Monday, August 6, 2012

Beatles: Revolver

1. Before the Revolver the Beatles only concern was whether or not a song could be reproduced live.  Revolver marked the beginning of The Beatles really experimenting in the recording studio.

2. Some of the non-musical influences on Revolver would have been the drug culture which was a major social change, the war, racial equality and women's rights. This is the time where I feel the group began to know themselves, lived and learned, and this was reflected in their music. 

3. Reversed guitar parts, experimenting with the speakers and the reverb of the studio.

4. Artificial double tracking & Leslie speaker re-routing was two innovations found on the Revolver album. The artificial double tracking was done for the harmony & because all the members provided their vocals it was easy to create when they preformed live. The Leslie speaker re-routing gave the spinning around effect to the music. 

5. Revolver is a timeless album that is still considered a great album til this day. Artist are still influenced by the music the Beatles released on Revolver. So from a listeners point of view it takes time to get use to if this isn't what your use to listening to. But once you get into it, it'll grow on you.  

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