PS: Great site! I am enjoying it breakless since days.ĭeleting the right channel, using equalization, leveler, maximizer and stuff, I think I could clear the mumbles up to a point, where I don’t think it can be any clearer with a home PC. Yummy! No doubt about “cranberry sauce”! None whatsoever! ![]() The “butter” remark (I’m just 51% sure about this) is consistant with the cranberry sauce, when you eat it with a roll or a croissant or whatever. Starr visited him there, so this may be an insider. ![]() The mock Spanish pronounciation is maybe due to Lennons filming in Spain. It was just Lennon fooling around on a take he at this point thought to be irrelevant. ” Thus I do not think, the mumbles were specifically recorded. It seems the break-down of the rythm is less due to Starr’s unability to keep it, but to the fact, that somebody over the headphone told him, that the voices were too loud and Starr assumed the take was over. It is friggin’ unbelievable!) Lennon: “You can do it, Rrrringoooo!” (With a mock-Spanish pronounciation) Lennon: “ loud?” (The voices most probably) “So let’s end it ” Maybe he saw the engineer giving him a sign. Starr : “I can do it!” (He had to do a lot of hits to have this enormous drumsound. It seems Lennon joined Starr in his drum-booth. I think it was taped through the drum-mics. You can here the voices quite clearly and I am very sure that it’s a conversation between Lennon and Starr. Guitar can faintly be heard on the right. (Called “The Beatles Documents Vol.3”) The most interesting one regarding the mumble voices is one with drums and the voices on the left channel. (I am born 1971 btw, or year one after the Beatles.) I happen to have a version of SFF on a bootleg CD in seven different states of development. By the time I was forteen it changed to “Strawberry Fields Forever” and it never changed again. My first favourite Beatles-song was “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds” when I was about ten, after that ist was “I Me Mine” when I was twelve or so. If I were to save ONE SONG or had to pick one song to play to aliens to show them that man does have a soul – this would be the one. Would be easier to mention what’s NOT great about this song (I can’t think of anything actually). Even the “screw ups” are great (meaning effects caused by technical limitations etc) – especially the change in pitch 1 minute into the song (these 2 parts don’t match perfectly – but exactly that contributes to the frantic atmosphere of the song). It’s unbeatable in many ways and I don’t think anybody will ever top this. George Martin wasn’t into drugs AT ALL and nevertheless he could write this really trippy arrangement – creating a dreamy soundscape unmatched to this day. To translate John’s psychedelic images into sound is like doing voodoo. ![]() John simply said to him he wanted “maybe some strings and a brass section” and THIS is what he came up with!? Unbelievable…musical genius. This is not only John’s finest hour but also (maybe even more so) George Martin’s. And yet it also holds up if only played with a guitar (I think John’s basic solo demos are fantastic…the way he sings it, it’s so honest – although it’s such a weird song, you kind of FEEL what he means). This song is like a little universe, there’s so much going on. This is my all time favourite and I purposefully only listen to it in “special moments”. The Mellotron was a fairly new keyboard instrument in 1966, which The Moody Blues’ Mike Pinder had introduced The Beatles to in 1965. This first take also has a rounded ending a Mellotron and guitar instrumental passage, in stark contrast to the psychedelic spectacle of the final version. This initial arrangement was also used on take one in the studio, also available on Anthology 2. Instead of opening with the chorus, the early versions of the song began with the first two verses back-to-back. In it, Lennon begins by fingerpicking the individual notes of the chords, before breaking off and muttering, “I cannae do it.” He begins again, strumming the guitar and singing. John Lennon recorded a series of solo demos in mid-November 1966 at his home in Weybridge, Surrey.Ī sequence from the recordings was included on Anthology 2. John Lennon, 1980 All We Are Saying, David Sheff The musicįreed from the constraints of touring, in the latter months of 1966 The Beatles began a series of open-ended sessions at Abbey Road, with little regard to time and budget.Īlthough it was to end up as a psychedelic masterpiece, ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ began relatively simply.
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