Archive for April 30th, 2010
The Beatles took Buddy Holly’s idea of rock and roll and refined it in the early 60′s. The bass guitar riffs of Paul McCartney, along with the country, jazzy folk style electric guitars of George Harrison made it sheik to take up playing guitar at the time.
The first 5 albums from the fab 4 where what I like to call for us while Rubber Soul was kind of made for them. This album was not a group of singles stuck on an album, which was the normal thing back then, instead all the songs were written as a theme for this album.
For me it was the beginning of the end for The Beatles. When you listen to the songs you can tell their creative paths were starting to separate. This album has been sited as being one of the greatest albums of all time.
Rubber Soul enjoyed a 42 week stay on the British charts. In December of 1965 in replace another Beatles album “Help” that was sitting on the top of the charts. The effects of this album triggered a creative war with Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys, a war in which we as the receptors could do nothing else but win.