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

xpost otm! i dont think i ever realized just how the rooftop “show” was purely for film footage since they played like 4 songs and three of them twice lol

Or MLH could have remembered Chiswick House from his Paperback Writer film days and they could have played there among the statues.

Or, you know, Libya, a place close to the heart of the Beatles and their fans.

they could've followed it up with a show at the halls of montezuma and really nailed down the marine demographic

I was in many rehearsal rooms over 30 years with different groups of three or four other white guys, and the abiding impression I had of most of those times was that each group of players fucked around too much, played too many songs listlessly, or started to play tunes they couldn't fully remember, or "hey, wouldn't it be a goof if we played this bad song badly, ha ha ha" and otherwise sounded so bad that I thought that we shouldn't play in front of anyone ever, and who the fuck are we to waste anyone's time, having the gall to believe anyone should pay attention to us when we suck so fucking bad… and watching this movie makes me remember that even the most famous rock and roll band that ever was behaved the same way and indeed sucked really bad in the overwhelming majority of the footage Jackson has edited.

Ok it's so stupid and frustrating that these dudes didn't film a sick show at a small club for fans. The Cavern Club finale is such an obvious perfect ending for a movie and if would have been such a perfect document. Fuckin idiots man!

veronica moser wildly otm there

but then they nailed down the material and didn't suck and fuckin ripped shit up at the rooftop and were like the best band ive ever seen so shrug emoji

the airplane did the rooftop thing first

Jack Casady's hat versus Ringo's red jacket?

I just heard "Helter Skelter" on the "Deep Cuts" radio channel. It was pretty good, invented punk.

no matter how mediocre their jams though those harmonies are still right fuckin there, it’s so dependable

Beatlesesque, even

yeah it's all sick even though it's their worst shit. sick singing, sick bass, sick rhythm, sick leads, sick tones, sick drum sound. no one sounds like them still. but also i recognized im totally brainwashed by being submerged with videos of these nerds for many hours and this is how people join cults.

they look so funky and cool on the rooftop - not just their clothes but the body language and moves - i just watched a bit of footage from 1966 and the contrast is wild

“the things that worked out best for us haven’t really been planned any more than this has. it’s just, like, you go into something and it does it itself. and whatever it’s going to be, it becomes.” - george otm

“the finale will just be us doing the numbers well” - john otm

paul sounds really…. irish??

“the things that worked out best for us haven’t really been planned any more than this has. it’s just, like, you go into something and it does it itself. and whatever it’s going to be, it becomes.” - george otm

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let it roll for all it's worth

fwiw i wouldn’t be surprised if disney don’t own the physical rights to this

i just made it to the rooftop concert

i think i’ve earned a break from this band now lol

I can't imagine anyone actually sitting down and watching this, but it's a perfect ambient thing to have on in the background. I also don't get any of the bad reviews or anything because it doesn't seems to be anything more than some footage

this is true

https://i.imgur.com/1dqqpwQ.png

this guy

i loved how that cop got less & less assertive, coming in hot at first trying to push around the doorman like a creep, and as the minutes go by of them stonewalling him he ends up just kind of muttering to himself "why does it have to be so LOUD?"

beatles on the rooftop keep on playing get back
i’m in reception chewing on my chinstrap

i think the sgt that showed up at the end just wanted to see the Lads, he didn’t seem like he gave af and was maybe like “jfc perceval its the bloody beatless ffs what are you doing”

When did everybody start calling them The Lads?

no idea

i think it was a George/Brian thing from the early days?

i was thinking about Neil Aspinall after seeing him briefly in the documentary

i dont think i knew this, or if I did i forgot
but blimey (from wikipedia)

In 1961 and 1962, Aspinall had become good friends with Pete Best and subsequently rented a room in the house where Best lived with his parents. During one of the extended business trips of Best's father, the 19-year-old[49] Aspinall became romantically involved with Best's mother, Mona Best, who was 17 years his senior. As a result, during this period, Aspinall fathered a child by Mona: Vincent "Roag" Best.[8][50] Roag Best was born in late July 1962, and just three weeks later, on 16 August 1962, Best was dismissed from the Beatles.[2][17]

haha veronica mose otm

sure, but without the Beatles would there even be an infinite regress of 3-4 white guys faffing about and noodling over the self-appointed bandleader and showing up high and passag veto'ing each others' suggestions and otherwise misusing their precious rehearsal time?

Yes.

"why does it have to be so LOUD?"

And it was just a couple of Fender Twin Reverbs, a Bassman, a drum kit, a Rhodes, and a relatively meager PA for the vocals (and none of the instruments miked through the PA). The average car’s subwoofer system driving down that street today is likely louder than the Beatles were in 1969.

the world: "HOLY SHIT WHAT AN INCREDIBLE BEHIND-THE-SCENES LOOK AT THE INNER WORKINGS OF THE GREATEST BAND EVER"

white dudes in bands everywhere: "looks like band practice to me"

Yup.

see that’s why i never hung out at band practice: so that i could one day enjoy Get Back. whos sorry now hmm

White dudes in bands everywhere may be a bit delusional about this. For most of them to generate the output the Beatles did here - where we see the genesis of four number one classic tunes - you’d have to give them the same time you give monkeys to type out the works of Shakespeare. Sure it LOOKS like band practice, but no.

veronica moser so very otm, thread could have just been locked there

But it won't be

So

Dave Kehr's original review for Let It Be, but it's mostly applicable here:

The Beatles on the rocks, filmed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg in a documentary style that makes visible things of boredom, frustration, and diminishing energy (1970). Sanitized it may well be, but agonizing nonetheless—it’s a domestic squabble that somehow touches history.

Josefa otm

i stand w schwitterz

kurt schwitterz
Posted: December 1, 2021 at 1:47:49 PM
but then they nailed down the material and didn't suck and fuckin ripped shit up at the rooftop and were like the best band ive ever seen so shrug emoji

band practice is awesome, i love watching band practice

i mean if your band wore fur coats & tibetan ugg boots i’d consider watching them i guess

we'll get right on that

finished up Let it Be, really did not expect the rooftop concert to work on me, but it really is a huge jolt of rock band energy and joy. it helps that the wind is in their hair and coats, and G/J/P are standing up and facing stage front. as if they've tricked their brains into accessing "band mode" by forcing their bodies into the once-familiar position of being on stage together. also they just look great, except for Paul's awful beard which haunts the film overall and surely accounts for at least 25% of the hate he gets in this whole giant Rorshach blot of Beatles material. also, in this version, the rooftop comes directly after the dullest stretch of the film: a spree of full-song performance clips with the atmosphere and energy of something taped off PBS in the 80s, emerging unwanted from the fuzz in between more exciting things that got taped over it.

i wonder, if they'd been able to perform the whole album's worth of material on the roof, in full takes, would they have just put that out as the album? feel like it'd work better, maybe be a bit of a curio or an asterisk album, one step down from the Beatles canon, "fascinating as the only live album released in the band's lifetime, overlooked by casual fans," etc.

also those who've watched the new series can correct me, but i am going on the assumption that the main reason they chose the roof is that george and john realized there was no way anybody was going to drag that anvil up there.

PAULS BEARD IS NOT AWFUL HOW DARE U

beardo paul is my favorite

lol

if it's any defense the problem may just that i like his face and resent the beard covering it up

i like his face too but he looks more um soulful? with a beard? idk whatever i like it

i am pro-beard

was thinking this morning that he should give it another run

Paul on beards, 2012:
One of things about beards is that, when men reach a certain age, they'd like to see if they can grow one. It's a phenomenon I understand very well. After you get over the itchy face, you go, "Oh, I don't have to shave, that's cool." And then you move into the philosophical thing-- people say, "You look weird, you have a beard." And you say, "No, actually, it's weird to shave." Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird.

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