JJ is so good at this, his thoughts and opinions are really interesting. I genuinely enjoyed what he had to say about this and he's very easy to listen to. It added to what was already an interesting video. Thanks JJ.
I agree,. Sometimes all you need is love for what you are doing., you don't need to work eight days a week. So long as you come together as a group and are happy to help every now and then. Sometimes it's better not to overwork it and it's better to say let it be, we've done enough. Even if you argued yesterday, just get back to it and you can say now I feel fine.
JJLA. You're one of my favourite reviewers. The chap in the video that is being reviewed is also excellent and has produced an exceptional piece of work. Really interesting. Cheers ! Sheffield South Yorkshire.
Existential Crisis - The Reaction! Very honest video. Good job! And I really feel the part when you talk about the resistance for ones own art. I've felt it intensely.
One of the Beatles’ biggest superpowers was their ability to filter out the lousy bits of their songs very quickly. It’s fascinating to listen to demos of their songs in progress and how they seem to instantly realise when a part or a lyric isn’t working and just get rid of it without stressing over it. The speed they developed stuff at was incredible. True geniuses.
I concur. It's extremely rare that anything creative is achieved without review. And one of the greatest roadblocks to a finished project is having to jettison a cherished word/phrase/rhyme that becomes a hindrance. It's like having to sacrifice your first-borne to rescue the rest of the family. Rewrites are a bitch.
@ absolutely! I’ve been there hundreds of times 🤣 Another notable thing about the Beatles writing process was the speed at which they throw ideas in almost like a stream of consciousness- just keep trying stuff until something works. If you do that enough you’ll eventually get that “channeling” moment we all seek where something brilliant appears out of the ether - eg Paul’s Get Back session on the documentary. Also, using other people’s songs as inspiration - the Beatles did this a lot and I do it myself too. Start by thinking “I want to write something like…xyz” and maybe pinch the rhythm, a bit of melody or a few chords - it’s a great way to get over writer’s block and by the time you’ve finished it it will sound nothing like the song you were inspired by. Good songwriters borrow, great songwriters steal, as they say!
Norman Smith (The Beatles early Engineer) was a singer(ish), who had a couple of hits in the early 70's. He also played the drums on "Remember A Day" by Pink Floyd when, in the words of Nick Mason, "I had a brain fart over the drum patterns, and Norm just sat behind the drums and patted it out perfect. I couldn't follow that!".
It was inspiring, I've often wanted to write stories, but lack of time and confidence always stops me. I over think alot and I wonder if it would be a good idea to meditate before trying to write something, maybe I should give it a go, thanks for sharing this, wishing you well
I started in school band 5th grade on saxophone (the song URGENT was hot that week) I learned to read music, but I was dyslexic (nobody knew what that was then) and the notes would scramble on the page while I was reading. I found more and more, that between working out bit parts and listening to the players in first chair, I could get the 'jist" of the song and figure it out by ear. I then picked up a trumpet really cheap, and taught myself to play, and was mimicking Herb Alpert and Chuck Mangione within months. I had abandoned reading the music and rose through the ranks from 3rd trumpet 1st chair (there was no 2nd) to 1st trumpet 2nd chair in one year. And I was just winging it. Then in 1987 I heard "The Sky is crying" (SRV) and within a year I put my trumpet and sax in the closet, and was playing a Martin, and then a stratocaster and now also a Hofner bass and keyboard as well. Rock and roll is not just a hobby for me, it is a way of life. A philosophy to live by. All hail Ray Charles. ...
I know a group, self composion/producing that also break the rules, but they are educated and most of them can sing from the sheet without preparing. They are known as a healing group cause not matter the genre or topick of their songs, you feel at ease and in a better mood. Thats what I hear from followers from all over the world. The sad thing is that they are not known so much in the western world, but are famous in their part of the world. They take their music very very serious, but not themselves. Very humble.
I heard a great phrase once - ‘great art is never finished, it’s abandoned’ Great artists often have the ability to move on very quickly from what they’ve already produced. The Beatles are one of the all time supreme beings of abandonment and evolution.
Of the songs on that first album, four had already been recorded and the recording session for the rest took 12 hours plus the time taken in the Abbey Road canteen to decide on and then record Twist and Shout.
I'm a big believer in spontaneity and spent years teaching myself to write a line and immediately forget it before writing the next one. It creates a mass of material that lets you focus on editing as if the material wasn't yours. In other words, I wanted to write in a way that wouldn't leave me feeling responsible for the material, in a way that let me be as surprised at the work as anyone else who saw it for the first time.
My best portraits are drawn on the back of an envelope and it sucks that a blank drawing paper makes the proportions somewhat skewed a lot of the times
I get that. Some of my best work was drawn at the top of a page while trying to write a letter. Distraction theory must work..things go better if you're not overthinking.
When I was at (Secondary Modern School - all girls, only about 450 to 475 of us!!) we sang... To the tune of the Christmas carol, "We Three Kings of Orient, Are"… 🎵"We four Beatles, happily are John in a taxi, Paul in a car, George on a scooter, 'bibbing his hooter' Followed by Ringo Starr, Oh oh, 'Star of Wonder, Star of Light', Paul caught his pants* alight, How fantastic,, No elastic, Very nice to wear...!?!" 🎵 ... ( _Repeat_ ) ... (*Men's underwear, _not trousers_ !!)
😅 LOL "We Three Kings".was one of the first songs I learned to play on the clarinet in high school.- I could be your accompanist if you ever want to make it a double act! 😅
@@Lily-Bravo That could well be the lyrics!! I remember a lot of things but also forget a lot of things!! It's as if my brain says yes, yes, no, yes, yes, yes, yes, no, no, yes, yes, no, no, no...like it's redirecting memories into the "Remember This, Save That, Store Those"?!!
When George Martin said "Come in with everything you have" he was saying "All the original songs you have". They literally had at least a couple of hundred cover's. Check out the two double CD sets "The Beatles Live At The BBC" volumes one and two. The first one was released in 1994 and volume 2 in 2013. Between 1963 and 1965 they would be on the radio every Saturday morning in the UK. They would usually come into the radio station and record the tracks live and then they would be played on the Saturday morning shows. I think sometimes they may have played live on the air too. Volume 1 was released in 1994 and Volume 2 in 2013. There is a wealth of material on these two sets. They were a great live band. You'll be amazed at the amount of songs here. Check them out. They were a great live band. Peace ❤
Oh yeah! I've heard some of those BBC shows, and yeah, very impressive. So the rest of their show was probably covers? I see. Thanks for pointing that out! Cheers 🍻
Just guessing, but when you point out that many of the tracks on Please Please Me are slower, maybe their live repertoire included plenty of covers [of American Rock 'n' Roll songs] that were a bit more uptempo. George Martin probably wanted them to record mainly their own stuff, although Twist 'n' Shout is a cover, and that shaped the album. It's easy to infer that, given they had been playing live so much around Liverpool and in Hamburg, they'd have come up with a balanced playlist with faster covers and more laid-back original songs. (Just speculating, I was only 6 years old at the time and a bit young to be going in the Cavern.)
Working up a playlist for any club is always tricky. It's always a balance between what the club owner likes to hear and what actually makes money for the club. That is, make the crowd sweat, then get 'em wet, ie: enough up-tempo to pack the dance floor, keep them there long enough to get thirsty, then slow it down and give them a chance to spend money at the bar. Doesn't matter what the cover charge might be, it's the bar that generates profit for the club. Just keep doing that rotation till the time bell rings and you've had a successful night and will be likely rebooked.
Re: the live set lists. You need to remember that they were doing 8-12 hour sets in Hamburg. It wouldn’t matter how many ‘uppers’ you take, no one can get through all that just playing uptempo rockers. They were also massively into early soul music and covered a hell of a lot of ‘girl group’ tracks, a lot of which were slower tempo. They did have some original material that ultimately never made it onto vinyl after they got their record deal. Some they gave away to other artists. One famously was rejected for an early album that ended up being resurrected during the Get Back project; One After 909. John wrote that no later than early 1960, though it could have been much earlier. Paul’s I’ll Follow the Sun is another. He wrote that when he was 16 and they definitely performed it live but it wasn’t considered and then recorded until the 1964 Beatles for Sale sessions. Ironically the ‘burn out’ album where they were running on empty, had to return to a few covers and, with this song, return to something written 6 years earlier by a then 16 year old.
There is a cd of something like 300 cover versions that they played in gigs. So yeah they really worked hard. Most badns at the time did do covers. often driven by sheet music sales.
Perfect is the enemy of good (enough). You can always do another version. Music, unlike text or film, is alive (recorded music is always just a version that was captured). Also, never underestimate the value of messing about with like-minded mates and seeing what happens.
Being in the flow is not something you can learn really..it just happens..and you even surprise yourself. Anyone who is creative can tell you that..inexplicable.
Not knowing music theory or how to read is fine for an Artist. But for large ensembles (orchestras, concert bands etc), arranging, depping, accompanying at short notice, and so on, those things make you an employable musician.
I sit down and try to write songs with ideas I have collected, and I draw a blank, or force some crap to come out. When I was younger, I can remember sitting down with a bottle of Sangria and writing 5 songs before waking up on the floor in the morning with a splitting headache. I recently started playing along with backing tracks and trying to write songs on the fly again. I am starting to get some that are half good..........Forcing, and deadlines spoil everything for me. I understand your talking about "just do it." Nobody wants to learn to be a critic, they want to learn to DO. Those who can't do, teach.
Most of the Beatles live shows were 30 minutes or less. They usually shared the bill with other groups and all had limited times. Only in their improv days in Hamburg did they play for hours on end. Most of their shows post 1964 were less than 5-6 songs long. Conversely, I saw Neil Young in concert in 1997 (Beck opened) and he did a 3 hour show, and played about 12-13 songs. He did, however improvise quite a few 20 minute guitar solos where he got stuck in the groove for a while. I saw Plant and Page in concert that same summer, do a 3 hour show, 2.5 of those straight Led Zeppelin, and about 20 greatest hits.
I have heard people complain that "Beatles music isn't that good, cos when you take the voices away the instruments sound rubbish on their own!" Guys! you are so missing the point! The music is a piece, a whole. They didn't write a tune, then put words to fit, they worked together to make music. JJ you make more sense the more I hear you. Keep Reacting!
I love your music reaction videos more than any other, theyre more like vlogs because of your passion for the subject. Theres a reason this video is over 20 minutes long and yet the original was just 8.lol I'd love to see a Radiohead reaction vid ;)
I should re-listen to The Beatles, looking at the track listing for Please, Please Me, there's a few songs that I completely forgot they sang. As someone who's tone deaf, has no rhythm and can't draw I've always admired someone who can create art. I imagine that over thinking is detrimental to creating any form of art.
JJ i will mention "The Rutles" movie until moral improves. monty python doing the beatles with big name cameos such as Jagger and i think Bowie. they do the beatles better than the beatles do. its in the style of a Documentary. loosely
Whow! What!!! You worked with Rick Beato??? What was that like? Also, yea, my former vocalist doesn't know how to read music / theory, but he's a great songwriter ..great guitarist & great vocalists. You can look him up on RUclips/Spotify/iTunes if you're interested - Paddy Usher Band.
You can work on an idea but I don't think you can work at having one. Even then, when we do have ideas, it's very often just recognising something, rather than something being born entirely in our mind. That's how, after many years I've learned to go about things. In a way it's a type of working without consciously working and just letting everyday life wash over you, and every once in a while you grab hold of something in the current. Then it's just about knowing what to hold onto and what to let go of.
The story of Paul not being on She Said She Said are false. On the Deluxe edition of Revolver there is an alternate take where Paul is clearly heard talking and taking part. Maybe he refused further work in the overdubbing but he is definitely playing bass on the basic track.
Not sure if you're into visual arts, JJ, but drawing from the right side of the brain was a bit of a revelation to me. I produced much better and more interesting work than my usual too painstakingly perfectionist attempts.
When are you going to show us your Duck? You’ve used its voice for dub work over the years, yet we never see it. Is it an ugly duckling, is that the reason? How do you make it quack on cue? Has it got a name? … so many questions!
In the spirit of flow, as I watched this video and looked at you talking, I realised that you have big lips. Totally in a good way, by the way. Nice naturally plump lips. That's it. Just a random thought as I watched you talk.
@@JJLAReacts Yeah, I'm not sure you should be thanking me either. But, like, I was going with the flow, and that thought just struck me. Hey, I'm just following your advice. Be careful what you wish for.
I've sent this video to my daughter (yeah 'you') as she's doing a fine art degree and worries and stresses too much over grades, and just like when I did English they bombard her with as much 'theory' dreamed up by 'critics' as they do actual practical just getting stuck in and doing it. And I think it all just overcomplicates it for them. Now she has to do a project about the 'male gaze' (some feminist thing I believe). So I advised her that if she does want to provide a very good example of that then the old cheesy tennis girl poster is what she should pick. Her tutors won't be expecting that but it's exactly what they're asking for. My project for them would have been 'make some art over the next 3 months about anything you want, however you want, and let's see what you come up with. I did English with Phil in the 90s and can confidently say I learned nothing at all useful that I now apply in my life. It just encourages pretentiousness and being all precious and over-analytical and takes the fun out of it all. I hope she learns something from this. I've been telling her for so long that she had to just drop all of that junk. Keep it simple, and to do just switch her brain off and get on with it. Instead of spending however much time wondering what will best please the 'experts' grading it. I've told her she has to focus on producing work she's happy with, not to aim at what she imagines would please others. That never works out for anyone and just becomes an ordeal.
I think it's a bit disingenuous to suggest they didn't know the names of chords, which is why they weren't written on the Helter Skelter lyrics. One of Paul's stories is about how they got a bus across Liverpool as kids because some guy knew B7. Otherwise, though, good stuff
Exactly, cause You dont know the laws of art teory, and , You dont do it, or better thinking of art ....You can not do it, exept random stuff , which is random anyway. Like me, as a painter, dont know how to fix teeth. But, I Will try once...,😊
Sorry but the work ethic is entirely normal for the time. No one would raise an eyebrow. As a 60s child I have a similar work ethic. The question is, why do later generations find it impressive? I'll tell you now it isn't impressive at all.
JJ is so good at this, his thoughts and opinions are really interesting. I genuinely enjoyed what he had to say about this and he's very easy to listen to. It added to what was already an interesting video. Thanks JJ.
The glint in the eye and the look of internal joy on JJ's face as he sees pictures of the Beatles warms my soul.
“It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.” - Pablo Picasso
I agree,. Sometimes all you need is love for what you are doing., you don't need to work eight days a week. So long as you come together as a group and are happy to help every now and then. Sometimes it's better not to overwork it and it's better to say let it be, we've done enough. Even if you argued yesterday, just get back to it and you can say now I feel fine.
Such interesting insights. It’s good to know that spontaneity, and a no nonsense approach, helped them achieve so much.
JJLA. You're one of my favourite reviewers. The chap in the video that is being reviewed is also excellent and has produced an exceptional piece of work. Really interesting. Cheers ! Sheffield South Yorkshire.
Existential Crisis - The Reaction!
Very honest video. Good job! And I really feel the part when you talk about the resistance for ones own art. I've felt it intensely.
Such an excellent video JJ, I love your refreshing take on things :)
Love these music reactions best of all. Your musical knowledge adds huge depth. We need more of these ☺
One of the Beatles’ biggest superpowers was their ability to filter out the lousy bits of their songs very quickly. It’s fascinating to listen to demos of their songs in progress and how they seem to instantly realise when a part or a lyric isn’t working and just get rid of it without stressing over it. The speed they developed stuff at was incredible. True geniuses.
I concur. It's extremely rare that anything creative is achieved without review. And one of the greatest roadblocks to a finished project is having to jettison a cherished word/phrase/rhyme that becomes a hindrance. It's like having to sacrifice your first-borne to rescue the rest of the family. Rewrites are a bitch.
@ absolutely! I’ve been there hundreds of times 🤣 Another notable thing about the Beatles writing process was the speed at which they throw ideas in almost like a stream of consciousness- just keep trying stuff until something works. If you do that enough you’ll eventually get that “channeling” moment we all seek where something brilliant appears out of the ether - eg Paul’s Get Back session on the documentary. Also, using other people’s songs as inspiration - the Beatles did this a lot and I do it myself too. Start by thinking “I want to write something like…xyz” and maybe pinch the rhythm, a bit of melody or a few chords - it’s a great way to get over writer’s block and by the time you’ve finished it it will sound nothing like the song you were inspired by. Good songwriters borrow, great songwriters steal, as they say!
Norman Smith (The Beatles early Engineer) was a singer(ish), who had a couple of hits in the early 70's. He also played the drums on "Remember A Day" by Pink Floyd when, in the words of Nick Mason, "I had a brain fart over the drum patterns, and Norm just sat behind the drums and patted it out perfect. I couldn't follow that!".
It was inspiring, I've often wanted to write stories, but lack of time and confidence always stops me. I over think alot and I wonder if it would be a good idea to meditate before trying to write something, maybe I should give it a go, thanks for sharing this, wishing you well
I started in school band 5th grade on saxophone (the song URGENT was hot that week) I learned to read music, but I was dyslexic (nobody knew what that was then) and the notes would scramble on the page while I was reading. I found more and more, that between working out bit parts and listening to the players in first chair, I could get the 'jist" of the song and figure it out by ear. I then picked up a trumpet really cheap, and taught myself to play, and was mimicking Herb Alpert and Chuck Mangione within months. I had abandoned reading the music and rose through the ranks from 3rd trumpet 1st chair (there was no 2nd) to 1st trumpet 2nd chair in one year. And I was just winging it. Then in 1987 I heard "The Sky is crying" (SRV) and within a year I put my trumpet and sax in the closet, and was playing a Martin, and then a stratocaster and now also a Hofner bass and keyboard as well. Rock and roll is not just a hobby for me, it is a way of life. A philosophy to live by. All hail Ray Charles. ...
Love it.
Lets not forget, George Martin had a lot to do with all this - he really was The Fifth Beatle!
I know a group, self composion/producing that also break the rules, but they are educated and most of them can sing from the sheet without preparing. They are known as a healing group cause not matter the genre or topick of their songs, you feel at ease and in a better mood. Thats what I hear from followers from all over the world. The sad thing is that they are not known so much in the western world, but are famous in their part of the world. They take their music very very serious, but not themselves. Very humble.
Love these music docs.
The BBC has dozens of them.
I watched Reggae Britannia the other night and it was superb.
I heard a great phrase once - ‘great art is never finished, it’s abandoned’
Great artists often have the ability to move on very quickly from what they’ve already produced.
The Beatles are one of the all time supreme beings of abandonment and evolution.
Of the songs on that first album, four had already been recorded and the recording session for the rest took 12 hours plus the time taken in the Abbey Road canteen to decide on and then record Twist and Shout.
I'm a big believer in spontaneity and spent years teaching myself to write a line and immediately forget it before writing the next one. It creates a mass of material that lets you focus on editing as if the material wasn't yours. In other words, I wanted to write in a way that wouldn't leave me feeling responsible for the material, in a way that let me be as surprised at the work as anyone else who saw it for the first time.
My best portraits are drawn on the back of an envelope and it sucks that a blank drawing paper makes the proportions somewhat skewed a lot of the times
I get that. Some of my best work was drawn at the top of a page while trying to write a letter. Distraction theory must work..things go better if you're not overthinking.
When I was at (Secondary Modern School - all girls, only about 450 to 475 of us!!) we sang...
To the tune of the Christmas carol,
"We Three Kings of Orient, Are"…
🎵"We four Beatles, happily are
John in a taxi, Paul in a car,
George on a scooter, 'bibbing his hooter'
Followed by Ringo Starr,
Oh oh, 'Star of Wonder, Star of Light',
Paul caught his pants* alight,
How fantastic,,
No elastic,
Very nice to wear...!?!" 🎵
... ( _Repeat_ ) ...
(*Men's underwear, _not trousers_ !!)
😅 LOL "We Three Kings".was one of the first songs I learned to play on the clarinet in high school.- I could be your accompanist if you ever want to make it a double act! 😅
@@nolaj114
Lol... Thanks but knowing my track record, I'd forget the lyrics when most needed!!
I think I might prefer How fantastic, no elastic!!!
@@Lily-Bravo
That could well be the lyrics!!
I remember a lot of things but also forget a lot of things!! It's as if my brain says yes, yes, no, yes, yes, yes, yes, no, no, yes, yes, no, no, no...like it's redirecting memories into the "Remember This, Save That, Store Those"?!!
@@Lily-Bravo
I've just changed it to better suit your suggestion. Thank-you. 👍🎵🏴❤️🇬🇧🎵🖖
When George Martin said "Come in with everything you have" he was saying "All the original songs you have". They literally had at least a couple of hundred cover's. Check out the two double CD sets "The Beatles Live At The BBC" volumes one and two. The first one was released in 1994 and volume 2 in 2013. Between 1963 and 1965 they would be on the radio every Saturday morning in the UK. They would usually come into the radio station and record the tracks live and then they would be played on the Saturday morning shows. I think sometimes they may have played live on the air too. Volume 1 was released in 1994 and Volume 2 in 2013. There is a wealth of material on these two sets.
They were a great live band. You'll be amazed at the amount of songs here. Check them out. They were a great live band.
Peace ❤
Oh yeah! I've heard some of those BBC shows, and yeah, very impressive. So the rest of their show was probably covers? I see. Thanks for pointing that out! Cheers 🍻
My new Mantra, Stay Dum!. Great show
Just guessing, but when you point out that many of the tracks on Please Please Me are slower, maybe their live repertoire included plenty of covers [of American Rock 'n' Roll songs] that were a bit more uptempo. George Martin probably wanted them to record mainly their own stuff, although Twist 'n' Shout is a cover, and that shaped the album. It's easy to infer that, given they had been playing live so much around Liverpool and in Hamburg, they'd have come up with a balanced playlist with faster covers and more laid-back original songs. (Just speculating, I was only 6 years old at the time and a bit young to be going in the Cavern.)
Working up a playlist for any club is always tricky. It's always a balance between what the club owner likes to hear and what actually makes money for the club. That is, make the crowd sweat, then get 'em wet, ie: enough up-tempo to pack the dance floor, keep them there long enough to get thirsty, then slow it down and give them a chance to spend money at the bar. Doesn't matter what the cover charge might be, it's the bar that generates profit for the club. Just keep doing that rotation till the time bell rings and you've had a successful night and will be likely rebooked.
this was great. i totally agree. you have to stay a child to make art.🎈
For an idea of what could have been on "Please, Please Me" album look up the tracks on their early BBC sessions.
Re: the live set lists. You need to remember that they were doing 8-12 hour sets in Hamburg. It wouldn’t matter how many ‘uppers’ you take, no one can get through all that just playing uptempo rockers. They were also massively into early soul music and covered a hell of a lot of ‘girl group’ tracks, a lot of which were slower tempo. They did have some original material that ultimately never made it onto vinyl after they got their record deal. Some they gave away to other artists. One famously was rejected for an early album that ended up being resurrected during the Get Back project; One After 909. John wrote that no later than early 1960, though it could have been much earlier. Paul’s I’ll Follow the Sun is another. He wrote that when he was 16 and they definitely performed it live but it wasn’t considered and then recorded until the 1964 Beatles for Sale sessions. Ironically the ‘burn out’ album where they were running on empty, had to return to a few covers and, with this song, return to something written 6 years earlier by a then 16 year old.
There is a cd of something like 300 cover versions that they played in gigs. So yeah they really worked hard. Most badns at the time did do covers. often driven by sheet music sales.
Talent is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.
Perfect is the enemy of good (enough). You can always do another version. Music, unlike text or film, is alive (recorded music is always just a version that was captured). Also, never underestimate the value of messing about with like-minded mates and seeing what happens.
Thinking is alright. Dwelling on and pondering are the actual enemies of flow, or anything.
Being in the flow is not something you can learn really..it just happens..and you even surprise yourself. Anyone who is creative can tell you that..inexplicable.
JJ, you should react to a video Bill Bailey - The Doctor Who Theme reimagined as Belgian jazz.
Not knowing music theory or how to read is fine for an Artist. But for large ensembles (orchestras, concert bands etc), arranging, depping, accompanying at short notice, and so on, those things make you an employable musician.
Close enough for rock and roll. - Nazareth
JJ - is MK Lewis still doing has acting classes in LA?
I sit down and try to write songs with ideas I have collected, and I draw a blank, or force some crap to come out. When I was younger, I can remember sitting down with a bottle of Sangria and writing 5 songs before waking up on the floor in the morning with a splitting headache. I recently started playing along with backing tracks and trying to write songs on the fly again. I am starting to get some that are half good..........Forcing, and deadlines spoil everything for me. I understand your talking about "just do it." Nobody wants to learn to be a critic, they want to learn to DO. Those who can't do, teach.
Most of the Beatles live shows were 30 minutes or less. They usually shared the bill with other groups and all had limited times. Only in their improv days in Hamburg did they play for hours on end. Most of their shows post 1964 were less than 5-6 songs long. Conversely, I saw Neil Young in concert in 1997 (Beck opened) and he did a 3 hour show, and played about 12-13 songs. He did, however improvise quite a few 20 minute guitar solos where he got stuck in the groove for a while. I saw Plant and Page in concert that same summer, do a 3 hour show, 2.5 of those straight Led Zeppelin, and about 20 greatest hits.
"There has to be more fast songs" says JJ. Yes, on their live gigs there were. Mostly covers from some American bands that had hit the charts.
I have heard people complain that "Beatles music isn't that good, cos when you take the voices away the instruments sound rubbish on their own!" Guys! you are so missing the point! The music is a piece, a whole. They didn't write a tune, then put words to fit, they worked together to make music. JJ you make more sense the more I hear you. Keep Reacting!
I love your music reaction videos more than any other, theyre more like vlogs because of your passion for the subject. Theres a reason this video is over 20 minutes long and yet the original was just 8.lol I'd love to see a Radiohead reaction vid ;)
I really enjoy your music reactions most of all.
I love listening to you JJ ❤
Great video mar mate.
I should re-listen to The Beatles, looking at the track listing for Please, Please Me, there's a few songs that I completely forgot they sang.
As someone who's tone deaf, has no rhythm and can't draw I've always admired someone who can create art. I imagine that over thinking is detrimental to creating any form of art.
I love watching @RickBeato . Such a talented person and incredible ear.
Take the next best 5 bands in the world combine them…they would still be a distant 2nd to the Beatles
JJ i will mention "The Rutles" movie until moral improves.
monty python doing the beatles with big name cameos such as Jagger and i think Bowie.
they do the beatles better than the beatles do.
its in the style of a Documentary. loosely
Whow! What!!! You worked with Rick Beato??? What was that like?
Also, yea, my former vocalist doesn't know how to read music / theory, but he's a great songwriter ..great guitarist & great vocalists. You can look him up on RUclips/Spotify/iTunes if you're interested - Paddy Usher Band.
You can work on an idea but I don't think you can work at having one. Even then, when we do have ideas, it's very often just recognising something, rather than something being born entirely in our mind. That's how, after many years I've learned to go about things. In a way it's a type of working without consciously working and just letting everyday life wash over you, and every once in a while you grab hold of something in the current. Then it's just about knowing what to hold onto and what to let go of.
Great stuff pal!
Real artists ship. That is John Lennon to the core. He made an absolute point of this with “instant Karma”, written, recorded and released in a day
absolutely, feed your talents. and yes, it's always plural. ;)
Please please me is SLOW??????
NOT!!!!
The story of Paul not being on She Said She Said are false. On the Deluxe edition of Revolver there is an alternate take where Paul is clearly heard talking and taking part. Maybe he refused further work in the overdubbing but he is definitely playing bass on the basic track.
Not sure if you're into visual arts, JJ, but drawing from the right side of the brain was a bit of a revelation to me. I produced much better and more interesting work than my usual too painstakingly perfectionist attempts.
When are you going to show us your Duck? You’ve used its voice for dub work over the years, yet we never see it. Is it an ugly duckling, is that the reason? How do you make it quack on cue? Has it got a name? … so many questions!
In the spirit of flow, as I watched this video and looked at you talking, I realised that you have big lips.
Totally in a good way, by the way. Nice naturally plump lips.
That's it. Just a random thought as I watched you talk.
😂 thanks?
@@JJLAReacts Yeah, I'm not sure you should be thanking me either.
But, like, I was going with the flow, and that thought just struck me.
Hey, I'm just following your advice. Be careful what you wish for.
I've sent this video to my daughter (yeah 'you') as she's doing a fine art degree and worries and stresses too much over grades, and just like when I did English they bombard her with as much 'theory' dreamed up by 'critics' as they do actual practical just getting stuck in and doing it. And I think it all just overcomplicates it for them. Now she has to do a project about the 'male gaze' (some feminist thing I believe). So I advised her that if she does want to provide a very good example of that then the old cheesy tennis girl poster is what she should pick. Her tutors won't be expecting that but it's exactly what they're asking for. My project for them would have been 'make some art over the next 3 months about anything you want, however you want, and let's see what you come up with. I did English with Phil in the 90s and can confidently say I learned nothing at all useful that I now apply in my life. It just encourages pretentiousness and being all precious and over-analytical and takes the fun out of it all. I hope she learns something from this. I've been telling her for so long that she had to just drop all of that junk. Keep it simple, and to do just switch her brain off and get on with it. Instead of spending however much time wondering what will best please the 'experts' grading it. I've told her she has to focus on producing work she's happy with, not to aim at what she imagines would please others. That never works out for anyone and just becomes an ordeal.
I think it's a bit disingenuous to suggest they didn't know the names of chords, which is why they weren't written on the Helter Skelter lyrics. One of Paul's stories is about how they got a bus across Liverpool as kids because some guy knew B7. Otherwise, though, good stuff
Can you get a refund for all those improv classes 🙄😏😱🤣😂
This video was spoilt by a lot of pontification and self justification.
Poor, Very Poor!
You don't need music theory - all you need is lots of drugs of varying types.. If you're off your gourd on whatever, music is easy to write.
Exactly, cause You dont know the laws of art teory, and , You dont do it, or better thinking of art
....You can not do it, exept random stuff , which is random anyway. Like me, as a painter, dont know how to fix teeth. But, I Will try once...,😊
Sorry but the work ethic is entirely normal for the time. No one would raise an eyebrow. As a 60s child I have a similar work ethic. The question is, why do later generations find it impressive? I'll tell you now it isn't impressive at all.