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[raxo]

Electronic Sound (May 1969) - George Harrison

1 UNDER THE MERSEY WALL (Harrison) - 18:43
Recorded at Esher in Merrie England;
with the assistance of Rupert and Jostick
The Siamese Twins: February 1969.

2 NO TIME OR SPACE (Harrison) - 25:06
Recorded in California: November 1968
with the assistance of Bernie Krause.

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Acording to DM's site:
"George Harrison - Guitar (sic), Vocals, Producer
Ron Furmanek - Reissue Digital Remastering
Bernie Krause - Assistant
Peter Mew - Engineer"
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Produced by George Harrison for Apple Records, Inc.
Published by Apple Music Publishing Co., Inc.
Sleeve design by George Harrison

"In 1969, Apple Records introduced a subsidiary label, Zapple, meant to showcase more experimental recordings, as opposed to quality work. Only two Zapple albums made it to the racks, and the sales figures for both suggests they sat in said racks untouched. One was John and Yoko's Unfinished Music Number 2, Life With The Lions, consisting of such things as Yoko screaming over John's guitar feedback, the two of them singing newspaper articles, and radio dial twiddling. George's Electronic Sound was more musical, but only in the sense that it features no singing. It is a whole album of George trying out a Moog synthesizer. He achieves some interesting sounds, but as George never was a proficient keyboard player, he never makes real music out of them. Instead, it's the sound of someone wondering "What does this knob do?"
From here: http://www.fufkin.com/columns/lynch/lynch_gh_12_01_3.htm


George Harrison: "It could be called avant garde, but a more apt description would be (in the words of my old friend Alvin) "Avant garde clue" !
 
ARTHUR WAX: "There are a lot of people around, making a lot of noise, here's some more".
 


Everything's already been said   :

[Sondra]

The Best of the Monkees. I bought it cuz every now and then I have to listen to Daydream Believer. I own a Whitney Houston best of too. Don't know WHY I bought that one.

[andersonCouncill]

I own

Infinite
The Slim Shady LP
The Marshall Mathers LP
The Eminem Show
Encore

but I love them all.

And before the reply comes, I hate Gwen Stefani so were already even, Mairi.

[andersonCouncill]

Electronic Sound (May 1969) - George Harrison

1 UNDER THE MERSEY WALL (Harrison) - 18:43
Recorded at Esher in Merrie England;
with the assistance of Rupert and Jostick
The Siamese Twins: February 1969.

2 NO TIME OR SPACE (Harrison) - 25:06
Recorded in California: November 1968
with the assistance of Bernie Krause.

 -------
Acording to DM's site:
"George Harrison - Guitar (sic), Vocals, Producer
Ron Furmanek - Reissue Digital Remastering
Bernie Krause - Assistant
Peter Mew - Engineer"
 --------

Produced by George Harrison for Apple Records, Inc.
Published by Apple Music Publishing Co., Inc.
Sleeve design by George Harrison

"In 1969, Apple Records introduced a subsidiary label, Zapple, meant to showcase more experimental recordings, as opposed to quality work. Only two Zapple albums made it to the racks, and the sales figures for both suggests they sat in said racks untouched. One was John and Yoko's Unfinished Music Number 2, Life With The Lions, consisting of such things as Yoko screaming over John's guitar feedback, the two of them singing newspaper articles, and radio dial twiddling. George's Electronic Sound was more musical, but only in the sense that it features no singing. It is a whole album of George trying out a Moog synthesizer. He achieves some interesting sounds, but as George never was a proficient keyboard player, he never makes real music out of them. Instead, it's the sound of someone wondering "What does this knob do?"

George Harrison: "It could be called avant garde, but a more apt description would be (in the words of my old friend Alvin) "Avant garde clue" !
 
ARTHUR WAX: "There are a lot of people around, making a lot of noise, here's some more".
 


Everything's already been said   :

OMG Does it actually say "In 1969, Apple Records introduced a subsidiary label, Zapple, meant to showcase more experimental recordings, as opposed to quality work."?

I will check that out. I love George.

[Sondra]

You really have to watch Antholgy man. There's a whole thing on that. John's so cool in the interviews about it. Anthology is like the greatest thing ever. I couldn't stand not ever having seen it.

[raxo]

OMG Does it actually say "In 1969, Apple Records introduced a subsidiary label, Zapple, meant to showcase more experimental recordings, as opposed to quality work."?

I will check that out. I love George.

No, sorry,... it's just a review (I forgot to post the link)
http://www.fufkin.com/columns/lynch/lynch_gh_12_01_3.htm

I was trying to explain what he was doing here ... and I remembered this review, so ...

Zapple was created to be, what Lennon said, to be like paperback books--you read them once or twice and can throw them away, and they'd be budget priced.  Klein put the kibosh on that notion by saying, 'If it's good, we'll charge'. 'Lions/Electronic' were priced at the going rate of other albums back then. John was so into 'reporting' everything him and Yoko did back then, he wanted an audio document. George was being shown the Moog by Beaver Krause, and its this Beaver Krause who does almost everything on 'Electronic Sound'. You can see where George silvered out his name at the bottom of the album to not give him credit. George must have had enough as well because you can see he wrote "Crapple With It".

[Mairi]

paperback books--you read them once or twice and can throw them away,

WTF??!!!!! Who throws away BOOKS?!!

[Mean_Mr_Mustard]

Yes, I suppose we all have different tastes as I love Supertramp and the Guess Who.

So do I but remember I only have about 16 cds and I have all the beatles cds.

[hannah999]

i have 2 steps cds, they were hand-me-downs from my sister from agesssss ago

[Mairi]

I have a Go-Gos tape that someone gave me. It's kinda catchy, but the main reason I like it is because it annoys my mother.