That would make sense since Revolution 1 uses horns. Craig Sunday 15 October Beatless Thursday 1 July The fuzziest recording ever made. Joaco Wednesday 29 August Clemenza08 Saturday 30 June GeorgeTSimpson Sunday 22 July GeorgeTSimpson Thursday 9 August Lennon plays the opening riff and the short guitar only breaks, but he plays the rythm guitar parts during the parts with vocals and harrison plays the lead guitar in those parts Loading James Ferrell Saturday 6 January John Wednesday 26 June The organ is heard during the guitar solo just after the half way mark.
It is very clear, Loading Eli Rosen Thursday 12 March Right before the electric piano solo? Jon Wednesday 15 April Eli Rosen Sunday 20 September Eli Rosen Saturday 25 February James Ferrell Wednesday 17 July Art Tuesday 18 March Leonard Meyer Thursday 17 July Paul Sunday 16 April Any single by the Beatles was double-A, no question about it.
Chris Saturday 25 October Joe Monday 27 October John Saturday 3 January DrRobert Friday 13 March Teddy Salad Monday 17 July Yeah, you missed it by nearly two years chum. So close.
I'msixtyfour Thursday 16 July The final take of the day — slated Take 18 — became something of a lengthy experimental jam, running to 10 minutes and 30 seconds.
The last six minutes or so were a sonic picture of chaos, with sound-effects tapes, screaming and other vocal improvisations being added. Doo-wop-style backing vocals were added, as were various tape loops and further instrumentation.
On June 21, John, George Harrison , and George Martin returned to the song, Martin scoring a brass section, while Harrison added a lead guitar track, completing the recording. But the resultant song, which appears on the album, was deemed too slow by Paul and George to be released as a single, so on July 9 , a faster, heavier version was taped, with wildly distorted guitars and pounding drums.
I had about ten of them on different mono machines, all spinning at once, with pencils and things holding them. I just thought it was unsubtle. I thought the original Communist revolutionaries coordinated themselves a bit better and didn't go around shouting about it. I think John later ascribed more political intent to it than he actually felt when he wrote it.
Musically, the introduction strikes a distinct similarity to Pee Wee Crayton 's single "Do Unto Others," which can easily be thought to have been John's inspiration. Recording History. The first time "Revolution" was committed to tape was on May 28th, when The Beatles all met at George's 'Kinfauns ' home in Esher, Surrey, to make demo recordings of songs they were going to include on their next album. These recordings were made on George's four-track Ampex tape recorder, the group taking turns acoustically playing their newly written songs and then performing various overdubs as ideas of what they would do officially when they got into EMI Studios.
John plays acoustic guitar and sings while the other Beatles clap along and occasionally join in on backing vocals with a great sense of harmony. John then double-tracks himself on acoustic guitar and vocals but, as the final verse begins to kick in, his timing gets noticeably off.
This results in the overdubbed tambourine in this verse, probably played by Ringo, to compensate in order to catch the beat correctly. This awkwardness is corrected on the 50th Anniversay " White Album " releases. All in all, while containing flaws, this acoustic version is very impressive and paints a very accurate picture of how Lennon originally conceived of the song.
I wanted to put it out as a single, but they said it wasn't good enough We recorded the song twice. The Beatles were getting real tense with each other.
The first take, George and Paul were resentful and said it wasn't fast enough. Now, if you go into the details of what a hit record is and isn't, maybe.
But The Beatles could have afforded to put out the slow, understandable version of 'Revolution' as a single, whether it was a gold record or a wooden record. But, because they were so upset over the Yoko thing and the fact that I was again becoming as creative and dominating as I was in the early days, after lying fallow for a couple of years, it upset the applecart.
I was awake again and they weren't used to it. But by this point in their career, it would be the group's decision; George might offer some input or suggestions, but it was their final call.
Apparently, John and Paul had been arguing for some time about what would be the next A-side. John was pushing hard for ' Revolution 1 ,' but Paul resisted, telling John he thought it was too slow; eventually he brought George Martin in as an ally.
Personally, I think Paul felt that the song simply wasn't all that good, and he was using its slow tempo as an excuse not to have it released as a single, but John had defiantly taken him up on the challenge and so was insisting that they cut it again, faster.
Common EMI practice at the time was to re-record over recorded material when it was decided that the contents of the tape were deemed unusable, as this was. However, six minutes of these rehearsals, which comprised John on electric guitar and vocals, Paul on bass and harmony vocals, George on electric guitar and Ringo on drums, were discovered at the end of a re-recorded reel of tape sometime in when mixing new material for the 50th Anniversary " White Album " releases.
These six minutes reveal an interesting transition between the sessions that resulted in " Revolution 1 " and the harder "Revolution" as released as the b-side of " Hey Jude " in August of , George touching on elements of his future Beatles composition " Old Brown Shoe " in the process.
The session on this day ended at am that morning. The brief snippet of this taped discovery that appears on the Super Deluxe 50th Anniversary release of the " White Album " shows that it was John who played lead guitar this time around. It sounds the way I wanted it to sound.
It's a pity I can't do it better, the fingering, you know. But, I couldn't have done that last year; I would have been too paranoiac. I couldn't play. George must play, or somebody better. My playing has probably improved a little bit on this session because I've been playing a little.
I was always the rhythm guitar anyway, but I always wanted to fiddle about in the background. That was typical of him in those days; that was his vibe: pissed off. Ever since we'd first started work on the ' White Album ,' John had wanted to play louder and louder — he kept winding his guitar amp full up, but there were acoustic limitations as to how loud you could play and still capture the sound before it turned into a mess, leaking onto everything else and becoming all muddy.
He didn't understand that, no matter how many times I tried to explain it to him, so he just became more and more frustrated and angry. Making things worse was the fact that, behind the scenes, Magic Alex Mardas was telling him that he would be able to play as loud as he wanted, without restriction, in the new studio he was building for them.
But that was the idea: it was John's song and the idea was to push it right to the limit. Well, we went to the limit and beyond. The guitars were put through the recording console, which was technically not the thing to do. It completely overloaded the channel and produced the fuzz sound. Fortunately the technical people didn't find out.
They didn't approve of 'abuse of equipment. The overloaded mic amps in the desk produced a particulary abrasive form of distortion. This second vocal overdub also included the blood-curdling scream during the song's introduction. This filled up the four-track tape once again, so two more attempts were made at a tape reduction, this taking the song to 'take 15' with apparently both guitars on track one, all drums and percussion on track two, and both of John's vocals on track four.
Rough mono mixes were then made for John to take home. This session was complete at am the following morning. Immediately after I posted my reply above I saw you had already provided the quote three years before.
To me, as german, it sounds like native speaker. Who is this? What is this? What makes those noises??!! Is it coins being dropped? Or gravel?
So how about it Beatle fans… does anyone know what the heck those cracking sounds are at the beginning of the song?! Just some very — very — slight resonance between the two songs for me. Revolution Take 20 is a masterpiece. I wonder if Yoko leaked it since she was involved? I wonder if Yoko leaked Take 20 since she was involved and probably has one of the only versions? I know that crackling comes from a wine bottle vibrating on top of the Hammond as Paul played it.
Any idea what John is referring to here? I wanted to put out what I felt about revolution. And we put out what? But The Beatles could have afforded to put out the slow, understandable version of Revolution as a single, whether it was a gold record or a wooden record.
But because they were so upset over the Yoko thing and the fact that I was becoming as creative and dominating as I had been in the early days, after lying fallow for a couple of years, it upset the applecart. Photo: Tony Bramwell. John decided he would feel more comfortable on the floor so I had to rig up a microphone which would be suspended on a boom above his mouth.
It struck me as somewhat odd, a little eccentric, but they were always looking for a different sound; something new. Join the Fab Forum discussion on Revolution 1 ». Latest Comments. BeatleMark Monday 28 December Ric Tuesday 10 August Julian Saturday 22 January I have the same question. Vonbontee Monday 24 January Aneil Sunday 13 March Joe Sunday 13 March Mercybeat83 Tuesday 22 February Schminking of gin Friday 5 August Try listening to Revolution 1 Take 20 while having a bit of a smoke and get blown away Loading Daveroxit Sunday 31 March Joseph Brush Tuesday 2 April
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