Arguing with someone about whether the Beatles song yellow submarine became popular ironically, like it's not actually a good Beatles songs? I disagreed, but thought I'd ask the expert!!
Hey Perry I don't know if you watch the series succession but in season three the episode where they go to the investors beach house there's a great moment where Kendall the son, Calls the Beatles a great band but then his father revises and calls it a *good band and this very small, dispute over great vs good underlies the deeper dysfunction between the father and son
Two hot takes bc im typing with my thumb. (How is this progress?!)
1. The seminal OG punk band literally named themselves after a Paul McCartney alias (Paul Ramone) as you are no doubt aware.
The pistols perhaps didn’t get the joke, or it was too close to home?
2. Studio as instrument - yes, well behind Les Paul but its almost impossible to overstate the importance of EMI (wasn’t re-named abbey road until years later of course) as a location. When the first two tape machines were brought back from Germany after WW-II, one went to EMI, and a second went to California where the founders of Ampex got to work. (BASF had figured out the mylar backing for tape, changing the world) The Brits studied theirs and created the BTR-1, literally British Tape Recorder 1, and the lab-coated top-of-the-mountain Engineers there were won over by these crazy kids. Or beaten down, lol. And its incredible how fast it happened. I will clearly always lose your drinking game. And I’m ok with that. Now I’m going to go soak my thumb. ;) cheers!
Two hot takes bc im typing with my thumb. (How is this progress?!)
1. The seminal OG punk band literally named themselves after a Paul McCartney alias (Paul Ramone) as you are no doubt aware.
The pistols perhaps didn’t get the joke, or it was too close to home?
2. Studio as instrument - yes, well behind Les Paul but its almost impossible to overstate the importance of EMI (wasn’t re-named abbey road until years later of course) as a location. When the first two tape machines were brought back from Germany after WW-II, one went to EMI, and a second went to California where the founders of Ampex got to work. (BASF had figured out the mylar backing for tape, changing the world) The Brits studied theirs and created the BTR-1, literally British Tape Recorder 1, and the lab-coated top-of-the-mountain Engineers there were won over by these crazy kids. Or beaten down, lol. And its incredible how fast it happened. I will clearly always lose your drinking game. And I’m ok with that. Now I’m going to go soak my thumb. ;) cheers!
Arguing with someone about whether the Beatles song yellow submarine became popular ironically, like it's not actually a good Beatles songs? I disagreed, but thought I'd ask the expert!!
Just recommended you in a debate I saw between beach boys and the Beatles ;)
Hey Perry I don't know if you watch the series succession but in season three the episode where they go to the investors beach house there's a great moment where Kendall the son, Calls the Beatles a great band but then his father revises and calls it a *good band and this very small, dispute over great vs good underlies the deeper dysfunction between the father and son
Loving the series, thank you for this!
Two hot takes bc im typing with my thumb. (How is this progress?!)
1. The seminal OG punk band literally named themselves after a Paul McCartney alias (Paul Ramone) as you are no doubt aware.
The pistols perhaps didn’t get the joke, or it was too close to home?
2. Studio as instrument - yes, well behind Les Paul but its almost impossible to overstate the importance of EMI (wasn’t re-named abbey road until years later of course) as a location. When the first two tape machines were brought back from Germany after WW-II, one went to EMI, and a second went to California where the founders of Ampex got to work. (BASF had figured out the mylar backing for tape, changing the world) The Brits studied theirs and created the BTR-1, literally British Tape Recorder 1, and the lab-coated top-of-the-mountain Engineers there were won over by these crazy kids. Or beaten down, lol. And its incredible how fast it happened. I will clearly always lose your drinking game. And I’m ok with that. Now I’m going to go soak my thumb. ;) cheers!
Loving the series, thank you for this!
Two hot takes bc im typing with my thumb. (How is this progress?!)
1. The seminal OG punk band literally named themselves after a Paul McCartney alias (Paul Ramone) as you are no doubt aware.
The pistols perhaps didn’t get the joke, or it was too close to home?
2. Studio as instrument - yes, well behind Les Paul but its almost impossible to overstate the importance of EMI (wasn’t re-named abbey road until years later of course) as a location. When the first two tape machines were brought back from Germany after WW-II, one went to EMI, and a second went to California where the founders of Ampex got to work. (BASF had figured out the mylar backing for tape, changing the world) The Brits studied theirs and created the BTR-1, literally British Tape Recorder 1, and the lab-coated top-of-the-mountain Engineers there were won over by these crazy kids. Or beaten down, lol. And its incredible how fast it happened. I will clearly always lose your drinking game. And I’m ok with that. Now I’m going to go soak my thumb. ;) cheers!