Revolver Entry

The beatles prior to Revolver were viewed as a mainstream, iconic pop group that were playing typical pop music of that generation. The beatles were influenced by several things concerning their lyrical content on this album. One of those things was a conversation Lennon had with Peter Fonda while using LSD. Fonda had said something along the lines of "knowing what it is to be dead" refering to an incident he had with a firearm in his younger years. Also political issues such as higher taxes played into lyrical content. The beatles include hints of this in the song "Taxman" where they are angry at the high rates of taxes being implemented on their investors. The beatles utilized different studio gear and techniques to manipulate their normal sounds into something unheard of by listeners. On this album, the beatles used a tecnique called ADT or automatic double tracking to achieve desired effects on different instuments. This is most widely used on their vocal tracks to provide perfect doubles that could be shifted out of time to provide chorusing effect. John Lennon expressed a desire for his voice to be processed in a way that it would sound as if he was "on top of a mountain". This effect was achieved by engineers by passing his voice through a leslie cabinet. As a engineer, Revolver sounds very innovative for the time of the recordings. As a listener, this album broke down any wall of limitation presented to this caliber of aritstry.