Anyone watching the Beatles tribute? (1 Viewer)

[kujo1978]

Some great colaborations. Gary Clark Jr, Joe Walsh, and Dave Grohl (on drums) just did a great reendition of one of my alltime favorites While My Guitar Gently Weeps. What say you Who Dats?

 

[mt15]

That was by far my favorite of the night. I'm really enjoying this special. After the first tribute by Maroon 5, I almost turned it off. Glad I stayed with it.

 

[crosswatt]

Really bad dancing by some old white people. And I would know....

 

[kujo1978]

I missed the begining. Still waiting for Paul and Ringo to take the stage together. Im watching with my 11 yr old son answering any questions he has about one of the greatest bands ever. Pretty cool night...

 

[mt15]

I don't know anything about George Harrison's son - evidently he can play the guitar.

 

[crosswatt]

Geez. Ringo looks like he's fifty. Paul (and Sean Lennon for that matter) look like corpses next to him. Kind of ironic that he seems to have benefited the most from the whole Beatles thing and was considered the least integral part of the band.

 

[mt15]

Yeah, Ringo looks energetic. Drummers age well (I'm married to an old drummer).

 

[kujo1978]

Really bad dancing by some old white people. And I would know....

"Really bad"? Kinda harsh.. I'd say par for the couse. Lol

 

[El Caliente]

Tom Hanks dances like Bernie Lomax (surprise surprise).

I thought it was great and got a bit misty eyed at thinking these guys were so amazing and out generation has nothing that could hold a candle. What Matallica? Radiohead? Dr. Dre? Primus? All are well and good but when I am pushing 50 or 60 millions won't be able to sing their songs.

 

[Zaphod]

Somehow I missed hearing about this until today. Anyone know if its available online anywhere?

 

[PayOrPlay]

What you didn't see in CBS' Beatles salute - latimes.com

Musically, the biggest surprises were the elimination of Paul McCartney and his band's set-opening performance of "Magical Mystery Tour," and the editing of his and Ringo Starr’s reunion performance of “Hey Jude,” their first time playing the song together since 1968. At the Convention Center, the extended vamp of the song’s signature “Na-na-na na-na-na-nahhhh” singalong was considerably longer than what ended up in the 2 ½-hour telecast.

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[Jeff] Bridges told of his reaction to seeing the Beatles on “The Ed Sullivan Show” 50 years earlier, when he was 14. But his full story of subsequently meeting the Fab Four didn’t make the cut, a shame since he was the only participant in the show with a story of a personal encounter with the group in the early stages of Beatlemania. Bridges noted that his father, actor Lloyd Bridges, bought tickets — for $25 apiece — to a fundraiser hosted by one of their Hollywood neighbors that the Beatles attended. When the Bridges family arrived, the Liverpool lads were thrilled to meet Lloyd Bridges, star of “Sea Hunt,” the syndicated TV underwater adventure series that ran from 1958-61. Bridges recalled one of the Beatles imitating sounds of blowing bubbles and making swimming gestures, a degree of awareness of their father that made a big impression on Bridges and his older brother, Beau.

A chunk of Eric Idle’s comedic spot in the show also was trimmed. The founding member of Monty Python and co-creator of the Rutles parody of the Beatles and Beatlemania reprised the latter role for a humorously convoluted salute to the historic nature of the show.

“Fifty years ago on this very stage,” he began, “well, not on this very stage…” in a bit that cleverly wound its way through the artificiality of explaining a moment in history that took place Feb. 9, 1964, in New York to a live audience in Los Angeles looking on two weeks before the show would air.

 

[Goatman Saint]

I watched the last part. It was good, even from someone who is less of a Beatles fan than most.

 

[peff]

Man loved it. Let it be was great. Brought back good times. Beatles music will live on forever.

 

[El Caliente]

I watched the roof top concert for the first time today. Pretty epic stuff how they took to the roof of Apple and began performing and within 20 minuets the entire street was shut down. What's most impressive is how all of this took place without social media, people just walking on the street (young and old) just stopped and listened.

 

[Saint Kamara]

Watched a snippet of the Annie Lennox performance of Fool on the Hill. I love Annie Lennox and I love the Beatles, but that was a trainwreck.