One Year With The Beatles

The Fab Four!

People tend to forget that the “beetles” have been the first pop-rock band whose sound was entirely based on guitars: except for some John’s organ playing, the band’s live sound, especially in the first years, was given by the six strings.

And so we are, playing with the legend, for a 12 episodes column to analize the guitar work of George, John and Paul, but not just that. Considerations of any sort will be made on songs, arrangements, vocals. Because music is not made just by guitars, luckily.

Why October 5th? Because that day, in 1962, Love Me Do/P.S. I Love You, the first UK single of the band was released, to start an adventure that ended seven years and many #1 hits later.

But why 12 episodes if the official LPs are 13 and a lot of 45s are still left?

To call the thing “One Year With The Beatles”!

The division in 12 episodes has been made in an arbitrary way, as personal will be what we’ll write. About the Fab Four everything and the opposite has been said, we have no hidden secrets, but the love for their music is a good excuse to have fun, one more time, trying to see things from a different point of view. How we divided everything, you'll discover it reading us during the year.

Together with the singer-guitarist and friend Davide Canazza we’ll go grooming through the played and sang notes, dividing the work between the two websites Laster.it and Fingerpicking.net; on Laster you’ll find the analysis of the “electric” guitars work, on F.Net we’ll talk about acoustic guitar and general considerations about the music. A common path will be the start to analyze the different things.

Along the way we'll try to involve some friends, musicians and journalists, if they'll like to add something.

We’re not maniacs about dates, places, instruments or whatever, we’ll try to express in the simplest and more direct way our thoughts and emotions about this amazing band, arguable thoughts, but ours.

In the end, it's just a game.

Daniele Bazzani