AEROSMITH COME TOGETHER AND STOLE THE BEATLES' THUNDER

I can come at listening to ABBEY ROAD (1969), one of the biggest selling albums in history, the biggest selling Beatles album, and of course the namesake of the famous studio where JOHN LENNON, PAUL MCCARTNEY, GEORGE HARRISON and RINGO STARR recorded what I definitely consider to be the best post-Revolver Beatles album.

REVOLVER (1966) being the last album the band recorded before the famous 4-some from Liverpool went into psychedelic overdrive and went absolutely bananas to record the much over-hyped and critically overrated SGT. PEPPERS LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND, which if you ask me is a massive copycat job of the left of field BEACH BOYS mid 60's psychedelic laced masterpiece PET SOUNDS, as well SGT.

PEPPERS only recycles what JEFFERSON AIRPLANE and CAPTAIN BEEFHEART AND HIS MAGIC BAND had already achieved in terms of psychedelic improvisation, and when at the top of their craft, both those acts recorded much more groundbreaking psychedelic rock than anything you will hear on SGT. PEPPERS LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND.

Fair dinkum, I hate the album, it sucks (laugh), WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS is half listenable. But ABBEY ROAD was much much better, maybe the drugs from 1967 had finally wore off (laugh).

It was recorded when all four members were at loggerheads with one another through a mixture of professional and personal reasons, Lennon's new relationship with YOKO ONO was creating a particularly nasty personality clash with his biggest artistic rival in the band, PAUL MCCARTNEY, which probaly is why ABBEY ROAD has a rather disparate and unsettled feel to it, which co-incidently turned out to be a refreshing change from the over the top and concocted psychedelia of SGT. PEPPERS.

By the time all four were at Abbey Road recording the 1969 album, I don't think anyone of the four were in too much of a care mode to worry about achieving a perfectly tweaked recording.

I think the intention of The Beatles with Abbey Road was to make use of their inhouse hostility to record something a lot more freewheeling like their early stuff, they were no longer joined at the hip, rather they were a band of wannabe solo artists putting in one last dig more as a supergroup than a band before an inevitable parting of the ways.

Besides COME TOGETHER, which I have featured above as the clip except I have used the classic AEROSMITH cover instead, ABBEY ROAD's best moments to me are when GEORGE HARRISON steps up to the mike and takes lead vocals, on the tracks SOMETHING and HERE COMES THE SUN, but I dont mind the 7 minute plus closing track on side 1 titled I WANT YOU (SHE'S SO HEAVY), sung by Lennon.

Side 1 is definitely a better listen on Abbey Road than side 2, with song titles like MAXWELL'S SILVER HAMMER and POLYTHENE PAM, it was obvious that The Beatles had either been hanging around SYD BARRETT or FRANK ZAPPA for too long, or had just run out of names to call psychedelic songs (laugh).