Movie Get Back (Peter Jackson’s film based on unreleased video of Beatles Let it Be sessions) (1 Viewer)

[Mr. Sparkle]

Finished it on Sunday and it was pretty amazing, all in all.

Watching Paul fiddle around for 45 seconds and have it suddenly morph into "Get Back" was insane.

I don't think Yoko broke up the Beatles but holy sheet for her to be absolutely glued to John's side 24/7 even in the most intense rehearsals ... I dunno. That would've driven me insane. The screeching didn't help either.

Seems like Ringo is the glue because he's the only one that has to constantly be on alert and working - John and Paul can spend 10 minutes doing a joke version of "Two of Us" but he's got to treat all of the takes seriously and stay ready because who knows when it will turn into The Song.

I loved getting to see the entire rooftop concert but I hated that Jackson just blazed past the final day of recording.

 

[kewee]

George Harrison is my favorite Beatle. Sue me.

 

[El Caliente]

George Harrison is my favorite Beatle. Sue me.

We almost named our son George Harrison. He really was a great talent. Heck, we even saw the woman that Eric Clapton stole from George.

 

[Brad Mojo]

New Beatles Doc Gives Man Greater Appreciation For How Long 8 Hours Feels

TULSA, OK—Saying the miniseries provided fresh insight into the subject matter, local man Barry Liptak, 43, told reporters Monday that Peter Jackson’s Get Back documentary gave him a much greater appreciation for how long eight hours feels. “Obviously, I’m familiar with the broad strokes of that...

www.theonion.com

 

[superchuck500]

George Harrison is my favorite Beatle. Sue me.

I bet that if you looked at (hypothetical) scientific polls of admitted Beatles fans in 1981, 2001, and 2021, the percentage who said that George was their favorite would show a steady rise in share. He and his legacy have really aged well . . . George was always cool as hell and so talented in diverse ways.

Scorsese's George documentary (2011) is fantastic.

 

[Mr. Blue Sky]

I will never forget hearing the news of George Harrison’s death 20 yrs ago, feeling this weird pull to drive down to his star of the Walk of Fame, only to find dozens of fans gathered around in memorium.. i parked my car and joined them, a couple people had guitars and we did impromptu singalongs of a lot of Beatles classics.. it was shortly after 9/11, so it made the togetherness of the crowd feel even more intimate.. i met this girl, and we spent most of the night hanging out, taking in all the ‘George’-ness of it all.. Her name was Jeanette, and it turned out she was a musician, and the lead singer of a band named Moxie.. in the wee hours we walked down to her seedy little apartment on Hollywood Blvd, where she was startled to find a friend of her’s sleeping on her couch, unnanounced.. Sometimes i wonder whatever happened to Jeanette.. but the night was nice way to commemorate a great musician, and a good Beatle.. not on the scale of what im sure it was like after Lennon passed, but nice nonetheless.

 

[superchuck500]

I will never forget hearing the news of George Harrison’s death 20 yrs ago, feeling this weird pull to drive down to his star of the Walk of Fame, only to find dozens of fans gathered around in memorium.. i parked my car and joined them, a couple people had guitars and we did impromptu singalongs of a lot of Beatles classics.. it was shortly after 9/11, so it made the togetherness of the crowd feel even more intimate.. i met this girl, and we spent most of the night hanging out, taking in all the ‘George’-ness of it all.. Her name was Jeanette, and it turned out she was a musician, and the lead slinger of a band named Moxie.. in the wee hours we walked down to her seedy little apartment on Hollywood Blvd, where she was startled to find a friend of her’s sleeping on her couch, unnanounced.. Sometimes i wonder whatever happened to Jeanette.. but the night was nice way to commemorate a great musician, and a good Beatle.. not on the scale of what im sure it was like after Lennon passed, but nice nonetheless.

Did you crawl off to sleep in the bath?

 

[Mr. Blue Sky]

Did you crawl off to sleep in the bath?

Very well-played.


No, but i did light a fire.

 

[BooBirdSaint]

I didnt realize Allen Parsons was just an assistant "tape boy" engineer on Get Back. Just 3 yrs later he engineed Dark Side of the Moon. Crazy good amount of talent in that booth with Glyn Johns being the lead Engineer. The other crazy thing was all the engineering equipment was portiable stuff patched into George Harrison's own tracking equipment. Wild.
Without Brian Epstein they were a rudderless ship.

 

[sfidc3]

I haven’t seen the doc.. but it’s funny you mentioned Linda; i had always assumed, or thought i had heard, that Linda EASTMAN McCartney was a member of the famous (and loaded) Eastman Kodak family.. it was only in recent years I discovered that - spoiler alert- she was not.

Man, this was bandied about like it was common knowledge for years...even saw it mentioned on a few Beatles/Paul rock docs....

Eventually, Linda's father, John Eastman managed the affairs of heavy metal bands like Grand Funk Railroad after their nearly disastrous split from original manager/record producer/former Detroit DJ Terry Knight.

GFR a heavy metal band? Hardly....they were most definitely a hard(ly) rock band...huge difference....

I think all this talk about Dylan or Clapton joining the Beatles is rubbish.

Agreed, like who is writing the songs, there is only enough room in a band for 3 great songwriters...and that band don't last forever? Or something?

George Harrison is my favorite Beatle. Sue me.

Mine too. By far the best musician in the band and I like his voice and at least some of his song writing better than those other 2 guys....

 

[Mr. Sparkle]

Mine too. By far the best musician in the band and I like his voice and at least some of his song writing better than those other 2 guys....

Its all subjective, but the more time goes on the more impressive Paul is to me as a musician. He was covering guitar parts that George couldn't play and even put down some drum tracks, and basically started playing bass for the beatles because nobody else could (or was willing to learn). He gets my vote as "best musician" in the group.

 

[Grumpy Old Manatee]

Agreed, like who is writing the songs, there is only enough room in a band for 3 great songwriters...and that band don't last forever? Or something?

(What’s left of) The Traveling Wilburys would like a word with you.

 

[Saintman2884]

Man, this was bandied about like it was common knowledge for years...even saw it mentioned on a few Beatles/Paul rock docs....



GFR a heavy metal band? Hardly....they were most definitely a hard(ly) rock band...huge difference....



Agreed, like who is writing the songs, there is only enough room in a band for 3 great songwriters...and that band don't last forever? Or something?



Mine too. By far the best musician in the band and I like his voice and at least some of his song writing better than those other 2 guys....

By the standards of the early-mid 1970's, one could make a reasonable argument Grand Funk was a borderline heavy metal band, even if most musically apt, talented types would qualify them or some in fact did so back then.

Back in the late 60's-early 70's, what we now term heavy metal was viewed a vague, slightly ever-changing genre. A lot of Led Zeppelin's early work by the early 70's was considered, "acid rock", songs like Dazed and Confused, Whole Lotta Love, Misty Mountain Hop, contain trippish, psychedelic-tinged free-form musical elements or lyrics. Yet, today most metal heads would rightly consider Zeppelin, like Sabbath, a heavy metal pioneer. Metal hadn't or didnt splinter into different sub-genres yet until the late 70's when glam metal, British New Wave, goth metal, and later on Scandivinavian death and black metal bands emerged by the early 1980's.

Ive always considered Motor head the world's first thrash metal band or one of the few true punk/metal hybrid bands even though Lemmy originally was some freaky, long-haired hippy anarchist musician in Hawkwind and briefly served as a roadie for Jimi Hendrix Experience in the late 60's and his father was a deadbeat, alcoholic Anglican vicar.

 

[sfidc3]

By the standards of the early-mid 1970's, one could make a reasonable argument Grand Funk was a borderline heavy metal band, even if most musically apt, talented types would qualify them or some in fact did so back then.

Back in the late 60's-early 70's, what we now term heavy metal was viewed a vague, slightly ever-changing genre. A lot of Led Zeppelin's early work by the early 70's was considered, "acid rock", songs like Dazed and Confused, Whole Lotta Love, Misty Mountain Hop, contain trippish, psychedelic-tinged free-form musical elements or lyrics. Yet, today most metal heads would rightly consider Zeppelin, like Sabbath, a heavy metal pioneer. Metal hadn't or didnt splinter into different sub-genres yet until the late 70's when glam metal, British New Wave, goth metal, and later on Scandivinavian death and black metal bands emerged by the early 1980's.

Ive always considered Motor head the world's first thrash metal band or one of the few true punk/metal hybrid bands even though Lemmy originally was some freaky, long-haired hippy anarchist musician in Hawkwind and briefly served as a roadie for Jimi Hendrix Experience in the late 60's and his father was a deadbeat, alcoholic Anglican vicar.

Hard disagree, by any measure of any genre, Grand Funk in no way resembles a heavy metal band. Nor does Led Zeppelin...there may be aspects of heaviness in their songs but that is where it ends.

Sabbath was probably the first true heavy metal band IMO....

 

[sfidc3]

(What’s left of) The Traveling Wilburys would like a word with you.

You mean the band that did a total of one album?

I loved them and all but they were never going to be a long term band.

I mean could you imagine the infighting if the Beatles included ego maniacs like Clapton in the band...they couldn't last with just Lennon and McCartney....and Dylan likes to be left alone, he would never have joined the Beatles....