Who will own the original solid-state mixing console used at Abbey Road to record Abbey Road?
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Author: DOuG pRATt
The Mighty Colbert Art Players
Two of my favorite famous people yucking it up.
The False Prophet
During college, participating in Campus Crusade for Christ, I saw the beginnings of Evangelical Christianity’s conservative political agenda. An agenda that is now operating in full force. Listen to this Southern Pentecostal pastor, quoting the Bible to justify his support of Trump.
A Capitol Idea
More about Stu Phillips. In the Sixties he was behind the Hollyridge Strings series of albums.
I approached Karl Engemann at Capitol [Records] with a far-out idea of recording an album of Beatles songs in an orchestral setting geared toward easy listening. A sort of “Beatles for the older set.”
Phillips wasn’t the only one with that idea in 1964. Beatles producer George Martin produced instrumental versions of Beatles songs, starting with the A Hard Day’s Night soundtrack.
George Martin then released his Off the Beatle Track album. I checked Martin’s memoir, All You Need is Ears, and there’s no mention of the Hollyridge Strings records.
Music from the first Hollyridge album by Phillips is featured on the Capitol album The Beatles Story.
The Other Planets Suite
First there was Gustav Holtz composing music about the solar system, then there was Harry Revel. Released in early ’56, Music From Out of Space was the first album by record producer and TV/film composer Stu Phillips.
In his memoir, Stu Who? Forty Years of Navigating the Minefields of the Music Business, Phillips explains the recording session was financed by his father, who “was never to see that money back.”
Stuck in the Middle
Without the pandemic I’m certain that Trump, for all of his incompetence and dishonesty, would have nonetheless been reelected in 2020. Covid may have been the cause, but the fact is that Trump left office with the economy in shambles.
Biden shouldn’t have added another economic stimulus while the supply chains were still tangled up. The result was inflation, but interest rates needed to be brought back up to a reasonable level anyway. The commercial real estate market is suffering from a combination of remote work and years of borrowing money for free, following the financial crisis of 2008.
If Trump wins the election next week, he’ll inherit an economy that’s once again in good shape overall, as it was when he took over from Obama. That doesn’t mean there aren’t middle class families that are struggling. There always are, even without a recession. Something I’ve noticed in many stories about the economy is they often feature a single mother, as this one does.
While driving with good, ol’ Denro this past weekend to see Joe Sinnott’s family at the Albany Comic Con, we noticed a lot of highway construction. There are overpasses under construction at a Mass Pike interchange, and we rode on plenty of new pavement along the way. If Trump wins, he’ll also inherit the benefits of Biden’s Build Back Better legislation. Trump kept talking about an infrastructure bill, but he never delivered one. Maybe he had concepts of a plan.
On Biden’s watch, the government has launched large programs to move the country to clean energy sources, to create from scratch or to bring onshore a number of industries, to strengthen organized labor, to build thousands of infrastructure projects, to embed racial-equity goals in many government programs, and to break up concentrations of economic power.