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The question of the day for me is, “Has Paul McCartney finally gone off his rocker?” What with Ringo (Peace and Love, Peace and Love) deciding not to sign any more autographs and being particularly odd in his method of communicating this, it seems that age is beginning to tale its toll of the surviving members of the Fab Four.
It seems that a track they laid down in 1967 for an electronic music festival and which had been thought to be mythical, really does exist. Macca wanted to put it on one of the Beatles’ anthology series, but the others vetoed him.
The track is apparently called Carnival of Light and never released because the other Beatles thought it too adventurous. This description of the recording method suggests they were right:
Bearing in mind that the Beatles issued Lennon’s Revolution 9, one of the biggest pieces of bollocks ever committed to tape on the White Album, and that Lennon went on to even stranger stuff with Yoko, which is considered bizarre even today, 40 years on, it suggests that Carnival of Light should stay in Macca’s personal collection only.
“Too adventurous” in context sounds rather like Sir Humphrey suggesting to Jim Hacker that it is a “brave decision” ie probably best not done.
Still, what do I know?
It seems that a track they laid down in 1967 for an electronic music festival and which had been thought to be mythical, really does exist. Macca wanted to put it on one of the Beatles’ anthology series, but the others vetoed him.
The track is apparently called Carnival of Light and never released because the other Beatles thought it too adventurous. This description of the recording method suggests they were right:
Sir Paul explained: "I said all I want you to do is just wander around all the stuff, bang it, shout, play it, it doesn't need to make any sense. Hit a drum then wander on to the piano, hit a few notes, just wander around.
"So that's what we did and then put a bit of an echo on it. It's very free."
The track was played just once, at the festival, and is said to include distorted guitar, organ sounds, gargling and band members shouting phrases such as "Barcelona!" and "Are you all right?"
Bearing in mind that the Beatles issued Lennon’s Revolution 9, one of the biggest pieces of bollocks ever committed to tape on the White Album, and that Lennon went on to even stranger stuff with Yoko, which is considered bizarre even today, 40 years on, it suggests that Carnival of Light should stay in Macca’s personal collection only.
“Too adventurous” in context sounds rather like Sir Humphrey suggesting to Jim Hacker that it is a “brave decision” ie probably best not done.
Still, what do I know?
