I have had it up to here waiting for the Beatles catalogue to be remastered

It was announced that the original film would be released on Blu-ray next year. No date has been announced though.

haaaa

hah

Michael Lindsay-Hogg has one of those obsolete accents. Absolutely no one talks like that anymore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAbYn5Vpmow

^#OneThread

idk

pvmic but i quite like it so far
not for insight or anything but like, just to see the extended scenes of how they interacted in like, boring moments together

and this is v corny but honestly, memories are fallible & spongey & blur so just having the additional footage and Paul or Ringo seeing it now, seeing their old friends John & George alive … just purely in terms of that

this to me has more in common w jacksons WW1 documentary- he’s not trying to add to the canon of scholarly work, but to shade in the human moments. these 4 megastars are also 4 old friends who have a patter that’s decades old, it’s lovely to just see all that floating about

i think that’s what he intended by not making the doc *specifically* music-focused
he’s a fan, i mean he’s not ~anti music~ but i think it’s fine that he is open about being interested in the history of their friendship & that shorthand clearly on display here

also: michael lindsay hogg is a complete & utter prannet lol

sorry that was all very scattered fragments

its just put together so sloppily and un-interestingly. might as well just release raw tapes.

Ok nm I love it cuz Beatles

i swear i could happily sit through the 80 hour version at this point, like me just in my living room for two weeks immersed in some kind of Beatles secondlife lol

but honestly i just love it

also their skin looks amazing, living on cigarettes & coffee & dry rolls & kleig lights

Dennis O'Dell isn't much better than MLH. They did seem to have an unerring talent for attracting the most useless advisers post-Epstein. Perhaps should have gone with Prince Rupert Louis Ferdinand Frederick Constantine Lofredo Leopold Herbert Maximilian Hubert John Henry zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg, like the Stones.

VG - You're probably enjoying it more than they did at the time.

At least the tedium made the contrast all the more effective for the post-George jam with Yoko. That was great. I do suspect Paul temporarily lost his wits that day - swinging from the scaffolding etc.

I know it was necessary up to a point as the cameras were not filming the whole time, unlike the Nagra recorders but I found that after an hour the forcing of sync to unrelated pictures was getting a bit jarring.

I was a little taken aback at how dgaf the whole Twickenham setup was. They just plonked down a knackered drum riser and organised the instruments in a random fashion, crappy wooden stools, middling quality equipment, no guitar stands, no music stands, big awkward-looking Fender bass amp when an Ampeg Portaflex or similar would have been fine, bits of detritus lying around at the rear of the set, no ashtrays/tables etc:

I mean it was a pretty fucking shit setup for all of MLH's constant "but you're the Beatles, you *owe* it to the people, 2000 Arabs!!"

Glyn Johns!? Who knew he was such a good co-arranger!? Shoulda had a writing credit too.

Stunned by this; just baffled and dazzled and tearful throughout. Too many highlights. Sure there’s the odd rambling bit which could be trimmed but I’m in the ‘would cheerfully watch a twenty hour version’ camp. I can’t be rational, it’s just all incredible to me. *That bit* at the end of part one.. fuck. How has this all been sat in a vault for all those years?? Ah well, I’m glad it’s all out there now.

Of all the songs of George's the one that makes Paul most interested is..."Old Brown Shoe."

Which...fine! I love "Old Brown Shoe"!

Dennis O'Dell isn't much better than MLH. They did seem to have an unerring talent for attracting the most useless advisers post-Epstein.

In the beginning, Epstein believed in them when absolutely no one else in any kind of business/managerial capacity did. Once they were established, even (or, arguably, especially) the most capable and well-meaning business associates (apart from Neil Aspinall) were exploitative. There was simply no way to determine who had their best interests at heart, if in fact anyone in the music business actually did.

Glyn Johns!? Who knew he was such a good co-arranger!?

Indeed they did. Glyn chopped “Baba O’Riley” down from Pete Townshend’s nine-minute demo, in addition to a number of other arranging choices (making “Love Ain’t For Keeping” acoustic, slowing down “Pure and Easy”).

Man, no one's going to tell me MLH *isn't* Orson Welles kid.

George Martin's a spectral presence here.

I'm hoping (doubting) that the bit where Glyn raves about the newly-released Led Zeppelin debut was filmed ("...and a kid called John Bonham on drums, he's really unbelievable.")

I get where veg is coming from. I wouldn't sit through 80 hours of Nagra tapes again, but that was obvious from the start so I kept chopping out bits and pieces I'd like to play again and wound up burning a bunch of reference discs. (Four CD-R's were for Twickenham.) When the box set came out, I played these for the first time in a long time and it's great background listening if you're working from home. If you love the band, it is pretty awesome to be immersed in them. All four of them are naturally hilarious and entertaining. When the 12+ hour version comes out on Blu-ray, I'll probably get it, but I doubt I'll be able to call it a fully-realized work. It really is let the cameras roll and we'll watch for the next __ hours, but to be fair, I'd rather do that than waste another Sunday watching football games.

If you love the band, it is pretty awesome to be immersed in them. All four of them are naturally hilarious and entertaining.

I do love then, but tbh the banter was getting a bit tired by the second episode. Eg “Your hosts this evening, the Rolling Stones”

Yeah, that wasn't one of the moments I kept from the Nagra tapes either.

I feel like some of the best stuff had no chance of getting on air. As mentioned the "listen fuck face!" bit got cut out, as were the Enoch Powell parodies. Paul's got other stuff that I can see him censoring like the fake-German version of Let It Be that evokes the Nazis where he swaps out "Mother Mary comes to me" with a line that ends with "Master Breed."

LMAO

George is the whiniest bitch so far!

he reminds me of me, he gets light criticism and instead of seeing it as an opportunity to improve, he just wilts

You both have great beard game tho

reminds me of me, he gets light criticism and instead of seeing it as an opportunity to improve, he just wilts

― Cool Im An Situation (Neanderthal), Friday, November 26, 2021 2:31 PM (forty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

So would we all against McCarntneyism

George had just come from hanging out in Woodstock with the Band (who, it should be noted, ultimately inspired the whole “get back” to one’s “roots” thing that the Beatles and just about every other UK band jumped on at the time) where he was listened to and respected. Then he comes back to Paul shrugging off “All Things Must Pass” and shooting down pretty much all of George’s ideas.

It’s hard to take someone seriously when they’re constantly pushing “Maxwell’s”: “we have to do your crap song, but I’m the one who needs to improve?”

Exactly

He made the same complaint in the Anthology doc.

Just starting Ep2 and I feel like a real fly on the wall and am digging it thus far. Loving all this stuff even though the resulting albums/movie are not my favorite of their "product". Love the immersion in a long gone moment, tedious as it can appear. George, in my opinion, was not one of the cool kids for Paul and John and it's so obvious from this footage. Ringo just chilled and seemed to get on with everyone.Fascinating stuff.

Not just Paul … Poor George has to put up with John saying “Run along son…We’ll see you later. We’re a rock’n’roll band you know ?” when he shows them ‘I Me Mine’.

And it's funny...you'd think that after the kinda fail that was the MMT movie no one would listen to Paul for movie ideas. But here we have Paul at the top of Part 2 coming up with dope ideas lol.

xpost with all due respect and love but John could be a real dick and it shows.

On ‘I, Me, Mine’ I think at least John realises he went too far - so he is extra solicitous when it’s being recorded, checking that George is completely happy with the takes.

George had written “I’d Have You Anytime” with Dylan prior to the Get Back sessions. He must’ve looked at Paul and John and thought, “Why am I wasting my time with these condescending schmucks when BOB DYLAN is willing to collaborate with me?”

And, again, it's "Old Brown Shoe" that's the song Paul's most enthusiastic about

And like you said, that’s a good song! Paul probably just liked it for the fun bass part.

But George has played this sulky bitchy role for a long time by now.

In the past maybe they ignored him because he was still developing his confidence. Now he has the skills & is clearly writing amazing songs: and is ready to assert himseld but he is still a sulky baby! He doesnt have any new tools in his belt to get his point across. hanging out with other artists makes him resentful of the pecking order. so he is coming in I think partly expecting to be dismissed , so if it’s not immediately hearts & flowers (which it wouldnt be anyway) he shuts down because its confirming what he expected, and carries on roadblocking every other idea as revenge & just being passive aggressive, even when Paul owns his own failings and is at least attempting to meet George halfway .

he’s clearly very sensitive & it should just be talked out in a calmer way. but it just all projects out in this “fuck you” energy and it’s just such terrible timing given the session circumstances which are more unusual than normal & tempers are stretched anyway

like it’s not an easy room to pitch no matter what. George is not wrong to feel dismissed, but he also is really bad at communicating or compromising! it’s really fucking hard to do anything if “my way or the highway” is now the only option he’ll allow. it should never have gotten to that point … and it’s all tgeur fault for letting the Familiar Roles subsume changing talents & interests & basic human needs

It's crazy now that I think about it but I remember watching the Beatles Anthology when it first aired and being cognizant of 1990s George sitting at some table with Paul and Ringo and the feeling that he was ... "repulsed" might be a too heavy word but ... he wasn't "content" being in close proximity to Paul even then.

booming sulky baby post.

totally sticking this thing on over xmas.

The Paul / John convo at theop of Ep 2 clearly shows they're already on totally different creative or personal planes and it blows me away they managed to squeeze out some last few liters of ambrosia from this situation all told.

*at the top

Well, maybe a couple pints of nectar.

The memes have been funny

my favorite moment from the beatles doc pic.twitter.com/UWaeoKV0gi

— Ben Rosen (@ben_rosen) November 26, 2021

The awkward Peter Sellers moment was pure cringe and hilarious.

George sitting at some table with Paul and Ringo and the feeling that he was ... "repulsed" might be a too heavy word but ... he wasn't "content" being in close proximity to Paul even then.

I think he was genuinely up for some reminiscing with his buddies, and definitely seemed to enjoy the new recordings (and the acoustic jam session). But (and I posted this upthread, or on another thread) he’d known Paul since when he was 14. When Paul gets into his center-of-attention mode during Anthology, the look on George’s face says, “Ugh, this fucking guy again.”

And George could laugh at himself; I can’t imagine John or Paul doing anything like this.

pic.twitter.com/oQj3hjqket

— Dennis Butterball Hooper (@dennisbhooper) November 26, 2021

i love all the moments in Part 1 where John is dancing, his long limbs make his exaggerated movements v funny

To be fair, I understand the majority of George stanning itt bc Paul is obv exhausting and John can be a prick

but i truly cannot imagine trying to collaborate on anything with George when he’s in sulky baby mode, i would just lose my shit & fight him lol

Wow. I do not see George sulking at all! He's trying to talk and Paul at tines outright ignores him.