MUSIC 2II3 Lecture 9: Music 2II3 Nov 6 lec 9.docx
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Like the beetles who met brian epstein (who changed the direction of the band), the rolling stones met andrew loog oldham: andrew had worked for brian eptein and the beetles so he had a lot of experience, he becomes the bands manager in april 1963, one of the first things he does is tells them to distinguish themselves from the beetles (before oldham they looked a lot like the beetles) Original was composed by slim harpo (african american) in 1957: they weren"t trying to do an exact copy of the original song but it was extremely similar (huge attempt to capture the aesthetic, mick sounds american he was trying to capture the accent (to make the sound as accurate as possible) they wanted it to be true to the original recordings and they did a really good job, even their original material had a similar quality to it (rnb had the biggest influence)
