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Beatles forums => Songs => Topic started by: Mairi on October 16, 2004, 02:28:50 PM
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Everyone I talk to says it's one of the worst Beatles songs, but I quite like it! What's the deal?
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i dont realy like it, ringo is for drums not for singing
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I like it a lot, and I don't get why so many people don't :(
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No, you're not the only one.
You are, as far as we know, the only SANE one. :D
Actually I will gladly join you in the pro-Ringo mode here. I always liked this song. It's a RINGO song for God's sake, including the writing! NO one should be expecting Eleanor Rigby.
It's a fun song to sing harmony along to. And as a component of the infamous Paul Is Dead theorists ('you were in a car crash and you lost your hair') it is important to the canon altogether.
It's a fine song, works plantede where it is, nothing wrong with it at-tall.
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I usually don't like Ringo singing, but this one is actually pretty good, I have always liked it.
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I like the song, but those are some of the worst lyrics I've ever heard!!!
"You were in a car-crash, and you lost your hair"!!!!! Poo! ;)
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I like it as well.
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I think it's a pretty good song. I've always liked it.
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you were in a quandry and you lost your head......
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I like it and goes along well when your partying.
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I like it a lot.
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It is not one of my favourites, but I erally prefer this to Revolution 9;)
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I love this song... To me, it shows the obsessive, self-centered part of your mind going, "aw man... you were in a car crash?? i guess i can wait for you then..." i guess it kind of symbolizes a state of mind that we all can get into when we're in love...
Ringo's singing is brilliant, by the way... 8)
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Nothing's wrong with Don't Pass Me By! When I heard that the first time, I like... listened to it five times again, one replay after another.
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[quote by=Revolution_9 link=Blah.pl?b=songs,m=1097936930,s=13 date=1101382283]Nothing's wrong with Don't Pass Me By! When I heard that the first time, I like... listened to it five times again, one replay after another.[/quote]
LOL!!! :D
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I think its alright
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im not a big fan of ringo singing, but that song's pretty catchy. it's alright :)
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Of The 2 songs Ringo wrote with the Beatles "Don't Pass Me By" is my favorite over "Octopus's Garden" which I don't like as much. There's nothing wrong with it it's a good little rock and roll song and I love to sing it at Karaoke. and as the saying goes "How can anybody hate Ringo?"
Mr. Kite
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I like it, but I think the take is not as good as it could have been, the sound is a bit dirty. Still it is a great song.
My favourite line is the one that says "you were in a car crash and you lost your hair"
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No, you are not Mairi, I like this song too!
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Hello, I'm new.
I reackon "Don't pass me by" is OK (it fits well in it's place in the album).
Octupus's Garden is a crime against humanity. One of those songs Rolling Stones farns drag up in arguements in the pub.
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No! Octopus' Garden is a great song!
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I like Ringo's sing songs!!! Don't Pass Me By is great!
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I think that's a terrible song.
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Dont pass me by is a good song IMO
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Don't Pass Me By should be considered an early country rock classic by the Beatles with Ringo on vocals along with being one of his finest moments & one of the first songs he ever wrote.
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It's not one of my favs, but I like it. I also like Good Night. At first I thought it was sung by Paul. ;D
:K)
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[quote by=Paulsluv link=Blah.pl?b=songs,m=1097936930,s=26 date=1105989810]It's not one of my favs, but I like it. I also like Good Night. At first I thought it was sung by Paul.
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Ok. At least I wasn't the only one. ;D
:K)
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The version on Anthology III is better, because it hasn't got that irritating whining violin on it, and the focus is more on Ringo's voice because of it. Also it starts off withh Ringo's hard drum beats which sounds better too. On the Fly On The Wall free CD with Let It Be...Naked, John and Paul discuss it and say something about people in their local pub enjoying singing it. Sounds pretty much like a pub song come to think of it. A Hard Day's Write explains that Ringo wrote it in 1964, but couldn't get it recorded until 1968!
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Just love the violin solo at the end....Other than that, it quite often gets a skip but I don't hate it.
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What
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i dont realy like it, ringo is for drums not for singing
ringo is actually a decent singer and not a bad songwriter. but being a drummer and singer, especially live, is very strenuous cause you have to keep the beat, whereas guitarists can think of the tune cause more often then not the tune that they play is the same as the lyrics they're singing. drumming and singing takes some real talent, and he does it beautifully.
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Don't Pass Me By is a great song, but its dwarfed by the other three's songwriting.
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ringo is actually a decent singer and not a bad songwriter. but being a drummer and singer, especially live, is very strenuous cause you have to keep the beat, whereas guitarists can think of the tune cause more often then not the tune that they play is the same as the lyrics they're singing. drumming and singing takes some real talent, and he does it beautifully.
I see what your saying but have to dis-agree with this drum and guitar thing. The dilemma is the same for both guitarist and drummer.
Knowing the melody helps both musicians. In some ways at least a drummer can just keep time (Even though Ringo had his fair share of time changes)...A guitarist can have time, pitch, harmony, melody, effects, vocals to consider all at once. Same with bass playing and singing which also takes great talent what with all the counter rythms, melodies and lyrics to remember.
It just applies to any musician. I wouldn't say one is harder than the other...You get better at doing it with practice. ;) How you show it is a different matter...Ringo was definitely a great drummer, average (Although sincere) singer and an occasional songwriter with mates who could make them songs into something great.
He is a great chorus singer. Most of his Beatle tracks are great sing-a-longs. I always remember Ringo's voice the most out of all of them in Carry That Weight.
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What's there to like? Much, if you like Ringo!
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I like Ringo, you know... but it
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Well, Ringo wrote it in 1964. If he had recorded it earlier it might have set an earlier precedent for Ringo as a band songwriter. The Beatles might have recorded more of Ringo's own ideas. I feel that the production it got could have been better. That annoying violin! Check out the Anthology III version without the violin. There could have been some backing vocals from the other guys. The kind of production Octopus's Garden got. It seems as though they just finally said after four years 'OK, Ringo, do your song then'. They just could have paid more atention to Ringo's ideas. I suppose in that way Ringo suffered from the Lennon-McCartney domination just like George did.
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I wouldn't have said suffer. lol.... Ringo and George could have always left the group and formed their own if it was that much of a problem. Obviously Lennon and McCartney are going to put a lot of time into their own compositions. Why not?
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It's not a violin, it's a fiddle.
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http://www.folkofthewood.com/page4779.htm
Had to butt in and found this little quote from the link. Sorry Mairi. ;)
A violin is a fiddle; a fiddle is a violin. There are no differentiating features period. The only true reason you'd call one instrument a violin and the other a fiddle is the approach...someone who plays fiddle tunes, a fiddler, will address their violin as a fiddle.
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Oh yeah, I knew that. It's just that in this context it's a fiddle. In Eleanor Rigbym, they're violins.
I grew up with fiddle music. ;)
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I like the melody and Ringo singing is okay but......
The lyrics!
"You were in a car crash, And you lost your hair!"
I mean, what gives? Paul, John or George didn't say to him, "change that!?"
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That lyric always makes me laugh. It's so bad that it's good.
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Oh yeah, I knew that. It's just that in this context it's a fiddle. In Eleanor Rigbym, they're violins.
I grew up with fiddle music. ;)
It's a debate I have had a few times in the past with friends so I thought I'd highlight it. I know a few fiddlers who would hate to be called a violinist. lol
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I like it. It fits in with most of Ringo's Beatle material--non-threatening, not deep, just Ringo. George paid him a compliment by saying that Ringo writes 'cosmically' without knowing it. He was referring to Octopus' Garden and the line 'we would be warm, below the storm.
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Tho I prefer underrated material more than mainstream in general, I dont like Dont Pass Me By. It sounds childish (and it only works a little cos is Ringo who is singing).
Ringo could write better lines than the famous (at least in this thread) "You were in a car crash and you lost your hair" and better titles too
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The "You were in a car crash and you lost your hair" is just Ringo's humour coming out. If, on Anthology III, you program your CD for A Beginning and then follow it with DPMB, you get a nice experience. A Beginning was supposed to introduce DPMB anyway. I still think backing vocals from John, Paul and George would have made it a lot better. Their harmonies on Octopus's Garden work fantastically well.
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I wouldn't have said suffer. lol.... Ringo and George could have always left the group and formed their own if it was that much of a problem. Obviously Lennon and McCartney are going to put a lot of time into their own compositions. Why not?
Surprising view on the Beatles splitting! If some of Lennon-McCartney's lesser compositions could have been dropped in favour of some of Harrison's better compositions that would have been nice. All Things Must Pass instead of Dig A Pony, or Maxwell's Silver Hammer, perhaps. I'm still a Ringoite, and still think his own songwriting could have been fostered more.
:)
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Everyone I talk to says it's one of the worst Beatles songs, but I quite like it! What's the deal?
You were just a kid at the time, Mairi, but you sure had good taste!
Yes m'am!!
The Beatles - Don't Pass Me By (2009 Stereo Remaster) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsZjHeQRX-M#)
Ringo Starr - Don't Pass Me By (live 2005) HQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMQSTpxH9yI#ws)
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Ther's a couple of funny lines but... Sorry.
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Those were clues. ;D
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Agreed. "You were in a car crash, and you lost your hair"!
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In addition... I can't stand the Inner Light! No matter how hard I've tried to adapt to the style and the production it's just too obnoxious. George should have named it "Chalk on a Blackboard"!
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In addition... I can't stand the Inner Light! No matter how hard I've tried to adapt to the style and the production it's just too obnoxious. George should have named it "Chalk on a Blackboard"!
I like the way you think Dcazz. I agree with you.
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I like the way you think Dcazz. I agree with you.
and me...
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What about you? :laugh:
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;yes
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The Inner Light is the only Beatles song I never listened to in its entirety.
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What about you? :laugh:
;yes
Todd, Kevin is making a slow but steady recovery.
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cheer1 party2 partypeople party2 cheer1
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At least I thought so.
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Todd, Kevin is making a slow but steady recovery.
I thought that was 7 of 13 logging in under Kevins account. (http://d26ya5yqg8yyvs.cloudfront.net/lol8.gif)
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You were just a kid at the time, Mairi, but you sure had good taste!
Yes m'am!!
The Beatles - Don't Pass Me By (2009 Stereo Remaster) ([url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsZjHeQRX-M#[/url])
Ringo Starr - Don't Pass Me By (live 2005) HQ ([url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMQSTpxH9yI#ws[/url])
I was just a baby!!
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I thought that was 7 of 13 logging in under Kevins account. ([url]http://d26ya5yqg8yyvs.cloudfront.net/lol8.gif[/url])
Tkitna, Im tired of your inept and tiresome diatribes compressed as inner veiled screwball attempts at humour my friend it isnt big and it isnt funny
;yes
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I was just a baby!!
"You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby.." - Bobby Darin (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNSlxuOh6fY#)
We gotta revive the Baby Pictures Thread!
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ha2ha
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Tkitna, Im tired of your inept and tiresome diatribes compressed as inner veiled screwball attempts at humour my friend it isnt big and it isnt funny
;yes
ha2ha Thats almost signature worthy. Good stuff.
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I think that's a terrible song.
Seven years on, I would like to change my opinion to "Terrible composition, but I like the bouncy groove".
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Seven years on, I would like to change my opinion to "Terrible composition, but I like the bouncy groove".
Seven years from now you'll love this song, Joost. I'll meet you back here then. ;D
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Don't Pass Me By
Don't Pass Me By - The Georgia Satellites Live Roskilde Festival 1988 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0uSLM8ndYM#)
The Georgia Satellites
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Some times I wonder if the song is Ringo's plea to Santa Claus with the sleigh bells throughout! : )
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I was just a baby!!
Well, now that you're all grown, what do you think of the song today?
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I still like it. I think it's fun and silly. The perfect song for Ringo.
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Didn't he start writing it in 1963 or is my book incorrect?
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Didn't he start writing it in 1963 or is my book incorrect?
1963 BBC radio chatter...
Beatles - "Don't Pass Me By" - Paul McCartney makes fun of Ringo's song on BBC radio 1963. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfYayQ_Q-i8#)
1:05
(Sorry about the silly YouTube picture)
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I love Don't Pass Me By...and I've always liked Ringo's singing too! It might not be technically good but...it has charm. ;D
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I love Don't Pass Me By...and I've always liked Ringo's singing too! It might not be technically good but...it has charm. ;D
No, you're not the only one who loves "Don't pass me by" ;D
I remember listening to it loudly when I came home from school... Of course it's technically no masterpiece, but I don't care as it's joyful and catchy... just a typical Ringo-song :)
Snoopy
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No, you're not the only one who loves "Don't pass me by" ;D
I remember listening to it loudly when I came home from school... Of course it's technically no masterpiece, but I don't care as it's joyful and catchy... just a typical Ringo-song :)
Snoopy
Exactly! ;yes
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For those who still don't care for Don't Pass Me By, maybe Taylor Hope will change your minds...
Don't Pass Me By - Taylor Hope & Chuck Buck w/ Glen Burtnik & Friends (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPmVu4UN-UU#ws)
(http://static.wix.com/media/183816_72589133c26b691bb393a6e748ff7436.jpg_srz_392_332_75_22_0.50_1.20_0.00_jpg_srz)
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For those who still don't care for Don't Pass Me By, maybe Taylor Hope will change your minds...
Don't Pass Me By - Taylor Hope & Chuck Buck w/ Glen Burtnik & Friends ([url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPmVu4UN-UU#ws[/url])
([url]http://static.wix.com/media/183816_72589133c26b691bb393a6e748ff7436.jpg_srz_392_332_75_22_0.50_1.20_0.00_jpg_srz[/url])
Do you think Ringo could have made this video in 68 as a companion piece to Hey Jude and Revolution!?
P.S. Taylot Hope was great!
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Don't Pass Me By Ringo 2003 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lkkRB0bGhU#)
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Don't Pass Me By Ringo 2003 ([url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lkkRB0bGhU#[/url])
I like that one. You can hear the country.
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Ok obviously I am about 6 years late to this topic, but I just wanna say that i LOVE Don't Pass Me By!!! When its on I slap my knees and sing along as loud as I can!!! Having a deep voice, Ringo's tunes are a little easier to sing along to, as Lennon and McCartney are too high for me sometimes (I'm a horrible singer anyways).
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Ok obviously I am about 6 years late to this topic, but I just wanna say that i LOVE Don't Pass Me By!!! When its on I slap my knees and sing along as loud as I can!!!
Yay!!! Another person with good taste in songs! ;D
Having a deep voice, Ringo's tunes are a little easier to sing along to, as Lennon and McCartney are too high for me sometimes (I'm a horrible singer anyways).
The Beatles used Varitone and other tricks like speeding up and slowing down tapes during editing. For example, you're familiar with the released recording of When I'm Sixty-Four...
The Beatles - When I'm Sixty Four (2009 Mono Remaster) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xcn8fwepOfs#)
It was recorded in the key of C major and sounded like this...
When I'm Sixty Four original (In the key of C major) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDt26gJYVB4#ws)
It was sped up to the key of D-flat major for the album. It's a bit easier to sing along with in C major, huh?
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Way cool!! I always knew the Beatles did all sorts of crazy stuff in the studio, but I didnt know the sped up the entire song. I wonder which other songs were sped up. Way back in the day I remember seeing a movie or something and I'm not even sure if it was the Beatles but a band had a song and when they played it live the drummer made a mistake and clicked it off way too fast but it worked that way and became a hit. (my memory of this though is very vague but it seems very very Beatleish).
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I wonder which other songs were sped up.
She's Leaving Home STEREO
The Beatles - She's Leaving Home (2009 Stereo Remaster) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQNAGAbi3G0#)
She's Leaving Home MONO
The Beatles - She's Leaving Home (2009 Mono Remaster) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo2KPacj7qs#)
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Here's a good article on The Beatles' use of VariSpeed: http://ofbuckleyandbeatles.wordpress.com/2010/12/05/beatles-production-tricks-part-ii-varispeed/ (http://ofbuckleyandbeatles.wordpress.com/2010/12/05/beatles-production-tricks-part-ii-varispeed/)
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Cordwood...
Cordwood - Don't Pass Me By (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iez2Hc0aKps#)
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Here's a good article on The Beatles' use of VariSpeed: [url]http://ofbuckleyandbeatles.wordpress.com/2010/12/05/beatles-production-tricks-part-ii-varispeed/[/url] ([url]http://ofbuckleyandbeatles.wordpress.com/2010/12/05/beatles-production-tricks-part-ii-varispeed/[/url])
Awesome site ! Turns out the guy is from Minnesota, just like me! :)
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A violin is a fiddle; a fiddle is a violin. There are no differentiating features period. The only true reason you'd call one instrument a violin and the other a fiddle is the approach...someone who plays fiddle tunes, a fiddler, will address their violin as a fiddle.
So, you cannot say: Fiddlers were playing on Yesterday or on Eleanor Rigby.
i dont realy like it, ringo is for drums not for singing
Hm... Does that count only for this song or is it for all the songs:
Boys, I Wanna Be Your Man, Matchbox, Honey Dont, Act Naturallay, What Goes On, Yellow Submarine, With A Little Help From My Friends, Don't Pass me By, Good Night, Octopus's Garden, Carry That Weight? glassesslip
Well, I would join the like club for this song.
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There is a difference in the set up and bridge on a violin for a fiddler or violinist. That being the only physical difference, it is the style and playing position of the violin.
Now About Ringo, yes I am about 6 years late on this one too, but I have a lot of posting to catch up on. Been away a while..... :-[...lol
I alway liked Ringos singing...very country-esque. And I like his writting, although some songs were very similiar to songs we sung in Elementary/primary school. I enjoyed all the same 8)
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Been away a while..... :-[...lol
It's nice to see you back, Larry.
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It's nice to see you back, Larry.
Glad to be back....thank you for the welcome!!! Its like coming home! I missed it here. 8)