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

imagining all those Lennon solo albums with harmonica instead of those dirty sax parts he clearly loved so much. i think it's mostly an improvement.

HD Jr asked about mono vs stereo tonight & of course that got me into a streak about how good a good mono mix can be, which monologue ended up with us dancing to side 1 of With the Beatles, my biggest revelation from the 2009/2014 mono box (previously I’d only heard the execrable stereo version of Meet the Beatles). We both highly dug the harmonica on “Litte Child”. John should have busted it out on “One After 909.”

i got my Mono box on christmas day 2009 and i was staying with my inlaws - i put Please Please Me on the cd player in the kitchen and we had a blast twisting & shouting to all those joyful songs. especially with my inlaws, two people who experienced these songs the first time around in the same way. it was such a wonderful moment to be like oh yeah duh - you are MEANT to dance to these songs! (i mean i feel like i have been all my life but it was a great reminder)

^^ I love this thread.

New poll here:
Which Beatle has Get Back most reshaped your idea of?

Fribbulus I'm glad I'm not the only one who loves the lameness of the Not a Second Time piano. And I totally agree re. the harmonica. I've been listening to the Beatles catalog in order with my daughter (with side trips into contemporary Beach Boys, Byrds, etc for context), and we were just wondering what the last appearances of harmonica and 12-string are. Seems like 12-string makes occasional appearances later on, but harmonica is gone sometime in 1964.

my inlaws, two people who experienced these songs the first time around in the same way. it was such a wonderful moment to be like oh yeah duh - you are MEANT to dance to these songs!

We took a cruise with the grandparents some years back. There was a Beatles cover band playing one of the ballrooms, and my bullseye-demographic (step?) father in law totally busted out a bunch of dance moves with my kids to all the old-school Beatles cuts.

i wanna do an early beatles cover set with my band so bad particularly just to play “boys”

Pretty sure I’m a Loser is the last harmonica appearance. Not sure about 12 string.

Seems like 12-string makes occasional appearances later on, but harmonica is gone sometime in 1964.

― three of the doctor's valuable bats are now dead (broom air), Friday, December 10, 2021 8:46 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

I think the last Beatles song with (electric) 12-string is "If I Needed Someone." There's also the rejected take of "And Your Bird Can Sing" which was recorded later, but not released at the time (on Anthology 2).

Actually, now that I think about it, the harmonica rears its head again on "All Together Now". It's probably served up as a textural element in other late period stuff.

Yes, for instance there's harmonica on "Rocky Raccoon".

There's a harmonica on "Her Majesty"

Granted, nobody actually plays it, but.

Many xposts but u got this exactly backwards:

It's my understanding that he's saying Fat, but his accent makes it sound like fart

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The accent made it sound like "fat", it's fart, there are treatises on this

Ringo's fart is canon.

so is George Martin's response. He knew his boys.

You play Ringo's fart backwards and it says 'It's really Paul.'

Man, Ringo's fart is the ultimate conversation killer.

I can't remember, but did Lennon screaming "take your fucking insulin!" (much to the crew's laughter) and Lennon's crack to Peter Sellers about leaving needles lying about ("we have a reputation to think about!") make it in the Peter Jackson series?

The last one was in there.

I feel like some of the best stuff had no chance of getting on air. As mentioned the "listen fuck face!" bit got cut out,

SPOKE IT INTO EXISTENCE #TheBeatlesGetBack https://t.co/vCIV1qkY2V pic.twitter.com/RjThQsfUcu

— get back, kristen! (@swaying_daisies) November 26, 2021

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/11/style/glyn-johns-get-back-beatles-outfit.html

i got my folks so much Beatles shit for Christmas they might finally be sick of them (mom finished Get Back, dad hasn't been able to cos rehab facility)

Fuckface, btw, is very much present and correct

Awesome - someone else had said it was censored, but I'm getting the impression nothing was (if those scenes made it into the series).

It was in the series.

was not expecting an Eric Wareheim character to appear playing the hammer on the initial run through of "Maxwell's Silver Hammer"

Then one of the policemen said, ‘Who is in charge?’ Everybody pointed to Michael Lindsay-Hogg, who was just sitting there. The policeman said, ‘If you don’t stop this right now, we’re gonna take you to jail.’”
“So Michael stopped it. Which was probably a silly thing to do. It would have been fantastic to have seen him taken away by the police, and down the stairs, and up Savile Row, because nothing would have happened.”

Cinematographer Tony Richmond in https://recordcollectormag.com/articles/rolling-stones-beatles

BTW, I looked into what happened with Lindsay-Hogg's DNA test, re: Orson Welles paternity. There was no follicle on the hair sample, so it couldn't provide an answer.

Xpost I thought they'd pretty much finished by then

Lmao at the guy who ignores the rooftop concert and the hullabaloo and walks right past the cops wanting to get paid by the receptionist, too cool

Ok, lol at them the day before still trying to figure out if they are going to do the rooftop or not, sort of deciding, yes, we need to get serious, then fucking around in the studio a bunch more instead.

i was so rmde that they were STILL deciding an hour til showtime! brian epstein is screaming at you from his grave, lads

For as unseriously as they were taking it they certainly banged those songs out live almost perfectly.

yeah I had no idea the rooftop concert performances were some of the actual takes from the album

yeah me neither!

I always thought it was odd how Johns only picked ONE take from the rooftop concert whereas Spector took three (not counting "Get Back" which was a mutilated forgery on Let It Be).

Are there scenes or footage in the original 1970 movie that didn't make it into this new documentary?

Also it was cool that Jackson included 10 takes of Paul and John doing Two of Us in "funny" voices but would loved an even dozen

I think it was VG or someone who pointed it out upthread but the Apple and studio employees who kept constantly coming up with new bullshit and moving the goalposts with the cops were just killing me, so funny

Esp when the receptionist asked the sargeant to not go on the roof because he might make it collapse 😂

xpost if not, you could knit your own version of "Let It Be"...

actually, I think there's quite a few "complete" versions in the original movie that are excerpted on the new.

"You can't go up there [on the roof], it's already over-weight"

oh sorry xp

For as unseriously as they were taking it they certainly banged those songs out live almost perfectly.

"Blah Blah, Bleep Bloop Bleep Bloop really done me....."

Also it was cool that Jackson included 10 takes of Paul and John doing Two of Us in "funny" voices but would loved an even dozen.

I dunno. The long shots of Lennon's rictus face as he does his ventriloquism act with Paul is gonna haunt me for awhile.

I did love the version they did with the faux Russian accents in Pt 1. Sorry, I'm basic.

a couple times it was funny but they really couldn't let go

one thing i liked about the rooftop was george really seemed to be having fun and enjoying himself

a couple times it was funny but they really couldn't let go

a couple times it was funny but they really couldn't let go

for sure.

They just couldn't... let it be

They could have let it lie...

...around, all over the place.