snare on yellow submarine

  • Thread starter Thread starter F_cksia
  • Start date Start date
F

F_cksia

New member
that´s actually a great sounding snare to me!

anybody knows how it´s been captured at the time? just an overhead or two??

sorry for the useless post..
 
There is a book that details all of the Beatles sessions...... might be called something like that... "the Beatles Sessions"

I think it came out in the 80s. Might have what you're looking for.

Prolly a very simple one or two mic set-up. ya know, it starts w/ the musician!
 
I know, but I was never impressed in any way by that musician.. :)
 
no one ever was, yet he was the drummer in one of the greatest bands ever.
simplicity is the key to beauty
 
You've got it way wrong.....

I think you will find that Ringo Starr is rated as a great drummer by many professional stick men. I haven't got time to go into this but if you take time to really listen to the style of his playing & the sounds he gets out of his kit you'll have to change your mind.

The original question was about the snare sound in Yellow Submarine - an absolute classic. Due in no small measure to the guy playing the snare in the first place.
 
dont get me wrong... I have always LOVED the guys drumming. It just seems that most people i talk to dont think much of his work. Their loss...
 
Ringo is actually quite a good drummer.

It's just with The Beatles there was no room for him to show it.

True, he's never gonna be able to play like John Bonham or anyone, but then that doesn't make him as bad as too many people make him out.
 
Why, I wonder?

Why does this Ringo = poor drummer thing always rear its head?

No criticism implied of anyone who'se posted here, but it just seems so unfair that we forever have this stale debate. Noone keeps posting that Bob Dylan was a crap guitarist, or George Harisson a rubbish sitar player, or John Lennon was at best average on the piano etc, or Lou Read can't sing too well, but the Ringo thing always comes up.

Maybe because people think of LennonMcCartney as the 'talent' and Ringo just 'the drummer' ? OK almost anyone could have been in that band on drums and they still would have been big, but Ringo fulfilled the role and the rest is history. Can anyone honestly say that a better drummer would have significantly improved on their work at the time?

Maybe debates like this get kicked off by people who are great musicians themselves, but can't understand why they themselves have not been more succesful in the music biz, when people like Ringo have?

People don't get the fact that it is not about 'musicianship', if it was then we'd all be listening the classical music and jazz as they have arguably the 'top' most skillful musicians and non of us would listen to raw punk bands for example.

Do we all remember The Sex Pistols because they could all play their instruments so well? No. They were adequate musicians, but a phenomenon for OTHER reasons.

Ringo's place in history is assured and many young drummers try to emulate his sound and playing style.

Again - I am not 'having a go' at anyone who posted on this thread - just sounding off about the Ringo thing!
 
I love ringo. Over my time working on stages and in studios, I've come to notice that the drummers with the smaller, simpler kits are usually the drummers that blow me away.
I guess my point is that he is much better than most people give him credit for.
 
That is one of the most kick ass snare sounds ever! I am glad somebody else thinks so.

I have the Beatles recording book. It has kept me entertained through many #2s. I do not recall any specific mention of the snare on that track, I would have taken note of that because I have been trying to achieve that sound for years. The book is good but it doesnt get overly specific about mic placement and stuff.

Ringo was a great drummer, not a wanker show off. Drummers who understand when not to play and how to break things down to their simplest idea are great.

Nothing is more annoying than show off drummers who cannot play w/ a band or with in the context of a song.
 
yeah, I was just about to edit my post to include that.

I was in a band w/ a guy who was not a great guitarist, technically. He didnt really know chords or how to solo very well. But he ended up being one of my favorite co players ever because he actually understood that sometimes he simply did not need to play.

It floored me, I had never run into that in a bandmate before. And when he did play it was very simple and it mattered. A lot of "musicians" or players simply do not understand that.
 
hey twonk - did you get your handle from that old b/w sci-fi movie?
 
!!!!!! No? There is a real twonky out there??

I just thought it was a funny sounding word (pronounced honkey, w/ tw in front)

I have always wanted to name a kitten either Binoculars or twonky.

I just get a kick out of big fat weird words like that. I think Zappa had a dog named Frunobolax
 
Yeah , i think like you and make up words all the time..

Twonkie was how it was spelled i think.
Name of the movie was, "The Twonkie"
It was about a T.V. that came to life and terrorized this guy. The screen would fill with snow and it would WALK....! I barely remember, i was only about 5 when i saw it. It backed this guy into a corner and i think it killed him..
Man, Im still having nightmares :^)

Yeah, Id love to see it again sometime, but I dont even think it was a B movie
 
OOOooo! I never thought about putting 'The' in front of my name!

that makes it sound much more...something.

Well, I venture to say I would probably love a movie about a walking ( that must have been amazingly comical) killer TV and will now have to find it. thanks for the heads up!
 
yes, it would make it much more. .....something.......
LoL!

Yeah, that TV was pretty comical.
Let me know if you find it.

gotta go..
 
Part of the reason why people seem not to notice Ringos drumming is that He personally hated to show off on the drums. I remember reading probably in "The Beatles Recording Sessions" that they had to badger him into doing his drum solo on "Abbey Road" Also Ringo seemed to know what a particuar song needed and didnt need on the drums. And how do you show off in the context of a Lennon/McCartney comp. Thats why The Beatles as a group were Great. None of them would be considered "Master" musicians by todays standards but each of them knew what and when to play...
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top