i think it was the drugs.

[StarvingEyes]

Today I read in a book my friend had to read in college(full sail) called "Behind the Glass" and in it was an interview with a man that engineered a few beatles records around the Sgt. Pepper, Revolver period. When asked "what vocal mics did you use for John Lennon, the man told a very "crazy" story:

He said that on one track on Sgt. Pepper, he took a neumann U47, placed it in a plastic bag, stuck that inside of an empty milk jug, then filled the jug with water. He explained that John simply sung up against the jar, the sound traveled through the glass, the water, and was recieved by the U47 ! That track was a main vocal track for one of the songs(not sure which) on Sgt. Pepper ! I was amazed. I wonder who thought of that idea?

 

[pdadda]

I think there's a plug-in for that nowadays.

 

[StarvingEyes]

haha im sure. but i would like to know just what song it was used on? and what the raw track sounded like?

 

[darnold]

was it a wireless u47?

i just dont get how that would work.

danny

 

[StarvingEyes]

it didnt say, probably not, im sure the bag ran up and out of the bottle, so no water would touch the mic. they all would have been fried.

 

[Blue Bear Sound]

Today I read in a book my friend had to read in college(full sail) called "Behind the Glass" and in it was an interview with a man that engineered a few beatles records around the Sgt. Pepper, Revolver period. When asked "what vocal mics did you use for John Lennon, the man told a very "crazy" story:

He said that on one track on Sgt. Pepper, he took a neumann U47, placed it in a plastic bag, stuck that inside of an empty milk jug, then filled the jug with water. He explained that John simply sung up against the jar, the sound traveled through the glass, the water, and was recieved by the U47 ! That track was a main vocal track for one of the songs(not sure which) on Sgt. Pepper ! I was amazed. I wonder who thought of that idea?

I have Behind The Glass.... in the George Martin segment - it doesn't say anything like that at all.....

 

[timmerman]

Right Answer for the Right Question

Today I read in a book my friend had to read in college(full sail) called "Behind the Glass" and in it was an interview with a man that engineered a few beatles records around the Sgt. Pepper, Revolver period. When asked "what vocal mics did you use for John Lennon, the man told a very "crazy" story:

He said that on one track on Sgt. Pepper, he took a neumann U47, placed it in a plastic bag, stuck that inside of an empty milk jug, then filled the jug with water. He explained that John simply sung up against the jar, the sound traveled through the glass, the water, and was recieved by the U47 ! That track was a main vocal track for one of the songs(not sure which) on Sgt. Pepper ! I was amazed. I wonder who thought of that idea?

Well read the book again and again, and listen to those albums of the sixties and seventies, read some more articles, start your own recording and writing your own songs................and heck you may even feel you do not need a college for recording music!!!

Eddie

 

[chessrock]

I heard he stuck it (the microphone) in a bowl of macaroni.

John got so hungry, he ate the whole bowl, and accidentally swallowed the microphone in the process.

Later that evening, they figured out a way to record his vocal that way. With the microphone in his stomach.

Later, he crapped the microphone out the other end, and they recorded that as a secret track. The BBC later played that track exclusively for "the Lost Lennon Tapes."

 

[northsiderap]

Not to mention - - -

Lennon turned blue due to the pigments used in the skinning of the diaphragm. He also grew to 7 or 8 feet tall before he recorded for Sgt. Pepper. He did eat the macaroni, but what actually happened is he sat on the mic while sitting down to the bowl of macaroni.

George M was pretty anal about his sound, but he went with this one.

Lennon then used a pickaxe to beat a new drilling machine through a mountain, but he was pretty sore afterwards. He was revived by mexicans with U47s in their sombreros on the sixth of September.

They cooked him mini hot dogs over a fire of select hickory bark cut into small triangles. He slept in a teepee covered by a poncho, with a microphone hanging at the peak of the teepee. I think this was the U47 that they had retrieved from his cavity. By now, it sounded like crap, so they had to replace it. But not before doing backups for 'Help From My Friends,' from a pig pen in South Wales.

 

[Gorty]

The lengths some people will go to get that sound!

 

[MadAudio]

"College?" LMFAO! Full Sail is a trade school.

 

[rweiss]

I'm poor as hell - and Full Sail offered to give me $2,500 in financial aid towards their $50,000 tuition...

 

[StarvingEyes]

I have Behind The Glass.... in the George Martin segment - it doesn't say anything like that at all.....

Well, who said it was in the George Martin segment? It was in Geoff Emerick's. Maybe you should read it again because it sums it up pretty clearly on page 93, question 3 under the "which vocal mics". I guess they whited that part out in the version you have been reading?

 

[chessrock]

"College?" LMFAO! Full Sail is a trade school.

Actually, I think it's more like an amusement park.

 

[wesley tanner]

from my experience with attendies, it's more of a circle jerk

 

[fazil]

If only HAD a neumann U47, I would never even consider thinking about putting it in a plastic bag in bottle of water. He could've used some reverb if he's tracks were to dry ...

 

[Nakatira]

I heard he stuck it (the microphone) in a bowl of macaroni.

John got so hungry, he ate the whole bowl, and accidentally swallowed the microphone in the process.

Later that evening, they figured out a way to record his vocal that way. With the microphone in his stomach.

Later, he crapped the microphone out the other end, and they recorded that as a secret track. The BBC later played that track exclusively for "the Lost Lennon Tapes."

hahaha nice one