In one of the thousands of Beatles books, it mentions that John Lennon loved 'The Little Girl I Once Knew' and said it was the best thing he had heard on the radio in six weeks. I'm not sure if it's true, but I figured I'd throw it out there.
Not only that, but didn't he lift 'Don't Worry Baby' for his 1980 hit, '(Just Like) Starting Over', or was that subconscious, sort of like Harrison lifting material for his 'Sweet Lord'?
I bought the 40th Anniversary release at Best Buy today for $17.99.
I immediately went out to my car and opened it up. The fuzzy packaging itself is very tasteful. Inside the liner notes are stapled to the packaging in the middle. It appears to be an edited version of the notes that appeared in the 2001 remaster.
The mono mix on the CD is worth the price of admission. I knew it was going to make me cry the first second or so into 'Wouldn't It Be Nice'. This song in particular always bugged me on the 2001 remaster, because the intro never sounded quite right. It's much better, and at least to my ears most of the hiss is gone.
The free downloads are from 'Live In London'. So they aren't anything special.
That's unfortunate. I always thought Brian's playing was pretty good. He should have played more, but I can also see why he used session guys like Ray.
How many big-time bass players used their thumbs exclusively? I would venture not many?
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