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Started by Omar Haddad (@omar_builds) ·

Tomorrow Never Knows is a pile of tape loops and a spinning organ speaker

Lennon wanted his voice to sound like the Dalai Lama singing from a mountaintop, so they wired it through a Leslie speaker. Each Beatle made tape loops at home, about 30 of them, and George Martin picked 16.

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How I got here

Started with
“tomorrow never knows how it was recorded”
Ended at
Revolver (Beatles album)

The Trail

  1. “tomorrow never knows how it was recorded” (google.com)
  2. Tomorrow Never Knows (en.wikipedia.org)
  3. Leslie speaker (en.wikipedia.org)

    rotating horn inside a cabinet, made for Hammond organs

  4. Tape loop (en.wikipedia.org)
  5. Automatic double tracking (en.wikipedia.org)

    invented at Abbey Road because Lennon hated singing everything twice

  6. Ken Townsend (en.wikipedia.org)
  7. Revolver (Beatles album) (en.wikipedia.org)

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