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| From | garypig@aol.com |
| Subject | Re: Is it just me: You Know My Name |
| Date | Fri, 24 Aug 2007 01:55:47 -0400 |
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<< I may well have mentioned this theory here before, but I think "You
Know My Name" is a commentary on bad Beatles covers, which were
legion. I think the first section is the "song" itself, and then
every bit thereafter is an increasingly weird cover version,
culminating in that part that's just random grunts and moans. But that
may just be me. >>
Wasn't "You Know My Name"
a track various Beatles and/or George Martin
would revisit, remix, re-splice, add and subtract bits too,
and rearrange/futz around with in general
throughout the last several years of the band's career
(.....not to mention yet again for "Anthology Too") ??
I know the song began as a "serious" piano fragment
John taped upstairs at home in late 66/early 67
(on the same tape can be heard ideas
which later became "Cry Baby Cry," "Hey Bulldog" and "Across The
Universe.")
Perhaps "Name" WAS attempted as a "real" song at one point,
but for whatever reasons
(too much "tea" ??)
the band became frustrated and/or gave up totally,
unable to capture the idea/find a suitable arrangement,
and at some point or another
began to simply send the song totally up, as those Brits would say
(as JPG&R did two years earlier
in attempting "That Means A Lot":
the final take of THAT little gem
is out-and-out "You Know My Name"-like comedy as well).
Not to mention all those fab Fab Christmas recordings,
which include MANY of my all-time favorite silly Beatle moments.
So let's not try to read
too very much into "You Know My Name."
I think it's just boys being boys,
......albeit with a brilliant producer
and unlimited free studio time.
still,
Brian Jones' sax work is truly sublime
(second only to whomsoever's on The Kinks' "Berkeley Mews" ;-)
And those "random grunts and moans," Stewart?
Just John following the Duke Ellington "Name" verse
with his patented smokey jazz-bo voice
(also to be heard on certain Quarrymen recordings even),
Gary "and if the Beach Boys couldn't r-a-w-k on stage,
where does that leave The Byrds??!" Pig
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