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Post by Joe Karlosi on Nov 18, 2014 7:02:26 GMT -5
I just found out about another song that John Lennon swiped from. Anyone recognize this intro?
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Post by Panther on Nov 18, 2014 7:34:54 GMT -5
Remarkably similar first 5 seconds, but hardly important to the actual 'song' Lennon wrote.
Does anyone know if John liked Pee Wee Crayton? Or George, who played that sound-a-like guitar intro (albeit much slower on the original 'Revolution 1')? Pee Wee doesn't really strike me as the kind of musician John particularly rated.
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Post by Joe Karlosi on Nov 18, 2014 9:18:52 GMT -5
I was only referring to the introduction, which is the classic "attack" opening of REVOLUTION, which draws you in (it doesn't mean it's got to be an entire song). Sure, I believe that John listened to all kinds of things, and probably heard this Pee Wee Crayton song and liked it. John didn't only listen to one style. He appeared on WNEW Radio in 1974 and brought along all sorts of 45's, and likewise showed where the his two-note intro to "Instant Karma" came from. This song sounds very much like the type of stuff John liked.
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Post by Panther on Nov 18, 2014 9:50:12 GMT -5
The topic of The Beatles and Blues is quite interesting. My general take on it is that the Liverpool music scene in general -- then as now -- was not very smitten with blues, whereas (obviously) London youth were completely obsessed with it. Liverpool has always favored melodies, shanties (Irish background), folk music, and country & western.
I think The Beatles were happy to dabble in blues once in a while as it suited a composition, but in general it was an influence no stronger to them than show-tunes or jazz standards. They certainly weren't duty-bound to pure blues, as most 60s'-era rockers were.
John certainly liked the 1st-generation rock'n'rollers and black R&B/soul-singers the best. But I never thought he had much of an ear for straight blues, but I could be wrong.
Of course, the power-riffing chord opening 'Revolution' could have been a last-second idea of George Harrison's (not that he was particularly blues-interested either).
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