{"id":743,"date":"2007-07-28T22:04:23","date_gmt":"2007-07-29T02:04:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-07-28T22:06:23","modified_gmt":"2007-07-28T22:06:23","slug":"pot-luck-sound-john-paul-george-and-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/pot-luck-sound-john-paul-george-and-ring\/","title":{"rendered":"Pot-Luck Sound: John, Paul, George, and Ringo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/297zDxqzUJo?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nI&#8217;d like to see if I could build off Oats&#8217; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php?title=all_things_must_slide&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1\" title=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php?title=all_things_must_slide&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1\">All Things Must Slide<\/a><\/strong> piece from the other day, which pondered the roots and significance of George Harrison&#8217;s signature slide guitar style. It was discussed in the thread that Harrison&#8217;s contribution to what we call a &#8220;Beatles-esque&#8221; sound wasn&#8217;t even used until Harrison&#8217;s solo career. Some made mention of what songs in Harrison&#8217;s work with the Beatles may have pointed toward this sound. I got to thinking, <em>What exactly was Harrison&#8217;s most significant, <strong>most representative<\/strong>, signature contribution to the Beatles sound, and for that matter, what do I most consider the single, signature musical contribution of each John, Paul, and Ringo?<\/em> In other words, if George Martin called the boys together for a <strong>pot-luck dinner<\/strong>, what would be the one musical dish that each Beatle would bring?<\/p>\n<p><ins>Before you answer, it&#8217;s very important that you read on!<\/ins><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nNow I&#8217;ve been thinking about my answers, but before I share what might be the &#8220;right&#8221; ones, I&#8217;m curious to know what you think. Before you share, however, let&#8217;s get a few things straight. Veterans of the Halls of Rock know my feelings on the importance of clear, evolving <strong>guidelines<\/strong>, so let&#8217;s get a few rules in order:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For purposes of discussion, we will not concern ourselves with issues of Look, emotional characteristics (eg, &#8220;The Serious One&#8221;, &#8220;The Cute One&#8221;), and other <em>nonmusical<\/em> Rock Superhero elements.<\/li>\n<li>We won&#8217;t get too hung up with defining the term &#8220;Beatles-esque&#8221; or whether this sound we know when we hear it is more accurately &#8220;Beatle-esque.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>We will resist breaking it down by era; we must choose one representative musical dish.<\/li>\n<li>We will do our best to respect the right of others to be &#8220;right&#8221; and only list one set of musical dishes per comment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As always we reserve the right to tighten up the initial guidelines, but most importantly, have fun with this. Impress each other. <strong>What was the Main Ingredient each member of The Beatles brought to the sound we call Beatles-esque?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d like to see if I could build off Oats&#8217; All Things Must Slide piece from the other day, which pondered the roots and significance of George Harrison&#8217;s signature slide guitar style. It was discussed in the thread that Harrison&#8217;s contribution to what we call a &#8220;Beatles-esque&#8221; sound wasn&#8217;t even used until Harrison&#8217;s solo career. <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/pot-luck-sound-john-paul-george-and-ring\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}