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

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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— not the guy (@notnotnuanced) November 28, 2021

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

— Certified ?uestover (@questlove) November 28, 2021

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

Oh, did he mention that?

somehow what this discussion has all led to on my end is finally watching Let It Be. halfway through, really not quite what i expected after all these years --- on the surface, not really a downer documentary of a band on the skids who hate each other, just a kind of muddy, blah portrait of a band with no direction. and yet the more i think about the malfunctioning creative process on display, the more it DOES feel like some murky misunderstanding of The Mystery of Picasso. where that film is suffused with the joyful meditation that creative play can be, here Ringo is the only one who really seems to be capable of finding music-making to be untroubled, un-put-on, un-snarky *fun* for more than thirty seconds or so at a time. it is indeed pretty bleak if i let myself focus on that aspect!

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
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu)

I'm not able to watch this yet, I will when I can. But I feel the same way, or at least would rather it were Rubber Soul/Revolver/Pepper/White Album. I have seen Let It Be, the short one.

SO WHAT ARE WE THINKING FOR THE CONCERT THEN

(10 minutes later)

I KNOW WE’RE ALL FAVORING LIBYA BUT WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS

(10 minutes later)

I MEAN WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT LIBYA REALLY IS PERFECT

I mean, give or take a few months, it could have been quite the show!

https://i.imgur.com/SP3Opja.png

lol

LMAO, good catch pplains

The tweets on this have been highly entertaining:

One of the craziest Beatles subplots is how they're the most successful band on earth, yet they're always under the gun. "We need to get this album done by Thursday." Or what? Label's gonna dump you & go all-in on Herman's Hermits? "We have 40 minutes to record these 27 songs."

— HarryHew (@harryhew) November 27, 2021

(and sort of related)

I think it was better when tv was free and music cost money

— Damon K (@dada_drummer) November 27, 2021

i definitely marvelled at the rarified air they were in: band has broken up, but the remaining lads show up for “filming” & sit around glumly, cameras continue “filming” said glumness, all on a stupidly MASSIVE soundstage and still/continually zero idea of what theyre doing or the end result

i mean i am glad to reap the benefits but logistically speaking it was all sheer madness

I'm telling you all, it's the newest trend. Everyone's buying ... sheet music.

turns out dick james was not unfairly caricatured in rocketman, he sounds remarkablysimilar lol

Gotta admit, I would've never recognized Dick James on sight had I never seen The Rutles.

https://i.imgur.com/XIct1wP.jpg

Jaws was later the subject of the eponymous blockbuster film directed by Steven Spielberg. In the film, Jaws dies, but he still keeps all the money.

That's an extremely specific number of Arabs, by the way

I mean, like, 1,543 Arabs isn't quite enough. I'm sure we can all agree on that. But 2,625 Arabs? Well, let's not go crazy.

the best part of this is how george states in plain english several times that he doesnt want to play on the roof, but when hes up there and the cops show up and mal switches off his amp, george angrily switches it back on because fuck cops

Ok, finished last night. Part Three with the full rooftop concert is something else. You get much more of a sense of the occasion with the build up and the whole set. And man they really played those songs great up there, which I'd kind of forgotten. Only downer to me is not getting the full takes of Two of Us, Let it Be and Long and winding Road that were filmed the next day; I like the fits and starts over the credits but it would be nice to see those takes get released with the cleaned up film (maybe blu ray)

yeah like i do not need the shots of the cops while they're playing. do it between numbers or whatever