Off Topic The Burly Arms

Jeez!! Sent shivers down my spine that did!!

 

I've got some ink from the old days.

 

What you might call a rather radical boob job, I guess... daftest thing I've done since I've been recovering was watching Kevin Bridges doing a show ... laughed so much it really fcukin' hurt ... my evil other half was laughing at me trying not to laugh (or at least supress it - hugging a cushion against my chest ), the cruel bitch... was my choice to continue watching mind

 

Apparently Prince didn't even rehearse with them ... somebody else did the solo in rehearsals ... Prince just got up and did it on the night ... the looks from George Harrison's son say it all ... in awe of genius ...

 

The world is worse off without him in it.

 

Nor could the Beatles

 

Love the songs and Campbell had a fabulous voice, but why do they put those strings on. Makes it sound like Mantovani (sp?)

 

One or collectively?

 

If by "this bloke" you mean George Harrison, couldn't agree more. Always been my favourite Beatles song and I have to admit Prince's playing is fantastic. Harrison was greatly underrated in comparison to Lennon/McCartney.

 

My favourite Beatles song too

 

Neither Lennon nor McCartney could/can read music, for sure during the Beatles years. Whether McCartney can now, I don't know.

 

Been up to Wat Ban Rai temple....pure karma.

 

http://lifeofthebeatles.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/did-beatles-know-how-to-read-music.html

Did the Beatles Know How to Read Music?
The Beatles never did learn to read or write music using traditional notation, and by all accounts were happy with that fact. Music was a discovery process for them that did not involve any books -- they once traveled across town for someone to teach them a B7 guitar chord. John Lennon's mother taught him banjo chords; they lasted with him through his early Quarry Men days until Paul McCartney showed him proper guitar chords. George Harrison learned guitar through lessons and painstaking practice. To acquire new material for concerts (mostly cover songs in the early days), they learned largely through listening to records and mimicking the sounds as closely as they could.

When it came to official transcriptions of their music, the Beatles could provide input if necessary, but the transcribing was left to others (e.g. Question: Which of the vocal melodies in "Baby's in Black" is the lead? Answer from Paul: Both). When classical/professional musicians were employed during recording sessions, the Beatles would often sing the melodies and George Martin would transcribe them into sheet music.

For their part, the Beatles liked not knowing how to read sheet music. George Harrison once remarked that he thought if he learned too much of music theory it would ruin the songwriting process in terms of having an innovative ability. Would John have written the strange time signatures of "Good Morning Good Morning" or Paul the interesting modalities of "For No One" as instinctively having the full knowledge of music theory at their fingertips? Perhaps not

 

Sitting in work (last hour) thinking **** my life (in a polish accent so everyone here knows what I'm thinking)

I won't be long ere lol

 

It's in A minor.

The solo by Clapton is technically more complicated as his use of string bending to alter the note being played is brilliant...

 

And whatever the technicalities, the original Clapton solo is heart rending. Stunning playing.

 

No, I meant Prince.

George Harrison wasn't in that clip.

 

Apart from it being his song

 

A minor, when you absolutely, positively have to make every mother ****er in the room cry

accept no substitute

 

Fully aware of that.