THE BEATLES - COME TOGETHER | FIRST TIME HEARING AND REACTION 

Greatest of all time!

Best description of the Beatles that I’ve read in a while.

Perfectly said!

Great👏

Very well put. The Beatles had no genra. They did everything first and moved on.Wonderful comment.

Wow thank you so much..you just made my my day with this comment

totally agree - outstanding skill and vision on display. Also Paul's bass on Something is sublime. Turn up load and listen to the bass like you've never heard it before ❤

Wasn’t this bass-line basically created by John with his original demo handclap/shoot me intro?

@@jwt208 you're way past my pay grade dude! Would have to hear the demo you are referring to and compare to the finished mix. I am certain there was a lot of evolution to the song along the way.

@@DJBilodeau I probably am passed my pay grade, but my ears hear the basic handclap shoot me intro from John. of course the end product was a little bit different but the basic essence of Paul’s bass line was John intro..

@@jwt208 got it! Thanks for making that connection-learned something new!

wow..that was quite a long time ago

Thank you for tuning in and for the comment

all noted.. thanks for the suggestions and for tuning in

Thanks for the back story!

Yep. Leary shows up in the bed sit video for "Give Peace A Chance" if I recall correctly. Also, the following snippet is from a University of Delaware exhibition on the Beat Poets: "The Beatles and the Beats: Although its origins are somewhat obscure, the very name of the Beatles (changed by John Lennon from the “Beetles”) seems to be a sly allusion to the Beat culture of the late 1950s and early 1960s. As an art student in the late 1950s, John Lennon edited a homemade magazine called the Daily Howl, and he eagerly read Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. Dubbed the “writing Beatle,” Lennon would publish his own book of verse in 1964. He later stated that had he not become a musician and songwriter, he might have been a “Beat Poet.” Both Lennon and Paul McCartney formed lasting friendships with Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs. Beat artist Wallace Berman and Burroughs appear on the Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover. Brion Gysin and Burroughs’s innovative cut-up techniques also may inform the tape-splicing sequences featured in the album."

True, but rip-off is (I think) a bit extreme. While Lennon was definitely inspired by Chuck Berry’s original, the two songs are vastly different. If Lennon hadn’t borrowed a few lyrics like the ‘flat top’ line, I doubt the lawsuit would have been successful. You can’t win a lawsuit based on a blues chord progression. The courts would be clogged up for decades.

@@tomheim9516 Tell it to George Harrison who ripped of He's My guy. The entire beat, rhythmic structure and even the lyrics are direct rip offs. Play one against the other. It is unmistakable. Lennon played the original hundreds of times. The Beatles were incredibly influenced by Chuck Berry. If you have seen the way the beatles created, they would start with a riff, and continue to play around with it and then George Martin did his magic. But zero doubt the original riff for the song was straight out of Barry and so were John's original lyrics.

@@steelguitarunionhall I’m sorry, are you talking about Come Together or He’s My Guy? If the former, I couldn’t disagree more. Not sure why you’re bringing in George Harrison, unless you’re attempting to paint the Beatles as plagiarists.

@@tomheim9516 They both were sued for plagiarism. By definition they ARE plagiarists. In the same way that Johnny Cash ripped off Crescent City Blues when he "wrote" Folsom Prison Blues. The same way Led Zepplin ripped off almost every chicago blues guy.

@@steelguitarunionhall that’s like saying anyone who ever received a traffic violation is a criminal. Technically accurate but exceedingly misleading. The Beatles were known for their originality. If you label the Beatles as plagiarists, you may as well attach the same label to everyone.