CONCERT REPORT #2 Beatles Z320 For my second concert report I thought that I would write about my only experience hearing songs of the Beatles live. The Rib America Festival was hosted by The Beatles Live Repertoire. The group dressed exactly like the Beatles, even had the same names, John, Paul, George, and Ringo. I had never heard any Beatles songs live before, so that was enough to get me off my butt. Not to mention, it was free entertainment, not a bad time at all. So the show starts, and I’m not sure what to expect. Paul comes out and introduces the band, ( very good English accent ) and then started out with “I want to hold your hand “. He mentioned that their songs would for the most part go in chronological order. And after comparing notes to my book, they were on track for the most part. All of the songs played before their break, were songs on albums released before Sgt. Peppers Lonely Heart Club Band. I wasn’t impressed with this song, however. No, it isn’t my favorite song, but I just wasn’t impressed by the playing of the song. The song, the beat, something was dead about the song, hard to put my finger on it. The next song was “Please, Please me”. And I had never heard this song before that night, and I liked the song a lot. Then after hearing it in class, I remembered hearing it for the first time, good song. Hard Days night was their next song. And much like the first song, I do like this song, but the band didn’t do justice for the song. But this was the last song that I remembered not really liking. The rest of the songs I recall liking very much for one reason or another. The band must have just needed to warm up a little. So, now that the band had warmed up, messed up a few good songs, but at least they didn’t start out with my favorite songs, they were ready. Their next song was “Eight Days a Week”. I like this song. I just like the beat and how the lyrics go along with it. I don’t know if that is a legitimate reason to like a song, but it’s mine. They asked for some audience participation during this song. They wanted to us to clap with the instrument break when he sings, “Hold me… Love me… “ The audience was very participative. It seemed like the audience was having a really good t... ... middle of paper ... ... am assuming that he grew up around Penny Lane. Now an interesting thing about the next song “ Strawberry Fields Forever”, was that “Paul” mentioned that John(Lennon ) had never performed this song live. Now, this was hard to believe, but I think that these dudes know that they are talking about, so I guess he didn’t. “Nowhere man”, “Day Tripper”, and “Imagine” were to follow “Strawberry Fields Forever”. “Nowhere Man” was written by Paul about Ringo according to “Paul”. “Imagine” was performed very well, and just a cool song all around. Good song to hear live. I knew it was drawing towards the end of the show, and I hadn’t heard the song that I really wanted hear “ Revolution”. It was about a quarter till, and still no “Revolution”. “Back in the USSR”, “Come Together”, and “OB-LA-DI, OB-LA-DA”, were their final songs. I was mad, but still a very good show, and I was glad that I went. The crown wasn’t satisfied enough, and chanted for more. They finally gave in like I knew they would, and what do you think that they busted out with, oh yeah, “Revolution”. A perfect ending to a good time.
concerts in my lifetime, so I had never had an experience like this. The other band,
The Beatles are known, respectively, as the fathers of modern pop music. After their first #1 hit “Please Please Me” was released in 1963 the Beatles were set in motion to become one of the most influential groups of musicians to ever rock our world. With over forty-nine records, 37 #1’s, and thirty- four number one albums (the highest amount of any band in history), there is no denying that they made a monumental ripple in the musical world. John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr surprisingly all come from humble beginnings in a town that, until their superstardom, was barely noticed on the map. Liverpool, being kn...
The overall interpretation of the performance has a lot to do with examining the uses and functions music in the performance. During halftime the band is trying the lift the spirits of the crowd and team playing, but the result is at halftime everyone leaves. Whether or not the performance was great much of the audience will never know because they leave. For those who stayed and listened to the performance it was delightful and intriguing but others did not give the band a chance. The musical sound was there. The performance involvement was present for those who stayed and listened and the music was very easy to interpret.
They performed two songs during a much appreciated encore, the title track to their new album, “Ohio,” and a freestyle guitar solo. Even though all their songs are pretty much slow and sad, I left the concert feeling as if I had just experience every emotion or feeling there was. There style is so soft and bare. They lay it all on the table, take it or leave it. Not interested in mainstream, happy with their underground following, and plus one more fan after the show in Indianapolis.
John Winston Lennon was born in Liverpool, England on Oct. 9, 1940. His father abandoned the family when John was a baby, and his mother, Julia (after whom Lennon titled a song on the ‘Double White Album’ in 1968) could never bring herself to settle down to parenthood, leaving her son to be raised by her sister, Mimi Smith, and her husband. Growing up in a working class family provided John with a typical upbringing and exposure to current music. As a teenager, while studying at art school in Liverpool, Lennon decided to follow his passion for music, and started the group, The Quarrymen. In 1957, Lennon met Paul McCartney, who became a member later that year, when the group first played at The Cavern, a local jazz club. In early 1958, McCartney introduced Lennon to another guitarist, George Harrison, who was accepted as a member of the group without hesitation. The Quarrymen continued as before, with Lennon, McCartney, and Harrison joined by other young ...
As the song progressed it reminded me of something that you would hear in a movie soundtrack. “New Point of View” was like “Down South” to me, they both had a classic jazz sound to them. This song ended the concert, and with that came an exceptional ending drum solo by Davis. I was amazed by how well he was able to keep the beat throughout his
And Mitchell 's comparisons of McCartney to Blake and Burns are ludicrous - the lack of technical control over language and vernacular is evident even in the great song-lyrics; without the melody, they are strangely lifeless. McCartney, if he ever understood irony, did so in the lightest (but not delicate) of ways. 'Back in the USSR '; without the irony of the pumping jauntiness of the tune, it looks ridiculous, and the stuff from McCartney 's post-Beatle years appears as linguistically inept as it is musically devoid. It may be a truism by now, but McCartney needed Lennon; they played through and against each other.
missed the Beatles though he was not that kind of guy to admit it. On the other hand, McCartney
The first person to play was supposed to be Sweetwater but they were stuck in traffic so Richie Havens had to open up the festival. Richie did not want to open the show and kept making up excuses but Michael Lang was not giving up he knew he could do it. At 5:07 pm he sucked it up and went out there and sang his spiritual heartwarming music. He was only suppose to do forty five minutes worth of songs but the crowd wanted more so he went back on stage and sang every song he knew. His last song was called “Freedom” everybody loved it so much that other bands had to do fantastic to compare. (Hilstrom)
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The Beatles were finding new and unique ways to use the recording software that they had. People were loving The Beatles’ style, because it was something that had never been seen before. For instance, “The media only added to the band’s popularity… Writers gave them nicknames, such as the “Fab Four.” another nickname, “Loveable mop tops” referred to the band member’s haircuts… The Beatles style was considered quite long and a little outrageous. The style quickly caught on among their teenage fans.” (Roberts #39) Equally important, Their album Please Please Me shot to number one in March, 1963 and stayed there for thirty weeks. (Roberts #38) Beatlemania had started, They Beatle began to go on tours and perform to bigger crowds, until the concert attendance was unbelievable. Beatlemania took the music industry by storm, and suddenly everyone knew about the
According to wikipedia Johnny Cash was born in kingsland arkansas, though he was never given a real name, he was called J.r while a child, then when he got older people called him Johnny.When he turned five Johnny helped out on his fathers farm with his mom, dad, and older brother.Johnny had a rough childhood, not only the untimely death of his brother, but his abusive father made things worse.Johnnyjoined the air force as a radio operator in Landsberg am Lech, Germany.where he joined a band called the Landsberg Barbarians.afterhis term he married Vivian Liberto and moved to Memphis where he was a radio salesman, and studied to be a radio announser. Cash where for a record deal at sun records, where he sung mostly gospil, and Sam Phillips the owner of sun records said " go home and sin, then come back with a song I can sell.", cash won over sun records and relese...
line waiting to get in I could here the band that was performing. It was then
“We were careful never to release it as a single. It was a milestone for us. Every musician wants to do something of lasting quality, something which will hold up for a long time and I guess we did it with 'Stairway.' Townshend probably thought that he got it with Tommy. I don't know whether I have the ability to come up with more. I have to do a lot of hard work before I can get anywhere near those stages of consistent, total brilliance." (Jimmy Page) The band saw the albums as individual and not able to sell as singles because of the storyline their albums held.(Led Zeppelin, The Early Years) with songs as brilliant as “Stairway To Heaven” and “Whole Lotta Love” the band had not anticipated this big of a fanbase as they have an when everyone wanted singles they had made a collective decision not to release the songs as singles and keep them as more apart of story than a standalone one. In Led Zeppelin: The Story of a Band and Their Music, when author Keith Shadwick writes about the struggle to get “Whole Lotta Love” released as a single back in 1969, he notes that “(Jimmy) Page and Grant were not entirely against any thought of a single being released, although they genuinely felt it was better
I have listened to that classics album so much that I am beginning to dislike the band. Although it was not what I wanted in a game, it was a memorable experience with my family. The day was pretty hectic until the game started. I could have slept in and not gone to the mall but I wanted to make sure my parents and brother were happy, even if I wasn’t. It was the highlight of my spring break week. Next time I go hopefully there will be a nail