45th anniversary of the release of Abbey Road

drumminman
drumminman Posts: 3,396
edited August 2014 in Music & Movies
Actually, that was Friday ( I think). Celebrated tonight by having a few glasses of red and playing it a room filling volume. Still sounds sweet :biggrin:
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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    edited August 2014
    Good idea. That is one of my favorite Beatles album. Time to fire up the excellent CD remaster released a few years ago.
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  • scottyboy76
    scottyboy76 Posts: 2,905
    edited August 2014
    45 years, my god
    humpty dumpty was pushed
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  • gce
    gce Posts: 2,158
    edited August 2014
    Abbey Road Cover Outtakes...

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  • drumminman
    drumminman Posts: 3,396
    edited August 2014
    The pic used on the album cover showed Paul out of step with the others. Was supposed to be one of the signs that Paul was dead (remember that brouhaha?).
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  • soundfreak1
    soundfreak1 Posts: 3,414
    edited August 2014
    Still have the first available pressing in vinly when first released in US at least at my local record shop in the day, and first cd, play it still.
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  • headrott
    headrott Posts: 5,496
    edited August 2014
    soundfreak1 wrote: »
    Still have the first available pressing in vinly when first released in US at least at my local record shop in the day, and first cd, play it still.

    Does it have the little red berries on the back cover (can't remember exactly where)?
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  • zane77
    zane77 Posts: 1,696
    edited August 2014
    I can't believe it's been that long ago. This was one of the first albums I ever bought.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 34,069
    edited August 2014
    drumminman wrote: »
    The pic used on the album cover showed Paul out of step with the others. Was supposed to be one of the signs that Paul was dead (remember that brouhaha?).
    Yes... and his bare feet (Italian corpses are buried sans shoes). And the black carnation in the booklet photos in Magical Mystery Tour and...

    Imagine what the "Paul is Dead" imbroglio* would've been like in the Internet Age! :-O
    EDIT: oh, heh-heh, I just remembered stuff like this: http://digilander.libero.it/jamespaul/fc1.html

    * You already used "brouhaha"; I am a little off-the-mark with "imbroglio", but it's close enough and it's a great word! ;-)

    EDIT: On topic, just as noted by another poster above, I have numerous copies of Abbey Road on licorice pizza... including the one I got when it was a current album (and which is beat to snot, unfortunately). Would love to have an early UK pressing, someday...
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  • drumminman
    drumminman Posts: 3,396
    edited August 2014
    I never bought into the Paul is dead theory. How would they ever find a double with the musical ability Paul has? IMHO one of the great bass players and vocalists of his era.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 34,069
    edited August 2014
    drumminman wrote: »
    I never bought into the Paul is dead theory. How would they ever find a double with the musical ability Paul has? IMHO one of the great bass players and vocalists of his era.

    Well, arguably, they didn't... I mean, "real Paul" wrote Yesterday and Eleanor Rigby and Helter Skelter and the middle section of A Day in the Life -- and "fake Paul" wrote... you know... Silly Love Songs and Someone's Knockin' at the Door and... well, you get the picture...

    ;-)

    I think the best hypothesis, given their cleverness, snarkiness, and generally mischievous ways, that the Fab Four themselves were most likely the source of the rumor. Here's a pretty good dissection of "Paul is Dead" (IMO): http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/archive/permalink/paul_is_dead
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  • leftwinger57
    leftwinger57 Posts: 2,917
    edited August 2014
    Vocalist, songwriter, performer absolutely one of the best but one of the best bass players hardly. Try Jack Cassady, Phil Lesh, Jack Bruce,Harvey Brooks, Stanley CLarke,Jon Squire,John Entwistle,Rodger Waters, Jaco Pastrious. Just a smattering of much better technically and talented bass players of that era. Yes subjective like music it'self and believe me I'm not minimizing Paul's contribution to music at all.
    I'm also amazed it's been 45 years ,for the time one of the better produed albums.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 34,069
    edited August 2014
    Well - I wouldn't consider Sir Paul 'one of the best' bassists, either -- but he was an interesting and (I would argue) inventive player of rock and roll bass of his time. Listen to the bass parts, e.g., on the Sgt. Pepper's album; more interesting than the usual blump, blump, blump bass that was much more common in the era.

    FWIW, Entwistle is my personal favorite rock bassist, but poor Jaco Pastorius sure is something to hear on Shadows and Light! ;-)
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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    edited August 2014
    You guys are showing your age. Any teenager today would merely ask what happened to the guy's Nikes?

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  • drumminman
    drumminman Posts: 3,396
    edited August 2014
    leftwinger57 wrote: »
    Vocalist, songwriter, performer absolutely one of the best but one of the best bass players hardly. Try Jack Cassady, Phil Lesh, Jack Bruce,Harvey Brooks, Stanley CLarke,Jon Squire,John Entwistle,Rodger Waters, Jaco Pastrious. Just a smattering of much better technically and talented bass players of that era. Yes subjective like music it'self and believe me I'm not minimizing Paul's contribution to music at all.
    I'm also amazed it's been 45 years ,for the time one of the better produed albums.
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    Well - I wouldn't consider Sir Paul 'one of the best' bassists, either -- but he was an interesting and (I would argue) inventive player of rock and roll bass of his time. Listen to the bass parts, e.g., on the Sgt. Pepper's album; more interesting than the usual blump, blump, blump bass that was much more common in the era.

    FWIW, Entwistle is my personal favorite rock bassist, but poor Jaco Pastorius sure is something to hear on Shadows and Light! ;-)

    All those guys are great, some even my favorites. The reason I put Paul up there is his phrasing and melodic playing. Listen to the bass on Rain, almost any song on Abbey Road, Paperback Writer. His parts are usually one of the most interesting aspects of the song - IMO of course.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 34,069
    edited August 2014
    Your examples are better than my generalities :-) ... best of all, thinking of those bass parts, I'd definitely class them as "interesting"; lively, even. Definitely more interesting than the average for their time.
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