I am afraid your teacher's comment was on par with the Decca producer who, when turning the Beatles down, said that guitar groups were on their way out. If we survive I reckon there's a case for saying the Beatles will be listened to and studied in 200 years time...

Funnily enough, nobody here even knows who your teacher was. :)

I remember back in the early Beatles days, my dad saying "Lawrence Welk makes more money than ten Beatles".

For better or worse, Lawrence Welk is my first musical memory. I was probably 5.

I remember telling my son in the 90's that nobody will know "Green Day" in 20 years. He will throw this in my face sometimes, but I still hold true to my idea. Regardless of their success, how many people today can name all the members of the Green Day band, and even 10 of their hits? I can't

I literally quit playing guitar about 15 years ago for that exact reason. Every time I learned a song I loved, it lost all mystery and joy. Luckily I never learned any Beatles songs :) I've since become a drummer, and for some reason this doesn't happen with drums

I feel the same

K S - while I've never played guitar seriously, but with drums I've found the same truth! having a drummers ear while listening to my favorite songs tend to enhance them not detract

@@ks5553 hmm never experienced that before. I’m a bassist/guitarist

I have a doctorate in music theory and composition. For me, understanding why this song sounds so great, far from spoiling it, only deepens the mysterious profundity of it.

It's funny (and strange, simultaenously) that when summarizing the lyrics, Rick gets 'take' and 'make' backwards. Changes the meaning, just a bit...

Yes, indeed!!

and i still have no idea what its supposed to mean

Yes, yes, yes! The best "final statement" song by anyone. I'm really happy that some other people think that, too. All you need is love.

@@gordeauxd True that. But let us just think of that as a little (unlisted) coda. Actually I hear it this way: "the love you take, blah blah" (but don't take yourself too seriously (Her Majesty))

Indeed! I actually consider Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End as one song. Which makes it my favorite song ever!

@@BobbyvilleMan I think "You Never Give Me Your Money"/"Sun King"/"Mean Mr. Mustard"/"Polythene Pam"/"She Came Trought the Bathroom Window"/"Golden Slumbers"/"Carry That Weight"/"The End" is one big epic.

Abbey Road, was recorded after the Let It Be album, but released before it.

@@johngerygooz3251 ABSOLUTELY!!!!

@@johngerygooz3251 though I admit I sometimes cheat and go from YNGMYN straight to GS/CTW/End

I'm sure Paul and Ringo would be cool with this, it's those office people.

Is this block coming from the Beatles (and related estates), or coming from someone else? Do the Beatles even own their music? I have not followed the ownership trail since I heard Michael Jackson bought the rights to their songs.

Well said. I second that.

Yeh ... it's really the fault of the owners of the rights since Jackson bought them.

That's the problem with automated blocking. No one actually watches the videos and makes a decision. I get it but it sucks

Love Me Do was REVOLUTIONARY.

@@loosilu yeah Love Me Do was quite revolutionary too back then

No band ever progressed in such a way, especially given how rudimentary the technology was. Sadly today's chart acts rely far too much on technology.

@@loosilu Julia Baird taught it was rubbish.

Lennon jokingly said something like "first you gotta attract the masses, them move`em in your direction" Turned out later he was right

Their progression is completely mind boggling

Me too! ❤😮🤘🏻

I have to agree, Mr. Wood. I loved them from the first time I saw them on Ed Sullivan, and I listened to everything they did thereafter. But only in my maturity, after having listened to generations of great music, before and after them, did I come to understand their greatness, and their uniqueness in full measure, I guess you could say. Just goes to show you what grows when you stay out the way of the creative process, and let artists be artists.

Yeah your generation lucked out on that one for sure. I will say even exploring their music as a kid 30-40 after the fact, I was blown away too. Still am

I was born in 75. I've developed a rule over this years: to buy every album that I can find from 1969. Blessed music generation for sure!

Oh my… that excitement of buying the new album, devouring every word, picture, color of the album cover as we listened over and over to the wonderous new music! I had the extra great fortune of doing that with a friend who was, in 6th grade, already a musician and heard the album with such different ears. I knew I could never hope to play such phenomenal music. He was learning the parts and building his repertoire! ‘66-‘69 Thank you all!

Sadly, though, we don't get all the production wizardry stuff that we see on other WMTSG videos since he's not working with the original tracks.

@@joemucchiello4542 I think it's pretty awesome to recreate the track! I reckon because he's going for a similar sound; looking at stuff like mic placement and guitar/pick-up choice, etc; which is sort of along the same lines as the usual production wizardry stuff (btw that was put fantastically, so I'm totally stealing it!). Have to do a little bit of detective work or self learning, but there's still stuff there to learn from :)

I have most of the Beatles. It's an instant block if I use anything. I once played the bass part to Lucy In . The Sky for 10 seconds and the video was blocked immediately.

@@RickBeato Funny how some are and some are not blocked. A cursory search today (Dec. 13 2018) finds four non-cover KZfaq videos of The End -- one posted back in 2013! I guess it's like "whack a mole" for the blocking software?

@@andrewsmith4356 I think it's because Rick has soo many subscribers that his video will be monetized. I don't think there is a "Don't monetize this video" button when you post. So if there is a millionth of a penny to be made (which is not far off what is really paid out), Paul wants his fraction. I think he probably feels he was screwed over so bad in the past never collecting royalties on (probably) billions of illegal products and knock-offs that Maxwell's Silver hammer has finally come down ;-)

Totally relate to that.

that's the power of music. You FELT it.

Tasuj you are right... I heard it only some years ago I think about 20...I didn't want to buy abbey road vynil because it would drove me so sad.... Strange things.... Thank you Rick!

Same feeling when I first heard The End in the 80s and still touched by it today. It’s like the closing scene of a classic movie.

I did not hear Abbey Road until the mid-seventies. I burst into tears at the end of this track and I knew instinctively that the Beatles knew that they were near their end when they recorded it. It was not until later that I heard that it was really their last album even though it was not their last to be released.

Dlanor Zerreitug Abbey Road was “just another album” to the Beatles. It was never intended as a “swan song”- that’s just the fans’ wishful thinking that the band would do such an album to cap their career. McCartney had to approach Sir George Martin to convince him to record this album like they used to do in order to reset their path for the next one.

@@douglasskaalrud6865 Is it known at what point Paul had plans to break up the band? Possibly he already had this in mind when he wrote the lyrics to this song, right? I would be very interested.

@@jugibur2117 I don't think he ever had plans for that. I think he wanted to keep the band going. He was devastated when John announced at an Apple meeting that he wanted a divorce.

@@jugibur2117Paul didn’t break up the Beatles and was actually the last to leave. John quit the Beatles which ended the group

Compare George's lead playing on the first couple of Beatles records with the solos on Abbey Road. He progressed so far in that short space of time. Even something like the intro to Octopus's Garden is outrageously good. There is an absolute TON of Eric Clapton influence in there. Listen to Rick playing George's solo on The End - all those bluesy bends and rakes are pure Clapton.

wow, that's incredible!!!!

Love the emotions with that story.

My favorite story of my travels to England in 2007. I was learning how to drive a right hand rental car, on the unfamiliar side of the street, in London. As if that wasn’t frightening enough, it was a stick shift, AND my 12 year old son was in the back seat. So we’re in London, a scary place to learn English ways, I’m white knuckled and shitting bricks, and wondering if I’ve lost my marbles. Somehow I accidentally end up on Abbey Road. That made everything ok. The joy of BEING on Abbey Rd. I wish I had the luxury to park and walk around at the time. I still get tears thinking about that.

Beautiful examination of one of the best minutes of music ever made. The first half of this track is also worthy of attention though, with Ringo's only ever drum solo, perfectly understated and executed, followed by Harrison, McCartney and Lennon trading guitar licks one after the other. A great band song- what a superb way to bow out.

Awesome 👍

More Tim needed,absolutely.

Pretty damn awesome

So perfect and pure

I was and remain a HUGE fan of Jellyfish - have always thought of them as sounding like what the Beatles would have sounded like had they continued to record. Even saw them live three times - and God, could they SING! "The King is Half Undressed" is a tragically under-rated masterpiece, in my view. Would love to know what really splintered them - such a shame...

@@tablaturebutler2823 Lets not forget his stuff with The Umajets.. those were great albums also

No kidding. I’m generally an early Beatles guy, but Abbey Road was a masterpiece.

exactly how I feel about Golden slumbers. I couldn't quite express it, but now that I've read your comment I understand that feeling of melancholy the song gives me. Beautiful and fleeing just like the magic of Beatles in 1969.

Abbey Road Medley contained all that had gone before in Music and ALL that was to come .

Wonderful post and analysis. I never thought of Paul's lyrics in that sense but it fits perfectly. I agree with Rick that this is the perfect ending to the greatest band that ever was.

There's a couple of choral versions elsewhere in KZfaq . Divine ! No other word.

Yes, but ha! He got the lyrics backward at the end (no pun intended) when he recited them. :)

For such a simple song, it’s quite complex written down

@@chriggle1 That is the signature of the fab four!

I knew there were reasons I keep coming back to this song. Thanks Rick.

Didn't hear the adoration part but wasn't it Macca did most of the fills on AR?

Maybe but sounds like a George part

@@amycrunch3812 no, it wasn't "macca",. trendy comment, but based on ignorance.

@@nonrepublicrat My 21 year old son (Lennon) favorite Beatle is George.

He and Starkey both were sublime and, oh, so necessary.

I know. It choked me up too and I'm 55. Rick has a habit of doing that. His videos are great and one of the best things that's happened to KZfaq for guys our(?) age. Cheers from Canberra.

Thanks Nahre!

@@RickBeato yes. Fantastic playing, really enjoyed that !!

Yep, incredible.

excellent, transmogrified by Stanley j krammerhead the 3rd from the university of please yourself California.

@@RickBeato agree - but leaving out one of the GREAT drum solos?! I thought the video accidentally shut off early when it ended without you mentioning the drums

Daniel Taylor The song 'The End' is actually 2:21. They left tbe first part out.

It is a really fantastic and grand ending to their career as a band

Maybe not welling up, but chips a little bit off your soul. In a good way.

Yes sir. The 2nd side of Abbey Road is quite possibly the greatest single album side ever.

fr

When you say welling up, do you mean your explosive diarrhoea?

He always served the song.

Over the years I have really come to appreciate the greatness of George Harrison’s work.

I’m a big Beatles fan. But according to Geoff Emerick, the sound engineer on most of their albums, Harrison struggled a lot with the leads on many Beatles songs. I often wondered was it the genius in simplicity and playing to the song, or was he limited?

In his memoirs, Ken Scott (Geoff E's fellow recording engineer) disputed Emerick's claims about Harrison's 'struggles'. Geoff was very much a Macca ally. As a guitarist myself, I'd say George was a brilliantly 'tasteful' songwriter's guitarist (rather than a '100 notes a seconds' whizzkid). He was a big fan of Chet Atkins (this is evident in Beatles early songs - e.g. ), and became a proficient sitar player. The solo on Something was played 'live' with orchestra...and it's superb.

Marc Chrysanthou thanks for the different perspective. How was Ken Scott’s memoir? Is it worth reading?

Great

It’s a trial run.

You passed it, you always do.

@@RickBeato It's still up! Now, how about "Baby, You're a Rich Man"? The "chunky" guitar part is extremely unusual, as is the bottom end of the bass. This is likely due to the fact it was recorded at Olympic and not EMI. I'd really love to see a breakdown of that song!

​@@RickBeato To paraphrase John Lennon: I think you passed the audition...

Rick - you guys NAILED this. So well done.

Boomer Tunes it does, he just excluded it

This with Carry That Weight right before it is just exquisite listening. Sweet sweet ear candy.

No The End is mixed with Carry That Weight which is a separate song. So you have Golden Slumbers leading into Carry That Weight leading into The End.

Stationary Wilburys I’m disappointed he didn’t include the rest.

He probably didn't feel like doing a minute long drum solo. I wish he had because as you know, that leads into an incredible guitar jam just before the piano begins.

Wow,, wish our church did that

He can still rock and bring the energy too!

@@nathanaelcole8466 Absolutely. He's a born performer. Too bad, the late Beatles haven't toured any more so that there's more recordings. They were even great in their rooftop performance, despite the fact they already had their struggles when recording Let It Be. McCartney made no mistake with his current tour. Many musicians tend to overload their songs with keyboards, effects and too many instruments on them live but his concert mostly was two guitars, drums and often his beautiful Höfer bass. All you need is strings!

@@beatlesrgear I love both bands but I have to admit that The Beatles are stylistically much more versatile. However, Gimme Shelter is still one of my favorite 60s rock songs and there's tons of great riffs on their records back in the days. Don't hate, don't compare, just appreciate both their works and their legacy that probably influenced modern music way more than everything else that came after them...

Tunefisher T - U2 songs aren’t exactly camp fire songs. But considering that they’ve been around 40 years now and their songs (including the earliest) are still being played on the radio plus covered by others, it’s safe to say 10 years from now their songs will continue to be played and covered

@@p0llenp0ny - Good 😃ne! If I say that I expected some one to respond this way, does that mean that I'm cynical?

Very professional looking. Great work!

@@p0llenp0ny Better, better, better.

shane peoples congrats, I hope he gets as much joy out of the band as we do!

How old is your son?

10

shane peoples If he's 10 then the entry Beatles song recommended would be Rocky Raccoon.

I’m your same age and have only been going deep on the Beatles for about a year. (I knew of them, but didn’t really get it til I saw the Love show in Vegas a few years back). The waters are very deep! My favorites playlist is currently at 64 tracks + more solo material too lol. I was astounded how often I found myself saying, “Oh, I guess the Beatles practically invented that genre too!” or “Ah, so that’s why 70s and 80s rock sounded like it did!”

I’m 34, but luckily I was introduced to The Beatles by a cool English teacher when I was in high school. He played Strawberry Fields Forever for us while we worked on an assignment, and I was immediately captivated by it. I only knew about the I Wanna Hold Your Hand era of The Beatles and had no idea about their later work. I’ve been in love with them ever since. Despite being over 50 years old, their music still sounds fresh and inventive. It transcends time. It’s really amazing what they were able to accomplish in just a few short years.

That whole album is magic. Masterpiece.

@@carlbaumeister3439 truly like peppers is considered they're best by many but this album was my introduction to this amazing band so it will always have a special place in my heart

René Bil - oh man, you just described, with a capital B, why The End is such a BEAUTIFUL piece. And Rick and Tim did a wonderful job of breaking it down and recreating it. Yours is the perfect description of this perfect song, Rene. And only The Fabs could have done it, and done it SO well that, nearly 50 years after I first heard it, and after countless listens since, it still brings tears to my eyes every time I hear it... Well said, Sir. 🙏

@@donnythompson408 Thank you for your compliment. Keep enjoying the music!

Yeah, I was hoping to hear that great back and forth guitar solo and the drums....great stuff.

This is the end of "The End".

It does, but I totally get why Rick focused on the latter part.

I thought it was one track too. I went back and checked. There is a track called “End” which has the drum solo and the three guitar solos. Then there is another track called “ The End”

OzTwanger All those solos btw kinda serving as a farewell: first Ringo doin his “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” homage on drums; then McCartney for a two bar guitar solo; then Harrison; then Lennon. Supposedly the band got together to record for one last time, and by all reports, were like kids again (or so we'd like to think!).

No way!

Doug Burr pretty sure it 1 after 909😁

Holy crap I didn't even notice! That is awesome!

THen the next one should be pretty epic.

Freaky!

bryter have you heard the extras on the Abbey Road remaster? You can really hear how it comes together

@@chriggle1 where do you find it?

@@strangereastern6832 On the recent 50th anniversary reissues special editions. They're really amazing especially with the material they're covering. Maybe the best pop music album ever written.

@@tomschlak2599 Except Sgt Peppers exists lol

@@PPCAPOGAMING sgt peppers is a masterpiece, but abbey road medley is on another level

50 seconds of GLORY

@@docsavage8640 The reason is that it's my channel. Do you have a problem with that?

@@RickBeato Keeps copyright away by doing it your way. There's not a ton of hugely amazing stuff before the "In The End" part except the solo. So I agree with you

Tristan Bouchonnet - IMO, the finest 50 seconds of music ever recorded. 😊

@@RickBeato I think Matt was probably just a little confused (as was I) since you stated it's a 52 second song, when that only accounts for about half of it. Understandable if you only wanted to focus on that part, but it might've helped to acknowledge that somewhere in the video. I actually had to go into my iTunes and check to see if the first half was part of the same song like I thought it was. Great content as always!

It's a single short video: "Auto-tune."

CCR

If you're not familiar with the album Spilt Milk by Jellyfish...get familiar

In Holland there is the band the Analogues a live Beatles cover band they just are touring with a live cover of Abbey Road also perfect (using all original instruments)

The Eagles ( Henley?) blocking too

Maybe Yoko Ono is doing this

True. I went straight to spotify to listen to the original version. Win for everyone.

What do you mean, check out more of it? Don't you have EVERYTHING down by heart by now? ;-)

Oh yeah, The Beatles, FINALLY, and good choice!!!! Agreed, I know it takes a lot more work but I think recreating the tracks adds more depth, shows Rick's musicianship doing the parts and replicating them just like it. Cool friend, he looks very Swinging London maan, yeah baby, yeah!! :-) Fingers crossed this stays up!

The small (large) details :)

The harmonies are soo good, just like "Because" or "I want you (she's so heavy)"

Forgotten masterpiece, that I only discovered about 8 years ago even though I was 15 when it came out...

It's not the artists (most of the time). It's the record company and the lawyers.

Do you really think the 2 surviving beatles are behind it?

BD you’re right, but the suits don’t get it.

Currently they are allowing the 2009 Box Set, the 2018 White Album Remix and really crappy vinyl rips. They take down quality rips of vinyl Beatles and they also block the Mono mixes in general except when there is only a Mono mix as in She Loves You. They also have a VEVO bundle of videos and a lot of live performances. They had the 2017 Remix Of Pepper’s up for awhile but took it down. Before this they had extremely restricted access on KZfaq. For a good while... like around 2010 to 2015 there were all kinds of vinyl rips. Basically everything was available. It most likely is EMI/Apple Corp and Paul, Ringo, Yoko and Olivia Harrison who are involved in the strategy of what they will and won’t allow. SonyATV May also have a voice in this especially in regards to musical lessons of songs. EMI owns the Master Tapes+. The Beatles own the intellectual property in terms of songwriting copyrights and and performance royalties. Sony/ATV owns the vast majority share of the Publishing and thus control the Beatle’s Publishing... Paul cut a settlement deal to regain some of his Publishing but I seriously doubt that it’s a controlling interest... which by the way they never had since they controlled about 40% prior TO JOHN AND PAUL SELLING THEIR 20% each to ATV Music. Paul had a few more shares than John for a time because when Northern Songs went public Paul purchased a few extra shares but he and John sold all of their Publishing in 1969 of their own volition and were financially compensated for liquidating their Publishing. Yoko cut a deal with Sony/ATV long before Paul did which would prevent her from suing. ALSO: Paul had an opportunity to buy it like around 1980 for 40 Million and he tried to split it with Yoko but she wasn’t interested. Paul could have afforded the 40 Million on his own but there were risks with laying down that much capital and the optics of buying John’s half wouldn’t have been awesome 😎. I love Paul and his music but I always hated to hear him cry poor mouth on this issue... Michael Jackson didn’t break any laws and John and Paul decided to make quick money by selling out the rather sizable a Publishing deal they had in 1969. It’s very complicated and many books could be written about it... They made a mistake starting their own record company... Dick James sold his stake without informing them which was his legal right but it did complicate things. +Self Correction: I think The Beatles themselves may now own the Masters through Apple 🍎 Corp but EMI still is in charge of maintaining and archiving the tapes.

It is, however, still amusing to think of Ringo sitting in a dimly lit room, at a desk in front of a wall of monitors (a secret HQ known, of course, as the Octopus's Garden), all with blocked reaction videos on them, as he maniacally cackles and does a villainous mustache twirl. "I should call up Paul. He'd love this!"

Haha!

Hey not all of us are gre....goddamn it mirror..... its character!

Well I'd give a full reply except my arthritis is kicking up again.

I have it on good advice the ladies like a few grey hairs. It's not the end of the world. (Well as long as your not chasing around 20yos still, which you shouldn't be)

@@shayneoneill1506 Hey, it helped create one of Simon and Garfunkel's best songs, Bridge Over Troubled Waters. Silver girl was evidently his first wife who was 30 at the time and upset when she noticed some gray hairs-she was barely 30.

I think that's why Tim smiles...

LOL

Soy luna😈

I think that came just a bit before this, but yeah, wasn't that great? I love those solos!

Yes, the 'jam' came just before The End. Timeless, never gets old. It was John on heavy fuzz?

@@docwill184 That was John!

Doc Will Wrong. It’s the opening section of The End. Look for the Abbey Road album on iTunes or Spotify if you don’t believe me.

@@colinbaker3916 Yes, correct. A distinction without a difference.

Except for Paul. He changed everything for rock bass.

But not like Victor Wooten, or Jaco whose virtuosity took over the band. I don’t think any of them took over with their instruments.

What makes the Beatles great is their extraordinary songwriting talents. The instrumental virtuosity can (and often does) affect the flow of a song and misrepresent its own essence.