That was great Brian. I love seeing those picture sleeve 7” singles. After all the 2023-24 reissues (Capitol mono, Now and Then, Red/Blue comps, Beatles ‘64 doc) I was Beatled-out but this was a lot of fun. Thank you. The White Album lunchbox cracks me up though. Archies? No thanks. Banana Splits? Negative. Spiderman? Pass. This Tom & Jerry lunchbox is colorful! Nope. Surely not that bland white one? Bingo. 😂
Hey Russell.S! Thanks for dropping by again and always for the fun comments. YesI didn't really start collecting 7" in earnest until my friend enlightened me to the idea that I could walk out of a record store with one, and fixed my itch, as it were, without really hitting the wallet too hard. So then it became a good excuse to pass on that $50 record I really had my eyes on, and just take home a $5 Beatles single. The number of how many Beatles singles I have exactly correlates to how many times that's happened, Haha. And Yes, the White Album Lunchbox, isn't that neat? I've had it over 25 years and I can't even remember where I got it. I'm guessing a thrift store or a Salvation Army where I used to buy tons of records, stereo equipment, and speakers long ago. I do love it ...but I wouldn't ming a Tom and Jerry lunchbox either ;-) Yeah, it's a bit easy to get Beatle'd out these days. Glad I was able to take this challenge in a couple of fun directions. Thanks again for watching and comments! Best from Tokyo!
Hi Brian, I just discovered your Tokyo video blogs and really enjoy them. Your take on the Beatles tag was very refreshing and made me reach out for the White Album again !
@luytondriman6236! Thank you for the message and the thoughtful words! Glad to read you though it was a fresh take and even more glad to hear it made you reach for the White Album! No I think I'm inspired to listen to the While Album! Thanks for the inspiration, HAHA! Happy New Year from Tokyo :-)
Great video, Brian. Nice collection. I never went that deep with collecting their stuff, just made sure I heard everything and got the official releases. The 45s look really cool.
Thanks for checkin it out @lostmixtapes! Appreciate you taking the time. Yeah, nobody really needs to own Beatles stuff - all the music is out there in the air. Its an amazing gift they gave the world ...having said that, it's also fun to have a few bits and bobs laying around. The 45s are indeed cool! Thanks for commenting!
Thanks, @MarkMorris-1962! Appreciate you taking the tie to watch. I will be keen to see your video if you tackle it! I'm also still looking forward to tackling your Japan Vinyl Tag List when I get there! I promise I will, but I've just surrendered to the fact that it'll take time as I chip away at it little by little. Thanks again for the comment and HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Nice one. ' *War Is Over* ' - JL via YO got the concept from *Allen Ginsberg* - - I could find details of Ginsberg's mindset writing (circa 1966) if anyone got madkeen to know. 7:23 *HDN cover* : frames from a photo booth= On UK TV through 1960s, I recall many TV series started with b/w photo montage main titles, from *The Avengers* to *Armchair Theatre* to pop program *Ready Steady Go* to *Adam Adamant* - - that's the culture HDN is tapping into. 7:45 Yes! Your way of 'defocusing;' or turning a contact sheet upside down to get an overview of what stands out is a little bit like my teaching to reverse the order of all the sentences in a paragraph (for 3 or 4 different reasons, one being to break out of sequential thinking). 21:35 ' *Yellow Submarine* ' - - I remember playing with a yellow submarine in the bath while listening to 'Yellow Submarine' somewhere between '66 & '68. Except it wasn't yellow at all, it was blue, exactly the same toy sub (preceding the date of the song) which Lennon played with in the bath in *Hard Day's Night* in '64. The cultural overlap of boyhood & Beatles throughout 1960s UK, even in a household that didn't have a record player, via TV & radio & magazines & newspapers & haircuts, wired that band into our brains for life. We're always hailing distance from where we started out, all our lives. You're only ever 24 hours from Tulsa.
JL via YO got the concept from Allen Ginsberg! Wow I never knew. Thanks for sharing. Having lived in Boulder, Colorado for a decade, home of Naropa, the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poets, I had the privilege of meeting Ginsberg very briefly at a house party once. I was just barely 20 years old and sadly couldn't yet appreciate the magnitude of the honor. Interesting to hear about HDN. Yes, that sounds semi familiar though I really wouldn't know. I can imagine it or I might have see something similar inspired on US TV. And wow, I've never heard of reverse sentence order (though I love this notion) or heard it articulated as "break out of sequential thinking" - yes, that's exactly what it is. And interesting to read you teach. Yellow Submarine, quite iconic of an imagee, and yes, what a curious interest of a children. I'd have to re-watch Hard Day's Night (thinks to self "Have I ever actually seen hard days night?") to recall this scene, but now you've piqued my curiosity. Indeed the Beatles are wired into our Brains, certainly some, mine included. 24 hours from Tulsa! Gene Pitney! I have the single! And oddly enough, that's about how long it takes me to get home :-) Thanks for sharing. I know we are over apologies but sorry for the "talking behind my back comment". 4-dman464 that didn't sit well, and sorry for addressing your retort. I'm glad to be chatting about the Beatles with you.
@@tokyorecordstyle You're doing fine, Brian. Fab - - FAB - - that you met Ginsberg, one of the Beat Generation - - EDIT: one of the Beat triumvirate - - 6 degrees if separation. I missed meeting Kurt Vonnegut twice - twice! - - but did get to stay with his daughter, a real privilege. Some nice synchronicities in this thread. Respect you, Brian. keep on doing what you do the way you do it, despite what I say.
Wow, now I'm six degrees away from Vonnegut or maybe just 3 considered you missed him twice. Yes. Nice synchronicities. Thank you, 4-dman464, I respect you too.
I just found you and this tag. Thank you very much for getting involved in participating. It is amazing to see people all over the world and hear what their opinions and collections are like. Your artistic take on their work was really interesting. Being a professional photographer I wonder what you think about the Now and Then cover art? Your answers to the tag were really thoughtful and I really enjoyed listening to what you had to say. Sincerely, Patricia. aka A Little Beatles Corner
Oh I'm so happy to read this Patricia! Yes yes, I'm happy to participate and I'm thankful to YOU for carrying on the Beatles Tag! Your video was great and your questions we fun and it is always a thrill to find an excuse to connect more with my Beatles Records. I'm glad to read you liked my various takes on your questions. Regarding the Now and Them cover art, I would sorta look back to the White Album; surely it must have ruffled some feathers when it came out. I didn't read up very well about the Now and Then cover but I vaguely remember hearing that it was quite conceptual and that you had to look past the obvious to see maybe see the profound. Honestly I don't really question the Beatles. They can almost do no wrong in my eyes, so I trust them that whatever the reason for signing off on that cover was completely justified and that we'll look back on it in some years and find it all makes more sense. Having said that, I REALLY loved the BACK cover, story of the clock that was in George Harrison's garden, that Olivia tells the story about, how George bought it on a whim, and how she brought it inside and cleaned it up, and how only shortly thereafter, you got the phonecall from Paul asking about the song, (which I think George had initially given up on back in the Free as a Bird and Real Love session, and how her bringing it inside to admire it on the mantle was like a little message from George, that releasing Now and Then would be ok. I REALLY loved that story. So that's what I would say about it :-) Thank you for the thoughtful comment, Patricia, and for having me along for this fun tag. Beatles Forever! Kindest Regards from Tokyo! -Brian
Oh wonderful, @Chasing_records! A fellow, Okie? Yes indeedy! Love me some Oklahoma, and visit as often as I can to see friends and family, my roots are all there, but I admit I get lots sometimes, the scale of the places seem off, not having lived there in 30 years. But Oklahoma will always be home, at least A home. Nice to know that about you! Let me know where exactly what part you're from? And Happy New Year!
The reds are Ever clean,which is antistatic,dirt and dust free based material.I have 5 Odons,I'm getting Help!and Revolver(have ORs on Meet,No.5,OPs on For Sale,PPM and Peppers!!)OBIs on No.5,PPM,and Peppers.Have 10 Stereo EPs(mostly Evercleans)and few Evercleans 45s !!
@@ronmartin4212 Yes! That’s it! wonderful to hear and be reminded of this. So cool you have so many. I have quite a few myself - a handful of Pink Floyd’s discography and a few more Beatles records. I sent a Strawberry Fields to Mazzy a few months back, which I think is highly coveted her. Occasionally in I see it exuberantly priced on the wall. I have a copy myself too :-)
Nothing beats a good 45 with a nice picture sleeve. I wonder if Hard Day's Night was one of the first records with a more artistic sleeve, moving away from the traditional promo or scenic album cover? Looking through my records, surprisingly I have no Beatles records in the collection, but I do have a noise record by the Powdered Beatles.
@robbie_eee - I agree - I love a good picture sleeve, can't often pass them up. You couple be right about a Hard Days Night being one of the first more artistic sleeves! The Beatles were always pushing the boundaries! I don't know about the Powdered Beatles, but a nose records can be really quite experiential. I know Paul was really into atonal and avant guard music, he probably would know!
@@tokyorecordstyle I recently learned Paul had met William Burroughs and that's where the tape manipulation ideas were inspired by. As for Powdered Beatles, they're a duo from Texas who released a couple tapes in the 90s and then a split 10" recently on the Hospital label.
Wow, that is interesting to read about Paul and William Burroughs and tape manipulation. Sounds very Burroughs-esque. Powdered Beatles from Texas tapes in the 90s!? I woulder if it's even possibly for me to to track them down! Wouldn't you know it! They're on TH-cam! th-cam.com/play/OLAK5uy_kf_TM7XQy2dD5fqUwaZqxmff8zkN6g1V0.html Thanks for sharing!
It's gotta be Kirkcaldy! When speaking of the Duchess of from Cry Baby Cry. It reminds me of a story from my past. Over two decades ago, I was a fan, backstage at a show, and after a short conversation I had with the performer about the Beatles, somehow proving my adoration for the band, much to my surprise he produced a CD from his bag, seemingly on hand for only those worthy, that I think said "Live at Kinfauns 1968" on it and told me (I'm sure in jest, but there was also a sincerity in his voice) to only ever share this with worthy individuals who proved their Beatles love. I know it was later an official release somewhere but its essentially the White Album demos, and I think some of it was recorded at Kinfauns, but some of it was also recorded at the Beatles Ashram in Rishikesh, India, where I have visited once. After a little spoken a word intro piece by John saying something like "The incense on, Light the candles and give yourself a hard time ...and into this distilled down version of Cry Baby Cry. It opened that album and it was so groovy and simple. I knew the song of course but it suddenly like a simple little thing I could probably play on guitar, which I did. From my Beatles Fake book, I played and sang along, and I learned the lyrics and I always wondered about this mythical land of Kirkcaldy and her Duchess. Now I know. Thanks for sharing @Gregor147!
Really enjoyed your Beatles Tag video! You showed a lot of cool stuff that is different than others have been showing due to the Japanese vinyl you have Good video
Thank you so much for the kind words! @davepounds8942! Glad to hear you liked the video. My collection is modest, but yeah, maybe it's a bit different from living in Japan all these years! Thanks again and happy New Year from Japan!
It is certainly something special. I can a heart all the Beatles in it, not just the sounds of their instruments, but each of their personalities. It's a great song. Thanks for watching and sharing your perspective :-)
OMG, Fluffy! That is not a bad idea! I think I would be the only one who would do one! But it would be a pleasant surprise to find there are some other Phish Heads out there! Hope the Fluffy tag is going well!
That was great Brian. I love seeing those picture sleeve 7” singles. After all the 2023-24 reissues (Capitol mono, Now and Then, Red/Blue comps, Beatles ‘64 doc) I was Beatled-out but this was a lot of fun. Thank you. The White Album lunchbox cracks me up though. Archies? No thanks. Banana Splits? Negative. Spiderman? Pass. This Tom & Jerry lunchbox is colorful! Nope. Surely not that bland white one? Bingo. 😂
Hey Russell.S! Thanks for dropping by again and always for the fun comments. YesI didn't really start collecting 7" in earnest until my friend enlightened me to the idea that I could walk out of a record store with one, and fixed my itch, as it were, without really hitting the wallet too hard. So then it became a good excuse to pass on that $50 record I really had my eyes on, and just take home a $5 Beatles single. The number of how many Beatles singles I have exactly correlates to how many times that's happened, Haha. And Yes, the White Album Lunchbox, isn't that neat? I've had it over 25 years and I can't even remember where I got it. I'm guessing a thrift store or a Salvation Army where I used to buy tons of records, stereo equipment, and speakers long ago. I do love it ...but I wouldn't ming a Tom and Jerry lunchbox either ;-)
Yeah, it's a bit easy to get Beatle'd out these days. Glad I was able to take this challenge in a couple of fun directions. Thanks again for watching and comments! Best from Tokyo!
Hi Brian, I just discovered your Tokyo video blogs and really enjoy them. Your take on the Beatles tag was very refreshing and made me reach out for the White Album again !
@luytondriman6236! Thank you for the message and the thoughtful words! Glad to read you though it was a fresh take and even more glad to hear it made you reach for the White Album! No I think I'm inspired to listen to the While Album! Thanks for the inspiration, HAHA! Happy New Year from Tokyo :-)
Great video, Brian. Nice collection. I never went that deep with collecting their stuff, just made sure I heard everything and got the official releases. The 45s look really cool.
Thanks for checkin it out @lostmixtapes! Appreciate you taking the time. Yeah, nobody really needs to own Beatles stuff - all the music is out there in the air. Its an amazing gift they gave the world ...having said that, it's also fun to have a few bits and bobs laying around. The 45s are indeed cool! Thanks for commenting!
Some great selections, Brian! I hope to tackle this soon. You have some interesting artifacts!
Thanks, @MarkMorris-1962! Appreciate you taking the tie to watch. I will be keen to see your video if you tackle it! I'm also still looking forward to tackling your Japan Vinyl Tag List when I get there! I promise I will, but I've just surrendered to the fact that it'll take time as I chip away at it little by little. Thanks again for the comment and HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Nice one. ' *War Is Over* ' - JL via YO got the concept from *Allen Ginsberg* - - I could find details of Ginsberg's mindset writing (circa 1966) if anyone got madkeen to know.
7:23 *HDN cover* : frames from a photo booth= On UK TV through 1960s, I recall many TV series started with b/w photo montage main titles, from *The Avengers* to *Armchair Theatre* to pop program *Ready Steady Go* to *Adam Adamant* - - that's the culture HDN is tapping into.
7:45 Yes! Your way of 'defocusing;' or turning a contact sheet upside down to get an overview of what stands out is a little bit like my teaching to reverse the order of all the sentences in a paragraph (for 3 or 4 different reasons, one being to break out of sequential thinking).
21:35 ' *Yellow Submarine* ' - - I remember playing with a yellow submarine in the bath while listening to 'Yellow Submarine' somewhere between '66 & '68. Except it wasn't yellow at all, it was blue, exactly the same toy sub (preceding the date of the song) which Lennon played with in the bath in *Hard Day's Night* in '64.
The cultural overlap of boyhood & Beatles throughout 1960s UK, even in a household that didn't have a record player, via TV & radio & magazines & newspapers & haircuts, wired that band into our brains for life.
We're always hailing distance from where we started out, all our lives. You're only ever 24 hours from Tulsa.
JL via YO got the concept from Allen Ginsberg! Wow I never knew. Thanks for sharing. Having lived in Boulder, Colorado for a decade, home of Naropa, the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poets, I had the privilege of meeting Ginsberg very briefly at a house party once. I was just barely 20 years old and sadly couldn't yet appreciate the magnitude of the honor.
Interesting to hear about HDN. Yes, that sounds semi familiar though I really wouldn't know. I can imagine it or I might have see something similar inspired on US TV. And wow, I've never heard of reverse sentence order (though I love this notion) or heard it articulated as "break out of sequential thinking" - yes, that's exactly what it is. And interesting to read you teach.
Yellow Submarine, quite iconic of an imagee, and yes, what a curious interest of a children. I'd have to re-watch Hard Day's Night (thinks to self "Have I ever actually seen hard days night?") to recall this scene, but now you've piqued my curiosity.
Indeed the Beatles are wired into our Brains, certainly some, mine included. 24 hours from Tulsa! Gene Pitney! I have the single! And oddly enough, that's about how long it takes me to get home :-)
Thanks for sharing. I know we are over apologies but sorry for the "talking behind my back comment". 4-dman464 that didn't sit well, and sorry for addressing your retort. I'm glad to be chatting about the Beatles with you.
@@tokyorecordstyle You're doing fine, Brian. Fab - - FAB - - that you met Ginsberg, one of the Beat Generation - - EDIT: one of the Beat triumvirate - - 6 degrees if separation. I missed meeting Kurt Vonnegut twice - twice! - - but did get to stay with his daughter, a real privilege. Some nice synchronicities in this thread. Respect you, Brian. keep on doing what you do the way you do it, despite what I say.
Wow, now I'm six degrees away from Vonnegut or maybe just 3 considered you missed him twice. Yes. Nice synchronicities. Thank you, 4-dman464, I respect you too.
I just found you and this tag. Thank you very much for getting involved in participating. It is amazing to see people all over the world and hear what their opinions and collections are like. Your artistic take on their work was really interesting. Being a professional photographer I wonder what you think about the Now and Then cover art? Your answers to the tag were really thoughtful and I really enjoyed listening to what you had to say.
Sincerely, Patricia. aka A Little Beatles Corner
Oh I'm so happy to read this Patricia! Yes yes, I'm happy to participate and I'm thankful to YOU for carrying on the Beatles Tag! Your video was great and your questions we fun and it is always a thrill to find an excuse to connect more with my Beatles Records. I'm glad to read you liked my various takes on your questions. Regarding the Now and Them cover art, I would sorta look back to the White Album; surely it must have ruffled some feathers when it came out. I didn't read up very well about the Now and Then cover but I vaguely remember hearing that it was quite conceptual and that you had to look past the obvious to see maybe see the profound. Honestly I don't really question the Beatles. They can almost do no wrong in my eyes, so I trust them that whatever the reason for signing off on that cover was completely justified and that we'll look back on it in some years and find it all makes more sense. Having said that, I REALLY loved the BACK cover, story of the clock that was in George Harrison's garden, that Olivia tells the story about, how George bought it on a whim, and how she brought it inside and cleaned it up, and how only shortly thereafter, you got the phonecall from Paul asking about the song, (which I think George had initially given up on back in the Free as a Bird and Real Love session, and how her bringing it inside to admire it on the mantle was like a little message from George, that releasing Now and Then would be ok. I REALLY loved that story. So that's what I would say about it :-)
Thank you for the thoughtful comment, Patricia, and for having me along for this fun tag. Beatles Forever! Kindest Regards from Tokyo! -Brian
Good stuff man. Didn’t realize you were Oklahoma as well
Oh wonderful, @Chasing_records! A fellow, Okie? Yes indeedy! Love me some Oklahoma, and visit as often as I can to see friends and family, my roots are all there, but I admit I get lots sometimes, the scale of the places seem off, not having lived there in 30 years. But Oklahoma will always be home, at least A home. Nice to know that about you! Let me know where exactly what part you're from? And Happy New Year!
The reds are Ever clean,which is antistatic,dirt and dust free based material.I have 5 Odons,I'm getting Help!and Revolver(have ORs on Meet,No.5,OPs on For Sale,PPM and Peppers!!)OBIs on No.5,PPM,and Peppers.Have 10 Stereo EPs(mostly Evercleans)and few Evercleans 45s !!
@@ronmartin4212 Yes! That’s it! wonderful to hear and be reminded of this. So cool you have so many. I have quite a few myself - a handful of Pink Floyd’s discography and a few more Beatles records. I sent a Strawberry Fields to Mazzy a few months back, which I think is highly coveted her. Occasionally in I see it exuberantly priced on the wall. I have a copy myself too :-)
Nothing beats a good 45 with a nice picture sleeve. I wonder if Hard Day's Night was one of the first records with a more artistic sleeve, moving away from the traditional promo or scenic album cover?
Looking through my records, surprisingly I have no Beatles records in the collection, but I do have a noise record by the Powdered Beatles.
@robbie_eee - I agree - I love a good picture sleeve, can't often pass them up. You couple be right about a Hard Days Night being one of the first more artistic sleeves! The Beatles were always pushing the boundaries! I don't know about the Powdered Beatles, but a nose records can be really quite experiential. I know Paul was really into atonal and avant guard music, he probably would know!
@@tokyorecordstyle I recently learned Paul had met William Burroughs and that's where the tape manipulation ideas were inspired by. As for Powdered Beatles, they're a duo from Texas who released a couple tapes in the 90s and then a split 10" recently on the Hospital label.
Wow, that is interesting to read about Paul and William Burroughs and tape manipulation. Sounds very Burroughs-esque. Powdered Beatles from Texas tapes in the 90s!? I woulder if it's even possibly for me to to track them down! Wouldn't you know it! They're on TH-cam!
th-cam.com/play/OLAK5uy_kf_TM7XQy2dD5fqUwaZqxmff8zkN6g1V0.html
Thanks for sharing!
What Scottish town is mentioned in a Beatles song? (On The White Album)
It's gotta be Kirkcaldy! When speaking of the Duchess of from Cry Baby Cry. It reminds me of a story from my past. Over two decades ago, I was a fan, backstage at a show, and after a short conversation I had with the performer about the Beatles, somehow proving my adoration for the band, much to my surprise he produced a CD from his bag, seemingly on hand for only those worthy, that I think said "Live at Kinfauns 1968" on it and told me (I'm sure in jest, but there was also a sincerity in his voice) to only ever share this with worthy individuals who proved their Beatles love. I know it was later an official release somewhere but its essentially the White Album demos, and I think some of it was recorded at Kinfauns, but some of it was also recorded at the Beatles Ashram in Rishikesh, India, where I have visited once. After a little spoken a word intro piece by John saying something like "The incense on, Light the candles and give yourself a hard time ...and into this distilled down version of Cry Baby Cry. It opened that album and it was so groovy and simple. I knew the song of course but it suddenly like a simple little thing I could probably play on guitar, which I did. From my Beatles Fake book, I played and sang along, and I learned the lyrics and I always wondered about this mythical land of Kirkcaldy and her Duchess. Now I know. Thanks for sharing @Gregor147!
Really enjoyed your Beatles Tag video! You showed a lot of cool stuff that is different than others have been showing due to the Japanese vinyl you have Good video
Thank you so much for the kind words! @davepounds8942! Glad to hear you liked the video. My collection is modest, but yeah, maybe it's a bit different from living in Japan all these years! Thanks again and happy New Year from Japan!
Now and then is a great track, my fav of the 3 later Lennon tunes considered for a Beatles release! ❤
It is certainly something special. I can a heart all the Beatles in it, not just the sounds of their instruments, but each of their personalities. It's a great song. Thanks for watching and sharing your perspective :-)
Awesome picks, Brian! Now you should start a Phish tag! 🤣👍
OMG, Fluffy! That is not a bad idea! I think I would be the only one who would do one! But it would be a pleasant surprise to find there are some other Phish Heads out there! Hope the Fluffy tag is going well!