Jim wrote:
>How 'bout a Beatles thread once everyone has finished with Madonna?
Hi Jim-
Great idea! I don't care for Madonna much at all except for a couple of
tracks from the Ray of Light record. Even though I have enjoyed reading the
posts regarding her. She is always causing controversy (which is always
fun). I especially enjoyed Michael Y's posts on the topic and look forward
to hearing his review of the new Album (which I can't get into at all yet).
Needless to say i think the Beatles are still way up on my chart of "all
time". I have been getting alot of alternate Beatle recordings lately and
have found some really cool stuff.
I got on Macster tonight for the first time tonight (believe it or not)
and the second thing i searched for was Beatles (of course she was the first
NO not Madonna). Speaking of which, someone posted a mp3 of Ani DiFranco
tuning her guitar to an alternate tuning and talking about Joni Mitchell. It
was a pretty cool little diatribe about how she toured with Dylan and the
press asking her how it was touring with God. While she didn't diss Dylan,
she made it really clear that she holds Joni much higher and felt the press
and public did not. The wierd thing is they cut it off before she played the
song she was tuning for and it sounded like such a great tuning. I did
manage to download a very cool tune (Long Black Veil) performed by Dave
Matthews and Emmy Lou Harris. Does anyone know the source of this recording
and is it available commercially? Also Sarah MacLachlan performing Unchained
Melody, which is really interesting. I also found a clip of Chris Farley
interviewing McCartney on SNL, which was a really funny skit.
Anyways back to the Beatles. I have received a few CDR's lately, some
really cool ones are: "Lost Years", "Alternate Abbey Road", "Abbey Road
Companion", "Alternate Revolver", "Alternate 2nd Album", + many more. Lots
of outtakes and different versions of songs we know so well. There is a
great one of Because from Abbey Road, with no instrumentation, just voices.
Another cool thing is to hear the Alternate Abbey Road stuff with actual
endings to the songs that segue together on side two and a different
sequence to the songs. Oh yeah yeah yeah, Beatles Forever!!!!
Best to you,
Michael
NP-Bluebird-Buffalo Springfield
