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Happy Birthday, George Harrison. He would have been 69 today. Click for high-res photo

Happy Birthday, George Harrison. He would have been 69 today.

Remembering John Lennon (October 9, 1940 — December 8, 1980) Click for high-res photo

Remembering John Lennon (October 9, 1940 — December 8, 1980)

RIP George Harrison (February 25, 1943 - November 29, 2001) Click for high-res photo

RIP George Harrison (February 25, 1943 - November 29, 2001)

Charlie Benante, ©2010 Josh Sisk Me too, Charlie. Me too. Click for high-res photo

Charlie Benante, ©2010 Josh Sisk

Me too, Charlie. Me too.

The Friday Five: August 26, 2011

Gettin’ my Friday Five action on over at IckMusic:

Iron Maiden - “Moonchild” (Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, 1998)
I remember thinking that both Iron Maiden and Judas Priest had sold out when they started using guitar synths. Typical teenage angst I guess, but boy was I wrong. Just listen to Steve Harris’ galloping bass underneath the synth and guitar sheen. Solid song from an album that is probably too often overlooked.

Joe Satriani - “Belly Dancer” (Strange Beautiful Music, 2002)
I bought Flying in a Blue Dream without having heard a single note and then promptly wore the cassette out. Then I fell in love with Surfing with the Alien. The Extremist was next, this time on CD. But somewhere after that I just lost the attraction to Joe. I have since tried to pick up his stuff and listen all the way through, but I’m sad to say that more often than not, I just can’t do it. Strange Beautiful Music did however become the soundtrack for my HTML, CSS, and JavaScript coding for a few weeks back in the day.

The Beatles - “Tell Me What You See” (Help!, 1965)
The Beatles catalog is just way too confusing to me, what with the differences between the UK and US releases alone. This particular song was only on the UK release since in the US, the album was a soundtrack album and since the song had already appeared on Beatles VI. Beatles VI?! That’s a real album? Are you sure? Yep, apparently so. As for the song, it doesn’t really do it for me, but it’s The Beatles, so that’s something, right?

Cheap Trick - “I Want You to Want Me” (Bun E.’s Basement Bootlegs 3 “Beertown ‘75” (Disc 2), 1975)
I love Cheap Trick, but I’ve never been crazy about this song. OK, that’s not quite true. I was infatuated with the whole of At Budokan back when I acquired the vinyl. This take has a fire and urgency missing in the sappy and admittedly weak, albeit definitive, version everyone is familiar with, but it doesn’t make me like it any better.

Black Sabbath - “Hole in the Sky” (Symptom of the Universe: The Original Black Sabbath (1970-1978), 2002)
I love the separation of the dual guitar parts you get when you listen to Tony Iommi with headphones on. Heavy, driving Sabbath tune, and I really like the edge in Ozzy’s vocals. I think I see the sky opening up.

This is part of the fun of growing older: being out of touch and not caring. Teenagers might not know The Beatles, and my revenge is to not know…come to think of it, I don’t even know who I’m supposed to not know!
Paul Gilbert on being out of touch with modern music, Music Radar interview

Here’s a Beatles/Ramones mashup by Mighty Mike called “For No Bop” combining “For No One” and “Blitzkrieg Bop”

You Never Give Me Your Money

The genius of Lennon’s and McCartney’s songwriting is unquestionable, but the melodies and the vocals are what always got me. Just listen to the beautiful harmonies on the isolated vocal track of the first section of the Abbey Road medley (“You Never Give Me Your Money,” “Sun King,” “Mean Mr. Mustard,” and “She Came In Through the Bathroom Window”).

You can hear the other isolated tracks at beattalesForo’s YouTube Channel.

Isolated vocal track for part 1 of the Abbey Road medley

Update 12/10/2010, 11:05
Aaaaannnnd … they’re gone. If you visit the beattalesForo YouTube channel, you get the following message:

YouTube account beattalesForo has been terminated because we received multiple third-party notifications of copyright infringement from claimants including:

  • MTV Networks, a division of Viacom International

This is just too stupid. Sheesh.

Thanks for the heads-up, Jay.

And I Will Sing A Lullaby

I stumbled onto these isolated tracks of the second section of the Abbey Road medley (“Golden Slumbers,” “Carry That Weight,” “The End,” and “Her Majesty”) today thanks in part to this post by Merlin Mann. There’s more to enjoy at the beattalesForo YouTube Channel.

Enjoy!

vocals
piano
strings and guitar
bass
drums

Live Soul

Soulive performs “Eleanor Rigby” and “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)” at the Brooklyn Bowl for the upcoming BOWLIVE DVD

As a bona fide music nerd and Bealtes fan, jazz/funk/soul/swing reworkings of classic Beatles tunes sounds very interesting to me. If the rest of Soulive’s covers are as good as these two, the soon-to-be released BOWLIVE DVD should be worth a watch.

Go read Popdose’s review of the recently released Rubber Soulive album, which is how I got hip to this in the first place. Based on the samples at Amazon, I would have to agree with the reviewer that this works much better in the context of a live performance.

For awhile there we were enjoying driving up in our car and being mobbed. Or we had to be secretly taken into the theater where we playing…It was a bit “Hard Day’s Night,” you know. Just for awhile, it was fun.
Bill Ward on Black Sabbath’s success during the Paranoid tours, Goldmine Magazine
The Beatles are kind of my musical DNA. If I could sing like them, write like them, and make girls jump up and down and scream like they did, then I would never have to play instrumental music at all.
Paul Gilbert, Premier Guitar, September 2010
Anybody who questions the musicality of The Beatles, they’re just not paying attention.
Helmet’s Page Hamilton, Music Radar interview

If She Runs, Let Her Run

Suite Charlotte Pike/Abbey Road Medley (4 Parts)

Remember way back when I encouraged you to search for prog supergroup Transatlantic’s performances of The Beatles’ Abbey Road medley? Well, I decided to go ahead and do the legwork for you.

This performance of “Suite Charlotte Pike” from the Bridge Across Forever album mixes in parts of the medley and features a pretty incredible bass solo from Marillion’s Pete Trewavas. Weighing in at about 30 minutes over 4 videos, it’s a fairly lengthy watch, but if you are a fan of progressive rock, The Beatles, supergroups, or bass solos, it’s definitely worth the investment of your time.