The Beatles

Octopus's Garden was definitely in circulation - thanks to its position on Raffi's One Light, One Sun (1985). I'm pretty sure I never understood it as a "Beatles song" until I heard Abbey Road as a teenager.

I just heard about 'A Toot and a Snore' bootleg:

"Lennon was producing Harry Nilsson's latest album, Pussy Cats, when Paul and Linda McCartney dropped in after the first night of the sessions, aka "the Jim Keltner Fan Club Hour", at Burbank Studios on 28 March 1974. They were joined by Stevie Wonder, Harry Nilsson, Jesse Ed Davis, May Pang, Bobby Keys and producer Ed Freeman for an impromptu jam session.
Lennon was in his "lost weekend", separated from Yoko Ono and living in Los Angeles with Pang. Although he and McCartney hadn't seen each other in three years (and lashed out at each other in the press), according to Pang they resumed their friendship as if nothing had happened. The jam session proved not very productive musically. Lennon sounds to be on cocaine and is heard offering Wonder a snort on the first track, and on the fifth, asks someone to give him a snort. This is also the origin of the album name, where John Lennon clearly asks: "You wanna snort, Steve? A toot? It's goin' round". In addition, Lennon seems to be having trouble with his microphone and headphones.
Lennon is on lead vocal and guitar, McCartney sings harmony and plays Ringo Starr's drums (Starr, who was recording with Nilsson at the time but not present at the session, complained at the next day's recording session that "McCartney always messes up me drums!").[2] Stevie Wonder sings and plays electric piano, Linda McCartney is on organ, Pang plays tambourine, Nilsson provides vocals, Davis is on guitar, Freeman (who was producing Don McLean in the neighboring studio) fills in on bass, and Keys plays saxophone.[3]
The events of this night are intriguing to Beatle fans as it is the only known instance of the former songwriting team playing together between their 1970 formal breakup and Lennon's murder in 1980. Aside from informal, special occasions such as weddings, collaborations of more than two ex-Beatles were rare after the band's bitter 1969-70 split, especially between Lennon and McCartney, whose conflict was the most pronounced and long-lived of all the post-split infighting."

haha that recording is so shite they NEVER find a groove

and yea they're all coked out of their minds

i've heard a bit of the AB Road bootleg (100+ hours of audio from the Let It Be sessions, from the video reels i think) and damn it sounds fun. stuff like paul demoing "oh darling" (solo piano). and i love hearing beatles talk.

Yeah, I've heard a bunch of that as well. George was OBSESSED with "I Shall Be Released."

I think I've heard some of that; they rehearse "She Came In Through The Bathroom Window" and Lennon provides running commentary ("Protected by a silver spoon" "a bloody spoon, bloody spoon, bloody spoon"). It's interesting, but doesn't seem like it would stand up to multiple listens.

Actually, it might be from Let It Be...I think they rehearsed a bunch of Abbey Road during those sessions.

yeah, that boot is awful -- it's one of those releases that kind of defines how obsessive Beatles fans will latch onto anything unreleased. Having Stevie Wonder on it is almost like a joke by god

lennon seems like a bro, offering toots

the nilsson documentary on netflix is great but a real bummer :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE49bsxGTFM#t=45

Turntables and the Beatles who loved them: http://www.capitol6000.com/recordplayers.html

Tom Ewing via Ned Raggett:

Somewhere there's an alternative universe where the boomers spent as much emotional and financial effort on protecting the 60s' political gains as they did in this one on making sure people still knew who The Beatles were.

why should we accept at face value this idea that the persistence of the Beatles canon is a Baby Boomer conspiracy? why shouldn't we blame Generations X & Y for the undoing of these political gains?

I actually think that the cash spent on reversing the (possibly overstated actual) political gains far, far outgrosses Beatles-related spending.

why shouldn't we blame Generations X & Y

because nearly all the Democrats who made this possible are boomers, led by the Clintons.

blame boomers for the politics but each new generation p much discovers/advocates the beatles for themselves, I know that's a cliche but I've seen it happen 100x

So progressives failed because they spent all their time proselytizing the Beatles? Lol.

Saw McCartney play last weekend. 23 Beatles songs.

"When I'm 94" cheap shot here

beatles have a lot of catchy tunes and ppl tend to like em when they hear em

you act like baby boomers strap us down in some kinda open eyelid clockwork orange beatles machine

timellison you only saw mccartney last weekend because you were strapped down clockwork orange style, right?

Sort of convenient that no other decades made promises for the future.

what 1960s political gains? i thought nixon was elected in 68.

Once the major civil rights legislation was done, more of the political gains were made in the first half of the '70s, until Reagan, Clinton and the whole sad bunch cut all the non-rich loose.

i was just being cynical

tom ewing's quote up there is too dumb to actually contemplate seriously

see also: most things written by music critics

critics bloggers

each new generation p much discovers/advocates the beatles for themselves

And reactionary politics

I've just been trapped in a room (not literally) at work having to listen to some early Beatles (might have been the first album - how the fuck would I know?) Jesus, but how I hate all that yakky-dakky Merseybeat stuff.

Yakky-dakky?

Girl, shake that yakky dakky (that yakky dakky)
Twist and shout

It's a phrase of my own invention for relentlessly chirpy Scouse shite.

The world is treating me bad yakky dakky

Actually pronounced yachy dachy

You know, if you break my heart I'll go
And yakky-dakk again

Yakky Dakky
What have you done?
You've made a fool of everyone

Yakky Dak, don't talk back!

"You know my naaammme.... Yakky Dakky,"

"You say you wanna Yakky Dakky,
Weeeelll, you know..."

Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm Yakky Dakky?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROI-FH6tnfY

Assume I made a Photoshop here of the Manson murder scene with "Yakky Daky" scrawled on the wall in blood, then chortle to yourself, please.

You'll have to have'em all pulled out after the Yakky Dakky.

I don't care too yakky dakky
Cos yakky won't yakky dak

And the yakker never wears a dak
In the pouring rain... Very strange

Let's just do this all day.

Why don't we yakky in the dak?

No one will be watching us.

Dak dak, Yakswell's silver hammer came down on her head...

Picture yourself in a yak by the dakky

Yakkiness is a warm yes it is Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaak