Beatles Tech Online

Electronic Musician and Mix magazines just launched a wonderful little site compiling a bunch of their articles about the Beatles and their use of music technology.

The Fab Four probably aren't the first musicians who come to mind when you think of technology, but as Mix's Paul Lehrman writes in one article, "What the Beatles were doing between 1966 and 1969 was so brilliant, so revolutionary, so liberating, so mind-blowing, so fall-on-the-floor-froth-at-the-mouth amazing, that almost everything else, then or since, pales in comparison. And all of the toys and techniques that we use in the recording studio today, in fact, all of our careers, are a direct result of those projects."

Besides articles, the Beatle Tech site also features a growing collection of videos and other goodies, such as this tour of a tape box from the Sgt. Pepper sessions. I also enjoyed "Brush With a Beatle," a page where audio engineers share their Beatle sightings and how they changed their lives.