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MAPHRA
Good golly, this girl sings like a pussycat and a tiger.
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Oeuf… That’s some range!
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John Lennon • The Plastic Ono Band • Elephant's Memory – "Come Together" (live, 1972)
On 30 August 1972, John Lennon played two benefit concerts for the Willowbrook State School for Retarded Children in New York. Lennon’s friend, Geraldo Rivera, had asked Lennon to do the benefit, and Lennon happily agreed, bringing the Plastic Ono Band and Elephant’s Memory to back him.
The benefit concerts, billed as One to One, also featured other famous artists, including Stevie Wonder, Roberta Flack, Melanie Safka and Sha Na Na. None of their performances, however, were included on the subsequent album, nor in the simultaneous video release.
The video of “Come Together” (below) was recorded at the evening show.
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Came across my workout mix…yowza!
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Spooky Tooth
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The Beatles – "I Am the Walrus" (1967)
Nice cover by Spooky Tooth.
John Lennon wrote “I Am the Walrus” as a reaction to the overly serious study certain Beatles lyrics were getting in college courses at the time. The words are deliberate nonsense. They have no meaning.
Lennon must have been giddy, thinking, “It’s going to be fun hearing the crap the professors read into this one!”
What Is The Most Complex Beatles Song?
In this video, Rick Beato analyzes a number of Beatles songs, including “Something,” “Penny Lane,” “Strawberry Fields Forever,” and “Blackbird.” In the end, Beato identifies “I Am the Walrus” as the most harmonically sophisticated composition ever written by the Beatles. The chords selected by John Lennon are the antithesis of the ever popular I-IV-V featured in many pop songs.
Beato’s treatment is a little geeky, which is fine, but that means the video focuses on music technique. Musicians will dig that. You get a quick tutorial on how to play all the songs on acoustic guitar. That doesn’t mean that non-musicians won’t appreciate the presentation. There’s something here for everyone.
Unfortunately, Beato recorded this as a live-stream, so there is a lot of off-topic chatting between him and his audience. Don’t be afraid to tap the right-arrow key to skip over it.
The video is cued to the 20:45 mark, which where Beato begins his discussion of “Walrus.” If you want to hear all the songs, start at the 4:45 mark.
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Whoa… noice!
Are those speakers sealed into the tube. Just wondering as they seem to hang off the edges a bit.
The grills are for 4" drivers I had left over from another set and are just a little bigger side-by-side than the 10" dia. pipe. The coaxial speakers behind the grills are 3.5".
OK. SO they are sealed to the enclosure…?
Yes. I had to do some fitting by making cuts with a rotary tool.
And this is how the grills align over the drivers.
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Looks good!
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