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Name: Fender Bender
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Subject: RE: Keith says Sgt Pepper is rubbish... thoughts?
Date: Friday, August 07, 2015
Time: 8:42:49 PM
Remote Address: 75.174.17.210
Message ID: 296697
Parent ID: 296643
Thread ID: 296643
I read a Paul McCartney interview where he attributed the unique feel and sound of the Sgt. Pepper album to how the bass and drums were recorded and mixed. For starters, Paul and Ringo rarely played together live as a rhythm section while recording this particular album. Ringo would lay down the drum track playing along with a rhythm guitar or piano, and George Martin had each drum miked separately and run through a line mixer. At that point Martin varied the volume level for each drum so that Ringo could play at full force but some would sound louder of softer in the mix. All the band's instruments and vocals except the bass were eventually bounced down to three tracks onto a 4-track tape machine, and then Paul added part bass last onto the open track, playing melodic and often complex figures as opposed to conventional rhythm patterns that would have been more likely had he recorded in sync with the drums. Anyway, this sounded technical to me at first but if one listens they can really hear it in most of the songs. Others like "She's Leaving Home" and "Within You Without You" used a different approach with orchestration and outside studio musicians.
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