Geoff Emerick on why he quit as engineer on The Beatles White Album

[@johnrowemd5476]

Brilliant. Thank you for sharing. Bought and read his autobiography just months before he passed. I thought we would have many more years to learn more … ask a few thousand questions. Sad that I never got to say “thank you” for his inimitable and original work with the Beatles, and others.🤷‍♂️🤔🧐🤨 🎸👨‍⚕️🫶✌️♾️. 🍁🍂🌲🎄🎅🏻.

[@BillMcGirr]

Love listening to him talk about his career and experiences.💪👍

[@fastenit27]

I always find it amusing when guitar players (not musicians or composers) critique the Beatles music. Unfortunately many players are too often just players and not composers or artists - they too frequently approach music from the perspective of an athlete. The Beatles music is what it is. It created a sub-genre of rock/pop music a sort of art music that offered some harmonic complexity and brought the unsuspecting public on a musical journey that no rock/pop band had previously done. Their music reached the common man/woman and taught them about art in the process. Most of their music didn't require technical virtuosity. It was great in spite of that and because of that. In the world of visual art there have been many movements and styles. After the invention of the camera, visual art changed dramatically. No artist could compete with the authenticity of a camera and the technical aspects of the visual world it could render. So, artists pursued different approaches to set themselves apart. The art of Piet Mondrian was not technically challenging, Van Gogh basically flunked out of art school because he couldn't paint with the detail and realism of other painters, but he developed a style (Post-Impressionism) that no one else did that created a mood no one else had. Picasso, worked for years to develop cubism. This style was not technically demanding like the work of Di Vinci or Albrecht Dürer, or many others, but it was new and created a new form of expression. Too many guitarists are just that - guitarist. Too often thinking from their instrument only. Picasso wasn't thinking about how technically complicated he could paint or move his paint brush - neither was Van Gogh, he used a palette knife and his fingers! While some guitarist focused on how great their chops could be, The Beatles changed music and how their audience could engage with it. To this day bands are influenced by the less than highly technical music of The Beatles. Guitarists need to think again about what music is and can be.

[@pmadamson]

Well said.

[@waynepayne864]

ppl listen to music in different ways. theyre all valid. if ppl wanna listen to guitar music for the athleticism, who am i to tell them what they need to do. ur probably speaking from experience like me cuz we've all had that phase and expanded our palettes. yes its a shame they cant listen to the beatles or pop music for what it brings to the table. but a lot of ppl can listen to both ways mentioned. i read a book by princes engineer talking about how she used to have sessions in the studio where people shared music that meant something to them and explained what they were listening for and you'de be surprised at how deeply ppl look for things very differently from each other. the book is called this is how it sounds i recommend it.

[@Vincent-fo7xp]

The White Album is my favorite album I'm glad they turned the guitars up

[@waynej2608]

Me too!!!

[@brucethomas5123]

It’s crap and the Beatles knew it , Lennon was pissed off , Harrison was pissed off and McCartney was hey guys let’s do another camp fire singalong song .

[@p0llenp0ny]

@@brucethomas5123 Guess I must have awful taste then because it's my absolute favorite.

[@EndWach-gi1nh]

@@brucethomas5123 actually, it was the best album

[@EndWach-gi1nh]

@@p0llenp0ny It was the best album along with a let it be

[@RandyFricke]

Many people don't realize the Pepper was done on a 4 track recorder. Amazing!

[@ksteiger]

Meanwhile Motown had been recording on 8 tracks for 3 years!!!

[@profile2047]

I didn’t know that for a good while. It makes the recording process and decisions they had it make on the fly so much more interesting to me.

[@OldBigCD]

Pepper was recorded on 2, 4 track machines. Still amazing nonetheless.

[@apchsiri1156]

That Pepper was recorded on 4 track has been mentioned incessantly.

[@jsullivan2112]

The people who don't realize it don't understand anything about recording anyways.

[@peterzang]

Still. Did anyone think it would last forever? They got along brilliant for ten years! The biggest group ever! A lot of excellent bands can’t make it past two albums.

[@craigwestbrooke2755]

13 years for a 60’s band - that is a hell of an achievement. I just leave it at that..

[@NightBazaar]

A lot of Beatles fans thought it would "last forever", or at least for a long time. No one expected them to break up, but then fans didn't know what was happening behind the scenes. Ironically, even now their music is still seen as an incredible historical achievement.

[@breft3416]

The 'Get Back' doc shows how lost they were when their manager died. They were exhausted emotionally and burning the candle at both ends when not recording.

[@jerryodonovan8624]

Emerick was never afraid or intimidated by Lennon. It was Lennon who destroyed the Beatles. Emerick was incredibly influential in creating what we now know as the Beatles sound. I’d recommend reading his biography ‘Here, there and everywhere’ in understanding the personal dynamics within the group and also his innovations in recording them. One of the most important, if not the most important, recording engineers in history.

[@liveinthepresent219]

Lennon just wanted out of The Beatles at that time and didn't have the guts to end it until September of 1969. He was strung out on drugs also, going through his divorce from Cynthia, pissed off about the crap Yoko was taking from way too many people BUT he shouldn't have used Emerick as his toilet bowl.

[@Redhotshawntexas]

@@liveinthepresent219Okay, Yoko. We know it’s you.

[@liveinthepresent219]

@@Redhotshawntexas Nope

[@ST-xg3gy]

Fantastic read. Yes, highly recommended. He was a pioneer in the recording world.

[@timothyd9543]

A kind way to put it with your comment is you're cherry picking. A less kind way to put it would be to ask 'Did you even read the book?' The fact of the matter is, Emerick on more than one occasion bad mouthed every single Beatle - and mercilessly - except for McCartney who stopped just short of deifying - in this book. Lennon was rude all the time and never knew what he wanted a song to sound like. Harrison, whom he referred to as 'fumble fingers', couldn't play his instrument and took forever to work out guitar parts. Ringo 'always looked dejected' and couldn't play a straight, 4/4 beat. Harrison had his deficiencies, for sure. But all you have to is listen to any Beatles live track to detgermine whether Ringo could actually play. On top of that, listen to any recorded track with Pete Best versus Ringo and you'll hear a completely different band. A band is only aas good as its drummer and when it gets a good drummer, it gels and becomes confident. That is the sign of a good drummer - something Emerick never understood. He had a lot of contempt for all of the Beatles, not just Lennon - and it shows in his book.

[@wonder6789]

The fractured collage quality of the White album is exactly what is great about it - it's unlike any other by the Beatles or anyone else. It's a trip - all the way down to the intense insane "Revolution #9" capped by the divinely schmaltzy "Goodnight"! Genius on so many levels...

[@nepesilva2284]

It’s just an absolute explosion of creativity and somehow it all coalesces beautifully.

[@uoyevolisp]

I think he calls George “Harrison” to distinguish him from the other George ( Martin).

[@DJ-bj8ku]

In comment threads like this one, everyone talks as if they were in the room with the Beatles. The lads were geniuses and operated in rarified air, the likes of which none of us will ever experience. I can imagine that for Paul and John, even the best engineers and producers in the world couldn’t measure up to their vision. This goes way beyond personalities.

[@M5guitar1]

George Martin didn't give Geoff enough credit for all of his efforts.

[@jsullivan2112]

Bullshit, yes he did. I love it when people just make up stuff like this because they want to compliment someone and don't know how else to do it.

[@jeff11030]

As good as Geoff was, I would like to see articles or videos about Norman Smith, the first Beatles engineer. He was amazing.

[@dannyvine3605]

Agreed, he wrote a song for Help! That the Beatles were going to record. I think he was offered £15,000 for it but the Beatles did Act Naturally instead. Smith also had a number one single in 1971! He left because he was not happy with the Beatles change in musically direction on Rubber Soul. When people talk about how good Emerick was they should read up on Norman Smith - who was equally as important.

[@iancurtis1152]

Hurricane Smith

[@SuperGogetem]

@@dannyvine3605 I wonder if it was "Babe, What Would You Say?"

[@mjsmcd]

Funny Norman also said he thought pete best was a good drummer If thats true than maybe it realy was more than ability or lack there of that got him canned.

[@nelsonferreira3094]

My favorite Beatles album.

[@hammer44head]

Geoff was there in the studio with the Beatles through many recordings, geez folks all you know is 2nd hand or 3rd hand information at BEST and even most of that is biased towards some Beatle. I'll take Geoff's knowledge over any of your biased opinions in this comment selection.

[@johnnywires943]

I think the four young lads had just grown up and discovered,wives and mistresses relationships and the hard side of business when Brian Epstein died.Bringing Yoko into the studio was like pouring petrol on a fire and all of a sudden you had a tension build up that just exploded with the slightest reason.The Beatles had to break up but had the future been normal,i think what John said just before he died,would have happened.He said that he would not mind getting back into a studio with the other three,providing he felt the music was good and the other three could be around at the time.In the 80s is what we could have witnessed more Beatle music.They just needed that 10 year break to sort themselves and the business out.John did admit in the end,that Paul was right about Kline.What broke up the Beatles was not their arguments and disagreements,the dust would have settled in the end.What broke them up were the two biggest killers in the world,bullets and cancer.

[@Attmay]

Yoko Ono is why I can be magnanimous towards Priscilla Presley.

[@Matt71439]

“bullets and cancer” - that cuts to the quick

[@DeekJohnson]

Why is it that all his interviews have such lousy audio? Can barely make out what he’s saying. The irony?

[@CaptainRonAhoy]

Revolution number 9 has overloaded amps?.....must have misspoken.....

[@jasondole360]

My guess it was Yer Blues, but I'm just assuming given that that it was a John song on the White Album with overloaded guitar.

[@fmellish71]

Probably meant the single version of "Revolution"

[@dabu73]

Ok but the end result is the best argument for a toxic work environment I’ve ever heard

[@sratus]

Note he refers to George Harrison as 'Harrison' - they really didn't like each other. Emerick's book just attacks George Harrison all the way through. He was 'a Paul guy' which John & George must have resented.

[@teastrainer3604]

To distinguish him from George Martin.

[@pedroV2003]

I completely agree with you. His book pretty dismisses everyone except Paul and I think he was especially dismissive of George. I hated the book. The man crush on Paul was too much IMO and I say that as a huge fan of McCartney.

[@sratus]

@@pedroV2003 It was a strange read, some very interesting insights but the George attacks and Paul arselicking gets tiresome. No doubting his contribution though.

[@pedroV2003]

@@sratus well said.

[@tommybotts]

Geoff liked Paul because he was the most personable guy there, and Paul wanted to get everything right, as did Geoff. When John treats you like schitt, Ringo and George don't give you the time of day, but Paul actually talks to you and values your opinion, that would mean something to anybody.

[@ussexeter4601]

In Emerick’s book, he was pretty harsh on George Harrison.

[@johnc3403]

I've always had a soft spot for George and his music but you know, he was known to be difficult at times. Paul and John could be too but in their own ways. You often find that with genius though. Even Ringo walked out during "The Beatles" sessions.

[@dannyvine3605]

@@johnc3403 Paul was the first one to walk out of a Beatles session - he tried to get bossy with John about 'She Said She Said' and John ignored him so he had a hissy fit lol George helped John complete the song instead.

[@waynej2608]

​@@dannyvine3605 And what a wonderful song that is! With or without McCartney.

[@davidclaycomb5496]

Yes. “Ham-fisted guitar” playing. I’d love to know what he had against George. He’s a legend in own mind.

[@dannyvine3605]

@@davidclaycomb5496 I think it may have to do with John and George pretty much ignoring him and treating him like a roadie.

[@michaelvaladez6570]

Truth be told..

[@ustheserfs]

amusing lennon disliked pepper when his fingerprints are all over it and maybe his greatest work at that.

[@TerryUniGeezerPeterson]

It was Paul's mainly.

[@cockoffgewgle4993]

John preferred salt

[@Kieop]

@@TerryUniGeezerPeterson John's songs on Pepper are great.

[@TerryUniGeezerPeterson]

@@Kieop agreed.

[@kevinmalone8903]

John was starting to resent Paul around Pepper as Paul was getting very confident and coming up with the ideas and sorta taking over the group since Epstein died. George was already fed up with him by 1965.

[@vitavomloehberg]

Was it Geoff who‘s been called „fuckface“ by John once ? Or Ken ?

[@gretchennelson7056]

It was Paul who said it. And I believe he said it to Glyn.

[@larryfloyd5111]

By some accounts, the band lightened up after Geoff left, likely bc they knew they were being jerks. I believe the fighting was bad at this time bc of John's divorce. There's supposedly a recording of John asking Paul repeatedly, "Are you ashamed of me, Paul?" or something similar.

[@naradaian]

Wow

[@da1247]

My respect for this guy dropped quite a bit after he repeatedly trashed Harrison in his book.

[@JosephScott-ct9sw]

He didn't respect Harrison very much, and he was there and you weren't

[@nicorayo195]

@@JosephScott-ct9swanother engineer was there, legendary engineer Ken Scott, and he said Geoff book was full of inaccuracies, and his attacks on George Harrison as a musician was one of them.

[@JosephScott-ct9sw]

@@nicorayo195 Geoff and Ken were both there, Geoff had his opinion of George and Ken has his

[@nicorayo195]

@@JosephScott-ct9swKen Scott recalled when Geoff was working on his book that Geoff called him because he didn't remember much from the Beatle sessions. Perhaps that's why there are so many inaccuracies and such a negative slant against John, George and Ringo (which seemed more like a personal vendetta). Yes, he was there, the mole (as he was known to be for Paul) with an axe to grind, but that doesn't make him credible, especially with his reported inaccuracies.

[@JosephScott-ct9sw]

@@nicorayo195 I think you have a slant

[@andrewashdown3541]

'Magic' Alex maybe to blame?

[@kevinvirnelson7868]

It sounds like Lennon was just a colossal jerk in those days

[@davidlee2490]

Smack head

[@ksteiger]

He treated other engineers like shit too.

[@scottandrewbrass1931]

​@@ksteiger Really? Evidence?!

[@echodeltatango8030]

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[@echodeltatango8030]

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[@andybrotherton2814]

He's not being exactly truthful about how they got the distortion sound in Revelotion no 9..They plugged all the guitar amps straight into the mixing desk and turned the volume up...He's a good engineer but some of his Beatles stories, I think, need a little pinch of salt because he describes everything as though, he done it all on his own, diminishing the role of George Martin..

[@RPMac]

And you know this how ?????....

[@jrgboy]

I found it to be the other way round, George would ask Geoff to reproduce a certain sounds and then say, ' I created it', Geoff does mention in his book that during the late night session's that George would often go home and leave Geoff to carry on alone...

[@joewagner4593]

Right right, you would know better than the ACTUAL engineer on the album! What a goof you are

[@Tom-nt9dz]

They didn't come to that guitar sound by chance either, (as well documented) they were deliberately trying to replicate the same sound as on the intro of Pee Wee Craytons “Do Unto Others” so that whole 'arrived at that sound thru my anger' line is a crock

[@Kieop]

@@jrgboy GM is always taking credit for The Beatles' ideas as well. He says it was his idea to reverse the end vocals on Rain. John says it was his idea. Which makes the most sense? Why would GM just think, let's do this? Yes, John's story contains many more inaccuracies than GM's version. He is wrong when he describes what he asked for and how it was done. He thought they just reversed the section and spliced it in, when what GM actually did was backmask it. But they had already recorded the backwards guitar for Tomorrow Never Knows, so it makes sense that liking that John would want to try different backwards things on different songs. I just don't think that what they had of Rain in the can so far is the sort of thing that would make GM say to himself, let's do some reverse stuff here without prompting from the artist. In GM's version, he just does it and John loves it. I think what happened here, is that in John's version of the story, he claims that the idea came to him after accidentally reversing the tape at home and GM got offended, b/c he thinks that John is taking credit for coming up with the idea of recording backwards itself -- something GM already knew how to do and had in fact already done with The Beatles. So yeah, John saying he accidentally discovered backwards recording is BS. Paul already knew how to do it through his avant-garde friends and John would've been familiar as well. And GM already knew how to do it through the Radiophonic Workshop. But I think that John is telling the truth, that he may have been listening to his Rain demo backwards at home and decided that he liked the effect and wanted it for this song. Then he told GM to do make it happen and he did.

[@meyou-dv8ns]

Too bad John did not get Felix Papparlardi from the band Mountain to produce the Beatles, he did try after Clapton told him" Yea, this guy Felix is great he did many albums and ours too "CREAM" John was a little excited but instead got Phil Spector on Let It BE but Phil didn't really produce with the band he was more behind the scene - I bet if Felix would have produced the BEatles he would have told George Harrison to learn the Pentotanic scales like he told Leslie West to do to become a better guitar player !!! George Martin never even tried to Help Harrison out with guitar playing

[@manolokonosko2868]

Good points but it is not the job of the producer to teach the member of the rock band how to play his instrument. George Harrison was not that good a guitar player.

[@peluca7135]

Guys, what are you saying? George harrison was a great guitar player, i bet you can whistle or sing from memory his solos and phrases like in Something (the solo its built around the A minor pentatonic scale on top of the C major harmony, so clearly he knows it), that sense of melody and phrasing its not so common, and he was an even better slide player, listen to how do you sleep or free as a bird as an example.

[@johnhenni7558]

Felix Pappalardi? If Pappalardi had a long list of remarkable records he had produced and had discussed producing Beatles recordings with EMI people, had talked to Paul, George and Ringo, discussed his plans with all of them, then I guess they might have given Pappal.their approval. But this is all Suppositions. George Martin, having to

[@johnhenni7558]

You're theory is intetesting but just speculation. George Martin, having worked with the Beatles from the beginning in '62, wouldn't have stood it quietly, that's for certain!

[@robertorick6383]

Makes you wonder what Felix Papparlardi would have done with "The Long And Winding Road" instead of Phil Spector. Would Paul would have been equally as pissed at Felix as he was at Phil?

[@ndlouder]

Always hating on George, calling him Harrison. Even in his autobiography he has nothing good to say about him. The White Album sounds fine, and Ken Scott and the rest of the amazing engineers from Abbey Road who worked on it are incredible. And it is my favorite Beatle album of all!

[@ItsRainingBloodIsHeCrying]

Calls him Harrison to differentiate from George Martin with whom he worked closely with

[@Kieop]

Thanks for pointing out Ken Scott and Chris Thomas. I just don't think that Geoff and GM ever got on board with the project and this has coloured their perceptions of what was going on in the studio. GM wanted to make the album after Magical Mystery Tour, or Sgt Pepper 2.0. He didn't want to return to a more band-centric sound. Even though it was Ringo was walked out, he has said that he loves this album the most because it was the "band's album". People always stress how little they recorded together, but a sessions list shows that they played together on this album more often than they didn't. And that things improved greatly once that Geoff and GM left. There was underlying tension b/c all the Beatles had a lot of stress in their personal lives at the time and that bled through, but perhaps Geoff and GM were fostering these tensions by not being committed to the project. One incident that stands out for me is when GM kept making Paul do a vocal over and over and Paul snaps. Every account I read of this is used to paint Paul in a bad light, but even after Paul was obviously done, GM kept pushing him. How is this not a failure of sensitivity on GM's part? He always gets the benefit of the doubt because of his reputation as mild-mannered, but he also had an ego and he wasn't a saint. Another incident used to put Paul in a bad light is his comment when Chris Thomas arrived. He was expecting to see GM, and so he was rightly surprised and asked him his business. Chris informed him of the change and he replies, "Oh well, if you want to produce us, fine, and if you don't, we'll just tell you to fuck off." This isn't rude or mean. It's a fair warning and a cheeky welcome to the team. He's telling him the gig will be tough but if he's willing to produce them, welcome to the team. It's hard to know without hearing the tone, but Paul has a good relationship with Chris and his sessions on the album went off without a hitch.

[@theyrekrnations8990]

Well let's see ,... there may have been an elephant in the room. One that nobody mentions

[@fernandoaldekoa2436]

"Revolution Number 9" distorted guitar sound? Are you kidding?

[@allmodcons8578]

Probably means revolution

[@andygossard4293]

Revolution 9 was all a football crowd, yoko, and occasionally lennon

[@kirbygene]

He misspoke, that's all

[@joepermenter7228]

@@andygossard4293 Incorrect; It's Martha, a fresh turd on a sidewalk, and Mal hitting it with a sledge for several minutes.

[@nxs0152]

I think Revolution 9 originally started out as part of an extension of Revolution I. Eventually John decided to separate it from Revolution I and develop it into its own track and renamed this part as Revolution 9. Then John wanted to release Revolution I as a single and the other Beatles said "no, it's too slow". So they re-recorded an up tempo version of it and put it out as the B-side of Hey Jude.

[@krisscanlon4051]

GE had enough...time to say goodbye for a little...what a career

[@RayJCanPlay]

He's whining, because he didn't have the patience to work with the Beatles anymore? A crock. What a crock.

[@jsullivan2112]

Mmmm, no, he's whining about a toxic workplace. You don't let people get away with that just because so-called geniuses.

[@brucesmith3740]

I think he would be very annoying to have around as an engineer. In his book he raves that Paul's solo on I'll follow the sun was wonderful replace at George's attempt. Great song, but solo isn't much more than the song melody. I would be pissed with him giving opinions

[@fullclipaudio]

That may be true but no one can deny that so much of what we still do in the studio comes from this guy.

[@hammer44head]

Geoff was there in the studio and you werent, just get over, our heroes have flaws and arent always perfect.

[@ExtremeBeatlesArchive]

George played that solo. It brings a lovely song down a few notches.

[@fmellish71]

Efficient workers who get things done can come across as annoying

[@Louis-w3v]

Geoff says when he first hears John Lennon doing Good Night he said to himself WOW John Lennon has a enormous talent. Geoff couldn't believe it. He says in his book. Here There and Everywhere. Of course John Lennon let's Ringo sing it. The song is for John's son Julian! 🚶🚶🚶🚶🎸🎸🎸🥁

[@JamieJobb]

Imagine if ALL recording engineers walked out when musicians got too cute for their own boxer shorts. Would the world not be full of white albums? Unbespoken.

[@mcashnv]

Joe Meek should have produced the Beatles.

[@UncleBoko]

No thank you.

[@kend1964]

If John wanted something, why argue with him about it? The boys created a couple of pretty good albums after Mr. Emerick departed.....

[@jsullivan2112]

Geoff and George Martin got increasingly frustrated with John's lack of being able to express or explain what he was looking for, something that John himself got equally frustrated about, which was where a lot of the anger was coming from. He was also on heroin at this point.

[@theomegaman218]

I think everybody was sick of Abbey Road and the Beatles. The Beatles used the studio as their lab where nobody else did. For other people it was record , mix and done. It must have been hard for the techs at time.

[@thomkopal1740]

Are you kidding?? Have you ever heard of an album called The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn, recorded by a little band called Pink Floyd? The two bands were in the EMI Abbey Road studios at the same time the Beatles were recording Sgt. Pepper. In case you were wondering, the Floyd were also known to be just a *little bit* outside of the classical orchestra recording confines. Norman Smith helped both bands stretch the bounds of expected sounds.

[@91dodgespiritrt]

That's for a good reason - they were - and still are the greatest contemporary music band of all time.

[@obdeisibcirrus993]

@@thomkopal1740 exactly it was Floyd’s first album yet they were still extremely innovative and experimental with it

[@hammer44head]

@@thomkopal1740 - norman's last album with the Beatle was Rubber Soul, not anywhere near what Geoff helped the Beatles get with Revolver and Sgt. and if you read Geoff's book he explains quite clearly why the Beatles were fed up with EMI and the Emi folks with the BEatles.

[@donrobbins4970]

How long was Fleetwood Mac in the studio recording Tusks? 3 years?

[@jamestilby2223]

GEOFF YOU ARE A GOOD MAN & A GREAT LEGEND ENGINEER & IF IT WASN'T FOR YOU BEING THERE AT THAT TIME ABBEY ROAD ALBUM WOULD HAVE NOT BEEN THE GREAT ALBUM IT WAS & IS TODAY 👍🎶

[@cuda426hemi]

WAS a good man. He passed 6 years ago. 👀

[@streamofconsciousness5826]

A lot of pressure on the Beatles to keep ahead of the industry, to set the trend, to be #1 every time. John always had a mischievous and not so attractive side to him, He took a LesPaul Jr from a club that did not pay them, some guy in a band in Europe had to replace a LP Jr, not the club. Stole from the wrong person out of rage. You kind of have to give them and Elvis a bit of leeway, surrounded by Yes men and on the top of the world from the later teens on.... It's a fantasy world they lived every day. It must have got boring. Him telling Jeff it was the studio was actually a nice thing, he could have let him walk without a word if he was as dismissive about his feelings as this guy claims. A lot of pressure on Jeff and George as well, Beatles Albums were expected to be High Fidelity, working with four tracks and guys who won't tame their amps was self sabotaging that. Never liked the sound of the guitars on revolution nor the actual song. Helter skelter is the same, The Beatles could not do Heavy Rock/proto metal. They were a Folk Band.

[@Louis-w3v]

The Beatles could play ANY type of music better than anyone else!!!!!! 🚶🚶🚶🚶🎸🎸🎸🥁

[@alangriffey8947]

I thought The White Album was their worst album. There are about 4 good songs on it.

[@snootybaronet]

Replace the Paul schlock with Penny Lane. Replace Lennon's lightweight stuff with Strawberry Fields and Pepper's is a great album.

[@SmedleyWarIsaRacket]

Ah Yes....The Tavistock Beatles....

[@arthuredens]

😏

[@p0llenp0ny]

Why are you here, exactly?

[@bobg6638]

The White Album is great, but Revolution 9 is BRUTAL. McCartney probably still cringes when he hears it today.

[@hw343434]

“Revolution 9” is a masterpiece. Who cares if McCartney gets it or not. He wasn’t there for the most Avante-garde Beatles song of all. If anything, that’s what hurts him

[@RjBenjamin353]

Why would he cringe? He’s done 100 songs better than that piece of ordure

[@robertgosselin14]

Sorry mate, but, it’s shite. @@hw343434

[@martinmelucci4383]

I've come to like it. Part of the chaos of the album, which I mean in a good way.

[@jsullivan2112]

Nah. Paul was making that shit at home in 1965, most people don't even know about it, until John does it and he's called a genius for it.

[@ROCKINGMAN]

Things seemed to change after Epstein had gone.

[@edwardwilson7858]

Why did Geoff, a seemingly sophisticated English guy who probably had a little money to spend, dress for these appearances like Archie Bunker?

[@johnhenni7558]

If he felt most comforetable dressed down , and if he was doing what he was employed to do and do it well, why not?

[@edwardwilson7858]

@@johnhenni7558 but these appearances were late in his life after his career was over. You'd think George Martin would have taught him a thing or two about style!

[@Nina5144]

Archie who?

[@kewkabe]

He's a union guy

[@BigSky1]

Calls George, ‘Harrison’. Not nice.

[@jamesanthony5681]

To distinguish him from George Martin as others have said

[@nedgrant918]

McCartney was in the process of taking over The Beatles as his own Bubble Gum Project, with the help of George Martin, and the rest were sick of him - since before “Revolver”.

[@delphinazizumbo8674]

emerick is like all techs with a swollen head butch vig thought HE was kurt cobain and emerick thinks HE'S john lennon it's pretty common

[@omnifuturistic]

I wish I could downvote this twice.

[@jsullivan2112]

That is horse shit.

[@JosephScott-ct9sw]

Lennon was a dick and Emerick had a limit, that's fine

[@stevegrantley4588]

Lennon was always a bully

[@Attmay]

I think he regretted mistreating his first wife and thought that letting his second wife walk all over him and everybody else would make up for it until he could take no more, and he started shacking up with May Pang.

[@dwayneandrews2059]

Boring

[@MBRMrblueroads]

quitters

[@nedgrant918]

That was completely incoherent.

[@sappo504]

I love the White Album but it's the worst produced album post '65.

[@MyDrugHell]

Along with Let It Be, which he also wasn't involved with.

[@sappo504]

@@MyDrugHell Right!

[@steveconn]

Geoff too honest. Disposed of in the Beatles mythmaking machine.

[@JosephScott-ct9sw]

Real Beatles fans know how important Geoff was

[@tamtic2k]

I dont like Sgt Pepper either. It hasnt aged well, quite difficult to listen to with too many novelty songs. And its quite odd because 67 was their best year, with Strawberry Fields and The Walrus being their two greatest songs imo, and the good ones off sgt Pepper and the Mystery Tour compilation. Poor management when you have so many good songs and make two annoying albums. I like John's harsh critique of their work. He said to George Martin he'd do them all differently if he did it again.

[@filipepereira2688]

And I wouldn't have Sgt Pepper any other way. It's as good as any of their best albums.

[@Nina5144]

I still listen to Sgt P! Great album and songs

[@kenikos744]

I thought the Sgt. Pepper album was stunning when I first listened to it. I had never heard anything like it before. It's still my all-time favorite. The only other album that ever came close to having made as big an impression upon me is Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon."

[@AbbieHoffmansGhost]

Pepper isn't even close to my favorite Beatle's album but there are parts on there that are some of my favorite Beatle's moments. Go figure.

[@bingohhhhhhhhhhhh]

@@filipepereira2688 It's around their 4th best for me - it's like MMT, some outstanding moments, mainly Lennon's - and Abbey Road and Let It Be would be almost last on my list.

[@91dodgespiritrt]

Geoff Emerick would have been a great spokesman for the "ME, TOO" movement. "Me, me, me, me poor me - RIGHT?"

[@manolokonosko2868]

Unlike you, fanboi, Geoff Emerick kept his admiration in check and concentrated on doing a great job. Lennon was an asshole and died the way he lived. If it hadn’t been Mark David Chapman, it would have been someone else, perhaps even you.

[@91dodgespiritrt]

@@manolokonosko2868 I agree "Queerboy", Lennon WAS an asshole, but my point was that Emerick - instead of acting like an unbiased professional engineers - he - instead - gushed over McCartney in his book like a schoolgirl FAN. By the way, what is a "Wo-Manolo"?

[@joepermenter7228]

@@91dodgespiritrt His book is excellent outside of blowing McCartney constantly though.

[@beatmet2355]

@@91dodgespiritrt😂 probably because Paul wasn’t a complete dick to him? Don’t be too quick to judge that which you didn’t witness. It’s easy to make assumptions when you’re not on the receiving end of that kind of treatment.

[@bingohhhhhhhhhhhh]

@@beatmet2355 Who cares if Macca was "nice" so were his songs which give me about 10% of what I like about the Beatles. "Nice" is not high in the list in the creative process. And it's easily surmised that Macca was as passive-aggressive as they come, per GH especially, constantly one-upping and berating him - he was a PR man that wanted to keep touring - none of the other Beatles wanted that at all. The Beatles were a band that worked because of the dynamics. If you want nice and sugary sweet listen to Celine Dion for fuck's sake.

[@credenza1]

I blame Yoko.

[@91dodgespiritrt]

So does everyone else.

[@manolokonosko2868]

John was an asshole way before Yoko existed.

[@christinelee4780]

We all do

[@jsullivan2112]

I blame Brian's death along with John's PTSD and heroin addiction.

[@mercster]

God bless this guy, he had to survive Lennon. A fate worse than death.