Favorite Beatles Album

[row_33]

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the week that was in 1969.

 

Yellow Submarine album released in the US, with the second side an instrumental waste.  Peaks at #2 as the White Album was still in control of the charts.

 

George continues his holdout and the others try to keep going in the bad morale.

 

Canada's CBC gets this interview  "2 Junkies" for us...

 

 

 

 

[LabattBlue]

On a somewhat related subject...

 

I was thinking today, who will be the last one standing(Beatles, Beatles who were given the boot, & Beatles homewrecker; lol)...

 

Pete Best

Ringo

Sir Paul

Yoko

[row_33]

13 hours ago, LabattBlue said:

On a somewhat related subject...

 

I was thinking today, who will be the last one standing(Beatles, Beatles who were given the boot, & Beatles homewrecker; lol)...

 

Pete Best

Ringo

Sir Paul

Yoko

 

Yoko will get to sing at all their funerals

 

 

just because...

 

 

[row_33]

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Over the last few days in 1969...

 

George returns with more bargaining power than before, in reality he is the only one with a handful of pop masterpieces currently in his stock...

 

sessions are going to move from the freezing huge tomb of Twickenham to Apple HQ, beginning on the 20th.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited January 18, 2019 by row_33

[The Real Buffalo Joe]

15 hours ago, LabattBlue said:

On a somewhat related subject...

 

I was thinking today, who will be the last one standing(Beatles, Beatles who were given the boot, & Beatles homewrecker; lol)...

 

Pete Best

Ringo

Sir Paul

Yoko

The irony of Paul and Ringo being the last two to live. Paul was allegedly dead in 1967 (although I've read some people still believe that). And Ringo was given six months to live when he was born. 

[row_33]

37 minutes ago, The Real Buffalo Joe said:

The irony of Paul and Ringo being the last two to live. Paul was allegedly dead in 1967 (although I've read some people still believe that). And Ringo was given six months to live when he was born. 

 

They seemed the more breezy and less-introspectiveand self-torturing and finger-pointing of the Fab Four

 

maybe it adds years to one's life

 

at the very least they didn't tick off lunatics who went and shot or stabbed them

 

 

at times i wish we did have John around for his wry commentary on the last 40 years....

Edited January 18, 2019 by row_33

[row_33]

Some stray comment read this week about John & Yoko enjoying Russian choirs singing carols, recordings used on Revolution 9, and on a whim the first 2 youtube recordings of choirs I went to started with a tolling of the bell sounding like the opening of the Plastic Ono Band album.

 

 

[Chandler#81]

I didn’t vote cuz I love them all. Mom brought home the 45rpm I Saw Her Standing There & I Want To Hold Your Hand in December ‘63, while everyone was still reeling from November 22nd. Fell in love and a little over a month later, Ed Sullivan introduced them. Hooked for life. I told my Dad that night “I want a guitar and grow my hair long!” I got the guitar, but it was years before he let me grow my hair.. If I had to guess, Revolver, Rubber Soul & Abbey Road rate at the top.

[The Real Buffalo Joe]

Going to see the Fab Four this weekend. They're probably the best Beatles tribute band I've ever heard. @Gugny saw them. I saw them last year, but wife and I are taking her dad this time. 

[Gugny]

1 minute ago, The Real Buffalo Joe said:

Going to see the Fab Four this weekend. They're probably the best Beatles tribute band I've ever heard. @Gugny saw them. I saw them last year, but wife and I are taking her dad this time. 

 

Enjoy!

[row_33]

15 minutes ago, The Real Buffalo Joe said:

Going to see the Fab Four this weekend. They're probably the best Beatles tribute band I've ever heard. @Gugny saw them. I saw them last year, but wife and I are taking her dad this time. 

 

Enjoy, just saw the Genesis tribute band The Musical Box last week, I forgot that for the first few tours with Phil singing they hired Bill Bruford to play drums, which was sort of repped by a Phil look-alike out front for the Trick and Wind songs.

 

A nice man to have waiting in the wings to fill in on drums.

 

 

Edited January 28, 2019 by row_33

[row_33]

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50 years ago.....  they regroup at Apple to start recording again

 

turns out Magic Alex is a total fraud, he hasn't set up anything at all, let alone a recording system way better than ever dreamed possible, so haul over the equipment from EMI Abbey Road.....  ah, the 60s idealism...

 

Paul introduces Every Night

George brings Billy Preston into the studio

George's Window, Window is ignored

Don't Let Me Down is recorded as a single

Coda used in the Get Back single is recorded

George introduces Something

John introduces I Want You (SSH)

Allen Klein meets the group for the first time, let the fun begin...

The rooftop 5 songs are agreed on for later.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[The Real Buffalo Joe]

This was on the official Beatles Facebook today.

 

Quote

We are proud to announce an exciting new collaboration between The Beatles and the acclaimed Academy Award winning director Sir Peter Jackson 

The new film will be based around 55 hours of never-released footage of The Beatles in the studio, shot between January 2nd and January 31st, 1969. These studio sessions produced The Beatles’ Grammy Award winning album Let It Be, with its Academy Award winning title song. The album was eventually released 18 months later in May 1970, several months after the band had broken up.

 

The filming was originally intended for a planned TV special, but organically turned into something completely different, climaxing with The Beatles’ legendary performance on the roof of Apple's Savile Row London office — which took place exactly 50 years ago today.

 

Peter Jackson said, "The 55 hours of never-before-seen footage and 140 hours of audio made available to us, ensures this movie will be the ultimate ‘fly on the wall’ experience that Beatles fans have long dreamt about."

 

“I was relieved to discover the reality is very different to the myth,” continues Jackson, “it’s simply an amazing historical treasure-trove. Sure, there’s moments of drama - but none of the discord this project has long been associated with. Watching John, Paul, George, and Ringo work together, creating now-classic songs from scratch, is not only fascinating - it’s funny, uplifting and surprisingly intimate”.  

 

"I’m thrilled and honoured to have been entrusted with this remarkable footage - making the movie will be a sheer joy."

 

[LabattBlue]

1 hour ago, The Real Buffalo Joe said:

This was on the official Beatles Facebook today.

 

 

Awesome!  Can't wait to see the finished product.

[row_33]

2 hours ago, The Real Buffalo Joe said:

This was on the official Beatles Facebook today.

 

 

 

 

there may have been a reason it wasn't released, the footage they officially allowed was dismal enough

 

nonetheless, bring it on!!

 

 

[The Real Buffalo Joe]

So I've made it clear here that I'm a bigger Stones fan than The Beatles. Still absolutely love The Beatles, but I'm a bigger Stones fan. So for Christmas, my whole family pooled together and bought me field seats for the Stones concert in April. My wife told me there was some sort of VIP package involved. Not a meet and greet, but commemorative poster and book or something like that, she didn't really remember. 

 

So I went online to see what it was. The official website for NRG Stadium (Texans) had a disclaimer on there stating "Paul McCartney will not be performing at this show." Now, as we know, Paul McCartney, in his 60 or so years in the music industry, has never been a member of the Rolling Stones, so I had no reason to suspect that he was playing. But now I'm suspicious. Was this originally planned as a double headline tour/show? Is Paul a surprise special guest (fingers crossed)? 

[row_33]

Excellent, seen the Stones before?

 

john and Paul sang backup on We Love You

 

 

[The Real Buffalo Joe]

30 minutes ago, row_33 said:

Excellent, seen the Stones before?

 

john and Paul sang backup on We Love You

 

 

Nope. First time. I'm super pumped. I literally cried when I opened the gift. 

 

Mick and Keith also sang on "All You Need Is Love." and Mick sang backup on "Baby, You're A Rich Man."

 

There's a book I read called "Beatles Vs Stones." Basically the whole book is how they really weren't rivals in each other's eyes, so much as the media portrayed them that way. 

[row_33]

8 minutes ago, The Real Buffalo Joe said:

Nope. First time. I'm super pumped. I literally cried when I opened the gift. 

 

Mick and Keith also sang on "All You Need Is Love." and Mick sang backup on "Baby, You're A Rich Man."

 

There's a book I read called "Beatles Vs Stones." Basically the whole book is how they really weren't rivals in each other's eyes, so much as the media portrayed them that way. 

 

Stones copied the Beatles for awhile but soon surpassed them after the White Album

 

Beatles after that couldn’t compete with the Mick Taylor Era

[The Real Buffalo Joe]

Some hypotheticals I've thought about. First one. John lives. Do John, Paul, George and Ringo, all get back together at the same time? If so, do they record new material? Do they do a one off world tour and rake in the cash, then go their separate ways? 

 

Another hypothetical. Brian Epstein lives. Do the Beatles stay together longer because they can focus on music, having Brian take care of the business end of things? When, if ever, do they start doing live concerts and tours again? 

 

I think I asked this before, but John leaves the band. Paul, George, and Ringo decide to keep going on. Do they replace John with Clapton, or someone who's well known? Hold auditions? Do they look for someone that sounds just like John, or go a completely different direction?

Edited February 6, 2019 by The Real Buffalo Joe