Yes, but the two other songwriters wouldn’t have been into writing for the Beatles at all for at least a decade if they stayed together. They went out with a bang on Abbey Road and I believe it was the best outcome we could have had.
@Fluffy Hamster it's not? Why, do u think this guy isn't good at music? I mean, he seems great, all I'm saying is it could be interesting if he started a band
It's funny that every video of Paul playing the mellowtron is about him playing Strawberry fields, at this point he should name it the Strawberryfieldtron
What is not generally known is that the Mellotron could also be purchased as a sound effects machine. Instead of instrument samples, the tapes could be recorded with a vast array of sound effects and the instant playback function would give you rapid access to a huge range of effects. When I worked at ABC-TV in Melbourne, Australia during the 60s, we had one delivered on demonstration for several weeks, and I had the opportunity to play with it and also learn how it worked. Some years later I began to construct my own version, but in the end I ran out of money and had to abandon it. Pity, as I was going to increase the functionality of it many times over.
dang ya, the beatles were clearly and absolutely a powerhouse outfit together. but it's just plain old defeatism to insist you can't do something as good as what paul just did here off the top of his head. i mean honestly, it's an emperor wears no clothes moment if that's really how you feel about this. and that is not to say anything against the outstanding quality of the beatles' work, only that yes, of course you can write a song that is as good as this, easily! free your mind a little and give yourselves half a chance people.
No you don’t lol! The Moody Blues used to take like 4 of them on tour because they’d break down all the time, they’d need 2 up and running and at least 1 for parts!! D
@@gagslovedotcom I think part of the mellotron problem was they didn't like being moved about from gig to gig, also they weren't very stable when it came to staying in tune. I'm not surprised the Moodies had to take four with them, however I have a friend who has just one set up permanently in his music room that seems to be pretty stable and reliable.
@@bobgreen8142 I can't remember the group name, but they were on NPR's Tiny Desk Concert series with several mellotrons, one was an original analog model but the rest were newer digital instruments. It's available here on RUclips....
@@bobgreen8142 Damn, how do I make friends with people who own Mellotrons? I've wanted to try playing one forever but I have no idea how I'll ever get the chance.
Awww... I've been a Beatleholic for some decades, but still after all this time when Paul starts to sing sounding so damn great, I am simply awestruck. And it happens for both his joke melody and for the smash hit...
It's the pure joy he takes in the music that is the reason he is who he is. You can't be so great for so long without that almost childlike wonder in the magic of it all.
When Paul dies it will be such a tragedy. All of the members of the Beatles are treasures. Its amazing how sane they stayed in spite of all they've went through.
Truly one of the greatest musicians of all time. One of the great musical minds, he just operates differently from normal people. His way of thinking about music is something otherworldly
It’s amazing when you hear the songwriter sing the song while playing the actual instrument that made the sound you heard on the radio all those times. It’s like a magician showing you how they did their trick. I heard Roger McGuinn from the Byrds a few years ago playing a solo show. He had his 12-string Rickenbacker guitar. Got chills so many times, like for example, “There Is A Season (Turn, Turn, Turn.) There was the guy that recorded the song you’d heard all those times, playing the instrument he recorded it with. A sound that can’t be imitated.
This is amazing to see such a giant star perform solo in front of a small intimate audience like this. What a privilege to have been at that session. In spite of his enormous fame and celebrity, and accustomed to performing in large stadiums in front of thousands of people here is Paul being as personable and intimate and charming as can be and still so humble and down to earth with this small group This really displays his humanity and musical soul...just a musician and performer at heart and not a snob at all. He really seems to be enjoying himself and is totally NOT condescending to the audience...which many big stars are. One of the great performers, composers and singers of all time...sometimes we forget how great a voice he has...and his music will live on for thousands of years
I love Macca to death, the very example of a consummate artist. While John's music was the mind of The Beatles, Paul's was the heart, George's was the soul and Ringo's the joy.
dave idmarx Lol!! I take it you are one of the fans who don't count meeting Ringo as meeting a real Beatle? In his defense his drumming on "A day in the life" and "Something" is simply breath taking, at least we can grant Mr Starkey that?
Tom Faron I seriously Love The Beatles (my favorite group for 40 years now), but I am man enough to admit that no, If You've Got Trouble is definitely NOT "great"! :-)
These guys were composers, arrangers, singers and played several instruments each... Built a HOF music catalog by age 25! I just read over 50 percent of young adults now still live with their parents...
i dont see how you can say this is "real sampling", hip hop involves for greater technical skill to use those samplrs to construct full songs, whereas the sampling here is just one note pushed down, or just consists of essentially an organ
@@arentyoumaria3027 people love seeming superior by not liking rap, completely missing out on dilla, madlib, kanye, premier and so many other great samplers
0:44 The Mellotron is basically an "illegal" copy of the American Chamberlin (named after the creator Harry Chamberlin) which was designed to replace a big band. He literally wanted a "big band" sound in his living room. That was his dream with this machine. His business partner went over seas and created the Mellotron in Europe without Harry knowing (at first). After a lot of legal dispute, they merged the companies making them legal. They still exist today in digital form, and if you buy one it will say both Chamberlin and Mellotron on there.
Supposedly the first time John Lennon saw one he played it for 5 minutes and immediately said "I must have one of these" and the Beatles bought 4 of them
It's like having Beethoven or Mozart around to describe what they were thinking and how they wrote and solved problems . Amazing to have such a brilliant mind categorized for future generations.
Fantastic insight on part of what was in Strawberry Fields - what a truly great song. I always wondered about that sound. . . . now I know. Thanks to Mr. McCartney for sharing.
This is got to be one of the coolest videos out there. I'm a guitarist but I just bought a Korg triton extreme to learn more piano and synthesizer. I have always had the highest admiration or for Paul McCartney's keyboard piano skills I wish he could put out some teaching videos many of the big time stars of rock etc. seem to be doing that or corresponding with their fans and I think that is like the absolute coolest thing. These guys had to work with so much less electronic equipment and many know the stellar set up for ways to get that warm analogue sound that we all strive for. I love all the music, it fascinates me and I think it's so much fun to play. A week ago I showed a new used les paul guitar I got to a young Amish kid and it immediately brought a smile to his face and he said that looks like a lot of fun. I said yeah it's all riot if you want maybe I'll teach you some stuff. And I showed him how to stream a few cords and count his beats. I've taught other kids that they might've played another instrument like the drums and then a guitar was given to them or something and I couldn't believe I said well this is how I got learning my scales the quickest and the next day I go over to the kids house and he's playing Ted Nugent from a couple of riffs I showed him LOL Some are fast learners, today he has a band and he plays both the drums and the guitar and very good at both.
He's very relaxed and commanding with his voice and keyboard abilites. Not represented here, but also with bass & guitar. It exudes. Mind boggling when you factor in a the experience he has. One gargantuan legend!!!!!!!
90% sure. There is a video somewhere on youtube of someone playing the sample on a mellotron. I was disappointed to find out it wasn't played by George, but never mind.
Let's get something straight, mike pinder of the moody blues introduced the mellotron to john & Paul, the moodies were utilising this instrument before the beatles & King crimson, i was told Graham bond was using it in early 60's,but the moody blues were the true innovators of this amazing instrument. 🎵🎶
The Moody Blues Mike Pinder, who relied on the Mellotron heavily for their orchestral sounds, would talk in interviews of the horror stories when this would get delivered to the site of the next show and the tapes would unravel and end up on the floor. Then scrambling to get it all back together. This is one of those instruments, like a Hammond B3, that you just know it when you hear it. No synthesizer has ever captured that exact sound.
Very impressive stuff, I must admit to not appreciating just how good Paul was, and still is today. With that amount of talent he has earned his place in our music history.
I worked with him in the late 80's believe me he's not at all like he appears in public. miserable old git would be better suited to describe him that's for sure
@@ewest14 he spoke to the staff like shit a few times, he and that bag of puss he called a wife demanded no one eat any meat in any of the studios,by the end of the week no one wanted to work with him.
I love him. I truly do. You're not supposed to be all parasocial with celebrities, but i grew up with his music, and my dad worked with a lot of his people, and every time I see or hear this dude its like im listening to a relative. Just a thorougly wonderful musical granddude.
Mike Pinder of the Moody Blues introduced the Mellotron to the Beatles. Oddly enough the Moodies were relating stories to the Beatles about their fans craziness when Mike mentioned about one young lady scaling a drainpipe outside their hotel window and coming in through the bathroom window. The rest as they say, is history....
It was a bit of common knowledge back in the Sixties that the Beatles had used a Mellotron when recording "Strawberry Fields," but I'd never seen one until now. Not at all what I thought it looked like. The Beatles used it to get a flute sound in Strawberry Fields because of course none of them could play the flute. Their use of the Mellotron in the recording is so rudimentary it gives you no idea of what a Mellotron sounds like when its full range of functions is used. Digital audio technology was just beginning to take off when the Mellotron reigned.
Before the Beatles were formed (1957) and until the time of their dissolution all electronic music was analogue tones generated by oscillators etc. The first primitive experimental digital sequencer appeared in about 1970, I believe. No practical digi synth was available until the late 70s, long after The Beatles.
The first digital synth was the Fairlight, and it came out 9 years after the Beatles disbanded. Analog synths did exist in their time and they used them, but they were monophonic (one note at a time). Poor Linda was (still is) bashed by brainiacs who thought she couldn't play more than single note melodies.
If this guy had gotten his way, the Beatles would never have stopped performing. He just lights up when he has an audience.
Yes, but the two other songwriters wouldn’t have been into writing for the Beatles at all for at least a decade if they stayed together. They went out with a bang on Abbey Road and I believe it was the best outcome we could have had.
I love how this is practically a standup act
Seriously I'd watch hours of this
Reminds me of watching the comedian Bill Bailey.
More like a TED talk
@@phillipecook3227 Love Bill Bailey
Almost every video of Paul McCartney I see on RUclips is either a stand up act or a comedy miniature
Imagine the memories in his mind he has? incredible life he has.
Imagine extracting his mind matter, consuming it and absorbing his memories. incredible taste it has.
Your comment Yoda sound it has
who ever says. "they're not his memories paul is dead" is gay
Yes Truly amazing memories
He lost his mum at 14 yo
Imagine having Paul McCartney as a music professor if only for a few minutes. This is awesome.
that strawberry fields part was super cool
YEP!
Word , almost like "going back in time "
Except he played it like a 5-year-old. Terrible keyboard-playing skills.
Fun Guy Yea what a jerk, he'll never make it in showbiz.
LMFAO^
Holy crap. Some of those default mellotron tracks are in Minecraft on the "music discs". They'll live on forever now.
mgabrysSF shit I had no idea. Will have to check them all out
Do you know where I could find the original sample that paul used? (The same one that is used for stal in minecraft)
I KNEW IT.
My respect for Minecraft has just increased tenfold.
1:50 Stal
People Paul McCartney's age: All kids need to do to make a song nowadays is hit a button and they're a star!
Paul McCartney:
This is gold
Seems he wasn't that better :P
Jacques Shellacques wah wah cry some more baby bitch.
@@BassmentBrain Don't you have beats to make?
Best comment
McCartney performing Lennon songs is the most beautiful thing...hits the heart every time
Paul played the mellotron intro on SFF so it's his part on John's song
Honestly, if this guy started a band I feel like it would be pretty popular. He has a good voice and he seems to know enough about music
Haha ☺
@Fluffy Hamster it's not? Why, do u think this guy isn't good at music? I mean, he seems great, all I'm saying is it could be interesting if he started a band
wicked profile pic my guy
@@Conar. hot water hot water hot water hot water hot water
@@Conar. thx
It's funny that every video of Paul playing the mellowtron is about him playing Strawberry fields, at this point he should name it the Strawberryfieldtron
man pauls voice travels back a couple of years when he sings
What is not generally known is that the Mellotron could also be purchased as a sound effects machine. Instead of instrument samples, the tapes could be recorded with a vast array of sound effects and the instant playback function would give you rapid access to a huge range of effects. When I worked at ABC-TV in Melbourne, Australia during the 60s, we had one delivered on demonstration for several weeks, and I had the opportunity to play with it and also learn how it worked. Some years later I began to construct my own version, but in the end I ran out of money and had to abandon it. Pity, as I was going to increase the functionality of it many times over.
I bet the ABC didn't spring for one neither, those cheap bastards.
I believe that model Mellotron was called the FX Console.
Paul lookin like he's ready to shift into light speed in the millenium falcon with that outfit
Don't you mean..
Ludicrous Speed?!
@@captaineldeezee1336 hahaha ludicrous speed, GO!!!!
Just off the top of his head he came up with a better song than I ever could in my entire lifetime.
That says more about your limitations than this demonstration.
it's not that hard to say a bunch a stuff like baby I want you I wanna take you down over some canned junk but sure ok man
Steve Heron I hear ya Brother. I’ve been playing music for thirty years. These 4 gents were amazingly gifted.
dang ya, the beatles were clearly and absolutely a powerhouse outfit together. but it's just plain old defeatism to insist you can't do something as good as what paul just did here off the top of his head. i mean honestly, it's an emperor wears no clothes moment if that's really how you feel about this. and that is not to say anything against the outstanding quality of the beatles' work, only that yes, of course you can write a song that is as good as this, easily! free your mind a little and give yourselves half a chance people.
Steve Heron the music was prerecorded in the Mellotron demo tape, he just sang some shit on top of it.
2:21 the Image of paul’s little dance will be forever inside my mind
I'd make it as a GIF
Super Zer0 Pretty sure Peter Parker got this from him
That was super adorable;,3
@@emptyspotlight you can, you are able to make gifs in RUclips
Who knew Strawberry Fields mellotron would launch King Crimson's signature sound, definitely as far from the cabaret as you could get.
King Crimson are a bit hit and miss for me... but when they 'hit' they blow me away.
"MerkinMuffly" lol
Moody Blues use of them was pretty epic.
Merkinmuffly I think you mean "A day in the life". There's a well known story that Robert Fripp told when he heard it on the radio
MerkinMuffly only the half of the 70s crimson sound
i'm sure this young lad could start a band or something. he sure has talents
he will always be young in my heart :_)
I'm guessing you haven't heard of the Beatles.
I _love_ the comments you're getting on this.
Trevor Shelton lol dumbass 😂
It's a joke, dork.
I want one now. Paul is like a walking advertisement with these instruements 😂😂😂
No you don’t lol! The Moody Blues used to take like 4 of them on tour because they’d break down all the time, they’d need 2 up and running and at least 1 for parts!! D
@@gagslovedotcom I think part of the mellotron problem was they didn't like being moved about from gig to gig, also they weren't very stable when it came to staying in tune. I'm not surprised the Moodies had to take four with them, however I have a friend who has just one set up permanently in his music room that seems to be pretty stable and reliable.
@@bobgreen8142 I can't remember the group name, but they were on NPR's Tiny Desk Concert series with several mellotrons, one was an original analog model but the rest were newer digital instruments. It's available here on RUclips....
@@bobgreen8142 Damn, how do I make friends with people who own Mellotrons? I've wanted to try playing one forever but I have no idea how I'll ever get the chance.
@@AndrewAMartinMellotron Variations??
Awww... I've been a Beatleholic for some decades, but still after all this time when Paul starts to sing sounding so damn great, I am simply awestruck. And it happens for both his joke melody and for the smash hit...
The ingenuity behind the Mellotron is really very impressive.
Man I always wondered how Strawberry Fields sounded so different!
I wonder if how this would play out if aliens founds this
Paul McCartney explaining all the instruments he is or was using .... ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC! What is the name of this show?? I need to watch it!!
It's called "How I became a Billionaire"
Yeah..such a fantastic show.
chaos and creation at abbey road.. or sth like that
Miss Dementia Reportedly, one time Lennon said to McCartney, "Come on, let's go write a swimming pool."
Here is the full show: ruclips.net/video/9elQeVfrLOo/видео.html
@ wow
The ending is kinda sad; no John there to sing 'Fields
R.I.P. john lennon
It's the pure joy he takes in the music that is the reason he is who he is. You can't be so great for so long without that almost childlike wonder in the magic of it all.
Didn't know han solo could sing
Martin Anthonyo lmao
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Ringo shot first!
@@sheepkillindog He almost killed a man with those snare shots
Hahaha because he has a vest! Haha, and Han Solo had a vest. Haha, so funny, what a great comment. Ha. Ha. Ha.
Instant goosebumps when Sir Paul starts that intro...
The man's got talent sloshing out his ears forany decades now, and still enjoys it tremendously!
When he started playing strawberry fields it gave me the chills
Me too
The first one sounds like C418's "Stal"
Benjamin Newlon because it is, crazy right
@@nutty232 wait what
SurfedZ yea
SurfedZ c418 used the mellotron
I was thinking that
paul is a people magnet! Love the dude - so entertaining and at ease with folks.
2:45 those are sacred notes
He is still young at heart.
He seems to really enjoy interacting with an audience and performing.
Thank you Sir Paul for the music.
He is an amazing musician and a good man. God bless him always.
He is a total wanker who think`s he`s above everybody, I have a friend who knows one of his old PA`s.
@@markanderson3255 then go and listen to some mumble rap shit
2:20 When Paul does that funny face and dancing he looks so young! I thought my eyes went wrong for a second
No matter how old he becomes , he'll always have that babyface!
There's a photo of Paul with beard, and I think it doesn't fit with his baby face. Paul is forever look young even with beard.
When Paul dies it will be such a tragedy. All of the members of the Beatles are treasures. Its amazing how sane they stayed in spite of all they've went through.
@@HunnySanchez Ringo cant die
already dead bucko
@@improbablytheguy 🤣🤣🤣😲
2:47 give me chills
Nothing is real, not even your chills.
Truly one of the greatest musicians of all time. One of the great musical minds, he just operates differently from normal people. His way of thinking about music is something otherworldly
It’s amazing when you hear the songwriter sing the song while playing the actual instrument that made the sound you heard on the radio all those times. It’s like a magician showing you how they did their trick. I heard Roger McGuinn from the Byrds a few years ago playing a solo show. He had his 12-string Rickenbacker guitar. Got chills so many times, like for example, “There Is A Season (Turn, Turn, Turn.) There was the guy that recorded the song you’d heard all those times, playing the instrument he recorded it with. A sound that can’t be imitated.
A humble creative genius demonstrating to a handful of people as though he was a travelling salesman.
just realised the minecraft disc Stal uses this exact sample.
Paul could've been a teacher in an alternate timeline
This is amazing to see such a giant star perform solo in front of a small intimate audience like this. What a privilege to have been at that session.
In spite of his enormous fame and celebrity, and accustomed to performing in large stadiums in front of thousands of people here is Paul being as personable and intimate and charming as can be and still so humble and down to earth with this small group
This really displays his humanity and musical soul...just a musician and performer at heart and not a snob at all. He really seems to be enjoying himself and is totally NOT condescending to the audience...which many big stars are.
One of the great performers, composers and singers of all time...sometimes we forget how great a voice he has...and his music will live on for thousands of years
I love Macca to death, the very example of a consummate artist. While John's music was the mind of The Beatles, Paul's was the heart, George's was the soul and Ringo's the joy.
Jeff Ogola Then why don't I feel that joy when I listen to 'If You've Got Trouble'? ;-)
dave idmarx Lol!! I take it you are one of the fans who don't count meeting Ringo as meeting a real Beatle? In his defense his drumming on "A day in the life" and "Something" is simply breath taking, at least we can grant Mr Starkey that?
Ringo was an abso-fucking-lutely brilliant drummer! Goodness, great stuff!
dave idmarx I quite liked "If You've Got Trouble" - I mean, it was a simple head bobber but nice!
Tom Faron I seriously Love The Beatles (my favorite group for 40 years now), but I am man enough to admit that no, If You've Got Trouble is definitely NOT "great"! :-)
Brilliant!!!!
Thank you for those memorial sounds of awesome music.
McCartney is such a lovely talented genius.
These guys were composers, arrangers, singers and played several instruments each... Built a HOF music catalog by age 25! I just read over 50 percent of young adults now still live with their parents...
This is THE MOST ADORABLE video ever! Luv u Macca!
I love what The Moody Blues' Mike Pinder did with the Mellotron. He helped create their signature sound with it.
Mike Pinder also used to work for Streetly Electronics who created and built the mellotron.
Celebrating 50 years for Days of Future Passed this year. Thank you, Mike Pinder.
Well before rap artists were sampling music, this instrument was doing it for real.
actially it is 100% sampler, but using analog tapes
i dont see how you can say this is "real sampling", hip hop involves for greater technical skill to use those samplrs to construct full songs, whereas the sampling here is just one note pushed down, or just consists of essentially an organ
@@arentyoumaria3027 people love seeming superior by not liking rap, completely missing out on dilla, madlib, kanye, premier and so many other great samplers
@@aerofuzz it’s a damn shame
Apples and oranges.
0:44 The Mellotron is basically an "illegal" copy of the American Chamberlin (named after the creator Harry Chamberlin) which was designed to replace a big band. He literally wanted a "big band" sound in his living room. That was his dream with this machine. His business partner went over seas and created the Mellotron in Europe without Harry knowing (at first). After a lot of legal dispute, they merged the companies making them legal. They still exist today in digital form, and if you buy one it will say both Chamberlin and Mellotron on there.
How can he still be so adorable?????
Mike Pinder (Moody Blues) was very "instrumental" in making the Beatles & others aware of it's use. Still an incredible instrument 50+ years on.
Brilliant as always with Sir Paul!!!!
Supposedly the first time John Lennon saw one he played it for 5 minutes and immediately said "I must have one of these" and the Beatles bought 4 of them
Damn Paul is feelin it lol
When he played strawberry fields I was in awe oml I love him ♡
It's like having Beethoven or Mozart around to describe what they were thinking and how they wrote and solved problems . Amazing to have such a brilliant mind categorized for future generations.
0:04 this here... triggers siri
What can I help you with?
apple adverts even in the cokments what the fuck
disable siri.
He would make an excellent teacher, nobody would skip that class.
Damn straight. I’d enrol in a heartbeat (which would probably be about 180 bpm lol!)
Genius at work! Greetings from the Netherlands.
Fallout New Vegas music generator
I think Sir McCartney should always have to wear the early collarless gray suit so we know he’s a Beatle.
I love this video. I've played a lot, but Paul is an exceptional musician and performer. A legend.
Fantastic insight on part of what was in Strawberry Fields - what a truly great song. I always wondered about that sound. . . . now I know. Thanks to Mr. McCartney for sharing.
Its hard to believe this is the guy who wrote all of that incredible music.
Fuh You changed my life
And some claim he didn't.
Moody blues definitely made mellotron their main thing it was the essence of their music bringing a spiritual sound to their music
The Moody Blues and the Bee Gees used the mellotron. I love the orchestral sounds.
Yes indeed. And the sound is unmistakable.
This is got to be one of the coolest videos out there. I'm a guitarist but I just bought a Korg triton extreme to learn more piano and synthesizer. I have always had the highest admiration or for Paul McCartney's keyboard piano skills I wish he could put out some teaching videos many of the big time stars of rock etc. seem to be doing that or corresponding with their fans and I think that is like the absolute coolest thing. These guys had to work with so much less electronic equipment and many know the stellar set up for ways to get that warm analogue sound that we all strive for. I love all the music, it fascinates me and I think it's so much fun to play. A week ago I showed a new used les paul guitar I got to a young Amish kid and it immediately brought a smile to his face and he said that looks like a lot of fun. I said yeah it's all riot if you want maybe I'll teach you some stuff. And I showed him how to stream a few cords and count his beats. I've taught other kids that they might've played another instrument like the drums and then a guitar was given to them or something and I couldn't believe I said well this is how I got learning my scales the quickest and the next day I go over to the kids house and he's playing Ted Nugent from a couple of riffs I showed him LOL Some are fast learners, today he has a band and he plays both the drums and the guitar and very good at both.
He's very relaxed and commanding with his voice and keyboard abilites.
Not represented here, but also with bass & guitar.
It exudes.
Mind boggling when you factor in a the experience he has.
One gargantuan legend!!!!!!!
Mellotron also has the flamenco guitar sample which can be heard in the intro to Bungalow Bill on the White Album .
I thought Harrison played that part, are you sure?
Yeah, that's correct; sampled from a Mellotron bank by Abbey Road engineer Chris Thomas.
Dude that makes so much sense! I've tried looking that up before and couldn't find anything. Damn. Thanks man for sharing this info
90% sure. There is a video somewhere on youtube of someone playing the sample on a mellotron. I was disappointed to find out it wasn't played by George, but never mind.
Wow -- that's amazing! I had no idea. I thought they'd hired a classical guitarist to play that intro or Harrison had pulled it off. WOW!
Cheers for the demonstration Billy.
its funny when you see the machine played that makes one of you favourite Beatles tracks always loved the start of that track
Let's get something straight, mike pinder of the moody blues introduced the mellotron to john & Paul, the moodies were utilising this instrument before the beatles & King crimson, i was told Graham bond was using it in early 60's,but the moody blues were the true innovators of this amazing instrument. 🎵🎶
right, and the orchestra/violin sounds were it's forte, not rhythms
I showed this to my cat
He didn’t understand it. He’s a cat.
So you say...
@@oasiprogressiva so say dozens of us
@@agnidas5816 The majority is never right.
In fact, the majority saved Barabbas and condemned Jesus.
Get over it.
He understands
Do you think you're funny?
i love his voice so much.
The Moody Blues Mike Pinder, who relied on the Mellotron heavily for their orchestral sounds, would talk in interviews of the horror stories when this would get delivered to the site of the next show and the tapes would unravel and end up on the floor. Then scrambling to get it all back together. This is one of those instruments, like a Hammond B3, that you just know it when you hear it. No synthesizer has ever captured that exact sound.
he's been around for what seems to be 300 years, i forgot he was actually a beatle
From just a time standpoint, about 85% of his career is him not in the Beatles.
Man Minecraft’s Stal has been out since the 60’s *WOAH*
Love that. Thank you for sharing!
Very impressive stuff, I must admit to not appreciating just how good Paul was, and still is today. With that amount of talent he has earned his place in our music history.
The Moody Blues used the Mellotron to brilliant effect. Especially on their core 7 albums.
eoinh1 so true - and it was Mike Pinder who turned the Beatles onto it!
Yes! the Moody Blues : Love and Beauty was one of their first songs to use it.
Mike Pinder was the soul of the Moody Blues .
Only Paul can make a song from scratch on an instrument using 1960s presets
Wow, the talent just keeps on giving ... I hope he will live forever
Unique guy, so light and natural, incredible to watch and listen 🎶 to
Nice
Paul McCartney honest and charismatic. The Beatles music influence is strong; 50+ years on.
I worked with him in the late 80's believe me he's not at all like he appears in public. miserable old git would be better suited to describe him that's for sure
@@3dmaxuser Oh yeah like a nobody on RUclips knows him. Every musician that has worked with him has said how easy going, disarming, and nice he is.
@@ewest14 Yeah I wish I saw that side of him then
@@3dmaxuser what did he do? Do you have any specific examples?
@@ewest14 he spoke to the staff like shit a few times, he and that bag of puss he called a wife demanded no one eat any meat in any of the studios,by the end of the week no one wanted to work with him.
We approve of any demonstration that reveals the glory and power of our Mellotron Overlords.
I love him. I truly do. You're not supposed to be all parasocial with celebrities, but i grew up with his music, and my dad worked with a lot of his people, and every time I see or hear this dude its like im listening to a relative. Just a thorougly wonderful musical granddude.
Mike pinder of the moody blues was a big fan of the mellotron and the Chamberlain which was close to the mellotron
Norm. Panganiban and Mike turned the Beatles on to the mellotron. And revolutionized their music!
I want a Mellotron, that is an amazing instrument, a whole band in one!
Love how flawlessly he turns a switch to change key...perfectly. #strawberryfieldsforever
Mike Pinder of the Moody Blues introduced the Mellotron to the Beatles. Oddly enough the Moodies were relating stories to the Beatles about their fans craziness when Mike mentioned about one young lady scaling a drainpipe outside their hotel window and coming in through the bathroom window. The rest as they say, is history....
Apparently one of them did...
www.beatlesbible.com/songs/she-came-in-through-the-bathroom-window/
Stal from the Minecraft soundtrack uses that guitar sample he kept playing as a joke 1:49
As much as I love The Beatles, King Crimson, and The Moody Blues, Tangerine Dream will always be my favorite Mellotron band.
Can you recommend a song of theirs that used a mellotron?
@@holotape Anything from 1973 to 1980 pretty much, but especially Phaedra and Rubycon!
That's wonderful! Love that man!
nearly 80 years old and we still have paul, man. crazy. absolutely mind boggling
I always said that the second Paul was better than the first one.
Haha!
The third one is Paul Rudd.
It was a bit of common knowledge back in the Sixties that the Beatles had used a Mellotron when recording "Strawberry Fields," but I'd never seen one until now. Not at all what I thought it looked like. The Beatles used it to get a flute sound in Strawberry Fields because of course none of them could play the flute. Their use of the Mellotron in the recording is so rudimentary it gives you no idea of what a Mellotron sounds like when its full range of functions is used. Digital audio technology was just beginning to take off when the Mellotron reigned.
JMDinOKC Digital didn’t exist yet. It was still all analogue then
Before the Beatles were formed (1957) and until the time of their dissolution all electronic music was analogue tones generated by oscillators etc. The first primitive experimental digital sequencer appeared in about 1970, I believe. No practical digi synth was available until the late 70s, long after The Beatles.
The first digital synth was the Fairlight, and it came out 9 years after the Beatles disbanded. Analog synths did exist in their time and they used them, but they were monophonic (one note at a time). Poor Linda was (still is) bashed by brainiacs who thought she couldn't play more than single note melodies.
They produced the sound, and used the functions, that they wanted
"because of course none of them could play the flute" if they were that good of musicians any of them would have learned to play the flute in no time.
I could watch paul mccartney showcase his whole studio for a week and it would just be class what a legend
thank u for the music!