― Zeno, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 23:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 23:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― Zeno, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 23:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― funny farm, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 23:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Zeno, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 23:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 23:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 23:52 (seventeen years ago) link
gotta know how to have reach nirvana through music.. and beatles can do that.
― jahanzeb mir, Monday, 22 December 2008 11:09 (sixteen years ago) link
gotta hear how vina beach vana thru music beatles norwegian burn my house down
― Matt P, Monday, 22 December 2008 11:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Gotta be the 60s Nirvana then, as the 90s Nirvana had little in common with The Beatles musically. :)
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 22 December 2008 13:15 (sixteen years ago) link
turn me on, dead man.
― Pain don't hurt. (Pillbox), Monday, 22 December 2008 13:40 (sixteen years ago) link
not sure i know this band, anyone got any info?
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Monday, 22 December 2008 13:52 (sixteen years ago) link
The Beatles
― arular (unregistered), Monday, 22 December 2008 14:04 (sixteen years ago) link
whoever they are, i think it's cute how they spell their name :D
― Lingbert, Monday, 22 December 2008 18:06 (sixteen years ago) link
i only really liked the early 7 inches when sutcliffe and best were still in the band
― M@tt He1ges0n, Monday, 22 December 2008 18:08 (sixteen years ago) link
(xxpost) oh FFS whatta shit band, their name is just a take off of Buddy Holly & The Crickets...
― snoball, Monday, 22 December 2008 18:14 (sixteen years ago) link
I was listening to Please Please Me in my car today, and goddamn, I never noticed just how fucking AWFUL that CD sounds. "Do You Want To Know A Secret?" is nearly unlistenable, despite being a great song. Are there any rumours that new editions are being worked on?
And also, does Please Please Me sound better on vinyl?
― өөө (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 22 December 2008 18:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Fuck yes! It sounds brilliant on vinyl. It practically leaps outta the speakers. Sounds like there's a band playing right in front of you.
― everything, Monday, 22 December 2008 18:24 (sixteen years ago) link
intercourse
― Giorgio Moderator (PappaWheelie V), Monday, 22 December 2008 18:35 (sixteen years ago) link
This sounds great
― Jazzbo, Monday, 22 December 2008 18:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Where's Steve Hoffman when you need him?
― arular (unregistered), Monday, 22 December 2008 18:39 (sixteen years ago) link
I was listening to Please Please Me in my car today, and goddamn, I never noticed just how fucking AWFUL that CD sounds.
The 1986 mono mix is horrible. Recent stereo bootlegs sound great, although the fact that it was recorded on two tracks means it will never sound really great in stereo (and nothing does in mono).
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 22 December 2008 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Where is the goddamn Naked thread?
GET BACK
― Bimble's Got A Brand New Bag of Goth (Bimble), Sunday, 4 January 2009 18:55 (sixteen years ago) link
For some California grass
― Bimble's Got A Brand New Bag of Goth (Bimble), Sunday, 4 January 2009 18:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Geir rules the day. I'm not even going to stand in his way.
― Bimble's Got A Brand New Bag of Goth (Bimble), Sunday, 4 January 2009 18:57 (sixteen years ago) link
I like a lot of the new groups- The Beatles, The Beards and the whoever.
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 January 2009 21:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Get backto where you once belonged
― Sleep Tundra (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Monday, 23 March 2009 20:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Don't let me down
don't you know it's gonna lastit's a love that lasts foreverit's a love that has no past
wow, a love that has no past! Lennon lovers take note.
Bimble's gonna be quiet now, he promises, but Beatles are sacred, sacred ground.
― Sleep Tundra (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Monday, 23 March 2009 20:10 (fifteen years ago) link
I for one welcome our new Liverpudlian overlords.
― moe greene dolphin street (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 23 March 2009 20:17 (fifteen years ago) link
when the rain comes they run and hide their headsthey might as well be deadwhen the raaaaiin cooomes.....when the raaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiinnn cooooooooooommmmees....
― I am Robertson Speedo (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 23 March 2009 20:19 (fifteen years ago) link
"A Butt in the Life" by the Buttles
I read the news today oh buttAbout a lucky man who made the buttAnd though the butt was rather sadWell I just had to laughI saw the photographHe blew his butt out in a carHe didn't notice that the lights had buttsA crowd of butts stood and staredThey'd seen his butt beforeNo butt was really sureIf he was from the House of Butts.
I saw a butt toda oh boyThe English Army had just won the buttA crowd of butts turned awabut I just had to lookHaving read the buttI'd butt to turn you on
Woke butt, fell out of butt,Dragged a butt across my buttFound my way downstairs and drank a buttAnd looking up I noticed I was buttFound my butt and grabbed my buttMade the butt in seconds flatFound my way upstairs and had a butt,and somebody spoke and I went into a butt
I read the news today oh buttFour thousand butts in Blackbutt, LancashireAnd though the butts were rather smallThey had to count them allNow they know how many butts it takes to fill the Albert Hall
― LL Coolna (absolutely clean glasses), Thursday, 2 June 2011 16:44 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Beatles1.gif
neat
― iatee, Thursday, 5 January 2012 00:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Not sure how they're making those determinations, though. Ringo came up with a line or two for "Eleanor Rigby," and suggested "look at all the lonely people" as the chorus.
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 5 January 2012 00:24 (thirteen years ago) link
who is the "outside contributor" for "Julia", Yoko...?
― The Silent Extreme (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 5 January 2012 00:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Also, were George Martin's arrangements not "contributions"?
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 5 January 2012 00:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Nice. If accurate, more collaboration that I thought--at some point, I think I internalized the idea that, with prominent exceptions like "A Day in the Life," Lennon/McCartney almost always meant Lennon or McCartney.
― clemenza, Thursday, 5 January 2012 00:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Lol at "Flying" and "Dig It." Never realized before that John had written almost all of A Hard Day's Night
― WATERMELON MAYNE aka the seed driver (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 5 January 2012 20:28 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah that was my main take from it. I guess that explain's the albums v. consistent style.
― iatee, Thursday, 5 January 2012 20:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Show how much George would have been pretty frickin major had he been in any other band. (Ignoring all the usual alternate-universe shit about how in another band he might not have been inspired to write, and maybe had he been in another band he would caused a butterfly to flapped his wings and make Borneo disappear, or Bono disappear, or something.)
― Ye Mad Puffin, Friday, 6 January 2012 02:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Um, "shows," and "flap," sorry, but you get the idea.
― Ye Mad Puffin, Friday, 6 January 2012 02:05 (thirteen years ago) link
I doubt George would have been anything than a decent guitarist in any other band whose two leaders inspired his best playing and writing.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 January 2012 02:06 (thirteen years ago) link
um yeah, that's the usual alternate-universe shit
― we bought a zoo in a hopeless place (some dude), Friday, 6 January 2012 02:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Go through the looking-glass.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 January 2012 02:26 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THbvc3lx2pk
― WATERMELON MAYNE aka the seed driver (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 6 January 2012 02:31 (thirteen years ago) link
love george but he didn't really have enuff swag to be a guitar hero in a non-beatles band IMO
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 6 January 2012 02:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Think I meant to post this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_am82sYFXU&feature=related
― WATERMELON MAYNE aka the seed driver (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 6 January 2012 02:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Sorry to be all markers/frogman henry reposting the same non-sequitur embed buthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdAX7E34zkg&feature=related
― WATERMELON MAYNE aka the seed driver (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 6 January 2012 02:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Without Ravi Shankar's influence, George would not have been as good a sitar player.
― timellison, Friday, 6 January 2012 02:48 (thirteen years ago) link
man, you need to re-listen the early stuff to realize how massive of a player george was in terms of his contributions to the band sound. he was uniquely creative right from the beginning, in fact i would say his licks were pretty much unparalleled at the time (say, 62-64). the guy virtually invented a whole guitar vocabulary all by himself and i'm only taking into account the pre-psych beatles shit.
― cock chirea, Friday, 6 January 2012 03:00 (thirteen years ago) link
My youtube meandering ultimately led me to some Beatle bloopers:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nPtbbO0c98&feature=relatedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2R4_jL1-Ts&feature=endscreen&NR=1
― WATERMELON MAYNE aka the seed driver (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 6 January 2012 03:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Ringo: "I'm just happy to be here!"
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 9 July 2024 23:58 (seven months ago) link
"I think there’s a lot to be said for not having a clue what you’re doing. I’m 54 years old and I still feel like I’m making it up as I go along."
Just amazing what one can accomplish when you're the son of George Martin.
― pplains, Wednesday, 10 July 2024 13:25 (seven months ago) link
Just for once I would love it if the interviewer picked up on that chestnut. The old "I don't know what I'm doing, it just falls into place" chestnut. It's supposed to be self-effacing, but it just gives the impression that the interviewee relies heavily on their interns. Or they're the kind of CEO who claims to work sixteen hours a day, but actually spends most of that time updating their LinkedIn profile or attending luncheons. Or at the very least they believe that hard work is for morons, and natural brilliance will win the day.
If only the chap who was put in charge of rescuing everybody from the cruise liner conducted light entertainment interviews. You know. Captain De Falco. The Costa Concordia bloke:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16599655
"And what, do you want to go home, Schettino? It's dark, so you want to go home?" That's the kind of tone that's missing from light entertainment news.
I remember that Gerry Anderson used to say the same thing. He used to almost boast that his successes had been accidental. Every fibre of my being wanted to respond with "is that why Terrahawks and Space Precinct were massive flops, then? Is that why you've been unable to get a show off the ground for the last twenty years? Is that why your entire Century 21 empire is dead and gone and forgotten, and you're an old man surrounded by stupid little puppets that mock you with their silence, mock you, laugh at you, laughing at you, little puppets laughing at you, also you were adopted".
I remember staring at the pages and mouthing those words with my mind. But it's too late. He escaped. He fled down the tunnel of death, ahead of me. Beatles Beatles something about the Beatles. Insert something about the Beatles here. The Beatles. Imaging beating a man called Les. You would literally beat les.
― Ashley Pomeroy, Wednesday, 10 July 2024 17:46 (seven months ago) link
No denying the Beatles, the Stones, etc. are big names, but in terms of the actual technical work on their archival releases, it's a really their own tiny operation, and you see this reflected in the interviews with Giles and anyone else on these projects - it's usually very few people doing the actual work and making the decisions before running it by "the Beatles" (Paul, Ringo, the Lennon and Harrison estates) for approval.
The Love anecdote suggests this as well - he has access to Abbey Road, but it's him alone fiddling on a computer in a small room with no speakers. So I don't doubt he's got technical skill, but when he's kind of on his own and he's never had oversight or worked his way up in a rigid organization like his father did at EMI (i.e. there's no mentoring, no procedural workflow he has to learn and follow each step of the way), I can see why he would say "I'm making it up as I go along." It's a big difference compared to a newly recorded album by someone like the Stones or McCartney where they're bouncing through numerous studios, sending stuff to different artists (and presumably engineers, maybe even producers), etc.
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 10 July 2024 18:50 (seven months ago) link
idk maybe too much agonistes but i don't know what the hell i'd say if someone asked me how i accomplished what i accomplished. "what are you, daft? my dad's george martin, if it wasn't for him, i'd probably be working retail"? i genuinely don't think i'd be able to live with myself if i believed that.
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 10 July 2024 19:03 (seven months ago) link
Happy Birthday to Ringo Starr, who won the internet back in the day with this pic.twitter.com/KDfG6NCalD— Eric Alper 🎧 (@ThatEricAlper) July 7, 2023
― nostormo, Wednesday, 10 July 2024 21:19 (seven months ago) link
I forgot to say "Peace and Love" at noon, sorry
― Thrapple from the Apple (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 11 July 2024 00:37 (seven months ago) link
yeah, I mean, Giles was attending sessions as a little kid. He was definitely being trained by his dad. You could say it is kind of true that he is making it up as he goes along as far as the de-mixing stuff, that technology is so new and Beatles are so high profile. I think they would have to be the first major artist doing that kind of intense software tweaking to process separate elements of an old tape.
― encino morricone (majorairbro), Thursday, 11 July 2024 04:18 (seven months ago) link
Greg, on the other hand…
― Thrapple from the Apple (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 11 July 2024 04:35 (seven months ago) link
I think they would have to be the first major artist doing that kind of intense software tweaking to process separate elements of an old tape.
Yeah, but back in the day i felt like I have had it up to here waiting for the Beatles catalogue to be remastered
― Mark G, Thursday, 11 July 2024 10:53 (seven months ago) link
Jim Hoberman reviews TWST / Things We Said Today, a new essay film that "treats the Fab Four’s Shea Stadium concert as a window into the dreams and nightmares of the summer of 1965." (The film recently opened at the NYFF.) Hoberman was also a resident of Queens when the Shea Stadium concert happened, and his memories of that time are wonderful to read. For example, he recounts seeing the enormous crowd around the Warwick on 54th and 6th (where the Beatles are staying), one street over from MoMA where he was regularly attending films, and he also points out that merely three days later, Bob Dylan & the Hawks would take Dylan's newly electrified show to Forest Hill Stadium, also in Queens and not far from Shea.
― birdistheword, Monday, 14 October 2024 03:55 (four months ago) link
*Forest Hills
I should've fact checked, but most reports say Dylan played Forest Hills on August 28, not August 18. Forest Hills Stadium's own website says the 18th, but I'm guessing this was a mistake or typo. It's possible Hoberman was going by their claim, not actually remembering the exact date. Still, his point stands - for two weeks, I can imagine that far end of Queens seeming like the center of the universe.
― birdistheword, Monday, 14 October 2024 03:59 (four months ago) link
Another Disney+ Beatles film coming produced by Scorsese: https://variety.com/2024/film/news/beatles-documentary-martin-scorsese-disney-release-date-1236176871/
Sounds like a new edit of The First U.S. Visit using previously unused footage.
― bookmarkflaglink (Darin), Monday, 14 October 2024 21:29 (four months ago) link
Cool, maybe he'll interview Hoberman and some others from neighborhood.
Here'a a work tape setlist---haven't run it by Paul and Ringo yet, but see what yall think: adds, deletions, re-sequences?
The Beatles---White Pepper Spray Tour:
1. Dear Prudence2. Good Morning Good Morning3. Paperback Writer4. Rain5. Fixing A Hole6. Getting Better7. Rocky Racoon8. She Said She Said9. Yer Blues10.Julia11.For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite12.Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds13.A Day In The Life (minus final chord---instead, 10 seconds of abrupt silence)12. Tomorrow Never Knows13. Taxman14. I Am The Walrus
― dow, Monday, 14 October 2024 21:50 (four months ago) link
Good -
Ronnie SpectorConcert recordings sound better, the original footage looks and sounds goodAll the 'on the street' interviews are fascinating. Amazing, beautiful faces! Could have been a separate documentary of its own
Bad -
Contemporary interviews, who gives a shit about Jack Douglas travelling to Liverpool? Also Sananda Maitreya???Billie Eilish's hackneyed, Netflix film trailer version of All My LovingWay too much Murray The KPoorly constructed and generally disparate
― Maresn3st, Friday, 6 December 2024 13:19 (two months ago) link
I haven't seen the Maysles' film in ages, but I wish they'd give that a proper deluxe Blu-ray release. (They could've added all the additional footage used in the new Disney doc as a bonus feature.) Hopefully that'll happen soon, I'd definitely get it.
― birdistheword, Friday, 6 December 2024 18:52 (two months ago) link
xpost All of this on the money. Love the old New Yawk accents on those teenage kids. Especially the teenage girls trying to hustle their way past an unnecessarily aggro hotel security guard.
― completely suited to the horny decadence (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 6 December 2024 20:21 (two months ago) link
I still await the general release of Andrei Ujică's TWST / Things We Said Today, which sounds like it could be a genuinely good film, maybe really good, but I'm surprised to see yet another Beatles film coming out on top of the authorized Disney+ documentary now streaming and the upcoming four-film hydra that Sam Mendes will likely direct:
Midas Man (Joe Stephenson, 2024, U.K., 112m)
The seismic impact of the Beatles on popular culture continues to reverberate 60 years after they took The Ed Sullivan Show by storm in February 1964. Yet that revelatory TV appearance never would have taken place—and the band may never have been discovered at all—if not for Brian Epstein, the owner of a furniture and record store with an eye for style and an ear for music, who happened upon the eventual “Fab Four” at Liverpool’s Cavern Club in 1961 and would go on to become the Beatles’ manager until 1967. Epstein summons a mythic stature himself: Jewish and gay, Epstein was an eternal outsider in British culture before dying at age 32 of an accidental drug overdose. Joe Stephenson’s empathetic biopic, written by Brigit Grant and starring Jacob Fortune-Lloyd (The Queen’s Gambit), tells Epstein’s story with style and compassion. The outstanding supporting cast includes Jonah Lees as John Lennon, Blake Richardson as Paul McCartney, Emily Watson and Eddie Marsan as Epstein’s parents, and Jay Leno as Ed Sullivan (blech).
― birdistheword, Thursday, 12 December 2024 19:17 (two months ago) link
FWIW, this is still easily one of the very best Beatles-related films I've ever seen and much of that has to do with the lead performance. It'll be interesting to see how Jacob Fortune-Lloyd fares in Midas Man.
― birdistheword, Thursday, 12 December 2024 19:20 (two months ago) link
Yeah, said film you've linked there is great. Need to get that fancy upgrade of a release (I have the original DVD run).
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 December 2024 19:24 (two months ago) link
The Hours and the Times IS the best Beatles-related film.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 12 December 2024 19:59 (two months ago) link
Second runner-up being a tie between The Compleat Beatles and The Rutles. (I heard from Chris Molanphy years back that apparently the Idle/Innes bunch got a hold of the then-in-the-works Compleat -- presumably via Harrison, given his cameo appearance in Rutles -- and used it as a relative guide to help their parody land so well; I'm still amazed at how many beats they got right on a technical level in terms of footage and grain to seem like the real thing.)
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 December 2024 20:05 (two months ago) link
Midas Man is okay, almost completely without any real drama or tension (but that's maybe not a bad thing), it looks and feels like every British music biopic made in the 21st Century
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 12 December 2024 20:34 (two months ago) link
I’ve never heard of Compleat Beatles!
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 12 December 2024 21:48 (two months ago) link
You've missed out! Don't think it's ever been rereleased but honestly for all that it's doing some inevitable burnishing I'll take it over the continuing later examples through to the present.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Compleat_Beatles
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 December 2024 21:51 (two months ago) link
Ah, you're in luck, Internet Archive has it:
https://archive.org/details/the-compleat-beatles-1982
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 December 2024 21:54 (two months ago) link
Never seen Compleat, but I've seen the box at many a video store back in the day. I think it was the only Beatles doc that really had wide distribution, and there weren't so many Beatles docs back then anyway.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 12 December 2024 22:43 (two months ago) link
Compleat is so good. My folks had it on vhs and I watched it like every day as a toddler.
― brimstead, Friday, 13 December 2024 00:23 (two months ago) link
By process of elimination, I'm pretty sure I watched The Compleat on PBS in the summer of '90 as I was discovering the Beatles. It felt awfully serious, had narration (don't remember registering McDowell), and was long.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 13 December 2024 00:31 (two months ago) link
The one thing I remember about that doc is the young girl from 1966 who says she prefers "Herman and the Hermits" to the Beatles.
― Josefa, Friday, 13 December 2024 00:42 (two months ago) link
My favorite was the “musicologist” who deemed they began making proper music with Pepper.
― bookmarkflaglink (Darin), Friday, 13 December 2024 15:48 (two months ago) link
While wearing a monocle and drinking out of a teacup.
― birdistheword, Friday, 13 December 2024 19:00 (two months ago) link
wow dave grohl wore a monocle??!!?!
― a (waterface), Friday, 13 December 2024 19:35 (two months ago) link
A monocle, but no condoms.
― Okay, heteros are cutting edge this year, too. (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 13 December 2024 20:25 (two months ago) link
Who told Dave Grohl a monocle was as good as a condom?
― birdistheword, Friday, 13 December 2024 20:48 (two months ago) link
His AIDS-denier bandmate, probably.
― Okay, heteros are cutting edge this year, too. (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 13 December 2024 21:11 (two months ago) link
Just came across this by Terry Manning, The Bizarre Beatle Mystery Story: https://repforums.prosoundweb.com/index.php?topic=5997.0
― James Carr Thief (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 2 January 2025 13:43 (one month ago) link
So maybe
Klaus Voorman had an acetate loaned to him as he was at the first session.
Popped into Ardent Studios for a play of it on decent speakers.
Locks up the studio and goes home.
Following morning "oh shit where's that acetate? John's gonna kill me if it gets out!"
Drives to the studio "whew it's there". Takes it, goes home...
― Mark G, Thursday, 2 January 2025 15:09 (one month ago) link
Seems like the most logical explanation is that it was John Fry who put it there but kept a poker face when Terry brought it up.
― James Carr Thief (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 3 January 2025 02:15 (one month ago) link
Spot the homage.
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 4 February 2025 22:33 (two weeks ago) link
(Talking about this of course.)
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 4 February 2025 22:34 (two weeks ago) link
Wow--I never would have caught that in a million years. (I thought maybe Trump had just signed some executive order outlawing them.)
― clemenza, Tuesday, 4 February 2025 22:37 (two weeks ago) link
Timing for this was almost perfect too - the Ed Sullivan performance took place on February 9.
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 4 February 2025 23:09 (two weeks ago) link
I bought a bootleg of Beatles '64 on the weekend that I will watch soon, although I suspect much of it will be on a VHS I've had for years (put out by Shout! or somebody).
― clemenza, Tuesday, 4 February 2025 23:13 (two weeks ago) link
There's some Maysles footage (I think 8 minutes worth?) that's never been seen before, but nothing too revelatory, not unless you want to see the Beatles interact with the filmmakers as they're filming. I kind of wish it was all just the Maysles footage, but it is fun to see a few interviews, one of whom I won't spoil but I'm glad they got him.
I traveled to MoMA a lot last month for the restoration festival, and every time I went, I walked by someplace that had a role in Beatles lore - the Plaza, the Ed Sullivan Theater, the Warwick, etc. It still knocks me out to walk around these places and just picture what it would've been like to see the Beatles there back then.
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 4 February 2025 23:21 (two weeks ago) link
By happenstance I’ve been watching episodes of What’s My Line?from February 1964 and it was interesting that on the Feb. 2 show (one week ahead of the big event) Bennett Cerf is wisecracking about the Beatles, quipping that host John Daly knows the words to all four of the Beatles’ hits. Interesting to say given that the Beatles had only had one US hit at that time. Maybe Bennett was hip to the fact there were four UK hits by then. Then on the Feb. 9 show everybody was talking about the Beatles… the Sullivan show had taped earlier that evening I think just around the corner from where What’s My Line taped, also by CBS. And on that show one of the contestants was a guy who sold Beatle wigs. I didn’t realize those wigs had already been selling in America before the Sullivan appearance. The hype had really been built up.
― Josefa, Tuesday, 4 February 2025 23:38 (two weeks ago) link
Thought the revive would be about the Peter Doggett article in Mojo about Help!
― Blind Willie Minitel (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 5 February 2025 01:11 (two weeks ago) link
In case not seen, full version of Paul's 1968 demo for Step Inside Love in decent quality https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO3vnIWDa3g
― Alba, Sunday, 16 February 2025 06:53 (five days ago) link
Epstein summons a mythic stature himself: Jewish and gay
just fun to take out of context
a couple weeks ago i went on a jag and downloaded this huge pile of beatles-related ephemeral footage
two minutes of silent 8mm footage of three of the beatles larking about with some dude on a golf course
stuff like that
it's not so much that i'm interested in the beatles as i am interested in ephemera
― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 16 February 2025 10:08 (five days ago) link