The not-known thing is that they stopped writing together in the later years. The songs may have said Lennon-McCartney, but they were anything but. Except, when Lennon came to the table, saying he has something he wants to suggest, or that he has a track that he wants on the album, across the table from him was one of the best songwriters in music at that day. Certainly there were his contemporaries climbing up the charts — they viewed Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys as their competition, more than the Rolling Stones, even if we compare and contrast Mick and Keith to John and Paul, which totally discounts Brian, who was the guiding creative force to the Stones during the Beatles’ time together — but more than anyone else, their closest competition was the guy next to ‘em in the front line.
Simply, neither one ever got near that level again. Are there things I like? Sure, but first, they had the drive to get the club dancing. They could do that, so they had the drive to take the next step, to write. They could do that. Go to America. Fill Shea Stadium. It gets down to competition between the two. There was no drive anymore, nothing to give Paul’s populism an edge or to give John’s edginess a polish.
Unrelated, but working on the “head” to “Cannonball”. Without learning this, I don’t think I would’ve ever gone as far as the dom7 in a “Hot-Rod Lincoln”-style boogie.
We might have to addend the title with “MatchBox” if this patty cake puddin’pie keeps up.. with all the fellas saying how much they appreciate each other. [see also youTube] I guess you knock heads long enough, 54 weekends in a row… and everyone becomes “Yesterday” lovey dovey… “Imagine” I’m going with “While my Guitar”… so there:
“Across the Universe…” my two ‘tween kids are all enamored with it, sound track and movie. Go figure. So I bought this priceless Lennon book for my son, Pat2, and gave it to him and he said, “Lennon? Who’s that.”
“He’s the guy who wrote all those songs you’ve been memorizing for the past three weeks, silly boy.” [Oh, I guess you had to be there.] It cracks me up. It’s all good.
Now, class, shall we move on to “Quantum Solace?” It may be time to recruit some new meat.. eh?
“While My Guitar” was George. I like him, I like the song, but a sip from the stream out back might taste like wine. That doesn’t make that creek equal to the Mississipi and Colorado rivers.
I think I lean more to the John Lennon kind of stir the pot and let’s see what happens kind of thing.
dom7: I think I tend to hear things as a series of changes even when there is a clear tonal center common to the series. So, over a lot of blues/country based stuff, it’s a batch of dom.7 chords to my ears even if the dom.7 isn’t being featured.
Yeah. What isn’t banned is compulsary, and the tritone, once banned as the devil’s interval came in via jazz because that’s major3-dom7.
I feel I should clarify.
E ————————————-
B ————————————-
G ————————————-
D ———2-5-4-2—————2-0—
A -0-0-3h4———-3h4–0-0-3h4——-
E ————————————-
(I hope that looks right/)
It’s that 5. If I was doing a blues shuffle, I would get to that 5, that G. But going with a “Hot Rod Lincoln” style … you know, I don’t even know what to call it, but maybe rockabilly? ….
Now that I replay the “Hot Rod Lincoln” lick, I can tell that I put it there. I guess that I don’t really know what I’m playing. But the order surprised me. Took me some time to identify it.
Now this really has nothing to do with John or Paul, does it? Sorry for hijacking the comments, really.
It depends on what inning we are in. Top of the seventh, facing top of their lineup, and their top three hitters are rightees… McCartney.
The not-known thing is that they stopped writing together in the later years. The songs may have said Lennon-McCartney, but they were anything but. Except, when Lennon came to the table, saying he has something he wants to suggest, or that he has a track that he wants on the album, across the table from him was one of the best songwriters in music at that day. Certainly there were his contemporaries climbing up the charts — they viewed Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys as their competition, more than the Rolling Stones, even if we compare and contrast Mick and Keith to John and Paul, which totally discounts Brian, who was the guiding creative force to the Stones during the Beatles’ time together — but more than anyone else, their closest competition was the guy next to ‘em in the front line.
Simply, neither one ever got near that level again. Are there things I like? Sure, but first, they had the drive to get the club dancing. They could do that, so they had the drive to take the next step, to write. They could do that. Go to America. Fill Shea Stadium. It gets down to competition between the two. There was no drive anymore, nothing to give Paul’s populism an edge or to give John’s edginess a polish.
Clearly, Lennon-McCartney.
This would be so much easier if their first names were Steve. Oh well.
Yesterday or Imagine?
Isn’t that funny? The greatest song by the optimist is about the past, and the pessimist’s crowning achievement was about dreams and what might be.
I looked for a Mark Twain quote to help me decide Lennon or McCartney.
Still didn’t help.
Not to change my previous answer, but if it’s down to “Yesterday” vs “Imagine”, I’d have to go Paul every day and twice on Sundays.
Unrelated, but working on the “head” to “Cannonball”. Without learning this, I don’t think I would’ve ever gone as far as the dom7 in a “Hot-Rod Lincoln”-style boogie.
Okay then, if you’re going to go that direction — Carl Perkins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaGF6WPuSpM [I'm not qualified, but I think I'm hearing dom7 in there at ends of phrases, no?]
We might have to addend the title with “MatchBox” if this patty cake puddin’pie keeps up.. with all the fellas saying how much they appreciate each other. [see also youTube] I guess you knock heads long enough, 54 weekends in a row… and everyone becomes “Yesterday” lovey dovey… “Imagine” I’m going with “While my Guitar”… so there:
“Across the Universe…” my two ‘tween kids are all enamored with it, sound track and movie. Go figure. So I bought this priceless Lennon book for my son, Pat2, and gave it to him and he said, “Lennon? Who’s that.”
“He’s the guy who wrote all those songs you’ve been memorizing for the past three weeks, silly boy.” [Oh, I guess you had to be there.] It cracks me up. It’s all good.
Now, class, shall we move on to “Quantum Solace?” It may be time to recruit some new meat.. eh?
Yup. Fifth, sixth, dom-seven.
“While My Guitar” was George. I like him, I like the song, but a sip from the stream out back might taste like wine. That doesn’t make that creek equal to the Mississipi and Colorado rivers.
Wow, Sans, you are on the Jazz something heavy… that’s fantastic. Turn your recorder on… quick.
I think I lean more to the John Lennon kind of stir the pot and let’s see what happens kind of thing.
dom7: I think I tend to hear things as a series of changes even when there is a clear tonal center common to the series. So, over a lot of blues/country based stuff, it’s a batch of dom.7 chords to my ears even if the dom.7 isn’t being featured.
So, over a lot of blues/country based stuff, it’s a batch of dom.7 chords to my ears even if the dom.7 isn’t being featured.
HUNjH?
Yeah. What isn’t banned is compulsary, and the tritone, once banned as the devil’s interval came in via jazz because that’s major3-dom7.
I feel I should clarify.
E ————————————-
B ————————————-
G ————————————-
D ———2-5-4-2—————2-0—
A -0-0-3h4———-3h4–0-0-3h4——-
E ————————————-
(I hope that looks right/)
It’s that 5. If I was doing a blues shuffle, I would get to that 5, that G. But going with a “Hot Rod Lincoln” style … you know, I don’t even know what to call it, but maybe rockabilly? ….
Now that I replay the “Hot Rod Lincoln” lick, I can tell that I put it there. I guess that I don’t really know what I’m playing. But the order surprised me. Took me some time to identify it.
Now this really has nothing to do with John or Paul, does it? Sorry for hijacking the comments, really.