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How about the red-haired kid that seemed to exist just to open bottles of wine and hold Johns lyrics like a human music stand on the roof?
We just finished the whole thing last night. My only complaint was hearing "Get Back" 400 times but I really enjoyed having a window onto a time in their career I only knew a little bit about.
Hearing "Get Back" 400 times wasn't bad. The hard part was hearing it over and over and over with working lyrics that don't scan right... "Sweet Loretta Marsh" and "Jojo Jackson left his home in Arizona," etc.
You know that old Looney Toons cartoon where Bugs Bunny keeps messing up "Those Endearing Young Charms" on piano until Yosemite Sam can't take it anymore? It was like that.
Motorik
Kick Henry Jackassowski
No kidding! He's a very distinctive looking kid. He's so incredibly pale and ginger that I get distracted when he's on the screen. The Beatles could be doing something really historic and I'm staring at the ginger kid thinking 'who are you and what is your actual job? Do you make the toast?'
shoeless
Riffin'
Yeah, but what struck me in the film is that was kind of a turning point for them. I mean, up until they were just aimlessly noodling, and then they put it all together for Maxwell. Go figure. That and the guy playing the hammer was really into it.
My take away about John is he was already kind of done. He hadn't written anything coming in, and was more about goofing off and being with Yoko than trying to really be creative. He'd toss in bits here and there, but at this point it seemed the songs were mostly Paul's. George had more to offer creatively than John did, IMO. Of course, I'm still in episode 1 so maybe that conclusion is premature.
pmc100
Faux Guitarist
I read a review that made a good point. Everyone else looks from another era but The Beatles look like time travellers from today, dropped into 1969. Just look at John in his trainers. Wouldn't bat an eyelid if you saw him walking down the street today.
Peen Simmons
Let’s Get Obtuse!
My take away about John is he was already kind of done. He hadn't written anything coming in, and was more about goofing off and being with Yoko than trying to really be creative. He'd toss in bits here and there, but at this point it seemed the songs were mostly Paul's. George had more to offer creatively than John did, IMO. Of course, I'm still in episode 1 so maybe that conclusion is premature.
But if you catch the offhanded comment in episode 3 ( I think), Get Back was originally planned as a concert/television special doing songs off the White Album — which was just released the previous November with recording having wrapped in October — you can kind of understand why John (who was on heroin at the time) wasn’t coming in with a giant pile of songs. He had just burned through them for the White Album.
It’s not like he quit writing in ‘69. Theres his relatively modest contributions to Let It Be, plus the Abbey Road material, “Cold Turkey” which he initially brought to the Beatles, all of Plastic Ono Band, and then in January of 1970 Instant Karma — which could have been a Beatles track if everyone was around and John was patient. All those guys wrote a shitload of stuff during that time. John just looks lazy compared to McCartney who is on fire from 1967 through Ram.
The sad thing about the Beatles dissolution is that it could have been easily avoided had a real manager been involved to help them balance their schedules and talk them out of stressful overcommitments. They could have just done a couple White Album concerts and filmed it in early 1969, took a break for individual Beatle solo projects that year, and then reconvened in 1970 refreshed and ready to work on new stuff—but the problem was a bunch of burned out, drug addled 20-something millionaires were making decisions.
DdBob
Dogue in teh desert
TUCSON , AZ !!!
Peen Simmons
Let’s Get Obtuse!
Deebo was a dog who thought he was a human
Eatin’ stuff outta the trash
Livin’ in a van in Tucson, Arizona
Tradin’ all his drugs for cash
GET BACK!
DdBob
Dogue in teh desert
here you go...I don't know if its paywalled, probably is as I'm a subscriber so here it is copy/pasted...
https://tucson.com/news/local/get-b...cle_9c89c8f0-53e8-11ec-9485-fb56fd5479b1.html
We already knew that Jo Jo left his home in Tucson, Arizona, for some California grass.
Now we know precisely when.
A new three-part documentary series on the making of the Beatles’ album “Let It Be” captures the exact moment when Tucson was written into the band’s chart-topping hit “Get Back.”
The date is Jan. 13, 1969. Paul McCartney, John Lennon and Ringo Starr are sitting in a loose circle at Twickenham Studios in London, noodling with the lyrics for what would become the last song on the last album they would ever record together.
A disgruntled George Harrison has left the session unexpectedly, and no one is sure if he is coming back.
Undeterred, the Fab Three-Fourths get back to work on “Get Back.”
It’s McCartney who tries “Tucson, Arizona” in the Jo Jo verse for the first time, and it’s obvious he likes it right away.
“Is Tucson in Arizona?” asks Lennon, with a wad of chewing gum in his mouth and Yoko Ono by his side.
“Yeah, it is. Yeah,” McCartney says. “It’s where they make ‘High Chaparral.’”
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The exchange shows up at about the 18-minute mark in Part 2 of “The Beatles: Get Back,” now streaming on Disney+.
Academy Award-winning Hobbit wrangler Peter Jackson assembled the series using footage shot by director Michael Lindsay-Hogg for a 1970 feature film about the “Let It Be” sessions, which culminated with the Beatles’ famous concert on the rooftop of Apple Studios in London.
McCartney later told a reporter that he knew about Tucson — and put it in the song — because his wife, Linda, was a fine-arts major at the University of Arizona before she met him.
According to Sir Paul, Jo Jo was just a made-up name.
The Beatles never performed in Tucson, but Paul and Linda spent a lot of time here after they got married and the band broke up.
Paul McCartney and Wings in concert at the Tucson Community Center on June 18, 1976.
Lew Elliott, Tucson Citizen
Paul McCartney and Wings played the Tucson Convention Center in 1976, and in 1979, the McCartneys bought a ranch they visited often at the eastern edge of town, near Redington Pass. That’s where they were in 1998 when Linda died of breast cancer.
As for the rest of the Beatles, George Harrison performed two sold-out shows at the TCC on Nov. 14, 1974, with Billy Preston and Ravi Shankar.
He reportedly returned to Tucson in March of 1979 to attend the wedding of his ex-wife Pattie Boyd and some guitarist named Eric Clapton.
According to news accounts, the small, private ceremony at Apostolic Bethel Temple near Valencia Road and 12th Avenue was followed by a limousine parade to the reception at what was then the Sheraton Pueblo Inn near Cushing Street and Interstate 10.
Legendary British rock guitarist Eric Clapton, left, exits Bethel Temple in Tucson with Pattie Boyd on Tucson on March 27, 1979, after the two were married. Boyd was formerly married to George Harrison of the Beatles.
Bruce Hopkins, Tucson Citizen
Clapton performed at the TCC the following day.
Ringo came to Tucson in 1988 to get clean.
The Beatles drummer and his wife, Barbara Bach, went through six weeks of detox and rehab for alcoholism at Sierra Tucson.
Four years later, a grateful Starr returned to lead a star-studded benefit concert for the Sierra Tucson Foundation.
Paul's ranch (perhaps 13 miles from where I grew up
Paul and Linda McCartney and their child, Mary, left, and Linda's child from a previous marriage, on Dec. 5, 1971. McCartney's long association with Tucson began because Linda had been a University of Arizona fine art student before she met and married him.
Peen Simmons
Let’s Get Obtuse!
Fritz is postin’ links to local Tucson papers
Thinks it gives him Beatle cred
Everybody else thinks Tucson’s pretty groady
Or else they think that Paul is dead
GET BACK!
Thinks it gives him Beatle cred
Everybody else thinks Tucson’s pretty groady
Or else they think that Paul is dead
GET BACK!
Peen Simmons
Let’s Get Obtuse!
Just for @Motorik here’s the whole 9 minutes of “Commonwealth.”
When it came up in Get Back it reminded me of something, and then I realized that the “so and so said to such and such” conceit was similar to Tom Wait’s “Road to Peace.”
I think the Weinerdome should do an all star jam where we singspeak about US political bullshit and Q Anon and whatnot for 10 minutes in similar fashion…
Donald Trump said to Pizzagate you can’t do that stuff with a kid
Then John Podesta said to Hilary C, what is it that they think I did?
Later Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk whipped out their big space dongs
And the Wein Forum Mods said to everybody here, knock it off, no political songs
When it came up in Get Back it reminded me of something, and then I realized that the “so and so said to such and such” conceit was similar to Tom Wait’s “Road to Peace.”
I think the Weinerdome should do an all star jam where we singspeak about US political bullshit and Q Anon and whatnot for 10 minutes in similar fashion…
Donald Trump said to Pizzagate you can’t do that stuff with a kid
Then John Podesta said to Hilary C, what is it that they think I did?
Later Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk whipped out their big space dongs
And the Wein Forum Mods said to everybody here, knock it off, no political songs
DdBob
Dogue in teh desert
yer just jealous cuz I was neighbors with Paul and that Paul chose Tucson over shitcago
DdBob
Dogue in teh desert
Motorik
Kick Henry Jackassowski
Nine minutes of torturous bad choices. It kinda reminded me of a slapstick silly sods version of Fleetwood Mac's 'Someone's gonna get their head kicked in tonight'
Now this is good. Check it:
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DdBob
Dogue in teh desert
I actually cxame here to post the commonwealth song which is where I currently am on episode one. I plan to do an epic marathon of the whole series today . Anyway the pakistani lyrics and John's YES are just comic gold...too good. I am loving this and glad I decided to do the Disney thing to view it. I'm also realizing how m uch of a genius Paul was...gaw damn impressive!
Daniel as always is impressive, favorite current artist I'd say.
I was checking youtube earlier today and saw this video which he was a brief segment on but I saw this chick band called Partner on it and the vocalist guitarist was wailing on a double neck and it perked my interest to check them out and they rock.
Motorik
Kick Henry Jackassowski
DdBob
Dogue in teh desert
yeah, I'm impressed.
DdBob
Dogue in teh desert
I think Linda was quite the looker back then as well and honestly yoko had something going on too and not to get weird but Paul really rocked the beard. I think it was in the first episode where I believe George or Ringo told paul something like :the beard works well on you:"...I have to agree.