makes you think imo
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 02:52 (two years ago) link
If Dave Grohl's not in this, I'm not watching; also want to see Johnny Depp and Dick Cavett.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 03:22 (two years ago) link
that tweet is worth clicking on for the full thread
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 03:28 (two years ago) link
BONO OR GTFO!
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 03:31 (two years ago) link
there is not a single Beatles song worse for Ringo.
You knew Albert Goldman was a fool when he wrote how, after the delicate intro of "Strawberry Fields Forever", Ringo ruined it with his "bricklayer hands".
Is John a great guitarist or piano player?
The problem with John was not his technical skill but his disinterest or disdain on learning and working on other people's songs.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 03:31 (two years ago) link
OTM
Def. weird to hear Fairport (more or less) do Buddy Holly.
― Duck and Sally Can’t Dance (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 03:33 (two years ago) link
Okay, that Twitter thread was indeed worth it.
― Duck and Sally Can’t Dance (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 03:37 (two years ago) link
I'm still plodding through, just made it to the Apple basement in Part II.
I've never seen Let It Be or seen any footage from this era. All this time, I've been listening to these bootleg recordings, the 50s covers, the adlibs, the "Doris Gets Her Oats!", etc. I always pictured them in a darkened studio, halogen lights (if any), at like three in the morning with smoke sifting about.
Them in some banquet sideroom with fluorescent lights and shiny walls... not what I pictured at all. Didn't see Lennon's Joe Pera rainbow polo coming at me either.
Now, if I ever find out that Rumours was actually recorded inside a laboratory, I'm gonna lose my mind.
― pplains, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 03:45 (two years ago) link
Lol
― Duck and Sally Can’t Dance (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 03:51 (two years ago) link
this definitely picked up as it went on. we're at the rooftop concert now except I put Slayer on thru my bluetooth headsets while my mom continued watching, so it appears that the Beatles are playing "Angel of Death" and it's quite awesome
― Cool Im An Situation (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 03:58 (two years ago) link
Back to our Star Club roots, mangg!
― dow, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 04:07 (two years ago) link
I'm about halfway through it all.
Just have to say, Magic Alex's bass invention!
There's definitely a pantomime element at play here too.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 06:37 (two years ago) link
About halfway through the whole thing. One thing that delighted me was all the John Lennon. And John Lennon being happy and cutting up, and all of them getting along a lot better than an armchair fan like myself might have known. He was a lot less dour than I expected to see. Also it looks like the Beatles or their estates made a pointed effort to tap dance around the drug references. But I guess they were quite aware the cameras were on them, too. Still, no cocaine boogers like The Last Waltz or anyone seriously on the nod so far. Except Ringo once but I think he was just bored. Paul always just seems jacked up.
― pj, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 07:09 (two years ago) link
Paul was still pretty into uppers iirc I like how Paul & John lapsed into stupid accents so readily when singing across from each other, they cracked me up numerous times
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 07:16 (two years ago) link
They bonded with George Martin over him working on Goons records, didn't they?
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 07:38 (two years ago) link
disney said they weren't planning on a physical releasethe whole point of this for disney is to drive subscriptions, so they have to say this. if they’d said they were planning on a physical release that would have instantly dented their new subs numbers. they will have done the research on how likely beatles fans are to buy a dvd (probably very likely) but they’ll wait until this isn’t attracting new subscribers. it’s not like they really need the money. what they need is the ongoing commitment implied by a subscription.
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 07:50 (two years ago) link
never a Beatles fan but i've warmed to them a bit as i've aged and do like George and some John solo stuff. was going to eventually check it out but my daughter has developed fairly recently to a big rock/pop music fan esp some older stuff which is a big surprise so she actually prompted the whole fam to watch ep.1. Yeah, a lot of dull stuff but i dug it sort of but my wife was very turned off so the young beatles fan is watching the remaining episodes solo. i'll probably dip back in eventually to finish it off, even as a lukewarm observer there is enough there to keep me interested. i dig stoned John sort of flashing in and out depending on the day and what he's on.
― buzza, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 10:09 (two years ago) link
Still slogging pleasantly through part one, but Lindsay-Hogg is reminding me so much of the psychiatrist in "Some Kind of Monster." I keep waiting for John and Paul to turn to this annoying, pushy cigar-puffing twit and tell him to shut the fuck up. I guess they (and George) kind of do, in their own way.
(Paul=Lars, John=James, Ringo/George=Kirk)
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 13:20 (two years ago) link
man that dave grohl thread delivers
― a (waterface), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 13:21 (two years ago) link
I somehow missed the Anthony Kiedis one! It does beg the question: would there even be a Chili Peppers without the Beatles? Who can say?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 13:25 (two years ago) link
all thats missing in that thread is key context about the 60s. what was going on in britain & america back then? was it a peaceful normal time? if only Moby could shed some light
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 13:30 (two years ago) link
and that's how Bruce married the operator
― maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 13:44 (two years ago) link
needs Thurston Moore sitting in front of a wall of vinyl talking about how Yoko simply being there was art in itself
― Standard Liege & Lief (Master of Treacle), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 13:47 (two years ago) link
"Yoko's presence was a radical step toward the Beatles evolution toward peace and lightness. Also I Want You on Abbey Road basically invented black metal"
― a (waterface), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 13:51 (two years ago) link
"In a way her being there in the room and playing nothing is a precursor to John Cage"
(I love Yoko and think she's gotten a raw deal over the years, glad this movie helps clear it all up.)
― a (waterface), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 13:52 (two years ago) link
it was wild hearing john do an early version of jealous guy with totally different words
given how nervous they are about the amount of new material they've got it seems a little strange that all these songs that wound up on abbey road weren't deemed ready or whatever? they play them a lot!
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 13:56 (two years ago) link
oh also i want to shout out to linda's just totally groovy, man, way of talking. it's utterly extinct now and so completely specific to this era, a kind of jaded, 'whatever' loucheness to it. i love it. even people who talked like that THEN don't talk like that NOW, at all
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 13:58 (two years ago) link
― Standard Liege & Lief (Master of Treacle
make it happen
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 14:14 (two years ago) link
Just watched Part 1. The comparison to The Last Dance is hilarious, which makes George roughly Dennis Rodman.
Some favourite bits:
Paul: We need some songs, lads.George: I just wrote these fully arranged songs last night.John & Paul: Fuck it, let's play Chuck Berry.
The boys meet at "Ringo's house" (shot of vast manicured country estate).
Some half-assed 30-second jam: "SUZY PARKER Lennon/McCartney"
― dinnerboat, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 15:06 (two years ago) link
i think my favorite part was in part 2 when, in between songs, george randomly asks if someone can go out and buy him a bowtie. and then after like an hour of the film has gone by and i'd forgotten about it, someone comes in and hand george a bowtie, which he then proceeds to put on under his shirt around his bare neck, like an insane person. and then the other beatles immediately start ripping on him about his bowtie.
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 15:11 (two years ago) link
Oh my gerd, Josh in Chicago, you have completely nailed it and I want to see an alternate-universe Beatles "Some Kind of Monster" style documentary with Bob Rock in it
Like:
RINGO: I just feel like you're disreSPECTing me, bro
PAUL: Maybe that's because you haven't properly worked through your daddy issues, Ringo. I mean, we've all been a little disconnected since Mr. Epstein died.
GEORGE: (glowers wordlessly)
JOHN: You wanna talk about daddy issues? 'Cause I've got - hyuk, hyuk - the mother of all daddy issues. It's right here in me trousers, like
PAUL: John, can you please just be serious for once?
JOHN: I'm serious like a motherfucker. Here. Feel me trousers, Paulie me boy
BOB ROCK: Okay, fellas, get it out of your system, great, but can we please just focus on this track for a minute?
JOHN: Hey Bob, can we please just focus on your stupid hairdo for a minute?
EXPENSIVE CONSULTANT: Okay, I'm hearing a lot of anger in the room. Let's process that for a minute.
― you can vitiate any worm you blow (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 15:12 (two years ago) link
"ok everyone, pencils down, what lyrics have you got?"
"jojo was a man whose lifestyle determined his deathstyle"
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 15:15 (two years ago) link
John always being late/absent while Paul frets is totally James leaving Lars in the lurch to go bear hunting in Russia. All "Get Back" needs is a full sequence where they're auditioning new guitarists.
I suspect they had begun feeling possessive about their own songs, already with an eye/ear toward solo stuff. Certainly John had already started down that route (which Yoko enabled/excused), and George (as demonstrated in the doc) for sure recognizes the Beatles will not be a reliable outlet for his music. And Paul in the doc plays a bit of "Another Day," which of course he sits on for a bit and completes with Linda.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 15:18 (two years ago) link
Paul telling George "that chord is passé" = Lars telling Kirk "the idea of the guitar solo as we have known it is maybe a little outdated"
― dinnerboat, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 15:21 (two years ago) link
"Back Seat of My Car" too xpost
― Number None, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 15:24 (two years ago) link
dinnerboat: yeah, and the subsequent "if you don't put in a guitar solo it sounds dated... to RIGHT NOW" crosstalk is uber-classic.
Transposed to Sgt. Pepper Beatledom you could get something like "what if we decided NOT to put a flugelhorn here, would that date it as being from the time when bands just randomly decided not to add flugelhorn?"
― you can vitiate any worm you blow (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 15:27 (two years ago) link
the thing is, that chord WAS passé - if it’s the same one george starts adding the first couple of times he played it. it might have had a 9th added or something? sort of generically psychedelic. paul was right, he was just a total dick about it
The comparison to The Last Dance is hilarious, which makes George roughly Dennis Rodman.
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 15:51 (two years ago) link
"Mr. Lacey" (About a mischievous conceptual artist, also in Jeff Nuttal's Bomb Culture, I think, and also think he did the bumpkin Rod The Mod casually-flapdancing on the clothesline in video for Herbie H.'s "Rockit")
& to tie it all together: he also played george harrison's gardener in help!
― no lime tangier, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 16:00 (two years ago) link
lol
I'm paraphrasing for effect, but loved Paul going through the rough list of song titles.
PM: "Let's see, 'Get Back to Where You Once Belonged,' 'I Dig a Pony,' 'Long and Winding Road,' 'Sunrise,' 'She Came In Through the Bathroom Window"...
JL: "'Sunrise'? What the fuck is 'Sunrise'? Did I learn a song that I've never heard of? 'Sunrise'????
PM: "Oh, well, ya know..."
GH: "IT'S CALLED 'ALL THINGS MUST PASS.' HOLY SHIT, YOU TWO."
― pplains, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 16:07 (two years ago) link
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 16:08 (two years ago) link
EXPENSIVE CONSULTANT: "Okay, I'm hearing some hostility here, especially from Lars. Can we unpack that?"
― you can ameliorate any goat you show (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 16:14 (two years ago) link
the "metallica is the past, echobrain is the future" scene, only instead of echobrain its magic alex playing his giant bass with the revolving neck
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 16:28 (two years ago) link
xp pplains
that exchange was so on the nose about how they had shelved george as a one-song-per-side man.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 16:33 (two years ago) link
Certainly John had already started down that route (which Yoko enabled/excused)
yoko strikes again
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 16:38 (two years ago) link
and i've got no right to take my place in the human race!
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 16:58 (two years ago) link
http://pixmeme.com/ww/UserImages/c835c98a-e595-447c-bc80-221a1626329a.png
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 17:01 (two years ago) link
Goddamit.
https://i.imgur.com/4WqMdk4.png
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 17:03 (two years ago) link
LU: "We need a fifth member, James. Someone who can do fills."
JH: "Hmmmmmm.... Think I know just the guy."
https://i.imgur.com/PxJUTiM.jpg
― pplains, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 17:08 (two years ago) link
I think John Wesley Harding deserves a lot of credit for the back to roots thing, that predates Big Pink and Sweethearts of the Rodeo or I think anything else mentioned
True, it came out at the end of 1967, but Dylan (and the Band)'s "Basement Tapes" from earlier that year were already circulating by then via his own management and publisher.
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 17:17 (two years ago) link
Ok it's so stupid and frustrating that these dudes didn't film a sick show at a small club for fans. The Cavern Club finale is such an obvious perfect ending for a movie and if would have been such a perfect document. Fuckin idiots man!
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 17:46 (two years ago) link