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

even better, it's SIX albums - Ringo had two! (and both pretty good ones.)

American fans also got the Hey Jude album, not "all new" of course, but a "first time on LP" affair that would have helped complete some collections.

And I do..xpost

Srsly, I played "Out of the blue" a couple days ago, it sure sounds a lot like Spiritualized. Kept expecting Jason to fade in,singing like..

KISS just about did the same thing in a 12-month period when... hey, where did this yellow flag come from?

CCR dropping 3 classics in 1969 is the bar

...and Fairport too!

1. all things must pass
2. ram
3. jl/pob (which imo isn't as good as yo/pob)

this opinion is admittedly v in character

one of the best classic albums episodes tho

speaking of Yoko: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/08/arts/music/yoko-ono-beatles-get-back.html

Don't worry
Don't worry
Don't worry

it feels like a generation of time passed between shea stadium and twickenham

Candlestick was over a year after Shea. Crazy to think only 2 years and just under 4 months passed between that show and the rooftop.

just under 5 months... my bad. Either way it's one of the things that blows me away with that era of music - artists were insanely prolific, especially the Beatles. Really helped to stopped touring I guess.

What's also strange to consider is that, when they're talking about their Hamburg days in Get Back, they're not talking ancient history - they had last played a residency there only six years earlier.

When I was 29, shit I did when I was 22 or 23 was pretty ancient history

1. all things must pass
2. ram
3. jl/pob (which imo isn't as good as yo/pob)

OTM on all counts

God, Billy Preston showing up just brings everything together.

Let it Be obv not a top tier Beatles album, but the sound once they get to Apple is so awesome - splits the difference between the White Album and Abbey Road.

yeah definitely

One of them mentions how great the sound of the electric piano is and then Billy shows up and it's like YES!!!!!!

They spent, what, a fucking week at Twickenham? Two weeks?

All this time, it seemed like they had to sit there for an entire winter.

every day at twickenham was too many

Sure, but it still seemed a bit nicer than the freaking green-carpeted band room at Jack Robee High.

nah that room was cozy! it was cool i liked it
twickenham was like trying to find inspiration in a fuckin airplane hangar

count me among those who had always had the sense they were at Twickenham for at least, idk, two months. must be George's "winter of discontent" comments.

the one thing i liked abt twickenham was the colored lights they bounced off the background, it looked super cool

George has this deep brown with a dark headstock that is one of the best looking guitars I've ever seen

haha shit brown Telecaster

Paul and John's clothes are really 70s and Ringo and George's clothes are really 60s

idk … ringo yeah but george seemed v 70s to me?

loved paul and john's outfits in it

The brown Tele is all rosewood - even reissues go for like 5 grand unless you get one of the later Japanese ones which is just veneer rather than solid. Even with internal chambering they weigh a ton.
Fender made it as a gift for George. They also made a matching Strat for Hendrix but he died before they gave it to him.

what's up with george's boots in e2

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nQ0zc8JrYuc/UCm8X3qOR4I/AAAAAAAAAcg/PRGyx6KUUj0/s1600/boots.PNG

they’re tibetan! i love them

i’ve seen them called “yeti boots” in various books but i’m not sure if it was a particular style/brand but they are fucking awesome

Psychedelic proto-Uggs, no?

John's Epiphone Casino with the paint stripped looks amazing. Iconic look.

removing bookmark from thread bc i've had maxwell's hammer in my head for like 4 days now

moved on to O-Bla-Di this morning myself

pray for me

it started with tapping the teaspoon against the mug with the rhythm of that piano opening

John's Epiphone Casino with the paint stripped looks amazing. Iconic look.

Quite, but I also contend he shouldn't have had it ruined with stupid swirly paint to begin with

i apologize ahead of time for making this observation and i’m definitely not the first to make it but damn rubber soul is an incel-ass album

Rubber Asshole more like

In one part George is playing a Strat with the ugliest "psychedelic" paint job lol

if Lennon could write "Run for Your Life," he could've written "If I Needed Someone."

getting better is no picnic either

In one part George is playing a Strat with the ugliest "psychedelic" paint job lol

Own a rep for only Own a rep for only $25K.5K.

ums I h8 that bebopalula thing but whatev, it was a weird time

apologies for guitar nerd bullshit but...

Like, as the legend goes, the whole reason they had to play weird honky European instruments was because due to holdover wartime rationing, it was very difficult to get the decent-quality American instruments being made at the time. They wanted Strats and Teles (again, so the legend goes) like American musicians and the Shadows were playing at the time, but they simply weren't available.

Once it became possible to just send Mal out to pick up some Strats or Teles or whatever, they were already too spoiled and famous and rich to "properly" appreciate them (again, so the legend goes).

BUT at the same time, they made some pretty frking indelible music with the allegedly subpar instruments (and decidedly underpowered sound reinforcement) they had, so.

Maybe Stratocasters should have been illegal in 1980s America - force all those young glam shredders make do with horrid Sears guitars or whatever, maybe they would have made better music and the world would be a better place

xp Sorry, that didn't quite work...

Paul definitely has his offenses, but easily 75% of John's songwriting output in 64-65 would qualify at a minimum for Songs where the singer/protagonist comes off as a serious dick without meaning to

TS: "Run for Your Life" vs. "Jealous Guy"

Like, I'm not even sure he would have denied being a serious dick

"this woman wouldn't sleep with me bc she had to work in the morning so i fell asleep in her tub and then set her house on fire"

speaking of, it was interesting in pt 3 (i think?) where john was doing a song called "road to marrakesh" that seemed to be a precursor to "jealous guy"