3/9/2024 0 Comments Ticket to ride meaning of song![]() We got a Gretsch Country Gentleman and the Rick. And we took notes on what the Beatles were playing and bought instruments like they had. Early on the Byrds went to see A Hard Day's Night, a kind of reconnaissance trip. Showed us around his studio and we all went out to dinner. He let me play his Rickenbacker that he played on A Hard Day's Night. We went to his house in Hyde Park and he was kind enough to show us around. A really sweet guy, he loved his music, loved his family. I've just found this: "Yes, we (George Harrison and I) were friends. thanks - this is slightly bugging me because the realization that the Byrds recorded before this jangly Rickenbacker opening prior to the Beatles turned a long-held presumption on its head - love to hear some thoughts! - swiss Edited 2 time(s). But "Ticket to Ride" is from Help, from 1965, after the Byrd's finished recording "Mr Tam." Thoughts? Coincidence? These 2 very similar Rickenbacker lead-ins occurred independently from one another? Again, I always thought the Byrds were inspired by "Ticket to Ride," but it seems it could have been the other way around-tho I've never heard about the Beatles being all that interested in the Byrds, to the point of emulating them-it would be the other way around. The opening riff on "Ticket to Ride," however, is quite kindred to the Byrds' "Mr Tambourine Man" opening. I always thought the Byrds were inspired by the Beatles' use of the Rickenbacker, and that's how they came up with the opening to "Mr Tambourine Man." One could say they were - i.e., meaning, the use of Rickenbacker on Hard Day's Night - but there's nothing at all like the opening riff that the Byrds used on "Mr Tambourine Man" in any songs from Hard Day's Night. Original inquiry hi - I always thought the Beatles had recorded "Ticket to Ride" before the Byrds recorded "Mr Tambourine Man" - but, according to wikipedia, the Byrds started recording "Mr Tambourine Man," specifically the Rickenbacker opening riff, in January 1965, and the Beatles recorded "Ticket to Ride" in February 1965. ![]() (McGuinn claims to have been so inspired by the sound that he immediately traded a couple of instruments to get his own Rickenbacker.)" Source: Battling the British Invasion: Mr Tambourine Man and the fight for American pop independence. "Missing was the band’s trademark jingle-jangle of the Rickenbacker electric 12-string guitar, which would not become a part of their sonic signature until members Roger McGuinn, David Crosby, Gene Clark and probably Chris Hillman watched A Hard Day’s Night, in which George Harrison plays the Ric 12 string throughout the film. The first arrangement featured harmony vocals, percussion and acoustic guitars, very much in a folk style. "The Byrds (then going by the name Jet Set) began working on Mr Tambourine Man in the fall of 1964, though the band was a bit more skeptical of the song. ![]() The 1964 song " You Can't Do That" uses a jangly intro, not terribly dissimilar-and a logical precursor-to 1965's "Ticket to Ride." So, my theory I think is solid: that the Byrd's intro to "Mr Tambourine Man" was likely inspired by hearing the Beatles' use of 12-string Rickenbacker (not the Karl Perkins stuff, but this new sound.) 2nd update: just found this - so that solves that question.
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