I am not a musician.
Heck, I can barely play the radio. But I saw this link recently and it just blows me away.
Randy Bachman, the guitarist and a founding member of Bachman Turner Overdrive, talks of visiting the Abbey Road studio in London and learns the secret to what he calls the most famous chord in rock-music history.
It’s the chord that begins “A Hard Day’s Night.” Diehard Beatles fans – such as yours truly – know what I’m talking about.
The coolest part of this brief audio link, though, is the sound of Bachman’s voice when he puts all the pieces together – courtesy of Giles Martin, the son of legendary Beatles music producer Sir George Martin – and then strums the chord.
It knocks me out to hear a musician get so tickled as he learns the secret to a bit of rock-and-roll history. When Bachman talks about all the various notes that John, Paul and George played to put that magical sound together, he might as well be speaking Martian to me.
But when he gets downright giddy at the sound that comes from all of it, well, he is speaking language any of us can understand.