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Rutles – Lunch

Schnauzer — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 20:49:38 +0000

Holey Crap!
This is a HUGE labour of Love. I really want to name names, but I couldn’t find who’s behind this.
Here’s the story: some anonymous fellow felt that the Rutles deserved a remix album just like the Beatles had in 2006 (Love).
Oops, sorry, backing up:
-The Rutles – “All you need is Cash” was a parody film by Eric Idle and Gary Weis. Yes you guessed it: A big shot of Monty Python-juice is in this mix. The best thing about this film is that every single song sounds exactly but not quiet like the beatles. Major credits in that department got to the legendary Neil Innes, the godfather of funny music. That movie is a whole other topic, but If you haven’t seen this, I suggest you click the above link an hunt it down (I bought my copy for 5 euro’s)

—–Back to “LUNCH”—–

This guy recreated the entire “Love” album with the Rutles parody equivalent song by song. Just like the Beatles, the Rutles received a musical overhaul in 2010 (not really but that is all part of the parody). This is taking fan art to a whole new level.

Just check out the link, and listen to the whole album. Kudos to whoever did this, I only want to stick this album on my ipod, listen to it on soundcloud en make sweet love to it, cherishing the cover art.

Also follow twitter.com/rutleslunch for a daily dose of Rutles!

Or check the hilarious official site to read more one liners and Beatle parody jokes.

Beatles: Rock Band

Schnauzer — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:50:48 +0000

Today at E3 (games expo) the first beatles Rock band trailer was released. I am thrilled looking at all the details that went into this game. Every single stage looks right. Mc Cartney looks stunning and even has grown a beard when playing on the roof of Abbey Road. Heck even the release date is set on 09.09.09. -kudos for those who get that reference-

Only now I am praying for a ludwig drum controler and a lefthanded Hofner bass (is that too much to ask?), and bonus points if you have the right hairstyle…

Beatles Reunion!

Schnauzer — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 22:52:05 +0000

That was exactly the phrase what drew my attention to watch this movie. For more than 20 years this was the monster reunion in the making everybody was dying to see and hear.
Now count to ten and realize that this is 2009 and 2 of the Beatles passed away. Basically, if you go to a Paul mcCartney concert and he calls Ringo Starr on stage to sing one single song, that is the closest you can get to a reunion.
Flashforward to 2035. Due to a living lying on his back besides the swimming pool, Ringo Starr outlived Paul McCartneyÂ who did some extensive touring up until his death.
Start selling tickets because Ringo can set up his drums and play Carnegie hall for the ultimate Beatles reunion He’ll be singing ‘With a little help from my friends’, Yellow submarine, and do the intro from ‘Come together’ on drums as a encore, shouting : ‘What’s my name!?’

sigh.

Abbey Road

Schnauzer — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 12:29:15 +0000

The band ‘Blame Ringo, released their first single accompanied by this video. It’s a timelapse outside the Abbey Road studio’s. For the young folks:Â From the release of the Beatles’ Abbey Road album, people are constantly trying to recreate the cover.

“Blame Ringo” is one of my favourite band names now. Last year we made upÂ ‘Sorry Ringo’, a Cover band that only plays John Lennon reportoire.

A Hard Days Night

Schnauzer — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 08:30:39 +0000

Now this is annoying. Dalhousie University professor Jason Brown has made an extensive study about the opening chord of ‘A Hard Days Night’. The reason why is because this chord sounds so fat, no guitar player ever could copy it. For the one reader who has no clue what I am talking about, press play will ‘ya!

In my humble opinion this starts with the proper guitar, the proper amplifier AND record that in a proper room, and be done with it, but it goes one step further. Because of a new version of Melodyne (a pro -audio plugin for mangling and surgically alter sounds) he could extract each note of that chord and listen to it. I am not going to bother you with the details, you can read all about that in this 4 page pdf, but I can pretty much sum up the study in a few lines.

The reason the chord is so fat was, according to producer George Martin, because they knew that single chord was the opening of the album AND the movie. They were just going for the biggest bang they could come up with.
What’s in this study is a piece of music-geekdom I don’t even want to touch with a ten foot pole.
George playes a 12 string guitar in his solo, so it is safe to assume he uses the same guitar for the opening chord. He uses these notes, but that leaves out these notes, which could be played by John’s guitar. ***insert schnauzer gagging here***

To me a good record is like a movie: I don’t want to know how it’s made, I want to enjoy the organ sound, recorded through a fan, a wah-wah pedal an routed through a Marshall stack to give it some extra oomph. It’s still sounds like an organ, but it will be ‘different’

Every beatle recording has been extensively documented numerous books about those have been released over the last 40 years. To me further studies in that is just a waste of money and time.

I don’t know how much money went into this study, but I just took the sample and reproduced it in 5 minutes…by taking the 21th century route: SAMPLING!Â I even played smoke on the water with it, because that was the stupidest thing I could think of commenting on this news. (on a sidenote: what I did was illegal, but that is a whole different discussion)
Thank you very much.

A hard days smoke

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