Something About The Beatles

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  • 229: Something Deconstructed

    229: Something Deconstructed

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    A new phase SATB episode: audio with full video accompaniment!

    My guests are returning musician Jack Petruzzelli (Fab Faux, Joan Osborne, Patti Smith), joined by Cameron Greider (Freedy Johnston, Sean Lennon, Rufus Wainwright), who in the past year developed a series of online Beatles classes. For the latest, The Beatles and You, they are joined by musicologist Walter Everett (The Beatles As Musicians: The Quarry Men to Rubber Soul and The Beatles As Musicians: Revolver to Anthology).

    RPM School is presenting a holistic approach to getting inside Beatles music, combining lecture and discussion, music instruction and recording and performance sessions, geared to your individual level. Their approach is unique and individualized, as shown with the demonstration here on George’s “Something.” Learn the influences that informed its construction (and where else they were used), as well as the technique utilized to capture the song as we know it.

    As this is an interactive presentation, you can see ALL of the conversation here.

    Check out Walter’s lecture here.  (password: SATB )
    His slides here.
    Sign up for The Beatles And You here.
    RPM School site
    Also discussed: their take on Peter Jackson’s Get Back
  • 226B: The Musician’s Get Back part two

    226B: The Musician’s Get Back part two

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    Our panel of Pat, Arion, Luther and Dennis continues their conversation on Peter Jackson’s Get Back documentary.
    Among the topics:
    • The rooftop performance
    • The “Flowerpot conversation”
    • Bass stuff
    • The road to Abbey Road
    • Let It Be – the film
    Partial transcript of the “Flowerpot Conversation” here.
  • 226A: The Musician’s Get Back part one

    226A: The Musician’s Get Back part one

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    Any analysis of the Get Back documentary would be remiss in not factoring in insights gleaned from those who’ve followed in The Beatles’ professional footsteps: working musicians. To that end, I assembled a panel of some illustrious pros who also happen to be hardcore fans. Three are returning guests; one is new to SATB:

    Luther Russell: (Those Pretty Wrongs) – multi-instrumentalist

    Currently performing as one half of the duo Those Pretty Wrongs alongside ex-Big Star Jody Stephens, Luther has become a semi-regular on the podcast. As a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist/producer, he has discussed The Beatles’ recording techniques, work as a collaborative, and the magic of Ringo’s drumming.

    The first two albums from Those Pretty Wrongs are being reissued as a double album set, while a third is due out this year. He will also have a new solo set out as well.

    Arion Salazar: (ex-Third Eye Blind) – bass

    In his first appearance on SATB, he discussed Paul McCartney as an innovator, impacting generations beyond the 1960s. It was Arion who offered up the back cover design of Third Eye Blind’s multi-platinum 1997 debut (“Semi-Charmed Life”) which evoked the back cover of The Beatles’ 1966 Revolver album. In early 2021, the bassist put together ensembles of musicians from bands including Smash Mouth, Smashing Pumpkins, Stevie Wonder and Testament, among others, to perform heartfelt covers of Beatle-related material for the first Fab4ConJam. He recently recorded with Flipsyde in Muscle Shoals for a pending release this year.

    Pat Sansone: (Wilco) – multi-instrumentalist

    He waxed eloquently for over two hours on the Sgt. Pepper album on a 2021 episode of SATB.

    Pat’s radio show: Baroque Down Palace – a 2 hour show every month that centers on Rock, Pop, Soul, Folk music of the 1960s and 1970s that feature symphonic embellishments, or influence in some way from the classical music world:https://wyxr.org/baroque-down-palace/

    Pat has released a 7″ vinyl single ; a book of his photography, 100 Polaroids, was recently reissued.

    New to the show (but not The Beatles): drummer Dennis Diken, founding member of The Smithereens. In addition to their work over the course of several gold and platinum releases, he and his band recorded a pair of studio albums and one live one honoring The Beatles. They currently continue to perform live, alternately fronted by Gin Blossoms vocalist Robin Wilson and recording artist Marshall Crenshaw (also a previous SATB guest), in place of the late Pat DiNizio.

    He also records with Bell Sound, whose critically acclaimed album Late Music was released in 2009. Look for new material from both bands in ’22.
    Dennis’s radio show: Denny’s Den airs weekly on Wednesday at 2-4pm Eastern Standard Time.

    Go to wfmu.org and hover over “LISTEN” then go down to “ROCK ‘n’ SOUL RADIO”, slide to the right and click on “ROCK ‘n’ SOUL RADIO HOMEPAGE” to access archives and the weekly broadcast.

  • 224B: The Making of Get Back part two with Peter Jackson

    224B: The Making of Get Back part two with Peter Jackson

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    Dan Rivkin (They May Be Parted blog) and I continue our conversation with director Peter Jackson about the innovation used to create the film –  some technique used to advance the story – and a number of other observations gleaned from viewing so many hours of footage, both in and outside of the final cut. The history of the Get Back project is at last coming into focus, challenging a number of previously held assumptions.

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  • 224A: The Making of Get Back part one with Peter Jackson

    224A: The Making of Get Back part one with Peter Jackson

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    Well, it’s finally here. Worth the wait? Oh, we think so! But before we get into discussions on SATB about what we thought about it, we thought it would be worthwhile to discuss the making of it – the intent behind it; the goals; the challenges; the nuts-and-bolts – with someone who worked on it. To that end, a listener in New Zealand offered himself up as a guest who could offer an insight or two.

    My co-host for this one is Dan Rivkin (They May Be Parted), who of course is one of the leading scholars on this material, presented on his blog. Normally, Dr. Duncan Driver would be part of the discussion too, but he had beg off with such short notice. (We’ll have him back next time…)

    Meanwhile, we hope that this – presented in three parts (in the grand tradition of Peter Jackson)  – will suffice.