeam who was last seen looking at the tracks of the careless wind beam. And moving to the tracks of the tireless freight train. And lighting up the sides of the weathervane and the bits of rain and the windowpane and the eyes of those who think they saw it happen -
RE: The Official U2 Thread!
yeah I agree it's definitely raised the bar for arena shows. I think the Stones would be really well served on a stage like that. Mick and Keith able to get around the stage, etc. that Spaceship comment reminds me of a part of the show I was at.. Bono says to he crowd, 'everyone take out your cell phones, lets turn this place into the freaking Milky Way!!' This was so far out looking, and I found a clip of it on YouTube (though it ain't that great)... but that stadium totally felt like the Milky Way, a blanket of lights swirling around all over the place..so sweet cause every damn person in that place had a cell phone !
I remember thinking the whole bit might have been a plug as I believe the main sponsor of the show might have been cell phone company?.. cool as hell though. -
RE: The Official U2 Thread!
I saw U2 at Soldier Field in Chicago, during their last 360tour. that was a tremendous show, what a stage! I'd never seen ANYTHING like that. with the crazy screen that breaks apart!.. and how Bono worked that cool light mic, that was sweet. and I like how the bandcan literally roam off to different parts of the stage to rock out right in front of poeple! such a fun show.. did I hear them playing Blackbird at one point? or was it another Beatles song I heard? memory very hazy from that show
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RE: VINYL appreciation thread!
I really need to start cleaning my records.. they get dirty, dust and fingerprints.. need to get the supplies and get on it beatlesfanrandy, I actually picked up a 10 Years After album not too long ago but haven't really gotten into it. A Space In Time is the title. How is that band? The cool thing about vinyl is it seems like whatever is interesting about the music and band is just more obvious when you have the album. all the little extras, writings on the cover, sleeve, posters, etc. Like I bought the Nilsson/Ringo Son Of Dracula album, and as soon as I looked I saw it was released on an Apple/RCA joint venture : label called Rapple. you guys heard of this? I believe this album was the only one ever released on the label. awesome album btw, that A side has 3 of perhaps my top 10 Nilsson songs on it; Daybreak, Moonbeam, At My Front Door.
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RE: Lennon & Elton at MSG 1974
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I love that song Surprise, Surprise.. just an awesome tune. Sweet! Sweet!.. Sweet! Sweet!.. Bird! that's a total nod to Drive My Car and to Paul, good call. John's done that a few times in his solo songs.. I have to think of them, some are really subtle... on Mind Games in I Know its basically the rythm from I've Got A Feeling.. and I think there's a lick in the song New York City that sounds like Back in the USSR.. need to listen again.. dcshark, at this clip I'm hearing I Feel Fine at about the 57-58 sec mark. am I right on that? it almost blends so well you wouldn't even notice it.. unless you're a complete Beatles nerd.. like us
I wouldn't say the rhythm of the whole song for "I Know (I Know) is like" I've Got a Feeling" but he throws in a very similar riff in the intro and in other parts of the song. That's a great song too, a lot of people forget about that one when discussing the public John-Paul feud of the early 70's. In addition to the couple you mentioned, John's "Going Down On Love" has a nod to "Help" in it as well.
yep, better said, it wouldbe the riff that's similar more than the rhythm. Going Down On Love is another with the won't you please please help me lyric. I love that tune. That's one where the music does some interesting things, sort of a McCartney-esque song. I like the horns that come in during the second part of each verse. and I always liked John's nod to the show the Price is Right in there. well you know you know you know the price is riiiiight. I know he wasa big TV fan, so I always took that line to be a nod at that show which began airing in 1972.
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RE: Lennon & Elton at MSG 1974
Hey Birthday, just to clarify, I was refering to the song 'I Know (I Know)' off the Mind Games album.., you'll notice the similarity in the rhythm real quick on that one.. have a listen:
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RE: the Nilsson thread
So check this little similarity I picked up on, and you tell me if there was any homage being paid to Nilsson?s song Driving Along.. thought to have been written around June 1971, released on Nilsson Schmilsson in November 1971. great song by the way, and a little too Macca-esque if you ask me . check it out at the 55 sec mark! Total McCartney vibe at its coolest
And here is Paul?s Eat At Home. Thought to be recorded March 1971, released in May 1971. released a month before Nilsson started recording his.. listen to Paul?s vocals at the 58 sec mark obvious homage, right? Makes you wonder, you think Harry deliberately pinched it? I'm sure Paul heard it.. even the entire bridges sound alike, don?t they? Start Driving Along at .42, and start Eat At Home at .46, at the beginning of both bridges.. the bridge of Eat at Home is about 19 secs long.. Driving Along runs about 21 sec. I swear, its like Paul and Harry wrote the same damn bridge! My real issue is that I waste time with stuff like this Okay.. back 2 work -
RE: Lennon & Elton at MSG 1974
I love that song Surprise, Surprise.. just an awesome tune. Sweet! Sweet!.. Sweet! Sweet!.. Bird! that's a total nod to Drive My Car and to Paul, good call. John's done that a few times in his solo songs.. I have to think of them, some are really subtle... on Mind Games in I Know its basically the rythm from I've Got A Feeling.. and I think there's a lick in the song New York City that sounds like Back in the USSR.. need to listen again.. dcshark, at this clip I'm hearing I Feel Fine at about the 57-58 sec mark. am I right on that? it almost blends so well you wouldn't even notice it.. unless you're a complete Beatles nerd.. like us
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RE: Lennon & Elton at MSG 1974
Birthday:
Birthday:
kapoo:
btw I bought that vinyl I mentioned, sounds better than I expected, loving it. I hadn't noticed based on listening on YouTube, but in two spots John teases the opening riff to I Feel Fine. Once as he's coming onstage right before they do Whatever Gets You Through The Night.. and then once during I Saw Her Standing There. When he slips it in ISHST it's really cool and fits perfectly! he does it juts after the 'way beyond compare'... listen for it, its pretty sweet
Oh wow, I've never heard that before! You're right. It sounds really good. Thanks for pointing that one out.
Did John also sing on Elton's stuido single version of Lucy -
It says he played guitar on the track, but definitely sounds like him singing on the chorus too.It does include background vocals from Lennon, I heard it wasn?t credited but Elton John later verified as much.. as well as his guitar. Thanks for posting that link Bday, been a while since I?d heard it. Check out the credits printed on the vinyl single pic below. Does that say ?Elton John featuring the Reggae guitars of Dr. Winston O?Boogie?? Nice some of the various single sleeves I saw? The single actually went #1 for Elton, and the B-side is another John tune from Mind Games, One Day (At A Time) . here's Elton's version
Cool song, John sings backing on that one also Denmark UK Yugoslavia Germany USA Japan -
RE: VINYL appreciation thread!
I'm with you here MaccaBeatles I am a big fan of vinyl. I try to get eveything in this format and just enjoy playing them and listening to them and staring at the album sleeves for hours it sounds so much better on vinyl. music that is. the last 3 LP's I bought were Nilsson's Aerial Pandemonium Ballet, Zepplin 1, and Bowie's Young Americans. This is a sweet place I found to get vinyl http://www.platterpus.com/ mostly used but in great shape, and extremely good deals. check it out. you can order online via this site, or you can go there by appointment. its a total diggers paradise. they have a warehouse ful of ridiculous collections. its literally amazing. I saw a mint WOA 6 side set for $5 last time I was there. I shit you not. I already own it yet almost bought it again on sheer principle. vinyl's where its at for sure.
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RE: Paul McCartney - YouTube Videos
that's cool, I see the resemblence! his dad even gives him money for drinks, thats pretty funny.
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RE: Paul McCartney - YouTube Videos
have you all seen this? Paul in a Liverpool pub with family in 1973? awesome footage. about 5:27 he's singing "Sunshine, My Only Susnshine" with an old guy. thats not his dad, is it?
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RE: the Nilsson thread
Cool vid.. John and Harry at the March of Dimes rally in Central Park, April 1974.
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RE: Moving Pictures - a thread for YouTube clips of the Beatles!
John & Stevie (and everyone else) doing Give Peace A Chance, Live In NYC 1972
I always thought the Live in NYC concert shed some light on the fact that Give Peace a Chance actually could have been an even greater song / groove had it been flushed out in the studio just a little bit. I like the bass line Elephants Memory puts on it. -
RE: Moving Pictures - a thread for YouTube clips of the Beatles!
I was listening to Nilsson's Pandemonium Shadow Show album actually, and he does this rendition of She's Leaving Home
His album came out in 1967 also, nice rapid tribute there. But it made me take notice of how great that song is. Kind of gets lost on that album for me, but interesting that Harry was compelled to cover it immediately. His other covers were also Paul songs. But what a great peice of writing from Paul there. Here's the Beatles version.. btw, whats the time signature, 3/3?