Who's your favorite 5th Beatle?

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Poll question: Who's your favorite 5th Beatle?

[Lavender Brown]

1. elperromagico

[StopTheMorans]

3. SNAP!

[elperromagico]

13. I'm not the Fifth Beatle. I'm Ringo.

Could I please have some money? I'll even wear the Mr. Conductor costume...

[no name no slogan]

16. Look, we gave you "Octopus's Garden", awright?

Now STFU and give me a backbeat! :7

[elperromagico]

22. I lost me drumsticks in a poker game.

:cry:

[no name no slogan]

24. You an' 'Arrison. What should we do with you?

:7 :hi:

[Lavender Brown]

18. Only if I can join your All-Star Band

[elperromagico]

21. Could you take Joe Walsh's place?

We need a good guitarist/maniac.

[Lavender Brown]

25. Hmmm

Perhaps I'd fit in better with the Traveling Wilburys.

[elperromagico]

27. Well, they've got two stiffs.

Are you a slide guitarist with a thick Scouse accent?

Or a high-voiced singer with a fondness for sunglasses?

[Lavender Brown]

28. I'll be Roy

B-)

[meegbear]

2. Yoko!

[johnnie]

4. Ummm

I don't see Yoko on there. :eyes:

[mark414]

5. Where's Harry Nilsson?

or Brian Epstein?

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7. Epstein never played on an album

that I'm aware of. Did Harry Nillson?

[mark414]

11. well i know epstein didn't

but i thought sometimes he was lovingly referred to as the fifth beatle regardless.

nilsson never played with them either, but he was lennon's drinking buddy in the 70's and has also been referred to as "the 5th beatle," mostly during the let it be era

[maveric]

6. Charley Manson

At least he thinks he was one.

[mac56]

8. Murray the K, baby!

[DelawareValleyDem]

9. Apu

"I was know as the fifth Beatle"
"Sure you were, Apu"

[no name no slogan]

12. Oh, damn, that one's so obvious

That's one of my favorite Simpsons eps, too!

Linda McCartney: "We just weren't satisfied with any of the other vegetarian entrees on the market. You never knew when you'd be biting into a giant piece of pork."

:D

[CanuckAmok]

15. that's "Bee-at-tel"

"Im Sgt. Pepper's lonely heart's club man! I hope you will...enjoy...my show!"

[Bonhomme Richard]

10. If there was a fifth Beatle it was definitly Martin hands down n/t

[jpgray]

14. John sure as shit didn't play the break in "In My Life" (nt)

[elperromagico]

20. Even George Martin could barely play it.

He had to slow the tape down by half and play it slowly.

But you probably already knew that...

[jpgray]

23. Yep

But the composition of it was all him, along with the musical orgasm in Day in the Life, the arrangement of Good Night, etc. But production and quality control more than anything else was what made the Beatles as big as they were, in my view. And Martin has to get credit for a lot of that.

[edbermac]

30. He could play it easily; he played it slowly because it sounded good.

Read the book by Mark Lewisohn on the Beatles Abbey Road sessions; lots of good info...

[jpgray]

31. Well, here's a quote from Martin

“It was quite common practice for us to do a track and leave a hole in the middle,” he said. “Sometimes George would pick up his guitar and fool around and do a solo, and we would often try to get other sounds. On 'In My Life' we left a hole as usual, and the Beatles went out and had their cup of tea or something. And while they were away, I thought it would be rather nice to have a harpsichord-like solo... I did it with what I call a 'wound up' piano, which was at double speed - partly because you get a harpsichord sound by shortening the attack of everything, but also because I couldn't play it at real speed anyway. So I played it on piano at exactly half normal speed, and down an octave. And when you bring the tape back to normal speed again, it sounds pretty brilliant. It's a way of tricking everybody into thinking you can do something really well.”

[elperromagico]

33. Thank you. I've defended enough of my statements today.

:P

[elperromagico]

17. George Martin is the only one on that list who regularly contributed

to the "Beatles sound." Without George Martin, I'm not sure where the Beatles would have gone. They may not have even gotten a contract without him.

He's not their equal, but he's the closest thing to a fifth Beatle musically.

[HalfManHalfBiscuit]

19. Four was four too many as it is

We sure as hell don't need a fifth running around.

[DELUSIONAL]

26. George Martin -- is Sir George (or whatever)

Nice man. I've met he and his wife (Judy).

He's the one we most often associate with the Beatles.

[edbermac]

29. Billy Preston?? He was with them for about 2 weeks...

Musically it would be George Martin, though many feel road manager Neil Aspinall would be the fifth...

[dbt]

32. George Martin for real (surreal?)

"We were forever trying to get that low bass sound the way Motown did, without having the cutter head jump off the turntable."

"No amount of technology will fix a bad performance."

"You've got enough tunes for ONE great disc."

:smoke:

[dbt]

34. Oh shit, I forgot William Campbell!!!!

28IF

[Debbi801]

35. I said Stu, but you can't forget William Campbell...

The guy who replaced Paul when he died. :7

Debbi