I have had it up to here waiting for the Beatles catalogue to be remastered

Brit stiff upper lips, you know xpost

I'm with VegGrrl in having enjoyed this pretty much unreservedly. I don't play an instrument and I still find the process of arranging a song with bandmates to be magic or alchemy, even more than coming up with the initial germ of the song. The interminable goofing around seems an important part of the process to me, if the band members are paying enough attention to grab good ideas as they fly past. It makes "You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)" a bit more interesting, for one thing. I'm glad there wasn't any more work on "Maxwell's" after that bit in part 1.

Jackson didn't want victims' lawyers accusing him of manslaugher.

i'm starting to imagine an alternate world where Paul decided early on that "Maxwell's" was precious enough to reserve as the glittering centerpiece of some future solo album, or just gave it away to Badfinger again, and the Beatles stayed together another year or two as a direct result.

you guys saying “uh this isn’t like last dance” have clearly not read my posts very closely but i’m going to take that as my fault for not being clear enough i guess

I mean, I can sort of see it in a comprehensively-documented-last-hurrah sense.

right, but then the fundamental artistic choices are wildly different

i don’t know what kind of internal analytics disney use but i’d be pretty surprised if even half the people who start part 1 ever end up seeing the climactic concert

it’s a remarkable document in any case. not just of a band but of a very specific milieu. thank god it was cold, otherwise we’d have never seen all those magnificent coats!

Both documentaries feature Alan Parsons.

you guys saying “uh this isn’t like last dance” have clearly not read my posts very closely but i’m going to take that as my fault for not being clear enough i guess

Tbf, first couple of times it was mentioned, I thought you all were talking about The Last Waltz.

Just found this out, but in this extremely long interview from last week, Jackson says that Disney has actually nixed releasing the 12-hour cut on Blu-ray as they don't believe there’s a sufficient market for a 12-hour cut, so out of sheer spite Jackson expanded the standard cut to nearly eight hours without telling anyone, and no one at Disney seems to have cared or noticed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSLb7cpHy00

I don't t know where he says this, but it's pretty deep into the interview, like two hours in.

Maybe nine hours is enough

So it seems like streaming gods should, at least in appropriately godlike cases, get past all precedents of TV, Film, incl. on DVD and Blu-Ray capabilities, technically and financially, and put The Complete Footage behind whatever kind of paywall (or even free, because we're Apple and also because it will get you to finally buy that $XXXXX new iPhone), knowing that enough people will watch enough of it, incl. but not only junkies mainlining alll, that streaminf will surely recoup.
(Also w audio, Complete Smile Sessions etc.)

streamin*g*, that is, sorry

you guys saying “uh this isn’t like last dance” have clearly not read my posts very closely but i’m going to take that as my fault for not being clear enough i guess

Just too tactful to say what we really thought: “Run along son…We’ll see you later. We’re a rock’n’roll band you know ?”

xpost And of course there would be some figuring out a way to copy it all, and make their own cuts or whatever you call it.

Disney wants to save all the footage for an immersive VR ride debuting at Disneyland in 2024.

many xposts to dr casino

i find the song formation process fascinating!. even at the very beginning of part 1, just watching paul sitting on his own working out a tune on guitar with some half formed lines & a riff that fall away to reveal the kernel of what becomes get back ~as you are watching~. it’s crazy.

sort of like watching clay being sculpted on a pottery wheel, with the added benefit of knowing what the end result looks like

like, these are 4 genuinely talented artists creating legit great songs, like songs unspooling out of their heads seemingly nonstop (esp Paul who just seems to be endlessly creating). it’s fuckin sorcery. (i am also aware that this same scenario would be nigh on unwatchable with a band of mere mortals lol)

i mean, even down to having ringo almost always right there on the beat, picking up whatever they put down, you really see clearly how his sheer talent gives them so much freedom to create on the fly.

also shoutouts:

mal stewart, no wonder he worked with them all this time, what a stalwart standup bloke and what a WILD amount of tasks ge performs! get george a string tie, record the lyrics, stall the cops (his death is tragically awful tho)

keith the roadie fetching endless rounds of tea & marmalade toast & champers & beers & becoming a human lectern during the rooftop concert to hold lyrics for john to read

glyn’s interactions with the band are great, love the creative relationship there. also have always enjoyed that john called him glynis

this era i am alway struck by how young george martin looks <3

(er in prev post i mean xpost to wmc sorry)

never realized Glyn Jones was a prototype Gallagher until this week

also when glyn is like, allen klein is a bit weird isn’t he and johns like lala allen is amazing 😬

There's no doubt now, I should think, that Ringo was the best drummer in The Beatles

Kevin Harrington is a little less ginger nowadays, a nice interview too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuzSk4ZKQRA

haven't watched yet but if it's 8 hours of this i'm completely down

watching paul just pull get back out of the ether is still blowing my mind lol
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yes!! cracked my head completely open

never realized Glyn Jones was a prototype Gallagher until this week

Yeah, crazy to see Glyn smash a watermelon with a huge hammer when his frustration at Paul boiled over.

get back and dig it were the only songs made up "out of thin air" at the twickenham sessions, according to paul and john, i believe

george came up with for you blue and i me mine during but not at the sessions. if i recall correctly, in the get back documentary, he says the idea of i me mine came to him in a dream a night before during their first week there

Did Paul invent the word “fuckface” at these sessions? I had no idea the expression was so venerable.

sorry, just expanding on what i just posted:

beatlesbook.com is pretty good for this kind of stuff

http://www.beatlesebooks.com/get-back

Not too many Beatles songs can be pointed to as a complete fabrication in the studio “out of thin air,” as McCartney described, and surely no #1 hit single by the group could be described with those words. The composer or composers of most Beatles songs would always bring in at least a half-finished idea that the others would form into a complete arrangement, producer George Martin also being instrumental in piecing things together. This was not the case with “Get Back.”

http://www.beatlesebooks.com/dig-it

Since what we recognize as the Beatles' track “Dig It” is actually a small section of an ad-libbed “jam” led by John Lennon, its writing can be pin-pointed to the first two days that the song was performed at Apple Studios on Savile Row in London. As detailed below, they fooled around with this song idea four times on January 24th, 1969, elements of which were remembered when they returned to it two days later on January 26th, 1969. It is a segment of the taped rendition from this second day that we will consider to be the completed composition of “Dig It” since it ended up appearing on the “Let It Be” album. Therefore, “Dig It,” as we know it, was composed entirely on January 24th and 26th, 1969.

http://www.beatlesebooks.com/for-you-blue

Since “For You Blue,” yet untitled, was first played instrumentally by George to his band-mates on January 6th, 1969 at Twickenham Studios while rehearsing for what became the “Let It Be” project, it can be said with some confidence that the song started to be written on this date. It followed a more-than-familiar 12-bar-blues pattern which developed into what George introduced to The Beatles as his “folk/blues” song on January 9th, it now containing some of the lyrics that we've become familiar with.

http://www.beatlesebooks.com/i-me-mine

“I Me Mine” was written by George on January 7th, 1969, at his 'Kinfauns' home in Esher, Surrey. The Beatles had just begun rehearsals at Twickenham Film Studios on January 2nd for what would eventually become the “Let It Be” project and, with a need for new material, George came up with a new contender.

i know it's churlish and misses the point entirely but i wish any of their previous eight albums had gotten this treatment instead of this one

for a big portion of my life I was the biggest Beatles obsessive I knew, then the internet happened and I learned I was far from it. I've had downloads of the Nagra reels for a while but have never had the patience to listen to all of them so a lot of the conversation in this is still unfamiliar to me and i'm not sure what has leaked and what hasn't; but there are some conversations in this that I find completely revelatory and amazing, particularly around George's exit. that flowerpot conversation is something else, you never ever hear the beatles speak so candidly about themselves, their egos, their future. Likewise, Paul is really pretty complimentary to Yoko in this (I'm only about 1/2 way through episode 2) and understanding.

it's been ages since I've bothered to watch LIB but is the footage of Paul on the chain new? That's another thing you never see: Beatles doing something dangerous and stupid with their bodies.

i wish any of their previous eight albums had gotten this treatment instead of this one

i wish there was footage of Abby Road sessions personally

also: who knew that the 'around the beatles' TV special was such a pivotal memory for them, they bring it up a million times

Re Beatles doing something dangerous with their bodies, smh @ Lennon doing much of his recording work with a band-aid on his finger bc he cut it while JUGGLING KNIVES

paul is quite agile/daring! i had no idea

Likewise, Paul is really pretty complimentary to Yoko in this

Well, and the other Beatles looked like they genuinely liked Linda. Yoko lied Linda! And why not? She comes as an empathetic but steely woman, i.e. you can hang with her and laugh for hours, but fuck with her and she'll cut you.

lied = liked, lol

boy Lennon is absolutely glassy eyed in a lot of this, what was he fucking with drug-wise at this point?

Heroin

ah makes sense

He wakes up considerably in the second episode. Maybe he was on junk afterward, but it's only noticeable in Episode 1.

As a lover of avant-garde free jazz/screaming therapy (having played on Sean/Yoko’s lp) this statement is shade free, but PJack KNOW he wrong for that Jim Halpert/The Office zoom reaction shot of 4 yr old Heather Eastman looking at Yoko screaming on the mic #TheBeatlesGetBack pic.twitter.com/oNrVjZP16l

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He seemed quite underweight. Michael Lindsay-Hogg had done the Paperback Writer/Rain videos back when Lennon was in a whole different place weight-wise, so I wonder what he thought about it

My god Heather was so cool

xp sorry working with phone here

heather ruled, and the way literally everyone from john to glyn to mal interacted with her was v heartwarming

i loved when she was playing drums with ringo

also combing pauls hair was <3

He seemed quite underweight. Michael Lindsay-Hogg had done the Paperback Writer/Rain videos back when Lennon was in a whole different place weight-wise, so I wonder what he thought about it

MLH had done The Rolling Stones Rock & Roll Circus — which included John and Yoko’s band The Dirty Mac with violinist Ivry Gitlis, Keith Richards, Mitch Mitchell, and Eric Clapton — about two weeks before the Get Back sessions. So he was probably well aware of John’s state at that time. The Circus is also the reason John says, “And now, The Rolling Stones” about 50 times in episode 2 (MLH needed John to do a filmed intro to the Stones’ set).

I kinda feel bad for MLH never realizing his fantasy of Africa and the sea and candlelight and 2000 Arabs watching