Saturday, February 09, 2008

"A Hard Day's Night" or "More Cowbell ad Infinitum"

I love youtube. You should love youtube, and, Shirley, he, she, it loves youtube. My internet connection has recently resumed, thank gawd. And without further adieu, more cowbell, please.



P.S. The opening chord of tonite's song has always been under close scutiny. Look it up in your Funk and Wagnalls!

"A Hard Day's Night" is immediately identifiable before the vocals even begin, thanks to George Harrison's unmistakable Rickenbacker 360/12 12-string guitar's "mighty opening chord" [9]. According to George Martin, "We knew it would open both the film and the soundtrack LP, so we wanted a particularly strong and effective beginning. The strident guitar chord was the perfect launch"[7] having what Ian MacDonald calls "'a significance in Beatles lore matched only by the concluding E major of "A Day in the Life", the two opening and closing the group's middle period of peak creativity'"[10]. "That sound you just associate with those early 1960s Beatles records" [

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