The Beatles, Drive My Car - A Classical Musician’s First Listen and Reaction / Excerpts
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- Опубликовано: 15 ноя 2024
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An energetic rock song akin to ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ with “disastrous lyrics”? Or a naughty song loaded with double entendres? And the guitar solo! Have we just stepped into the modern era?!
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Awesome, glad you have now reached Rubber Soul. Many great songs to come. Great musical observations with some astute and funny lyric comments.😉 Love Paul's bass. Interesting thoughts on this being the most modern sounding rock song you have heard from them so far, particularly in the guitar solo. While the note bending and sliding may be part of it, I think it is also the tone and phrasing (of which bending and sliding is a part) that also makes it sound more modern. String bending was found in the blues, before rock. But I don't think the Beatles have been using bending much before this, so a good observation. Bends are great for expressive vocal like phrasing. As you said, a great example of how rock music is like blues on steroids.
one pretty similar precedent for this solo comes to mind with the one on You’re Gonna Lose That Girl; it has the bending, the tone and the repetition.
This song reminds me strongly of Jimi Hendrix songs. I bet Jimi dug this song a lot.
i should add that some of the guitar riffs/breaks in Ticket To Ride have also much to do with this song, including of course the guitar intro.
@@dago87able Good catch on "You're Going to Lose that Girl". I was trying to think of when they might have used bends earlier, but couldn't think of anything. There are likely other examples.
@@Hartlor_Tayley I have heard that Jimi had been doing some Beatles covers when he showed up on the London scene the following year (1966). But I don't know if he ever covered this one. The one that is often mentioned the most is his doing “Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band” at a gig in London in 1967, with Paul and George present.
The dissonance used in "you can do something in between" is meant to sound like a car horn, relating it all back to the main title. Very intelligently done.
Or cheesy.
I thought the car horn part was when they said 'beep beep -beep beep'
Cheesy? Oh please. It's a great motif.
@@daveman15 I didn't say it wasn't great. But it is cheesy. And who doesn't like cheese?
The amazing thing is that it SEEMS dissonant, but if you actually analyse what notes you’re hearing, it’s not particularly dissonant at all. It’s just a Fadd9 chord in first inversion - a basic major triad, with the third in the bass rather than the root, and an added second degree above the root. The most dissonant interval it includes is a major second, which is about as consonant as you can get beyond the basic triad. Play that chord in isolation, and it won’t seem “crunchy” at all, and won’t seem like it can possibly be the famously dissonant chord in “Drive my car”
My theory is that the “dissonance” we perceive is not between notes we’re actually hearing, but between notes we’re hearing and the notes that context, and years of conditioning, leads us to expect. We WANT to hear a dominant 7 chord at that point, specifically an A7. Instead we get notes that would directly clash with the notes in an A7, and our brain sort of adds the missing notes to the brew, producing this wonderful “completely wrong, but also utterly right” effect.
I’m impressed that you picked up on the double entendre in Drive My Car. Paul has said that both John and him would try to sneak in these type of things just to amuse themselves, and as you correctly stated, it became a type of game to them.
Trigger warning: 🤣. In the middle eight section of “Girl” ( also on this album), the Beatles repeat the word “tit” several times. And as Paul said, this was intentional. And this is why we love the Beatles!
If you compare the Beatles career to a ski jump... This is when you hit the bottom of the slope and the ramp kicks you back up!!!
My favorite album ! :) It's really different from their first period, but at the same time, it remains also the same in some ways (I like this middle ground). Hope you'll enjoy the ride !
Same for "Beatles for Sale": showed where they came from, where they were in that moment, and where they were going.
Chuck Berry songs You Can't Catch Me, Nadine, Maybellene and No Particular Place To Go, No Money Down.... He wrote car songs. Also probably the very first rock n roll song Rocket 88 by Jackie Brenston. That's rock n roll. Thanks for more Beatles.
Paul played the guitar solo using a slide, said Guitar Harrison.
Don’t Worry Baby, Little Deuce Coop, Fun Fun Fun, 409 among others by The Beach Boys. Lots of car songs…
@@labajadaman The music of the song "Surfin' USA" was lifted directly from, and credited on the sheet music, to Chuck Berry. It is the music to his "Sweet Little Sixteen".
Car-tunes -- they were usually funny.
Wonderful reaction ... I love the way you explain suspended chords ... and then the guitar solo ... really incredible explosive dissonance simple suspension 😀👍 ... and the Beatles underhanded humorous way of being indecent in public 😅 so well said 👍👍👍
Thanks for this fantastic reaction, now I can't wait for the next one 😊👋
In "Penny Lane" is what I take to be a Liverpudlianism:
"coral fish-and-finger pies".
Chuck Berry was the master of car-tunes. 1950s teenagers were the first mobile generation with disposable income.
Les Paul first began mixing songs for how they would sound on car radio.
Rubber Soul is my desert island album.... crammed full of musical ideas... as for Drive My Car, I think I have read that Paul meant the original lyrics were disastrous... but they came together when he and John found the car driver theme
This song has a rythm that makes you dance
This song always sounded like one of those songs that sort of wrote itself. This really could be a Jimi Hendrix song. The song tries to resolve to a emphatic dissonant chord which is a Hendrix thing he probably got from this song. 1965 saw a good deal of expansion of pop styles across the spectrum. I loved your analysis of this really cool song. Thanks Virgin Rock
In the intro the lag of the drum backbeat against the beat of the guitar creates one of the great intros in pop music.
If you disregard the lyrics and listen to the vocals as instruments, you’ll realize the song has a hypnotic mantra feel, with all the of the instruments working together as a composition to achieve a ‘’feel” that makes you want to want to move your body.
🥸 If it's of interest, in the verses, Paul sings the upper harmony and John the lower. For the chorus, George joins in to create a third harmony part. I hope you're not going to skip over "Day Tripper," which was on the flipside of "We Can Work It Out." It's an important composition in the Lennon & McCartney oeuvre. 😎👍
Technically "We Can Work it Out was the "B"-side. But both were hits. "Day Tripper" was TOWERING on mono AM radio.
👍Old School Goodness. I remember when the Beatles first came to America, the girls in my class went crazy. 🖖❤
Don't deny it: you too "went crazy".
I know you did because I did.
@@jnagarya519 I have to confess that I really did not go crazy. I liked them, along with many other great bands in the 50s, 60s that I listened too. The only band I went crazy for is BABYMETAL. I now only consume my music through RUclips and Blu-ray concerts. Their crowd interaction is so awesome that it feels that I’m there. No one does a live performance like BABYMETAL. 🖖❤
It's such a pleasure to hear these songs with fresh ears.
Almost first, this is the point when Bealtes albums really get great! It gets more interesting from here on.
This places the rhythm as being more important than the vocal melody.
I am very glad that the full Beatles songs are on your Patreon page. I am less glad that I can't afford to pay the fee for that tier. I have to pay for food on my meagre pension. Ah well.
Honeytrap
There's a guitar solo in a popular song from 1972, "Stuck in the Middle With You", by Steeler's Wheel (Gerry Rafferty), with a very similar tone, with guitar bends. No doubt inspired by this song, as other songs by the Beatles themselves would be in their final 4 years.
Great review as always. I’m hoping you don’t skip over Day Tripper. It was the other side of the double A side single paired with We Can Work It Out, which you’ve done already. It’s a great guitar centric song and has their greatest guitar riff. Always one of my top Beatles songs.
Using car metaphors as a euphemism for sex goes right back to the blues (I love the "rock is blues on steroids" insight). E.g. Terraplane blues by Robert Johnson (Terraplane was a make of car) is fairly graphic in its metaphorical imagery.
WRT Paul's Motown bass line: he has said that one of his primary influences was Jamie Jamerson who played bass on many Motown classics. In fact, to understand The Beatles and much modern music you really should react to some Motown hits like I Heard It Through The Grapevine or Dancing In The Street (covered later by a 'superstar' duet of Mick Jagger and David Bowie ).
I used to play this song in a band I had. We had a hard time figuring out how to count in that intro. I think the first note is the "and" of four (the final eighth-note of a pick-up bar. Then it seems to count out as a two-bar phrase, with that bass line coming in on on three. But it still seems slightly elongated on the downbeat of the second bar. I still had to count that out for our drummer by stomping my foot.
I'm not sure now I'm remembering it correctly, but we found we could work it out!
The way I think of this album is that the boss rolled through the business office on a skateboard, hawaiian t-shirt, and sunglasses, and said "say Paul, could you have an album ready for the xmass season this year? You'll only have a month to work on it so feel free to take whatever shortcuts you need, recycle stuff, just as long as one or two tracks are new it'll sell great..." -- then rolled out of the office. Paul went downstairs to find Lennon half wasted, George was hovering in mid air, in a meditative posture, phasing in and out of this reality. Ringo was behind his drums but you couldn't tell if he was awake or not. Paul was like "Good news everyone! The boss has given us an ENTIRE MONTH to re-invent our band and popular music and come up with a dozen new tracks!!"
I love your characterisation of the Beatles in this! Very apt. Also, don't forget that money was no object for this one.
Great reaction, as allways:).
Á propos fun with music (3:24). It would be nice a reaction to fun, silly songs. No need to analyze them, just hear a couple of them and maybe ranking them or just laugh.
For example,
- Name Game / Shirley Ellis
- Mahna Mahna / Piero Umiliani
- Wooly Bully / Sam the Sham and the Pharaos
- Canada's national anthem, Pump Up The Jam / Technotronics
- Ja Ja Ding Dong / Holter Persson
- Ça Plane Pour Moi / Plastic Bertrand
- You Know My Name / Beatles
There are lots more ...
I love this song.
The sound of silence cover was hilarious my friend was serious when he showed me the song. I didn't laugh because he loved it but had no music experience.
Yes! Can't wait.
The Beatles loved inserting naughty bits in there songs. There's a few more on Rubber Soul.
Paul plays the guitar solo on Drive My Car
Tomorrow Never Knows, Amy. And the second side of Abbey Road…
Watching Amy listen to this tune reminds me of listening to Blossom Dearie do Surrey with the Fringe on Top, which was rather opaque to me prior to stopping and listening to her interpretation.
The minute you hear that intro and the way this song develops, you konow that something different is coming for the entire album
Foolish copyright holders don't want anyone to know their songs exist. It's a big secret. They want them to be unknown, forgotten, and never listened to again.
They are pennywise and pound foolish. Do they really think reaction videos reduce their sales rather than increase them?
Yes, it’s really moronic when you think of it.
Or maybe they fear the songs are so well known they might become like classic folk songs that are part of our culture and so can't be copyrighted.
@@fredneecher1746 There are set rules for how a song becomes public domain. For example, a Lennon & McCartney song won’t become public domain until seventy years after both writers are no longer with us.
You don't understand. There is no interdiction, I just listened to two guys commenting on Drive my car, we heard the whole song. This channel however fine is not honest. Amy and Karl want to make money, and they lie to us.
@@jeanmarieboucherit7376 Long term though, the Beatles copyright holders tend to eventually take songs down. A few months ago I got access to an old youtube channel I made over ten years ago. I was checking out an old playlist and all but one Beatles song I clicked on was gone, along with the channel that posted it. Out of eight songs.
Note that the women of Rubber Soul are a different breed than in their previous records, they are stronger and more mythical, full-on characters.
You have to bear in mind that the term rock 'n' roll derives from the phrase rocking and rolling, which was a widely used euphemism for sex. Around this time Paul said something to the effect that the band's new direction was comedy songs, and there are a small number of songs that fall into that category on Rubber Soul, although there had always been a streak of knowing humour - and a fair amount of innuendo - in their songs. Paul's sliding guitar solo and very much up-and-down bassline may well have been intended to add to the effect. And like those thoughtfully place oohs on earlier records, I think we can guess what beep-beep means too.
I am so glad that you look at some of my favourite songs, please keep it up!, was wondering if you could look at, “shine on, you crazy Dimond” by pink Floyd. It’s a wonderful song and would love for you to react to it
During the times of the USSR in 60-70-th the Beatles were so popular in our country that almost all the songs of the Beatles were performed by the soviet pop groups who wrote russian lyrics. That's how this song sounded in a russian version - ruclips.net/video/zhFiqsj9Oec/видео.html for example
You are absolutely right about the "naughty" lyrics. Apparently "drive my car" had some sexual connotation at the time in Liverpool.
The “disastrous lyrics” Paul talked about was the first draft of the song when he chose a generic “diamonds and rings” lyric which they had done before (Can’t Buy Me Love). So he and John rewrote the words to make a bit of a joke song which is a musical direction they were playing with at the time. Drive My Car even has a punchline. I DO think Amy will dislike a lot of rock and blues music though because they usually ARE lacking in melody, as this song exemplifies. The whole point of them is to make you want to dance- it’s a physical thing rather than an intellectual thing. The bass is where it’s at. And the wit of the “beep beep yeahs”. Fortunately Vlad tends to choose either more melodic rock or other more melodic genres so Amy rates more hits than misses.
They also tried to write a song that is only based on one note. Another song was "The Word" where they tried to do that.
“You can do something in between”
An Fadd9 where the listener expects an A7 produces one of the most surprising harmonic effects in the Beatles entire oeuvre. It SEEMS dissonant, but technically isn’t. I think our brains sort of manufacture a kind of dissonance between the notes we actually hear, and the notes we don’t, but which context had led us to expect.
Rubber Soul! Getting into the good stuff!
It's all good stuff. Go back to the beginning and listen chronologically.
"Blues on steroids" - that sure fits for a fair amount of it. Nicely put.
"It's only Rock n' Roll, but I like it." - Rolling Stones
I always thought the insistent monotone of the main theme was like someone in a traffic jam beeping their horn in frustration. I did enjoy your exploration of the 'deeper' meaning of this superficially simple song. Don't forget the "And baby, I love you", which kind of confirms those interpretations.
Thanks!
Thank you!
Drrive My Car was one of four songs Capitol Records USA left off the American version of Rubber Soul. They added two songs they’d left off of Help! - It’s Only Love, and I’ve Just Seen A Face. The changes made the American version of the album seem more’folky.’
I'm amazed at how negative McCartney was about his lyrics here. There is a wittiness, cleverness, and a twist to them. We are often our worst critics when it comes to creativity.
Nothing we create ever achieves the vision we have for it.
He was talking about the first draft. He liked the final version.
Thanks, VR.. another awesome Beatles song is "Old Brown Shoe".. don't think it was really and album song.. but it is a lot of fun.. most people of a certain age recognize some parts, but don't know the title... ruclips.net/video/OQ4kZOg1poE/видео.html
19:48 While it’s much more rare than a usual bend, where you just pull the strings across the fret board, there is a similar technique that can be done on guitar to that motion. The use I know of for the technique is the beginning of the Black Sabbath song “Iron Man.” It’s an open E, the lowest note you can play on a standard tuned guitar, but then it bends up in a very unsettling way. This should be impossible, unless you drop tune the guitar down to D or D flat, but what they actually do on the song is push the lowest string up near the tuning peg so that the string gets more tense, just as you’re doing on the harp, increasing the pitch a bit. Hopefully you’ll get to “Iron Man” at some point. It has nothing to do with the Marvel super hero, but the song does appear in the end credits of the first movie.
Apropos cars: Deep Purple love their car in Highway Star, a wild number they continued to play live.
You'll probably get to that when returning to Deep Purple.
😀Bending the concert harp.... The KOTO can do it!
`Drive my Car` was `Not` included on the Original U.S vinyl release of `Rubber Soul` Also removed from U.S version were `Nowhere Man` `What Goes On` and `If I Needed Someone`.
Drive my car was actually co-written by McCartney and Lennon, it was not only "Paul´s song".
Fabulous album. So inventive. I like it better than Revolver
The inventiveness without the studio tricks.
One reason that the guitar solo "stands out as being of a different nature, a different kind of solo" from previous lead breaks is because it was played by Paul McCartney instead of George Harrison, and using a slide. (You've heard Paul play lead before on Ticket To Ride and Another Girt from Help! but not sounding quite like this)
It's a darn shame the copyright system and holders came after you, because these songs are so well known and widely available, why bother listening to an analysis of it just to hear the song? We're here for the analysis! Fortunately the songs are so well known that I don't really mind not having the music in the video, I know these songs so well, I can and do still enjoy your additions. It's why I'm here! As for Rubber Soul, I count it among the five formative albums that made me realize how deep and wonderful music can be. I grew up with the US LP's tracklisting which didn't have Drive My Car on it and actually prefer the US tracking because it feels more grownup to me, Drive My Car feels like an evolution of their early period more than distinctly "middle beatles" IMO.
Somewhat indecent? Wait till you hear Norwegian Wood's first line, or the background vocals on Girl with them singing tit, tit, tit, etc. Also besides those two you should react to Nowhere Man, Michelle and definitely In My Life. The highlights of this album. But the next album Revolver is totally something else. Nothing like it then or since.
So we're skipping "Day Tripper"? 🤔 Anyways, there's a definite progression happening with this song, but really the entire album. This is the first song where Paul tries to emulate soul singers like Ray Charles, although it's relatively low key here as compared to something like "Lady Madonna". This is also the album where the growing use of drugs (cannabis, mainly) starts having an impact on the songwriting. Brian Wilson was apparently knocked on his butt when he heard 'Rubber Soul', which challenged him to push his music away from simple love songs and surf tunes toward things like 'Pet Sounds'.
The beginning of the good part, and hopefully not long now until You Won't See Me. The plot thickens....
"You Won't See Me" and "I'm Looking Through You" -- Paul whining yet again about Jane Asher having a career, and not getting his way exclusively.
@@jnagarya519 Agree that the lyrics are not the highlight of YWSM, but I enjoy the voice leading in the backing vocals (one voice can stay on the same note while the other drops by consecutive half steps, and he keeps this up for 7 straight chords, not bad)
@@zzzaphod8507 They were the central highlight of McCartney's beef with Jane.
But let's talk instead about the euphemism in John's "Run for Your Life".
There may not be any yeah yeah yeah but there is beep beep & beep beep yeah!
Peter sellers doing a cover of..
A hard day's night.
😊😊😊😊
The solo sounds different to you because you're expecting it to be George when in fact it's Paul, and will not be the last. Enjoying your dive into the music, discovering and showing us what we feel and hear but just can't put our finger on it as to why it works so well.
It's important to remember that at this point they are still having to deal with playing gigs, so some of their material on each album has to be up tempo and somewhat banal. The good news is that some of the "filler" songs end up being remarkable. This song is fine. As far as the unusual, I think the intro is a little different in that you have to pay attention to how you count in while playing it, otherwise you end up on the off beat when it gets to the meat of the song.
Simple rock song....
Every other reaction channel I watch can play Beatles songs as long as they pause during it. I do not understand why RUclips is doing this to you.
D7sus4 / Gsus4 - G
Are we in the key of D here, or in the key of G?
Kind of both.
You have taken your first step into a cornucopia. This is the album that stopped their peers dead in their tracks; the best of them attained their finest work in response. So many of the songs on "Rubber Soul" are individual revelations - and on into successive albums.
As you'll discover, "Drive My Car" is an anomaly on this LP. On the US release, which many consider the better version of this LP, "Drive My Car" was replaced with "I've Just Seen a Face".
Though there are some rock songs, most of it is acoustic "folkish". A well-regarded US bluegrass musician praised their mastery of "country" on this LP. But always with "The Beatles" there's more going on than mere "genre".
Around this time, John Lennon said that the writing of the last few songs for an LP "is pure slog". I believe he was referring to such as "The Word" and "Run for Your Life".
All in all, THIS LP is a REVELATION.
You interpret some of the lyrics in "Drive My Car" as . . . "racy"? Wait till you hear the background "tit-tit-tit," etc., in "Girl" -- which John said in an interview was his favorite of all his "Beatle" songs.
In "Girl," five years before the women's movement began, he analyzes the traditional sex roles.
"All we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything, what we think... we become..."
Siddhartha Buddha
Black Cars by Gino Vannelli ? Sorry, if not relevant. Thank's.
Paul wanted to write a one note melody, this is as close as he could get.
This song is quite bluesy. The harmonies bring to mind classic soul duos like Sam and Dave. Here's something from out of lyft field,....has anyone tried to play Blues on a harp?
"It's like eating a sour lemon." As opposed to eating a sweet lemon?
They had not been doing until then becase it really didid not exist , They started sp may music roads, That is thier greates contribution .People bought their new album played it and sad " Wow what the ***** is that ? " Ground breakers , door openers,
Drive my car...eer
All of what you analysed is great, but also to my knowledge the first song that puts a womans pov in charge.
Oh, Gad, more "multi-genre" labels for a ROCK song. It is not "hard rock". It is not "folk rock". And though popular, it is not "pop rock".
It is simply rock.
There is an analysis of POPULAR music on youtube by, as I recall, Leonard Bernstein. As he explains, POPULAR music is fed by every genre of music -- folk, jazz, lounge, blues, R&B, et al. It is POP music because POPULAR -- which is not a "genre".
The biggest group on Capitol Music before "The Beatles" was "The Kingston Trio" They were FOLK. But they had numerous LP and single hits on the POP[ULAR] music charts, along with rock and roll and rock.
"The Rolling Stones" had hits on the same POP[ULAR] music charts as "The Beatles" and at the same time. Does that mean "The Rolling Stones" are "pop" as a "genre"? How about "The Animals"? How about Dean Martin or Al Martino or Frank Sinatra? How about Louis Armstrong?
J' ai mon permis
Too bad you weren't told beforehand that Paul played the guitar solo. The "disastrous" lyrics were the original ones Paul had before the whole car concept was adopted. You should see how much more info you would have to work from if you also read what the Beatles Bible site has to say about each song.
Yep. Vlad is a later generation and doesn't know the variability of sources. All the "genre" claptrap -- one can't actually grapple with and grasp rock music as an outside observer; one must get inside it.
"The Beatles" made music; they didn't "do" "genre". Then those who don't know better come along and try to force the square peg they were into round holes and thus reduce their impact their stature. They totally miss the point.
@@jnagarya519 If Vlad read the Beatles Bible info beforehand, he could add relevant information to the notes he prepared for Amy, or he could refer to it off camera when she was wrong about who was playing what etc.
@@-R.Gray- But he doesn't know either.
Rock cannot be grappled with or grasped from OUTSIDE it. One must get inside it.
And the constant train of "genre" crap is beyond annoying at this point. Does no one LEARN about MARKETING labels!?
The label "folk rock": a well-regarded US bluegrass musician praised the mastery of COUNTRY on this LP. "Folk" includes, among others, "country". But the musician DID NOT characterize it as "folk".
But let's try to fit the square peg into some recognizable round hole so we can "tame" and "understand" it.
"Music hath alarums that wild the civil breast." -- The Fugs.
Many of their songs dont mean what you think they do.
12:23 Maybe what this song needs is MORE cowbell
You clearly do
This album mark the shift in their mindset. They are not love divey mop top pretty boys anymore, they have grown to men.
Research their history in Hamburg. They were NEVER what you imply: "boy band".
And 99 per cent of popular music throughout history is "love[y] dovey" -- but actually about SEX.
@@jnagarya519 They are perceived as cute and silly boys still today, because of the personas they put up in early years advised by Brian. Paul himself said later that didn't liked that era persona because its wasn't their true self. Their bold style started shinning around revolver period.
@@ractmo Get over the hogwash you've been fed about everything before "Revolver". "Rubber Soul" has more emotional substance and depth than "Revolver".
They were bold from the outset: George Martin made them record "How Do You Do It?" -- predicting it would be a #1. But to them the title of the song was a silly question -- and somehow the managed to release two songs they wrote.
"How Do You do It?" subsequently became a #1 by "Gerry & The Pacemakers". So?
@@jnagarya519 I am not talking about their behaviors but instead their fashion. They looked cute in those outfit. I specifically pointing to their clothing and hairstyle. They were bold from the get go otherwise they wouldn't able to transform the world. But you can't deny that their fashion took time to evolve and they hated that fashion. You can check Paul interviews.
@@ractmo John was the first, and early, to complain about "selling out" by going from the leathers to suits and ties. It was Paul who didn't need persuading.
Yeah, this is the one case where the American/Capital version is really better than the English/Parlaphone version, it's more like a unified, whole thing.
In the context of 1965, The Beatles are giving permission to open up rock and blues to more dissonance, more imagination and more sly slanty innuendo.
Black Dog is better.
You never give a song a chance to develop. You always stop the track every 2 or 3 seconds. Why don't you let it "flow" a little longer?
Love the Beatles. Always hated this song.
In my opinion, quite a mediocre song.
Clearly you do
We're waiting for you to at least equal it.
Let's hear you do BETTER!
Oh shut up.
@allnewnow2023have you not got anything better to do?
@allnewnow2023yes I'm full of wisdom.