Song 779: This week the playlist swings to Day Tripper by The Beatles, written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, and you can find a YouTube video of it by clicking on the title. In the era after the Fab Four rocked my world in February of 1964, I mostly paid attention to them and their fellow British Invaders, but by the time the final month of the following year arrived, I had widened my focus to much of the rest of The Top 40, so this enlightening ride reminded me of the origin of my attraction to heavy rhythms. I had used the lessons the radio taught me to begin writing my own songs, and this particular outing gave me a shining example of how to expand a composition around a single riff. I had begun considering that possibility in the previous summer after hearing about some turning rocks having a lack of Satisfaction (Song 256) and then Paul & Co. gave me a much clearer understanding of how to do that. In fact, having the radio taking me on this ride, it did NOT take me so long to find out how to write my own riff excursions.
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