Posted on 11/05/2014 4:28:33 PM PST by lee martell
The song Ram On is from the album Ram. Ram was McCartney’s second solo album. The album McCartney was his first solo album.
Also, a lot of the best Wings songs were not big hits so if you only know them from the radio, you would think their sound was a lot more limited than it really was. Here are a few of their obscurer tracks that I think really stand out, give some a listen and you might enjoy them:
Wings - Monkberry Moon Delight
Wings - Get On The Right Thing
Paul McCartney has written so much great music that songs like Every Night, panned by critics, would be hits by other bands. And Your Bird Can Sing from Revolver, a song dismissed by John as “rubbish”, left other bands drooling. The Beatles left everyone in their wake.
I read one book about Lennon where the author tried to claim Lennon was some sort of a Marxist activist. All baloney. He just latched on to the newest thing/fad and dove headfirst into the stuff. But he was no musical genius as his mostly turgid post-Beatles work proved. Even "Imagine" is a song with a decent melody but really sappy, naive/utopian lyrics.
And as an amateur musician, I've got several Beatles sheet music books. McCartney had more good songs overall.
I will never, ever get tired of hearing ‘Here, There and Everywhere’ done acapella by the Boys.
“It’s sort of ironic that both Harrison and Starr managed better pop records post-Beatles than the two “greatest” Beatles. Did all that weed and other drugs dull their minds, or did they just run out of ideas like many musicians?”
Well, much of the success that Harrison and Starr had was helped along by collaboration with the other ex-Beatles on their biggest hit albums in various ways. On the other hand, Lennon and McCartney wanted to stand on their own, and do things themselves, I think.
When that song came out I don’t think you could scan the radio and not hit 2 or 3 stations playing it all the time.
I’m an amatuer musico as well. (guitar/synth) and just what I know of the industry, I have no doubt that thing was a social experiment that got unexpectidely cut short.
They milked it/him after but I’d bet they were aiming to create their own Obama out of Lennon. His past, his new agey drug stuff and those lyrics. Proto Obama.
Harrison and Jeff Lynde ect/Willburys were cool.
You can read music? Great. I friend of mine who belongs to church choirs shared a ‘musician’s joke with me that he had to explain.
It showed a stick figure standing next to a another stick figure who wore a police badge. Over the first stick figure’s head was a line drawn symbol. I said ‘Why is this funny?’ My friend says,” He’s standing under a ‘rest’ symbol”, meaning he is ‘under a-rest’. It was so funny I almost forgot to laugh, but it was kind of funny in a nerdy way. Now I can’t forget it whenever I see that ‘rest’ symbol.
McCartney is hands down the better and more creative composer, even if Lennon had the reputation of being the “avant garde”, experimental one.
I liked “cat food” on the Crimson album.
Mellotron was an interesting instrument. It was basically bunch of loops of recording tape, each with a recording of a single note from one or more instruments. When you pressed the key a tape recorder head pressed down on the tape. There was a slight delay between pushing the key and the start of the sound, making it hard to play melodies. They were mainly used to add sweeping orchestral chords like those in the title song of the album.
Synthesizers had made it pretty much obsolete by the late 70s.
Well, I don’t think they could have pushed Lennon into politics himself, he just didn’t seem to have any interest in that type of attention. I think he probably would have grown into one of those increasingly annoying “celebrity advocates” though, guilt tripping the little people about the latest liberal cause de jour.
Not ‘running campaigning’ political per se, but I could see them making him a living Messiah rather than settling for him as a dead one. The celeb thing yea. But moreso than the Clooney/Kardashian type because he was already a hero of the 60s.
think “Old wise man” kinds celeb. “Well John feels that...” “John believes that...” And all the newbs and hippies spin the beatles albums anew looking for the deeper meanings in their lives.
Yup but they STILL make them! Real ones. Big bux. But the real thing. They have their own thing a synth just can’t do. their tapes only play so long per note and it forces a certain style of playing.
When it works it’s cool. There is a digital Mellotron that is very good. Sampled from the original master tape loops.
A couple software companies do VST instruments as well.
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If that all out political marketing had occured, you can bet Yoko would have been the Goldmeister, counting every penny, and pocketing most of them. She would make people pay to have any sort of access to John Himself, kept in a gilded, hothouse environment, shutting out all old friends.
Even the Primal Scream room would have had a one way mirror and mike so she could listen in and produce things under John’s name. Remember how Casey Casem ended his life under the complete control of a neurotic Helicopter Wife? That would have been the case here if she had her way.
Ram was one of the most underrated masterpieces of modern music I can think of
Didn’t she do that stuff already? I never really followed any of the Yokofest of TeH StUpIdZ but I thought she was pretty much his ‘voice’ in all things anyway and a control freak.
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