George Harrison - 2024 ACF Regionals

Question

Answer the following about musical experimentation on the Beatles’ album Revolver, for 10 points each.

[10e] On the track “Love You To,” this Beatle emulated khyal music with sitars. Ravi Shankar taught this lead guitarist, who wrote the song “Here Comes the Sun.”

ANSWER: George Harrison

[10h] To imitate Tibetan chanting, the vocals on “Tomorrow Never Knows” were fed through a Leslie speaker and then played over this keyboard instrument’s magnetic tapes. This instrument popular among progressive rockers plays a flute on “Strawberry Fields Forever.”

ANSWER: Mellotron

[10m] “Eleanor Rigby” experimented with viola staccatos, similar to how John Cale introduced viola drones on this band’s song “Venus in Furs.” This group was the house band of the Exploding Plastic Inevitable.

ANSWER: The Velvet Underground [accept The Velvet Underground and Nico]

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Summary


2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley	01/27/2024	Y	3	20.00	100%	33%	67%
2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU	01/27/2024	Y	8	15.00	63%	50%	38%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Minnesota	01/27/2024	Y	2	10.00	50%	50%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska	01/27/2024	Y	6	13.33	83%	50%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State	01/27/2024	Y	3	16.67	67%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers	01/27/2024	Y	5	18.00	80%	80%	20%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial	01/27/2024	Y	8	17.50	88%	75%	13%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt	01/27/2024	Y	5	6.00	20%	40%	0%

Data


Stanford A	Berkeley B	10	10	10	30
Stanford C	Berkeley C	10	10	0	20
Berkeley A	Stanford B	10	0	0	10
Duke A (UG)	GWU A (UG)	10	0	0	10
Liberty B (DII)	Virginia C (UG)	10	0	10	20
Maryland A (Grad)	Virginia B (UG)	10	10	10	30
Virginia A (UG)	Maryland B (UG)	10	0	10	20
Liberty C (DII)	Maryland C (DII)	0	0	0	0
UNC A (Grad)	Roanoke College A (DII)	10	10	10	30
UNC B (UG)	Liberty A (Grad)	0	0	0	0
UNC C (UG)	William & Mary A (UG)	0	10	0	10
Arizona State	Minnesota B	0	0	0	0
Iowa State	Minnesota C	10	0	10	20
Texas A	Claremont A	10	0	10	20
Iowa A	Iowa B	10	0	10	20
Rice A	UW A	0	0	0	0
Sorbonne	Appalachian State	10	0	10	20
UBC A	Texas A&M A	10	0	0	10
Texas A&M B	Michigan State A	10	0	0	10
Ohio State A	Cedarville	10	0	10	20
Kenyon	Michigan A	10	0	10	20
Michigan B	Michigan C	0	0	10	10
Columbia A	Haverford	10	0	0	10
Johns Hopkins	Vassar	10	0	10	20
John Jay	NYU B	10	0	10	20
NYU A	Penn	0	0	10	10
Columbia B	Rowan	10	10	10	30
Cambridge A	Bristol	10	0	10	20
Oxford A	Cambridge B	10	0	10	20
Cambridge C	Oxford B	0	0	10	10
Durham A	Durham B	10	0	10	20
Imperial A	Oxford C	10	10	10	30
Imperial B	Kiel	10	0	0	10
Edinburgh	KCL	10	0	10	20
Warwick	Sheffield	10	0	0	10
Geodesic	MTSU	0	0	10	10
Alabama	Harding	0	0	0	0
Georgia Tech B	South Carolina	0	0	0	0
Tennessee	Vanderbilt B	0	0	10	10
Kentucky	Vanderbilt A	10	0	0	10