Get Back.

[Greg]

The placeholder!

I feel like Peter Jackson has been talking about this since the 1990s.

[Drunk Monk]

[Greg]

So many things coming out that weekend.

[Drunk Monk]

Ep 1 was awesome. It’s 2 1/2 hours. We were only going to watch half of it but got totally engaged. The video and audio restoration is sharp and it captures their banter, their talent, their humor, their drama, and most captivatingly, them in the act of composing.  

Can’t wait until e2.

[thatguy]

Agreed. The intro seemed like “The Beatles for Young People”…you might not have heard of them, but there was the band and they got so big… It’s great to see the sausage made and inspiring to hear how rough/bad some of the songs sound at first, or even in the first few runs through. 

It’s amazing to see Paul improvise great lyrics. 

The deadline/timelines are stressing me out. 

I want a Fender Mark VII bass. 

For all the talk about how much source footage there was, there are quite a few edits where the audio and video don’t sync. Or an edit cheat where it cuts to an over the shoulder view of the person replying or has their mouth obscured. There’s a warning about this at the beginning, but I would have thought there was enough footage or some other way to do these cuts. 

Also, this film has been touted as a rebuttal to the animosity displayed in the Let It Be film (which I have never seen), but there seems to be a pretty good amount of animosity here, too. 

Ready for the next installment. 

—tg
(No sword fights so far…but still recommended)

[Drunk Monk]

E2 is available now. Might have to watch it tonight.

Watching Paul Work was captivating. I love how we’ve spent decades unraveling the meanings behind his lyrics only to find that they were just flippant random choices that fit in with his musical scat.

Someone should lip read what Yoko and Linda were saying to each other.

Oh man - Yoko. Reading the paper with a front row seat to that. And when she finally gets on the mike...

[Greg]

I saw a clip of the show on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. I was very amused to see Yoko reading a book called "The Complete Beatles"

This is in the queue to watch.

[Drunk Monk]

I just listened to Let It Be once more. It remains one of my fav albums of all time. It's perfect. The only flaw is that it's too short. 

The Let It Be earworms are burrowed deep in my Eustachian tubes. Every track. I can't stop hearing them and I don't want to. 

I may have to just put Let It Be on repeat.

[King Bob]

Looking forward to this.

DM - Wondering if you liked "Let It Be Naked" - I was underwhelmed. When it came out, I heard it talked up as "the way the album was supposed to sound" (that is without the Phil Spector treatment), but really it's just a rough mix, so it all sounds like demos.

TG - Never cared for Fender basses myself. The sound is nice, but I don't like the fat necks, although supposedly the Jazz Bass has a thinner neck. I've never played one. For me it's the Ibanez, even though they're (mostly) low end instruments.

[Drunk Monk]

E2 is 3 hours. It’s funnier because the band starts grooving. E1 is dominated by Paul but in e2 John starts in (he seems very high) and George even gets some say. Plus Billy joins and I never realized how much he added to the sound. Enjoyed this just as much. It’s inspiring to see their chaos and madness, then something clicks and it’s pure magic. 

They all drink and smoke a lot, plus there’s lots of toast and tea. I had to make myself some toast during e2 because I got the craves.

KB: I totally agree on Naked. It was an interesting listen but the original is the classic. 

I remember the first time I saw Paul live at U.C. Berkeley (not the Greek, the stadium). He played for premium card holders (Am Ex was it? That I don’t recall) who got early entrance. He just differ on the piano for like two hours. It was awesome. Then that violin bass blew me away. I was struck by how long Paul’s arms were which seemed to give him more reach on that guitar neck. That was one of my top ten concert experiences. I’ve seen Paul three times now, and Ringo once. Never saw the others.

[Greg]

I caught the first 45 minutes of the first episode. I was ready to devote more than two hours to watching. It was nice recap in the beginning. It's fun to hear the bits and pieces of the songs before they are fully formed. It's bit slow for me at this point. This could be partly because my reverence for the Beatles isn't particularly high so I'm hoping they would just get to the dramatic bits. Although I can see George getting angry about them not listening to his ideas.

[King Bob]

From his previous work, it seems like Jackson can't bear to leave anything out even if it would tighten things up.

Much like numerous bestselling authors, whose books get thicker and thicker as they get more famous, and can push back against the editors.

[Greg]

I was thinking that was problem. I fear the director's cut, now with more stuff.

[thatguy]

The Mark VII bass is a like a guitar, with bass strings: 6-string, with a tremolo. I have no idea what the neck is like. You see John and George using it frequently when Paul is on the piano. 

They talk about it a bit in this (stupid) video:



—tg

[Drunk Monk]

This could be partly because my reverence for the Beatles isn't particularly high so I'm hoping they would just get to the dramatic bits. 

I imagine it helps if you know their music - like really know it - which you might not if you're not so reverent. The construction of the songs is where all the drama is for me - like tg says 'to see the sausage made'. You can hear the musical ideas forming and their level of improv is ridiculous. It reminds me of breaking down jazz. After all these years working in the music industry, I feel like I'm finally got enough musical vocabulary to begin to understand jazz. I feel like my dabbling in classical symphony helps. It's that referencing that's so insanely clever. That was much of the magic for the Dead for me. To hear the Beatles do it is such a revelation. 

Plus I worship the Beatles. I got my first CD player when Sgt Pepper came out on CD and have the whole catalog in a box set (a nice wooden case) plus a handful of rarities. It's small compared to my Marley collection, or even my Dead collection actually, but the Beatles still move me with their brilliance. The band was only together for like ten years and we're still talking about them a half century later.