Reply by rivers
The really amazing thing about the Beatles for me is how lighting seemed to strike not only few times but at exactly the right time,multiple times. What I mean is you had coming together all AT ONE TIME: great once-in-a-lifetime songwriting, innovative/inspired sounds and engineering, forward looking production/arrangement, incredibly influential playing, the technology to achieve the new sounds (but not get bogged down), at least four charismatic personalities, and, oh yeah – they kept this up for like seven years with barely a misstep. It blows the mind and I doubt will be repeated in our lifetime.
Reply by nightshade
There is a chapter in Steinbeck’s “East of Eden” where the author has a little rant about how nothing original of value was ever created by committee, it was always the inspiration of one person alone. The Beatles turned that on its ass.The solo careers served only to prove it.
Reply by drumsound
I had an engineer tell me that he thinks the guitar on Beatles recordings is weak. I couldn’t believe this! Let’s look at the chain: George Harrison, John Lennon and Paul McCartney, and Rickenbacher, Gibson, Fender, Hofner-Vox-U47tube-EMI/Telefunken tube console-Studer J37. Yep that’s a recipe for bad sound.
Reply by phat
Yet another person mentions the “bad panning” in Beatles recordings. Now tell me this. How can you possibly have bad panning? That strikes me as one of the silliest comments I have heard about the Beatles. I mean, no matter how those so-called odd stereo mixes got there they are still considered great. I’ve grown tired of the “stereo as stage image” garbage. And I kind of wish everyone else would too.
Reply by lory
You could possibly have bad panning because the original recordings were mono and Capitol had it head up its ass when they signed off on a master that had all the drums on the left and all the singing on the right. I’m terribly sorry to be the poster who plunged you in deepest darkest despair because I noted something that other earthlings also noticed.