"Love Me Do" by Greeny, Bluesberry & 64Guitars - BeatlesFest

[guitarron]

fantastic job you guys-harmonica is perfect-sweet harmonies

[Pine]

Glad i didn't miss this one...old 64 himself! A most enjoyable listen at dawn here on the farm. Greeny's vox are always spot on and Dave, your harp was most impressive. You really nailed this one. I liked the bass tone and the cleaness of it all. Nice mix and production. I was 12 in '62 and remember them being on Ed's "really big shoe"...it was the dawn of the British Invasion...which forever changed the music world. This is a an excellent tribute to the greatest band of our time. Bravo guys..well done!!!

[SwanSong]

I AGREE with all the comments this is super. words cant describe the beauty
of this. i like it better than the BEATLES. version.well executed. !!
my father before his death a few years ago gave me a BOB DYLAN
HARP . the full scale size this sucker has to b 50 years old. from the 60s
it s a collectors peice not a toy. want s me to try and practice that again.
thanks for the memory and inspiration. wish i could have bluesberry here
to play my bob dylan harp . tc NEIL ...........................

[64Guitars]

Thanks everyone. I was inspired to do this song by Dave's great harmonica playing on our cover of "Heart of Gold" which the three of us did for NeilFest. So we got the band back together, so to speak, for BeatlesFest.

The guitar for this song is pretty simple with only three chords (G, C, and D). And it's almost unnoticeable in the original mix, with the bass, drums, and tambourine being more prominent instead. So I tried to duplicate that in my own mix. I programmed the drums with the BR Rhythm Editor. The tambourine was from my Yamaha keyboard. I "played" it by simply tapping that one key repeatedly (as opposed to programming it into the sequencer). The bass is my '62 Gibson EB0 which was made the same year that "Love Me Do" was released!

I was only 7 when The Beatles appeared on Ed Sullivan. But I remember watching the live broadcast and being very excited about it. I was already very much into The Beatles, having heard their earlier hits like "Love Me Do", "She Loves You", "I Want to Hold Your Hand", etc. many times on the radio before the '64 Ed Sullivan appearance. I may have even had a couple of their 45s by then. The Beatles were a big part of my life in the early and mid sixties. I went off them in the late sixties and early seventies when I got into Hendrix, Grand Funk, Led Zeppelin, etc. and it was no longer "cool" to like The Beatles as they seemed more of a kid's band (bubblegum) by comparison. But I later realised that was wrong and started listening to them again. I now have all of their regular catalogue on CD as well as many of the original vinyl LPs I bought in the sixties (some, of which, are monophonic).

This song was a lot of fun to do and I want to thank Tim and Dave again for making it possible and for doing such a great job. I'm still working on two other Beatles songs, and I might have one for PirateFest as well.

[cuthbert]

I programmed the drums with the BR Rhythm Editor. The tambourine was from my Yamaha keyboard. I "played" it by simply tapping that one key repeatedly (as opposed to programming it into the sequencer). The bass is my '62 Gibson EB0 which was made the same year that "Love Me Do" was released!

The drums really sounded great. 64G - I'm going to have to try out the BR Rhythm Editor (you can export a WAV from it, right?). And I thought it was a real tambourine there - it sounds good when played "by hand".

1962? That's my vintage! But seriously, it sounds like a real honey. Love the devil horns on those (and the SG of course). Does yours have the cherry finish?

I'm still working on two other Beatles songs...

As you probably know, I'm a little partial to the BeatlesFest  , so I look forward to more from you!

[64Guitars]

The drums really sounded great. 64G - I'm going to have to try out the BR Rhythm Editor (you can export a WAV from it, right?). And I thought it was a real tambourine there - it sounds good when played "by hand".

Thanks. The BR Rhythm Editor doesn't have any WAV export capability. It's really only designed for editing arrangements on the BR-600/800/864/900. But you should be able to record the arrangement on your computer using Audacity or a similar program. Then you could import that WAV file into your Micro BR. It's probably easier to use Hydrogen, though, because you can export directly to a WAV file from Hydrogen. I was going to use Hydrogen for "Love Me Do", but my computer won't play MP3s while I'm using Hydrogen and I needed to listen to the MP3 to figure out how to program the drums. So I used BR Rhythm Editor instead because it doesn't prevent me from listening to the MP3 at the same time. This isn't a problem with Hydrogen, by the way. It's just a quirk of my Linux audio system. Most people won't have that problem.

Does yours have the cherry finish?

Yes. It looks like this (though this one is not actually mine):

[fenderbender]

your right guys -
that did bring a smile to the face--

top class harmonies -backing and harmonica playing
ahhhhhhhh-jeeeeez I was back in the old black and white days for a couple of mins.
thanks guys

 

[des0free]

I'm loving the bass, harp, and vocals on this.  Flawless production, too!

[djanover]

Holy smoke!  That was a truly fine collaboration, and a wonderful job by each of you!
Regards, Dave

[FuzzFace]

Yup.
What can I add?

Model production and 5-star performance all-around.

Inspired work, and a perfect homage!