@@DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek Black Sabbath: Recorded 16 October 1969. Helter Skelter: Recorded 18 July, 9-10 September 1968. Helter Skelter was written a year before Black Sabbath.
Paul had a very raw, urgent and exciting voice live. He was easily one of the most engaging and charismatic performers I've ever seen (in 50-odd years of concert-going).
Nice reaction :) I think another eye opening rocker by them would be 'Revolution'. There's a video for it. Paul does a nice scream in the beginning too
Yeah and long ago, I used to think it was John, however, Ringo has cleared that up several times by stating that he used to get blisters if he hadn't been playing drums in the studio for a while. He also said he got blisters drumming during Helter Skelter because the song was basically a three-hour long jam without stopping :) I love how you can actually, if you listen closely, hear Ringo throwing the drumsticks across the room after the blisters line.
Would love to see you doing a reaction vid on - Have Love, Will Travel - by The Sonics. (Here are the Sonics, 1965) It's only a 2:41 min song, but it's one of the gems of this iconic and influential band from the 60s.
There were heavy metal remixes to songs before but this was the first "original"/non remix to be released fully publicly from a actual act under a label
@@robertserafin-uc3qn Spoky Tooth was not around in 1965. And Blue Cheer was formed in 1966; MC5's first record was in 1969. So none of them were around when The Stones released 'She said yeah' on the 1965 album 'Out of our heads'...
Paul’s solo career is a pretty good indication of how they could have evolved, especially in Ram and McCartney II, considering George Martin produced his records until he died and Paul was the one pushing everyone else to work, and the one always looking for new directions to go. Still is.
@@itslikethesamebutdifferent8020 Good point. The reason I used terms like Hard rock was because Heavy Metal wasn’t coined until well after the time the song was played at first.
Yes The Beatles are best band ! they played "metal" in 1968..... everything is normal... Now you should try their classical music side with "She's Leaving Home" or "Eleanore Rigby"
If you really want to study bass and how it really works, if you can find vinyl and an older phonograph play the album at 45 rpm with the bass setting on high. McCartney will blow your mind. He doesn't get enough credit for his bass playing.
I absolutely loved reading reviews when the Beatles Rock Band game out. Almost all of them said “Wow to all those basslines, what a delightful revelation they are.”
Paul had heard the Who recently say they were the loudest rock band...Paul begged to differ and wrote this! (at the very end you can hear Ringo say "I got blisters on muh fingers!")
I believe it was an article Paul read in which Pete townsend stated that he had written at that time the loudest, most raucous song called I can see for miles. Paul rose to the challenge and composed helter skelter.
You are the coolest! And the more Beatles you hear, the cooler you will be. Love your first time reactions to a lot of different types of genres in music. There is so much more to hear and learn. Especially from The Beatles. Sending you wishes of Peace, Love and Happiness. ✌❤😃
Great song for sure. You're probably too young unless you are a major history student, but sadly this song title took a dark turn in 1969 when Charles Manson was inspired to do his murder thing and this album was on constant replay at his compound. They just used "Helter Skelter" as the title for the book about the Manson murders. In the late '80s, U2 did a live cover of this song with the intro, "Charles Manson stole this song from the Beatles and today we're stealing it back!" Then they launched into a pretty good rendition.
This song scarred the crap out of a lot of folks back when released and so sad it got hijacked by Charles Manson for awhile (until U2 and others revived it by doing covers live and on record). They showed once again they were ahead of the curve and making even more music that no one had heard anything like it before. Banger Song, saw Paul do it live around 20 years ago, they killed it for sure. There is an Official video of this song and they are ripping in it. This song originally went on for over 20 minutes and they edited it down for the record, I would just die to hear the original jam, it would melt your mind! No doubt this is another influential step on the way to hard rock, metal and punk! Try I Want You (She's So Heavy) when you can, more intense heaviness from the best band ever!!! Enjoy. 🎵🎸🎤🎸🎹🎶
"I Want You (She's So Heavy)" is the Beatles at their most badass, yet the tongue-in-cheek quality remains. There will never be another band like them.
The white album is the best. I received this album as a gift on my 16th birthday. To this day I know every word to every song. Otherwise I can’t remember shit. Favorite song from this album ‘While my guitar gently weeps’.
As a side note... the voice you hear at the end screaming about his fingers...is Ringo! They played this for hours, and the trooper that Ringo was never complained. The final take, which they didn't know it was, Ringo screamed this out, and they all decided to leave it on the recording!@
Yes, THAT was PAUL, and that was RINGO at the end yelling out, "I got blisters on my fingers". You should also listen to Paul on "OH DARLING," "Lady Madonna," "Long Tall Sally," "I'm Down," and in his SOLO works, "MONKBERRY MOON DELIGHT" from his "RAM" album where he is totally destroying his vocal chords. ALSO Paul's vocals in the LIVE videos from his 1976 Wings Over America Tour (available on You tube) and other's have reacted to these three songs, and were not blocked: "SOILY," "BEWARE MY LOVE," and "MAYBE I'M AMAZED" He ROCKS out on these!
In England, Helier Skelter is a playground piece that is similar to a slide. You walk up the steps in a round tower and when you get to the top you ride down a spiral slide.
Motley Crue have a great heavy metal cover of The Beatles' "Helter Skelter".... The song has been covered by quite a few artists. Yes, that was Paul McCartney... John Lennon did another rockin tune by The Beatles - 'Revolution' 🔥🔥
I think this song goes to prove that The Beatles could produce any genre of music. Some say it is the first Heavy Metal song coming 1 to 2 years ahead of Black Sabbath, however I would agree with you Millie it is probably the first Punk song some 8 years ahead of the Punk movement.
Paul McCartney wanted to write the "loudest, nastiest, sweatiest rock number we could" after reading a Pete Townshend interview describing a Who track (possibly "I Can See For Miles") as "The most raucous rock 'n' roll, the dirtiest thing they'd ever done." This was the result. Some historians of popular music now believe that this song was a key influence on the development of heavy metal. ✌😁👍
The greatest rock band of all time - period. People often tend to overlook the fact that they introduced metal rock to the entire world. Thanks for your reaction.
The Beatles "invented" heavy metal music. They "invented" almost all forms of modern popular music. Try "Why don't we do it in the road" and "Oh Darling".
Do you even know what overrated is or do you just spew nonsense? The White Album sold 12 MILLION copies. It averages 5 Star reviews and is in the top 10 all time albums. Actually learn what underrated means.
@@MarkCucchiara while the white album is highly rated by Beatles fans since it came out you rarely heard any of the songs on the radio, or few of the songs talked about by non-Beatles fans
Paul was 26 when he recorded "Helter Skelter" on September 9th, 1968. Here are a couple other McCartney screamer songs... He was 22 when he recorded "I'm Down" on June 14th, 1965: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lOWrScjXMRE.html (He also recorded "Yesterday" that day) And he was 66 when he recorded "Nothing Too Much Just Out of Sight" in 2008: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0mOgDiNN2Uc.html
This is the first ever original non remix heavy metal ever released... Welcome to the beautiful world of the beatles where peace love and freedom is promoted for EVERYONE no matter your r*ce, s*xuality, g*nder, g*nder identity..peace and love to all human kind
Enjoyed your reaction very much Millie! Don't worry that we couldn't hear the music as we already know what it sounds like! "Oh! Darling" would be a great Beatles tune to follow up with but I would also like to suggest that one day when you're bored you read to "White Queen" by Queen from the Odeon Hammersmith! Epic live performance by the band in their early days!
Everything about this song is actually very harmless. It's only the manner in how it is performed that is "aggressive." "Helter Skelter" is a variant of slide/ride in England which is spoken about in the lyrics: "When I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the slide Where I stop and I turn and I go for a ride 'Til I get to the bottom and I see you again Yeah, yeah, yeah, ha-ha-ha!" Apparently, there have been several of these rides in England, and some may still exist as attractions. BTW, that was Ringo with "blistas on (his) fingas."
Hard rock was a thing before the White Album came out. However, this song SCREAMS proto-metal and grunge-punk-a very unique and unheard of combination in ‘68.
A number of songs on the White Album are (or contain elements of) "in the style of" other artists. "Back In The USSR" has a distinct Beach Boys vibe, for example. "Helter Skelter" is done in the style of Jimi Hendrix, especially that fade out and then fade back in at the end. As always, I love seeing your joy and enthusiasm shine through as you listen and react! ♥
History: So Paul heard The Who had just recorded the dirtiest hardest heaviest song ever, and Paul wrote this song with this in mind (to try and compete with this alleged song by the Who....I'm not sure which Who song he heard about, but i think it might have been See Me Feel Me?).
Bad Boy from '65 is one you should listen to as well, not so much for the music, but for John's vocals, it's like a master class for rock vocals. His voice was almost gone after hours of recording.
Yes heavy, white album, really loved their Sargent peppers lonely hearts club band. Yellow submarine and I believe with a little help from my friends 🤦♂️🤷♂️ Charles Manson had a think with this song.🤔✌️
Appreciate your reaction as a guy who was 15yo and played the white album endlessly when it came out in late 1968. It's just sad, though, that young people today - even musicians - think that *they're* the ones who have come up with everything from multi-track recording technology to genres like heavy metal. The lack of any historical understanding is kind of depressing.
Why does it sound like that? I hope you are getting a clear sound. If you like screaming, check out "Oh Darling", another Paul song. I'm sure you'll love it.
Maybe they were sick of beeing the nice beatband from the neighborhood. Lennon was always a non-fitting, revolutionary guy, paul went with him in this song to let the steam out. Sometimes everybody needs to break out.
I dont get the surprise the beatles were heavy. I mean listen to the early covers. Kansas city, long tall sally. c'mon just because those songs were recorded primitive doesn't mean they weren't metal.
The beatles have made songs of dozens and dozens of different genres ..you may enjoy tomorrow never knows ..or strawberry fields forever ..and Paul is known as the man with a million different voices ..can sound clear and soft ..heavy and raspy ..soulful and gritty..everything depending on the genre
His vocals for “Why Don’t We Do it in the Road” are among my favorites of all time. Both the White Album version and the version from Anthology 3. He sings as the girl first and then immediately switches to the male voice and REALLY growls with that deep soulful chest voice, it’s bloody freaking incredible.
It was short and sweet but possibly Paul's most intense scream was in Can't Buy Me Love, immediately before the guitar solo. Probably gets overlooked because it was early days but it's right up there... 🙂
I always figured you were a Beatles fan. Playing a Hofner bass like Paul McCartney. 😉 I have a suggestion, if I may. Give Rasputina a go. Her cover of Barracuda on the cello from the Radical Recital album is amazing. Something very different. 👍
🔥⚡⚡⚡⚡🔥 Thanks Millie ! 1968 Helter Skelter- Definitely a part of the early roots of metal music. Hey Millie, as a bass player, you just have to check out lead singer and bass player of Motörhead, Lemmy Kilmister. Their famous song to pick is "Ace of Spades" He played a wide range of Rickenbacker bass guitars. The band is mostly thought of as Metal and they were a great influence on thrash metal and speed metal. Lemmy`s bass tone was distorted, and mid-range heavy. He achieved this without pedals. Lemmy also turned the bridge pickup up and the neck pickup down. He also often strummed the bass rather than playing individual notes. For these reasons, Lemmy inspired countless aspiring rock and metal bassists. Rock 🤘😎
"I never thought the Beatles were this heavy!" -- Well, that's the thing about the Beatles. They could do ANYTHING, and do it great. Any genre, any style, any type of arrangement. You can't really put them in any single category, because they could do it ALL.
I've actually heard someone say that the Beatles song "I Want You---she's so heavy" was Black Sabbath before there was a Black Sabbath. I have to agree, because the guitars sound very Black Sabbath-like on that song.
The reason there was so much experimentation in music in the 50s, 60s & 70s was technology, they were developing music technology at a blistering pace in the early 50s the most you could fit on a record was about 3 minutes of music over that era things were added like stereo sound, overlaying tracks, tape effects, major advances in sound production were made and many bands were jumping at the opportunity to try it out, so by the end of the 70s you had extremely complex productions that were ridiculously long and it helped lead the next generation of musicians
Millie Mochi Tunes When you will know the whole Beatles songs, you will see that they were not a band but a miracle. The only one that really happened in history.
As soon as someone, earlier in their career made the comment about Lennon being rough and McCartney being smooth caused both of them to purposely write songs to put all that to bed. They both had shades of light and dark.
