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Title: Beatles Gear: All the Fab Four's Instruments, from Stage to Studio by Andy Babiuk ISBN: 0-87930-662-9 Publisher: Backbeat Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.84 (31 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Good, interesting, but a few problems...
Comment: A very interesting book which I enjoy reading and looking at more than a few times. It has inspired me to learn how to play guitar. On the con side, I wish the book was indexed or had an appendix that listed all the gear the Beatles used on an album or in all their number one songs at least (or, just a list of all their gear in one location in the book). While most of the photographs are excellent there are numerous pictures of receipts and other paperwork that are sized so small that it becomes meaningless because you can't make out anything on it! I hope the publisher will consider losing some of the text and enlarging the receipt pictures et. al. so they are clearly legible. Also, a list of public collections where some of the gear can be viewed in person would be a useful addition. No other rock 'n roll band will command a book that is written about just their gear. The Beatles were incredible and so far ahead of their time musically. I found myself looking at the pictures of various instruments while replaying songs in which the instrument was used. Great stuff.
Rating: 5
Summary: Extensively Researched
Comment: Great book by an outstanding musician. I live about 1 mile from the House of Guitars in Irondequoit, NY where Andy works with fellow Chesterfield King Greg Prevost. I would love to see Andy write a book on the equipment of Yes. I think just Rick Wakeman & Steve Howe's gear would be several hundred pages.
Rating: 5
Summary: Oh, those glossy pictures!!
Comment: I have to say, I bought this book primarily for the photographs. The large, glossy, color photos of every guitar, bass, and drum kit ever used by the Beatles. It was an absolute dream come true. But, to tell you the truth, I got a lot more than just a lot of fantastic pictures. I decided, when I bought this book, that I would read it cover to cover, no matter what, automatically assuming that paragraphs about amps and microphones would bore me to death. Not so. The way Babiuk wrote sparked an interest inside me so that I was eating up the information on amps and microphones as fast as I was eating up the information on guitar strings and bass pick ups. This book puts everything in such an interesting light, that I have become re-inspired, and I now look for more than just a great color when buying a guitar.
Of course, if you are just buying it for the photos, you won't be dissappointed. An absolute plethora of pictures adorn the huge pages of this book, making it a real sight for guitar-starved eyes.
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Title: The Beatles As Musicians: The Quarry Men Through Rubber Soul by Walter Everett ISBN: 0195141059 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: The Beatles As Musicians: Revolver Through the Anthology by Walter Everett ISBN: 0195129415 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: March, 1999 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: Ticket to Ride by Larry Kane, Dick Clark ISBN: 0762415924 Publisher: Running Press Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title:Ed Sullivan Presents the Beatles ASIN: B0000C3I2X Publisher: SOFA Entertainment Pub. Date: 28 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $20.97 |
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Title: The Beatles Are Coming: The Birth of Beatlemania in America by Bruce Spizer, Walter Cronkite ISBN: 0966264991 Publisher: Four Ninety-Eight Productions Llc Pub. Date: December, 2003 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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