Originally Posted By: Janice & Bud


John Lennon asked the Beatles' engineer if he (John) could hang by his feet and twirl around. The notion was to pass by the mic on each revolution while singing (for a vocal effect idea he had for Tomorrow Never Knows). The engineer, Geoff Emerick, more sensibly tried a Leslie rotary speaker (typically heard with a Hammond B3 organ) and thus the "rotary" sound began.


I'm missing something here. Specifically the part I'm not clear about is how did Geoff mount John to the rotary speaker? crazy


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FIFTY+ YEARS ago. Modern? Ha! What goes around comes around! Yeah...awful pun.


I actually like a good pun. Well played.






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PS Geoff Emerick's book offers tremendous insight into their studio creativity. The Beatles would tell George Martin what they wanted but Geoff had to figure out how to do it.


I hadn't heard of this. Very cool. They had some WILD productions. Thanks for the info!


Duct tape? Is that the answer to the rotary speaker mount?

Last edited by HearToLearn; 05/18/18 10:45 AM.
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