Tomorrow Never Knows

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It's that edge in the voice that, to me, makes rock n' roll. I've always thought of them as heavy. My mother lived and breathed The Beatles and they were a huge part of my upbringing. Every time we went anywhere The Beatles were playing on the stereo. That seeped into my consciousness and completely shaped my musical style.

Ringo Starr should be commended for the absolutely mental drums playing. The time signature alone is difficult to understand but to think of this performance being captured boggles my mind. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Tomorrow Never Knows Compilation album by the Beatles. Hard rock psychedelic rock. Available Now at the iTunes Store".

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Retrieved 24 July I love the drumming by Ringo and this songs whole feel. It is always fascinating to hear how this song was put together. I really think is when Ringo was at the top of his game! Ringo never gets the credit he deserves for pushing rock drumming to the next level.

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He really is the best and a master. James I totally agree.. I had only ever heard the Revolver album version, and now see there are other takes available…so…. But yes it is — and I love the treatment,flattened and looped. Over 10 years ago, I read a book on their songs and the recording proccesses. It spoke of 3 takes using the standard backing tracks we all are familiar with. Or at most, had 2 other takes in the same tempo of the standard.

He mentioned that these were even heavier. And also the loops and effects were even more saturated. An innovative composition by Lennon: The whole song in one chord, and with a bourdun note like folkmusic from the Middle Ages? The song starts with a tambora drone — an idea from Harrison — playing the same note. McCartney had been making loops prior to this song.

The loop John and Ringo did was a very simple one and Emerick did it for them. Emerick also pointed out that Lennon was severely challenged when it came to technical things. Unlike McCartney, who was technically proficient. Wow so what you are really saying is that Paul was a bit of a producer then. Get a grip the Beatles were a BAND, they wrote,rehearsed and recorded the majority of their tracks together.

They all gave each other feedback and many of the classic McCartney songs had lyrics from John and vice versa.

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Paul had the technical ability to get things recorded and worked better with Martin than John did. Does this make Paul more musically talented than John? This is why they were the greatest band of all time because due to some stroke of luck these two actually met and made music together……one could not have existed without the other and that is why every John v Paul argument is irrelevant. One of the coolest songs ever. Love the words, love the music, love the sound effects. Another great guitar solo from Paul. George, in the Beatles was like an extremely lyrical rockabilly cat.

Tomorrow Never Knows

I love the way he just wails. Contrary to popular opinion, there are actually 2 chords in tomorrow never knows. The 2nd chord is the one that the french horns play. There are parts added to layer the sound, including other chords, but you can play one droning chord thought the whole song. An abs amazing piece! John wanted a book by what sounded like 'Nitz Ga'.

It took Miles a few minutes to realise that he was looking for the German philosopher Nietzsche, long enough for John to become convinced that he was being ridiculed. He launched into an attack on intellectuals and university students and was only mollified when Paul told him that he had not understood what John was asking for either, and that Miles was not a university graduate but had been to art college, just like him.

Immediately friendly again, John talked about Allen Ginsberg and the Beats, laughing about his school magazine the Daily Howl: John was delighted and settled down on the settee with the book. Right away, on page 14 in Leary's introduction, he read, 'Whenever in doubt, turn off your mind, relax, float downstream.

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Round about this time people were starting to experiment with drugs, including LSD. For the first time we got the idea that, as with ancient Egyptian practice, when you die you lie in state for a few days, and then some of your handmaidens come and prepare you for a huge voyage.

Rather than the British version, in which you just pop your clogs. With LSD, this theme was all the more interesting. We got back together after a break, and we were there for a meeting. George Martin was there so it may have been to show George some new songs or talk about the new album.

John got his guitar out and started doing 'Tomorrow Never Knows' and it was all on one chord. This was because of our interest in Indian music. We would be sitting around and at the end of an Indian album we'd go, 'Did anyone realise they didn't change chords? Wow, man, that is pretty far out. Indian music doesn't modulate; it just stays. You pick what key you're in, and it stays in that key.

I think 'Tomorrow never Knows' was the first one that stayed there; the whole song was on one chord.

But there is a chord that is superimposed on top that does change: That was like an overdub, but the basic sound all hangs on the one drone. That's me in my Tibetan Book of the Dead period. I took one of Ringo's malapropisms as the title, to sort of take the edge off the heavy philosophical lyrics. You can hear and I am sure most Beatles fans have Tomorrow Never Knows a lot and not know really what it is about. Basically it is saying what meditation is all about.

The goal of meditation is to go beyond that is, transcend waking, sleeping and dreaming. So the song starts out by saying, 'Turn off your mind, relax and float downstream, it is not dying. Paul Bernays Saturday 13 December Ammar Tuesday 16 February Joseph Brush Monday 5 April Jack Redding Friday 6 December Darren Wednesday 29 October The song mind games is far out tripping Loading Travis Tuesday 9 May Teddy Salad Friday 15 September Joseph Brush Sunday 4 April George Saturday 27 November Joe Sunday 28 November ForgetScowl Saturday 4 October Roger Thursday 23 July Jean Erica Moniker Wednesday 2 December Joe Wednesday 2 December You can hear them played one after the other on Soundcloud Beatles multi-track melt down Loading Vonbontee Monday 7 December Irion Wednesday 5 December Well, actually Geoff Emerick claims that Paul nailed the solo for Taxman in one take!

Vonbontee Thursday 10 December Jakob Gerber Tuesday 15 March Andrew Leonard Thursday 10 December Nowhere Man Dave Tuesday 19 November Ramsey Tuesday 3 February General Comment this song is sooooo wicked. John and George R. Forever in our hearts. Originally, John wanted his voice to sound like he was singing from the top of the Himalayas, and he wanted a bunch of Buddhist monks chanting in the background. Of course, they didn't have the money to do such a thing, and what you got is what you hear, which is spectacular anyway. And it was actually Macca who made and suggested that random loops be put into the song.

Flag MamboMan on April 11, General Comment yes, but by the same token, you must appreciate the truly god-like reverse guitaring efforts at the end of i'm only sleeping, or was that a different song? General Comment Yea but its not the "real" tibetan book of the dead Really cool song though, different than the rest of the album.

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