I Feel Fine has the first feedback ever recorded -the sound at the very beginning, created by an electric guitar coming too close to the amplifier-.
The initial pluck is from John's acoustic guitar, which was feeding back because they were using one of those mikes that attaches to the guitar. In the middle solo section, after George does his first few licks, the band stops playing, and there's another guitar playing the riff. This is John's acoustic guitar, surprisingly enough, which is getting an overdriven signal from the miking technique, making it sound electric. How's that for innovation?
The initial pluck is from John's acoustic guitar, which was feeding back because they were using one of those mikes that attaches to the guitar. In the middle solo section, after George does his first few licks, the band stops playing, and there's another guitar playing the riff. This is John's acoustic guitar, surprisingly enough, which is getting an overdriven signal from the miking technique, making it sound electric. How's that for innovation?
sgt pepper was the first rock gatefold i think and first concept album... but how firsts for ringo?first to elevate the drummer.first bass drum in liverpool...there are others too someone must know...
Beatles For Sale was a gatefold. Gatefolds were very common, but not for "pop" music. Pepper (of course) was not really a concept album ...
But you are right about the elevation of the drummer. Ringo is regularly put down by ignorant people, but gee he did a lot for the status of the drummer as a musician.
I agree: Ringo put the beat in Beatles. The way his drums were recorded and mixed--out front and big--had a lot to do with the Beatles innovative sound. Sun Records recorded big drums--check out Jerry Lee Lewis "Great Balls of Fire," but the sound was muddy compared to the crispness of the Beatles recordings. You can really hear the kick and snare--not to mention all those cymbals.
Double-tracking: the Beatles were one of the first groups to double-track lead vocals. They originally had to do this live, but Geoff Emerick and the techs came up with flanging or phasing as a way to produce the sound of two voices singing almost in sync. It's sorta like echo, but echo is the multiplied repeat of a sound that decays. Flanging fattens up the voice. This helped the great lead vocals of Paul and John (more often) stand out in front of those big drums.
Horns: the Beatles close-miked horns (on songs like Got to Get You Into My Life) in way that hadn't been done before. They stuck the mikes practically into the horns, giving them the tonal clarity and attack you wouldn't get if you just miked the room.
Sitar and other Indian musical instruments: Beatles were the first to incorporate these into pop-rock music.
I don't know if they were the first to do this, but the Beatles did gender-bending versions of girl-group songs like Please Mister Postman.
The Beatles were one of the first groups to popularize the mellotron (e.g., Strawberry Field Forever opening).
I think the ultimate innovation of the Beatles was having four irreplaceable parts in a pop group where the whole was greater than the sum of the parts. From the very beginning this was recognized and they were marketed that way. Each member was in his way so distinctive that you couldn't replace one and still have the Beatles.
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I agree: Ringo put the beat in Beatles. The way his drums were recorded and mixed--out front and big--had a lot to do with the Beatles innovative sound. Sun Records recorded big drums--check out Jerry Lee Lewis "Great Balls of Fire," but the sound was muddy compared to the crispness of the Beatles recordings. You can really hear the kick and snare--not to mention all those cymbals.
Double-tracking: the Beatles were one of the first groups to double-track lead vocals. They originally had to do this live, but Geoff Emerick and the techs came up with flanging or phasing as a way to produce the sound of two voices singing almost in sync. It's sorta like echo, but echo is the multiplied repeat of a sound that decays. Flanging fattens up the voice. This helped the great lead vocals of Paul and John (more often) stand out in front of those big drums.
Horns: the Beatles close-miked horns (on songs like Got to Get You Into My Life) in way that hadn't been done before. They stuck the mikes practically into the horns, giving them the tonal clarity and attack you wouldn't get if you just miked the room.
Sitar and other Indian musical instruments: Beatles were the first to incorporate these into pop-rock music.
I don't know if they were the first to do this, but the Beatles did gender-bending versions of girl-group songs like Please Mister Postman.
The Beatles were one of the first groups to popularize the mellotron (e.g., Strawberry Field Forever opening).
I think the ultimate innovation of the Beatles was having four irreplaceable parts in a pop group where the whole was greater than the sum of the parts. From the very beginning this was recognized and they were marketed that way. Each member was in his way so distinctive that you couldn't replace one and still have the Beatles.
You've been swotting up on your Revolution In The Head havn't you? lol
"Here" means nothing on the internet. YOU live in the US. So what? Try and judge things from a perspective that's a little wider than your own backyard.
Moreover, it doesn't change the fact that Beatles For Sale had a gatefold before Pepper. BFS wasn't released as such in the 60s in the US; however, elsewhere in the world it was - and it had a gatefold sleeve.
Meaningless. Rock n roll was real enough coming from the likes of Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, and a host of others. Did not even the Beatles themselves admire them?
I agree: Ringo put the beat in Beatles. The way his drums were recorded and mixed--out front and big--had a lot to do with the Beatles innovative sound. Sun Records recorded big drums--check out Jerry Lee Lewis "Great Balls of Fire," but the sound was muddy compared to the crispness of the Beatles recordings. You can really hear the kick and snare--not to mention all those cymbals.
Double-tracking: the Beatles were one of the first groups to double-track lead vocals. They originally had to do this live, but Geoff Emerick and the techs came up with flanging or phasing as a way to produce the sound of two voices singing almost in sync. It's sorta like echo, but echo is the multiplied repeat of a sound that decays. Flanging fattens up the voice. This helped the great lead vocals of Paul and John (more often) stand out in front of those big drums.
Horns: the Beatles close-miked horns (on songs like Got to Get You Into My Life) in way that hadn't been done before. They stuck the mikes practically into the horns, giving them the tonal clarity and attack you wouldn't get if you just miked the room.
Sitar and other Indian musical instruments: Beatles were the first to incorporate these into pop-rock music.
I don't know if they were the first to do this, but the Beatles did gender-bending versions of girl-group songs like Please Mister Postman.
The Beatles were one of the first groups to popularize the mellotron (e.g., Strawberry Field Forever opening).
I think the ultimate innovation of the Beatles was having four irreplaceable parts in a pop group where the whole was greater than the sum of the parts. From the very beginning this was recognized and they were marketed that way. Each member was in his way so distinctive that you couldn't replace one and still have the Beatles.
Ringo was also the first drummer to remove the bottoms off his drums to give them a more kick.
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