I’m a Beatles fanatic and a running fanatic. I listen to the Beatles when I run. I run every day that I can. I play the Beatles when I run. I always hear something new and different each time I listen.
Today when I was running, about 11 songs into my shuffle, Fixing a Hole, played.
O.K.
I love Fixing a Hole. I must have listened to this song, literally, hundreds of times. It's pure Paul McCartney, you know? He seems to have an infinite supply of melodic songs. Just when you think there is NO WAY that he could think up a new one, he does. It's scary. But in a good way.
Anyway, I'm listening to this song and decide to just focus on the bass line. I do that a lot when I run and listen to the Beatles. I'll try to isolate Ringo's drums or John's Stratocaster or George's Rickenbaker.
I don't know if Paul was playing his Hofner on Fixing a Hole; I am not a musician in any sense of the word (although I love music so I guess that counts for something). It sounds like he might even be playing an upright bass. The song is drenched in reverb; very trippy and Pepper-ish.
So I am listening to the bass line and I discovered something really cool that I had never heard before. It's difficult to describe music with words, but I'll try.
It's one bass note
But it's the way he plays it. It sounds like he is plucking the note. Just one string, that may have been strung a bit loose One string, And in between the time he releases it, and the time he plays the next note, the string makes this really cool sound. The note…just hangs there. It hums. It resonates.
It seems to go on forever if you listen closely and with headphones.
He plays it twice in the song. One time in the opening verse - when he sings "colourful way", and one time in the ending verse - when he sings "weren't important yesterday."
It got me thinking. And then I had an epiphany. That sound, the wonderful bass note, was a metaphor.
That note sounds exactly the way an orgasm feels. The way it resonates and hums; how it seems to hang there. How it seems to go on forever.
And he plays it twice.
Did Paul know what he was doing when he played that note? Was this really some kind of Paul is Dead-like hidden clue that meant that Paul Gives Good Head? Or Paul Fucks Women So Hard He Gives Them Multiple Orgasms?
I would LOVE to play this song backwards.
P.S. Come on....."Paul could fix my hole any time" would have been WAY too easy.
Today when I was running, about 11 songs into my shuffle, Fixing a Hole, played.
O.K.
I love Fixing a Hole. I must have listened to this song, literally, hundreds of times. It's pure Paul McCartney, you know? He seems to have an infinite supply of melodic songs. Just when you think there is NO WAY that he could think up a new one, he does. It's scary. But in a good way.
Anyway, I'm listening to this song and decide to just focus on the bass line. I do that a lot when I run and listen to the Beatles. I'll try to isolate Ringo's drums or John's Stratocaster or George's Rickenbaker.
I don't know if Paul was playing his Hofner on Fixing a Hole; I am not a musician in any sense of the word (although I love music so I guess that counts for something). It sounds like he might even be playing an upright bass. The song is drenched in reverb; very trippy and Pepper-ish.
So I am listening to the bass line and I discovered something really cool that I had never heard before. It's difficult to describe music with words, but I'll try.
It's one bass note
But it's the way he plays it. It sounds like he is plucking the note. Just one string, that may have been strung a bit loose One string, And in between the time he releases it, and the time he plays the next note, the string makes this really cool sound. The note…just hangs there. It hums. It resonates.
It seems to go on forever if you listen closely and with headphones.
He plays it twice in the song. One time in the opening verse - when he sings "colourful way", and one time in the ending verse - when he sings "weren't important yesterday."
It got me thinking. And then I had an epiphany. That sound, the wonderful bass note, was a metaphor.
That note sounds exactly the way an orgasm feels. The way it resonates and hums; how it seems to hang there. How it seems to go on forever.
And he plays it twice.
Did Paul know what he was doing when he played that note? Was this really some kind of Paul is Dead-like hidden clue that meant that Paul Gives Good Head? Or Paul Fucks Women So Hard He Gives Them Multiple Orgasms?
I would LOVE to play this song backwards.
P.S. Come on....."Paul could fix my hole any time" would have been WAY too easy.
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