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Day Two Hundred Seventy Four (Year Four)

So, my goal for tonight was to dive, at least a little bit, into Beatle related studying. 

That said, I grabbed the first volume of the Walter Everett series, and just sort of dove in and started reading.  What struck me almost immediately is that the reason they were too overwhelming for me to deal with fifteen years ago is exactly the reason I know I'm going to love them now.

The books are so chock full of theory and detail that they're not only an examination of the Beatles as musicians, they're almost a theory course in their own right.

I'm thinking that this weekend might well have enough time in it to lay everything out and start trying to assimilate it all on a broader level, but for tonight it was enough for me to just dip my toe in the water, so to speak.

The other realization I had regarding that tonight: my brother the oboe/music theory nerd would love these books.  He's always griping that he misses listening to popular music, maybe this set would combine his missing of popular music with his need to be a theory nerd.  I'll have to send them his way if and when I ever finish with them.
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