Revolver

Before recording Revolver, The Beatles were, at the time, the best rock band in Brittan. Their music made its way to the US, and Beatle-Mania started. In The Beatles' early days, many of their songs were about love.

The Beatles took time off from touring, after Beatle-Mania, and started to work on new music and a film. They started experimenting with drugs and began making new creative music. The drugs and new ways of thinking sparked The Beatles creating music no one had heard of before, described as futuristic. Their music was no longer just love songs. They finally were able to relax after touring and innovate a new styles of music. They started writing songs influenced by their new ways of thinking, and were writing songs in different forms, and about subjects that were unheard of before. They were using instruments that weren’t used in rock music before, and they were using instruments to perform different parts than were customary.

During the recording of Revolver, The Beatles used the studio like an instrument by starting off the album with original studio recording count in, bringing the listener into the studio with them, reminding people that they are artists, and recording is a process.

The Beatles were very innovative during the process of recording the Revolver album. They were the first band to play with the recorded tape, like playing parts of songs in reverse. They started to use different instruments like a sitar from India. The first time drums were compressed in a recording was by The Beatles.

The Beatles’ Revolver album is inspirational to me as a producer, because it solidifies that I can do things outside of the box, and may come up with some new type of sound doing so. Listening to the album proves that you can create something unique, and impress the masses. Revolver gives musical professionals like myself the hope that trying new things can have a great outcome.