Comments on: Revolution 1

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 13:34:52 +0000

For some reason I always thought the “take 2” speech at the beginning was Paul. o u o

By: Miles Tippett

Miles Tippett — Wed, 14 Nov 2018 07:49:26 +0000

Interesting hearing the “take 18” included on the new White Album Super Deluxe edition.

The outro is VERY different than the version unearthed in 2009…

No Mama Dada vocals… and more of the other sounds used on Revolution 9.

By: Arno Luyendijk

Arno Luyendijk — Sun, 19 Aug 2018 20:22:07 +0000

Wow! I really had not read your experiment on replicating the sounds on Beatles songs and I just landed on the explanation of this song here, with my mind on the sound of crinkling paper at the start…and it turns out to be just that! Thanks for the experiment!

By: HilarySpillary

HilarySpillary — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 21:04:04 +0000

In regards to the crackling noise, could it be the wine bottle on the Hammond Organ again, as it’s heard it in Long, Long, Long? I know that crackling comes from a wine bottle vibrating on top of the Hammond as Paul played it. Seeing as the same organ is used in Revolution 1, it’s a possibility.

By: Slave

Slave — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 06:43:58 +0000

Revolution Take 20 is a masterpiece. It’s a shame it took decades to be heard. I wonder if Yoko leaked Take 20 since she was involved and probably has one of the only versions? Take 20 sounds so great without George Martin’s lethargic brass arrangement that does nothing for the song but slow it down.

By: Slave

Slave — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 08:00:47 +0000

Revolution Take 20 is a masterpiece. It’s a shame it took decades to be heard. I wonder if Yoko leaked it since she was involved? Take 20 sounds so great without George Martin’s lethargic brass arrangement that does nothing for the song but slow it down.

By: Lennon’s boy

Lennon’s boy — Sat, 07 Apr 2018 03:26:35 +0000

I have the same question.

By: Terry Bradshaw

Terry Bradshaw — Sun, 04 Feb 2018 14:44:49 +0000

Wtf are you in comparison to Lennon. What did you do to get John Sinclair out of jail. What hall of fame were you inducted into. Your jealousy knows no bounds, let alone your hipocracy, Huckleberry!

By: TomB

TomB — Sat, 23 Dec 2017 23:03:14 +0000

See my reply above to Pat and Stoutman7777.

By: TomB

TomB — Sat, 23 Dec 2017 23:01:04 +0000

I am currently re-doing all The Beatles songs from beginning to end and am playing all the instruments and adding the appropriate sound effects the best I can. So I had to figure out this crackling noise at the beginning of the song and then replicate it. I asked my wife for some crinkly paper from the kitchen and she gave me a piece of parchment paper – like newspaper but a little stiffer. At the appropriate point I held it up to the microphone and crinkled it. It worked. The sound is exactly like the sound on the album.

With respect, it would be up to Paul, Ringo, or someone who was in the studio to really describe what was happening.

A thought, if you think about the song starting with a failed ‘take one’, then the crinkled paper makes sense. Like an author crumbling up a failed first draft of his lyrics. It fits.

By: MikeP

MikeP — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 18:41:25 +0000

Once again, your blinders-on love of John (and, not incidentally, anti-Paul) belies your ablility to see clearly..
John, like Paul, was not nearly the same songwriter without working with the other.

By: Teddy Salad

Teddy Salad — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 17:32:50 +0000

But on the David Frost show, they played the single version with added shoo-be-doo-wops and he can be seen and heard saying “in,” somewhat offhandedly.

By: Boudin

Boudin — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 17:10:53 +0000

Sorry, Justin. Immediately after I posted my reply above I saw you had already provided the quote three years before.

By: Boudin

Boudin — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 17:08:45 +0000

From the 1971 Rolling Stone interview with Jann Wenner:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/lennon-remembers-part-two-19710204

So that’s my feeling. The idea was don’t aggravate the pig by waving the thing that aggravates – by waving the Red flag in his face. You know, I really thought that love would save us all. But now I’m wearing a Chairman Mao badge.

I’m just beginning to think he’s doing a good job. I would never know until I went to China. I’m not going to be like that, I was just always interested enough to sing about him. I just wondered what the kids who were actually Maoists were doing. I wondered what their motive was and what was really going on. I thought if they wanted revolution, if they really want to be subtle, what’s the point of saying “I’m a Maoist and why don’t you shoot me down?” I thought that wasn’t a very clever way of getting what they wanted.

By: Diana L

Diana L — Tue, 01 Nov 2016 17:14:54 +0000

While listening to this song a bit ago – I had a weird flash memory to the theme song for Courtship of Eddie’s Father (“Best Friend”) by Nilsson. Just some very – very – slight resonance between the two songs for me.

By: stoutman7777

stoutman7777 — Fri, 31 Jul 2015 01:02:18 +0000

I’ve always wondered what that sound effect was too. Is it guitar picks on a washboard? I’ve never read anywhere explaining what made up that sound effect. The start to Revolution 1 is so iconic with the slower bluesy acoustic lead in, while the engineer says ” Take two” and followed by Lennon saying “OK”, and of course that unique sound effect. But what is it??

By: Stoutman

Stoutman — Sun, 21 Jun 2015 07:42:48 +0000

Out of all these responses, only one person asks about the crackling noises that appears at the beginning of the song…right after you hear Johns classic “OK”. What makes those noises??!! I would think more people would ask this question since it wasn’t mention in the studio recording of the song above. Is it coins being dropped? Or gravel? It’s such a classic part of the start of this song that helps make Revolution1 so unique, but no one else has asked or talked about it. So how about it Beatle fans… does anyone know what the heck those cracking sounds are at the beginning of the song?!

By: Julian

Julian — Fri, 15 Aug 2014 03:07:57 +0000

I think that’s George – the overdub from 21st June 1968, the same day that the brass section was recorded.

By: Luke

Luke — Thu, 14 Aug 2014 05:12:59 +0000

Does anyone know who exactly is playing the LEAD in this song, like the runs and the little “cheese” licks in between the “you know it’s gonna be” lines?

By: Rolf

Rolf — Sun, 03 Aug 2014 10:19:11 +0000

On the 2009 remaster it is well audible – at 00:06, while on the left channel the guitar starts, you can hear on the right channel a woman’s voice saying the german words “Mein lieben Herren Kollegen” (“my dear colleagues”). To me, as german, it sounds like native speaker. Who is this? What is this? Google won’t find it (!), has nobody heard it yet?

-Greetings from Berlin, Germany, Rolf