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I recently started watching your videos on Revolver and What's Going. This is the first hearing your music and it's great, both upbeat and dreamy. As a songwriter myself who never outwardly realized what's insides himself, I appreciate your playfulness and craft. I'm developing a crush on you. What to do? It's just good to see you happy.
@carlmally62925 сағат бұрын
A couple of points here. The mandolin on American Beauty was played by David Grisman, nicknamed Dawg by Jerry Garcia. He went on to become perhaps the most sophisticated mandolinist in the world, heavily influenced by jazz, western swing and bluegrass. He and Jerry played together off and on in different configurations, starting with the band Old and in the Way in the 1970s. He toured with Jerry Garcia, during the 1990s up to Jerry's death, as a duo as well as with jazz violinist Stefane Grapelli also forming several bands and inventing his own highly inventive instrumental acoustic music style. The promotion for these two albums was heavily based on the idea that they were the "Hardest Working Band in Rock Music" with a grueling tour schedule. They played a LOT of shows with every single one quite different from the next. The Grateful Dead is a band best appreciated when seen live with an energy that does not always come through on their studio albums. It is unfortunate you were unable to see them live. It gives a totally different perspective particularly on the jamming aspect. The other aspect of the band which does show up on these two albums especially well is their songwriting. They wrote several iconic songs that show up on these albums, full of magical imagery and inventive melodies and surprising chord changes. Songs like Ripple and Friend of the Devil have become acoustic music standards that every performer must know. Garcia, especially, had an encyclopedic knowledge of American traditional, folk and country music as well as jazz. Their repertoire included country hits. bluegrass standards, ancient Celtic tunes, jug band hits of the 1940s and blues. This carried over into their songwriting.
@timlaughlin35689 сағат бұрын
You are so talented and incredibly clever, I appreciate you so much!
@MGC19739 сағат бұрын
So many fantastic examples. My favorite may be Because, as they hadn’t joined that powerful magic together in a few years - and it may be the best one
@joeboyd472610 сағат бұрын
You talk about ‘In my life’. Which I think is a great song. But I have never thought that the harpsichord played by GM fit in with the rest of the song. 🤷♂️. To me it sounds very out of place. You seem to like it and I think you know a lot more about music than I do. What am I missing?
@pjgrieco11 сағат бұрын
Don't Dream It's Over - Crowded House
@keithpix12 сағат бұрын
The Word is a great and important song....especially within their evolution. The Beatles ”rap” often begins with what’s the word...the basic word. It’s the word love....simple and potent.
@andrewlicciardo748012 сағат бұрын
Another Great Video, thank you👍
@user-kn7zz9cs7o12 сағат бұрын
Don’t associate with Heathens! Not only intelligent but beautiful!
@thomascanfield916512 сағат бұрын
I recently saw an interview of Ravi Shankar when he was asked what he thought of George’s sitar work. He kind of smirked and said with some difficulty that he wasn’t very good ! I was shocked. I could only surmise that the reason was that top Indian players are so much more intensively trained than George ever was , such as the court musicians, so it was really impossible for him to ever measure up to the Indian standard of excellence.
@KneeAches12 сағат бұрын
Thank you: Yellow Submarine is as much fun as it always has been.
@TutorWindow13 сағат бұрын
Really excellent post. Thanks for making it.
@AikoFrank13 сағат бұрын
The amagram(?) is actualyy the fact thatvthe rose is not only an American Beauty, (Strain name) but also a symbol of LSD. The lettering says both Beauty and Reality. Thats the illusion.
@aromano894517 сағат бұрын
The psychedelia of American Beauty is in the mix of Harmonies and instruments moving across the stereo spectrum.
@abelanzizar18 сағат бұрын
You forgot to mention "speed" , that kills.
@terenzo5019 сағат бұрын
If you think the 1960s is primarily about psychedelia, then you weren't there. It was a Renaissance that followed a Repression. Psychedelia was only a small part of it that came and went. To everything there is a season.
@heidirichert151019 сағат бұрын
A beautiful analysis
@jimwinkel22 сағат бұрын
Hey There! Last night came upon your perceptive and quite thrilling discussion of the Grateful Dead and CSN and David Crosby. (He means everything to me). So you've changed the conventional narrative about the squabbling CSNY members and turned them into a sharing, learning, loving group of friends. This which far more true than their "fights". It was a pleasure to watch and I was so, so pleased to see. Music IS all about sharing, respect and love. So were the 60s. Good Job and thanks. Jim Linderman
@chetcarman353022 сағат бұрын
Thank you. 💜 (From someone who saw & met them on their 64 tour, became a musician as a result and at 77, feel validated by knowledgeable and emotional responses to the music that formed my life)
@axandio23 сағат бұрын
This hits me in the feels.... I was born in '66 and can actually remember hearing many of these songs when I was a toddler and many of the radio stations still played this stuff throughout the 70s when I grew up. Having tasted the elixer in the early 80s, I couldn't really get into the "new wave" or "hair bands" of my generation.... I would keep going back to the 60s and 70s music.... to this day actually.
@martyforrer9146Күн бұрын
Awesome.
@jasperchance3382Күн бұрын
Excellent!
@davidpanzer6746Күн бұрын
Listen to some Western Swing. They were doing twin guitar solos since the 1940s.😮
@JamesAllmondКүн бұрын
Death of Psychedelia? You should have been at the Sphere in Las Vegas this weekend. Dead my arse...well Grateful Dead and company.
@KneeAchesКүн бұрын
I’ve never loved this song. Hoping she can help me to get it.
@raystaarКүн бұрын
Hm. I always thought it was Paul doing the shouting responses. Oh well. Ya learn something new every day.
@publicdomain1103Күн бұрын
Ready for a follow-up. Got blotter?
@jimhall5393Күн бұрын
Hi there from a 75 year old musician/composer/producer in New Zealand. I bought my first guitar at the end of 1963 after hearing “Please Please Me” and it totally dictated how the rest of my life would pan out and I’ve had a very varied and successful life in music (hey I even did a tour plaing bass with Cilla Black way back in her prime). But this comment is about YOU! Your videos are such a breath of fresh air and I recommend them to anybody trying to convey to a teenager in 2024 what it was/is about the chemistry of the Beatles that made them so unique. There’s enough old farts of my age pontificating about what pickups were still working on John’s Rickenbacker. You get right to what matters. All the things that are clever, sexy, sad and unique about the Fab Four and in this video you have totally nailed the essence of perhaps my favourite John song. BTW have you noticed that there is ZERO reverb on Rubber Soul? Apparently Norman Smith knew this was his last Beatles album and “went for a sound”. You are fantastic. Jim
@jasperchance3382Күн бұрын
This is an achievement of the highest order. Where are the one million plus views?
@jasperchance3382Күн бұрын
Great job!
@raystaarКүн бұрын
Another great episode. Thank you.. Regarding the "replace Taxman" challenge, knowing what I know about how Beatles albums were sequenced, there are only 3 other possibles: 'Dr. Robert,' 'Good Day Sunshine' and 'And Your Bird Can Sing.' Regarding George's tunesmithing skills, I think he nailed 'Don't Bother Me,' from The Beatles Second. McLen and Martin should have realized then what a talent he was. I love all three of those guys, but I have to say I think they blew it by not including more of George's material.
@jasperchance3382Күн бұрын
Smokin'! You killed it!
@jasperchance3382Күн бұрын
Oh my! You are something! Brilliant.
@allenf.5907Күн бұрын
It's simply put, a fun song. Seeing where it came from in John's original "no one cared, no one cared" - it becomes a feature animated film, and any way that anyone wants to slice it - it's a classic.
@jasperchance3382Күн бұрын
ehm sorry, nowhere near the views you deserve. I'm adding you to a playlist, hoping for some more well deserved attention. Cheers, ♥ from Italy
@jasperchance3382Күн бұрын
Oh man, you're the bassist I would love to have in my band!!! ♥
@christophernotoКүн бұрын
I’m 73 years old. You got a lot of it right, but missed a bunch, too, of course, including the incredible darkness around the light that we tried to bring to the world, or, at least, to share. - There was the military draft, and the antiwar movement, the murder, in his bed, by Chicago police, of Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton, the Kent State Massacre, and the following shutdown, by way of student protests, of most colleges in the United States. But, yeah, the music was beautiful and powerful. - What you referred to as The Extended Crosby, Stills, Nashville, & Young Universe was known to them as PERRO, The Planet Earth Rock and Roll Orchestra. (Google it!) And, BTW, David Crosby actually taught the Grateful Dead to sing harmony. Really.
@jasperchance3382Күн бұрын
I think, maybe, the song is about wanting to get 'the girl' he must be thinking about, kind of teasing. Just an idea. Anyway, the album is sublime and it is, as you rightfully say, a sum of the past and a prediction of what's to come, it's bang in the middle of their amazing evolution. First period was working on their vast repertoire of covers and playing many hours in clubs, where they tuned their skills, second period was their first three albums, where they defined their sound reaching perfection with A hard day's night, third period was their next three albums where they started introverting and moving away from their poppy style reaching another perfection with Rubber Soul, then came Revolver, the record that is both a mirror to the past and to the future and is perfection among perfections, then the fourth period was their psychedelic adventure that started perfectly with Strawberry Fields and ended with the Magical Mystery\Submarine bit, kind of falling apart, then their fifth period which saw them wanting to start making sense (like you pointed out on your video about 1967, something that was a general thing for all those bands you mention) and it starts with the Hey Jude single and then the white album, displaying a wide range of styles up to their return to the roots bit where they closed the circle and left us with the incredible Abbey Road, reaching another perfect point. Big Beatles fan, here. Thanks for the video.
@jasperchance3382Күн бұрын
Fun video, recommended by YT. I watched with interest and enjoyed it, even though all that music from Grateful Dead, CSN&Y, Jefferson Airplane etc never really got to me. I shall subscribe! Thank you
@drothberg3Күн бұрын
There were quite a few constructed bands like this in the 60s - The Monkees, The Archies, Josie and the Pussycats, all of Phil Spector’s bands like the Ronettes. And let’s not forget the most shocking: Peter, Paul and Mary.
@raystaarКүн бұрын
You two are a riot together. Your childhood household must have been a joy to be around. About Paul's resurrection of John, I don't find it at all distasteful. Those two shared so much history, as far as I'm concerned, Paul can do whatever he wants to work out his demons or to reconcile his feelings about the past or whatever else he feels he has to do. It's not as if he's telling tales out of school and/or trashing John's legacy or anything. I'm just glad Paul is still among us and I hope his vegetarian lifestyle will keep him her for 20 more years, because I plan to live at least that long and I'd much rather have Paul here with me than not. Love your show. All the best.
@rolandskilton7410Күн бұрын
Brilliant Fathom . You nail it every time.Your research pays off and you explain it so well. Keep on keeping on. Thank you
@benoitrenaud519Күн бұрын
I totally agree with that line from Across the Universe. It makes me cry too. But the first song that made me cry was The long and winding road. I must have been about 13.
@KneeAchesКүн бұрын
In total agreement: anything that encourages people to listen to The Beatles is a good thing.
@psychicdriver42292 күн бұрын
You completly skipped europe.
@sesa29842 күн бұрын
I wonder what the supergroup of Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, and Jeff Lynne would have sounded like.
@sesa29842 күн бұрын
Ok, so I’m home sick with a cellulitis infection in my leg (which is twice the size it should be) so that explains why I’ve watched at least 8 of your videos since discovering them a few hours ago. I just want to say that I was already all in on tye music, but the fact that you like the muppets too, signed, sealed, delivered.
@sesa29842 күн бұрын
Oh, I just realized when you put the album cover up that the one that I had in my room as a kid was brown and sortof leather-textured. I wonder was it a special release?
@MichaelSketchley2 күн бұрын
Wow. What a Brilliant and entertaining commentary.
@sesa29842 күн бұрын
I once heard Paul say that this was his least favorite Beatles song.
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I recently started watching your videos on Revolver and What's Going. This is the first hearing your music and it's great, both upbeat and dreamy. As a songwriter myself who never outwardly realized what's insides himself, I appreciate your playfulness and craft. I'm developing a crush on you. What to do? It's just good to see you happy.
A couple of points here. The mandolin on American Beauty was played by David Grisman, nicknamed Dawg by Jerry Garcia. He went on to become perhaps the most sophisticated mandolinist in the world, heavily influenced by jazz, western swing and bluegrass. He and Jerry played together off and on in different configurations, starting with the band Old and in the Way in the 1970s. He toured with Jerry Garcia, during the 1990s up to Jerry's death, as a duo as well as with jazz violinist Stefane Grapelli also forming several bands and inventing his own highly inventive instrumental acoustic music style. The promotion for these two albums was heavily based on the idea that they were the "Hardest Working Band in Rock Music" with a grueling tour schedule. They played a LOT of shows with every single one quite different from the next. The Grateful Dead is a band best appreciated when seen live with an energy that does not always come through on their studio albums. It is unfortunate you were unable to see them live. It gives a totally different perspective particularly on the jamming aspect. The other aspect of the band which does show up on these two albums especially well is their songwriting. They wrote several iconic songs that show up on these albums, full of magical imagery and inventive melodies and surprising chord changes. Songs like Ripple and Friend of the Devil have become acoustic music standards that every performer must know. Garcia, especially, had an encyclopedic knowledge of American traditional, folk and country music as well as jazz. Their repertoire included country hits. bluegrass standards, ancient Celtic tunes, jug band hits of the 1940s and blues. This carried over into their songwriting.
You are so talented and incredibly clever, I appreciate you so much!
So many fantastic examples. My favorite may be Because, as they hadn’t joined that powerful magic together in a few years - and it may be the best one
You talk about ‘In my life’. Which I think is a great song. But I have never thought that the harpsichord played by GM fit in with the rest of the song. 🤷♂️. To me it sounds very out of place. You seem to like it and I think you know a lot more about music than I do. What am I missing?
Don't Dream It's Over - Crowded House
The Word is a great and important song....especially within their evolution. The Beatles ”rap” often begins with what’s the word...the basic word. It’s the word love....simple and potent.
Another Great Video, thank you👍
Don’t associate with Heathens! Not only intelligent but beautiful!
I recently saw an interview of Ravi Shankar when he was asked what he thought of George’s sitar work. He kind of smirked and said with some difficulty that he wasn’t very good ! I was shocked. I could only surmise that the reason was that top Indian players are so much more intensively trained than George ever was , such as the court musicians, so it was really impossible for him to ever measure up to the Indian standard of excellence.
Thank you: Yellow Submarine is as much fun as it always has been.
Really excellent post. Thanks for making it.
The amagram(?) is actualyy the fact thatvthe rose is not only an American Beauty, (Strain name) but also a symbol of LSD. The lettering says both Beauty and Reality. Thats the illusion.
The psychedelia of American Beauty is in the mix of Harmonies and instruments moving across the stereo spectrum.
You forgot to mention "speed" , that kills.
If you think the 1960s is primarily about psychedelia, then you weren't there. It was a Renaissance that followed a Repression. Psychedelia was only a small part of it that came and went. To everything there is a season.
A beautiful analysis
Hey There! Last night came upon your perceptive and quite thrilling discussion of the Grateful Dead and CSN and David Crosby. (He means everything to me). So you've changed the conventional narrative about the squabbling CSNY members and turned them into a sharing, learning, loving group of friends. This which far more true than their "fights". It was a pleasure to watch and I was so, so pleased to see. Music IS all about sharing, respect and love. So were the 60s. Good Job and thanks. Jim Linderman
Thank you. 💜 (From someone who saw & met them on their 64 tour, became a musician as a result and at 77, feel validated by knowledgeable and emotional responses to the music that formed my life)
This hits me in the feels.... I was born in '66 and can actually remember hearing many of these songs when I was a toddler and many of the radio stations still played this stuff throughout the 70s when I grew up. Having tasted the elixer in the early 80s, I couldn't really get into the "new wave" or "hair bands" of my generation.... I would keep going back to the 60s and 70s music.... to this day actually.
Awesome.
Excellent!
Listen to some Western Swing. They were doing twin guitar solos since the 1940s.😮
Death of Psychedelia? You should have been at the Sphere in Las Vegas this weekend. Dead my arse...well Grateful Dead and company.
I’ve never loved this song. Hoping she can help me to get it.
Hm. I always thought it was Paul doing the shouting responses. Oh well. Ya learn something new every day.
Ready for a follow-up. Got blotter?
Hi there from a 75 year old musician/composer/producer in New Zealand. I bought my first guitar at the end of 1963 after hearing “Please Please Me” and it totally dictated how the rest of my life would pan out and I’ve had a very varied and successful life in music (hey I even did a tour plaing bass with Cilla Black way back in her prime). But this comment is about YOU! Your videos are such a breath of fresh air and I recommend them to anybody trying to convey to a teenager in 2024 what it was/is about the chemistry of the Beatles that made them so unique. There’s enough old farts of my age pontificating about what pickups were still working on John’s Rickenbacker. You get right to what matters. All the things that are clever, sexy, sad and unique about the Fab Four and in this video you have totally nailed the essence of perhaps my favourite John song. BTW have you noticed that there is ZERO reverb on Rubber Soul? Apparently Norman Smith knew this was his last Beatles album and “went for a sound”. You are fantastic. Jim
This is an achievement of the highest order. Where are the one million plus views?
Great job!
Another great episode. Thank you.. Regarding the "replace Taxman" challenge, knowing what I know about how Beatles albums were sequenced, there are only 3 other possibles: 'Dr. Robert,' 'Good Day Sunshine' and 'And Your Bird Can Sing.' Regarding George's tunesmithing skills, I think he nailed 'Don't Bother Me,' from The Beatles Second. McLen and Martin should have realized then what a talent he was. I love all three of those guys, but I have to say I think they blew it by not including more of George's material.
Smokin'! You killed it!
Oh my! You are something! Brilliant.
It's simply put, a fun song. Seeing where it came from in John's original "no one cared, no one cared" - it becomes a feature animated film, and any way that anyone wants to slice it - it's a classic.
ehm sorry, nowhere near the views you deserve. I'm adding you to a playlist, hoping for some more well deserved attention. Cheers, ♥ from Italy
Oh man, you're the bassist I would love to have in my band!!! ♥
I’m 73 years old. You got a lot of it right, but missed a bunch, too, of course, including the incredible darkness around the light that we tried to bring to the world, or, at least, to share. - There was the military draft, and the antiwar movement, the murder, in his bed, by Chicago police, of Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton, the Kent State Massacre, and the following shutdown, by way of student protests, of most colleges in the United States. But, yeah, the music was beautiful and powerful. - What you referred to as The Extended Crosby, Stills, Nashville, & Young Universe was known to them as PERRO, The Planet Earth Rock and Roll Orchestra. (Google it!) And, BTW, David Crosby actually taught the Grateful Dead to sing harmony. Really.
I think, maybe, the song is about wanting to get 'the girl' he must be thinking about, kind of teasing. Just an idea. Anyway, the album is sublime and it is, as you rightfully say, a sum of the past and a prediction of what's to come, it's bang in the middle of their amazing evolution. First period was working on their vast repertoire of covers and playing many hours in clubs, where they tuned their skills, second period was their first three albums, where they defined their sound reaching perfection with A hard day's night, third period was their next three albums where they started introverting and moving away from their poppy style reaching another perfection with Rubber Soul, then came Revolver, the record that is both a mirror to the past and to the future and is perfection among perfections, then the fourth period was their psychedelic adventure that started perfectly with Strawberry Fields and ended with the Magical Mystery\Submarine bit, kind of falling apart, then their fifth period which saw them wanting to start making sense (like you pointed out on your video about 1967, something that was a general thing for all those bands you mention) and it starts with the Hey Jude single and then the white album, displaying a wide range of styles up to their return to the roots bit where they closed the circle and left us with the incredible Abbey Road, reaching another perfect point. Big Beatles fan, here. Thanks for the video.
Fun video, recommended by YT. I watched with interest and enjoyed it, even though all that music from Grateful Dead, CSN&Y, Jefferson Airplane etc never really got to me. I shall subscribe! Thank you
There were quite a few constructed bands like this in the 60s - The Monkees, The Archies, Josie and the Pussycats, all of Phil Spector’s bands like the Ronettes. And let’s not forget the most shocking: Peter, Paul and Mary.
You two are a riot together. Your childhood household must have been a joy to be around. About Paul's resurrection of John, I don't find it at all distasteful. Those two shared so much history, as far as I'm concerned, Paul can do whatever he wants to work out his demons or to reconcile his feelings about the past or whatever else he feels he has to do. It's not as if he's telling tales out of school and/or trashing John's legacy or anything. I'm just glad Paul is still among us and I hope his vegetarian lifestyle will keep him her for 20 more years, because I plan to live at least that long and I'd much rather have Paul here with me than not. Love your show. All the best.
Brilliant Fathom . You nail it every time.Your research pays off and you explain it so well. Keep on keeping on. Thank you
I totally agree with that line from Across the Universe. It makes me cry too. But the first song that made me cry was The long and winding road. I must have been about 13.
In total agreement: anything that encourages people to listen to The Beatles is a good thing.
You completly skipped europe.
I wonder what the supergroup of Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, and Jeff Lynne would have sounded like.
Ok, so I’m home sick with a cellulitis infection in my leg (which is twice the size it should be) so that explains why I’ve watched at least 8 of your videos since discovering them a few hours ago. I just want to say that I was already all in on tye music, but the fact that you like the muppets too, signed, sealed, delivered.
Oh, I just realized when you put the album cover up that the one that I had in my room as a kid was brown and sortof leather-textured. I wonder was it a special release?
Wow. What a Brilliant and entertaining commentary.
I once heard Paul say that this was his least favorite Beatles song.