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cosmonautroger · 3 months

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Elizabeth Moss, Mad Men, The Beatles, Tomorrow Never Knows

#Elizabeth Moss #Mad Men #The Beatles #Tomorrow Never Knows

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ndostairlyrium · 1 year

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beetles and frizzy noises ✨

#dragon age #inquisitor lavellan #ankh #ndo sta l'art tag #once I started I had to commit #it really was a smaller thing but then my head went uuuh let me develop this corset more and more and more and mo #boom by amaranthe playing in the distance #what's going on with the ears you say? I don't know what are you talking about #today we like it pointy #tomorrow never knows #ankh lavellan distracting whoever is in front of her in the war room since 9:41 dragon

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babybasher · 1 month

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#rain world #the beatles #tomorrow never knows #rain world spoilers

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random-human-being2311 · 8 days

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just listening to Tomorrow Never Knows isn't enough, I need to thoroughly absorb these soundwaves until it fundamentally alters my brain chemistry

#the beatles #revolver is such a masterpiece omfg #tomorrow never knows #when I made a post about although I don't say unhinged things about people I say a different flavour of unhinged things about songs #this is what I was referring to #hello future me who forgot that they added this to their queue

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dark-hearted-faerie · 1 month

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Love this film/soundtrack

#aucker punch #babydoll vs the samurai #army of me #Spotify #tomorrow never knows

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get-back-homeward · 1 year

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Backwards Tape During Revolver Sessions

The big claim to fame of Revolver is the unique tape techniques used in recording. The one that gets a lot of attention is the backmasking technique, where the tape is fed in backwards for the reverse tape sound. It appears on Tomorrow Never Knows and I’m Only Sleeping for guitar solos and Rain for John’s vocals.

Looking up the recording dates on BeatlesBible…

April 6: First day of Revolver sessions; they record takes of Tomorrow Never Knows, which has Paul’s guitar solo backwards

April 16: Working on Rain, where the backwards tape is used on John’s vocals

May 5: Working on I’m Only Sleeping, where it is used a third time on George’s dual guitar parts

Who has the idea to play the tape backwards first?

There’s two conflicting accounts on the backwards Rain vocals.

In his David Sheff interview (1980), John mentions it was a stoned idea he had:

I got home from the studio and I was stoned out of my mind on marijuana and, as I usually do, I listened to what I’d recorded that day. Somehow I got it on backwards and I sat there, transfixed, with the earphones on, with a big hash joint. I ran in the next day and said, ‘I know what to do with it, I know… Listen to this!’ So I made them all play it backwards. The fade is me actually singing backwards with the guitars going backwards. [Singing backwards] Sharethsmnowthsmeaness… [Laughter] That one was the gift of God, of Ja, actually, the god of marijuana, right? So Ja gave me that one.

In his interview with Lewisohn (1988), George Martin says it was his idea:

I was always playing around with tapes and I thought it might be fun to do something extra with John’s voice. So I lifted a bit of his main vocal off the four-track, put it onto another spool, turned it around and then slid it back and forth until it fitted. John was out at the time but when he came back he was amazed. Again, it was backwards forever after that.

So is the conflict a case of bad memory or bullshit?

I would assume the scales tip in George Martin’s favor just by virtue of him being sober. Not to say the stoned accident couldn’t have happened, but that John may be misremembering the sequence of events. That said, a happy accident sounds more reminiscent of other unique sounds the band used than an intentional one.

However, it’s not like the idea of putting tape in backwards for a different sound was a new discovery. It’d been known since the introduction of sound playback, the technique was used in experimental music in the 50s/60s, but it just wasn’t used intentionally in pop music. George Martin had already been recording sound effects in comedy albums and may have used it for weird sounds before.

Yet, if this wasn’t really new to George Martin, would he even remember what led to the decision? And why the oddly specific mention of John being out of the room at the time?

Also, both of these accounts are about John’s vocals for Rain. But Tomorrow Never Knows is recorded before Rain and includes Paul’s guitar solo backwards. So was Rain not the first time they use this technique?

Paul’s account in MYFN about backwards guitar solos seems to suggest a happy accident like John’s:

It played backwards, and, ‘What the hell is going on?’ Those effects! Nobody knew how those sounded then. We said, ‘My God, that is fantastic! Can we do that for real?’… So that was what we did and that was where we discovered backwards guitar. It was a beautiful solo actually. It sounds like something you couldn’t play.

But Paul stops short of naming the tape operator.

Geoff Emerick had been tape operator since 62 but was just been promoted to engineer before Revolver sessions begin (at the wise age of…20?!). In his book, he names Phil McDonald the tape operator. He was also relatively new.

But Geoff Emerick’s book backs up John’s story:

So we have John claiming his stoned accident for his vocals supported by Emerick vs George Martin’s claim he intentionally had the idea while John was out of the room vs Paul claiming an accident via an unnamed third party (that may have been newbie Phil).

Have any others weighed in to confirm or deny either account?

To be overly generous, I could see how Paul could be right about this being an accident initially. And then John and George separately have the idea to use it for vocals 10 days later.

But then I wondered about the timeline and how three accounts single out Rain vocals. Maybe Rain *was* the initial backwards tape and then they applied it to the Tomorrow Never Knows guitar solo later, such as when they did it for I’m Only Sleeping?

Turns out, overdubs with the reverse guitar solo on Tomorrow Never Knows were added April 22. So Rain was indeed their first use of backwards tape.

So the timeline actually looks like this:

April 6: First day of Revolver sessions; they record initial takes of Tomorrow Never Knows, which will later include Paul’s guitar solo backwards

April 16: Working on Rain, they use the backwards tape for the first time on John’s vocals

April 22: They use it a second time for the overdub of Paul’s guitar solo on Tomorrow Never Knows

May 5: Working on I’m Only Sleeping, they use it a third time on George’s dual guitar parts

This order makes me suspect John’s account is actually the more credible one.

Who do you believe?

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rolloroberson · 2 years

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On the day we hear an early version of the Beatles creating “Tomorrow Never Knows” a great Revolver era photo of John and Ringo.

#the beatles #ringo starr #john lennon #revolver #tomorrow never knows

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lewyn-martell · 2 years

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The Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows (Take 1 / Audio)

how are we feeling lads........

#brain reset........ cultural reset.......#the beatles #music #video #tomorrow never knows #Youtube #on repeat since i got the notif...

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myimaginaryradio · 5 months

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Baba O'Riley - Tomorrow Never Knows - Grateful Dead w/ Steve Miller - 1992

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#grateful dead #baba o'riley #tomorrow never knows #the who #the beatles #live covers #Youtube

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brusiocostante · 6 months

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801 Live ► Tomorrow Never Knows [HQ Audio] 1976

#youtube #801 #tomorrow never knows #the beatles cover #art rock #rock progressivo #brian eno #phil manzanera #francis monkman #bill maccormick #simon phillips #lloyd watson

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cosmonautroger · 9 months

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Elizabeth Moss, Mad Men

#Beatles #Tomorrow Never Knows

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charlottesharlottes · 2 years

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Hold on! I can’t believe in that ask game I forgot the BEST beatles reference in any show ever:

Mad Men - Tomorrow Never Knows

I love this so much. Firstly it was the first (and only?) time the beatles allowed their music on tv - their recording of their song, not an instrumental or cover - and the show paid $250,000 for the privilege. Secondly it’s used perfectly in this episode - demonstrating the shifting culture at the time and Don feeling like he’s being left behind. He turns it off, but as the credits roll it blasts through again....you can’t stop change.

#the beatles #mad men #tomorrow never knows #lady lazarus #everyone watch this clip!#also watch mad men bc it's an excellent show #also TNK is basically my favourite beatles song...if you can just choose one song

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gravity-rainbow · 8 months

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Junior Parker - Tomorrow Never Knows

#junior parker #tomorrow never knows #was listening to this while wood working #Youtube

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rolloroberson · 1 year

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Masterpiece in Utero- The Beatles “Tomorrow Never Knows (Take 1)

#the beatles #paul mccartney #george harrison #ringo starr #john lennon #revolver #tomorrow never knows #masterpiece

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krispyweiss · 2 years

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“Tomorrow Never Knows” (Take 1) Presents Beatles at Work on Psychedelic Classic

- Outtake precedes Oct. 28 Revolver reissue

Even without the aural lava lamp that would eventually envelop it, “Tomorrow Never Knows” is a psychedelic masterpiece.

Recorded April 6, 1966, the first take of the first song the Beatles worked on for Revolver is out to tease the super-deluxe edition coming Oct. 28.

“We had no sense of the momentousness of what we were doing,” engineer Geoff Emerick said in a statement. “It all just seemed like a bit of fun in a good cause at the time – but what we created that afternoon was actually the forerunner of today’s beat-and-loop-driven music.”

This four-piece recording is revelatory with Ringo Starr’s drum pattern just taking shape and John Lennon singing through a Leslie speaker and goofing off as the track disintegrates.

Paul McCartney and George Harrison are in charge of the weird, contributing drones - loops and tamboura, respectively - to the mix.

Unlike the preceding 2022 remix of “Taxman,” this embryonic “Tomorrow Never Knows” illuminates the dark recesses of the Fabs’ creative process. Serious scholars and interested fans alike will bask in wonderment.

9/30/22

#the beatles #revolver #tomorrow never knows #john lennon #paul mccartney #ringo starr #george harrison #geoff emerick #Youtube

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