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

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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Paul's beard is absolutely his best look wtf how dare you

jesus sorry vegemitegrrl I completely just copied your comment up there - though it's nice to know we're on the same page and passionately so

i love the flex of Paul being the only one without a coat on the roof

its very paul to place showtime over practical concerns like, warmth

and also ringo’s whatever the opposite of flex is wearing maureen’s coat and freezing to death inside a plastic bag

xpost you have my interests at heart!

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

yeah. you see this with pretty much anyone who performs for a living. once it’s time to do it, their whole body changes, they lock in. it’s really something. lennon in particular connects so fully with this music after you’ve just spent hours watching him fuck about and barely care. it’s like oh, that was in there all along, was it??

combining that with george’s comment that he hadn’t played that much in years, and he was just starting to feel his fingers loosening up.. it’s a shame that they walked away from playing live for so long, you can see they’re just made for it.

The mix, on that first version of Get Back on the roof, is absolutely thumping. It might just be the ‘Dolby Atmos’ or whatever but jeez.

I have never thought Paul remotely attractive or sensual except when bearded or shouting "Oklahoma was never like this!"

Tracer otm

wow, i sincerely did not realize paul's beard had so many stans! i've just always thought he looked so good clean-shaven. probably one of my unacknowledged personal style icons along the way.

rewatched part 3 last night. . . does Mal turn off George's amp at one point? Right at the end?

George's wisened billy goat beard is the best, but that comes a bit later. I think I prefer the mustache stage to the beard stage for everyone else, because they're so silly, but the man-fur coats rule regardless, because they are silly, too.

aren't they their wives/girlfriends coats?

Beatles should have worn fur coats and the wives/girlfriends should have grown beards.

george and john realized there was no way anybody was going to drag that anvil up there.

JL: Yoko's always going to be by my side, and I'm always going to be by her's!

PM: I'll show you!

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.

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

Watching this tomorrow!

GUYS IT'S NOT ACTUALLY AGAINST THE LAW TO JUST CUT A FUCKING SONG WITHOUT DOING IT IN A GOOFY VOICE

Paul's beard is great, best he's ever looked

the Beatles quippy thing is cool in a montage of press conference highlights but I'm really wanting to tell Lennon (esp) and Paul to stfu sometimes

I am honestly surprised Jackson didn't use CG to sync up the mouths to the dialogue better, at least at the start.

yeah some kung fu movie moments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q8cMTcEUpY

CG

maybe Andy Serkis was busy

lol worst xpost ever

that video is disturbing

the Beatles quippy thing is cool in a montage of press conference highlights but I'm really wanting to tell Lennon (esp) and Paul to stfu sometimes

I would very quickly get worn down by John's hippie little bojangles moments where his arms get all wavy and he does a little tap dance.

I am honestly surprised Jackson didn't use CG to sync up the mouths to the dialogue better, at least at the start.

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the completely out of sync “hey jude” footage during the opening of the first episode was pretty bad.

Hey Pete, don't be a fool. Take a lame song and sync it better.

glad this thread has rounded into "fuckin' John and Paul singing in silly voices all the time is super annoying" because it drove me nuts

i couldn't have dealt with John like he was in part 2

Part I: Damn, John. Lighten up a little. Join the band.

Part II: Good Lord, will you fucking chill out for a second?

I did lol at in Part II where John and Paul stand up to record, go really off the deep end, and then have to sit down again because "we get too excited!"

I deeply identified with Peter Sellers leaving after a few uncomfortable minutes of trying to deal with the Beatle banter.

lol the silly stuff was the stuff i liked the most! tough crowd

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.

yes you can tolerate any beard you grow

god no kidding they're just dicking around xpost

the silly stuff, they were probably doing a lot of it so not as to have to think about the band they'd been in since they were kids was breaking up in front of their eyes

yeah def a lot of that

I've been in a lot of bands where the goofing off was the point, because the stakes were low - like, does anyone give a hoot if we play well or poorly, or if we get a gig in one month or six months? No they do not. But those bands were not the globally famous and quite talented Beatles.

To some extent the "we have to do this in three weeks" or whatever was artificially imposed - they could have just sat round their mansions and enjoyed owning absurd coats. But the world is ever-so-slightly richer for their having done this completely unnecessary thing, so.

I deeply identified with Peter Sellers leaving after a few uncomfortable minutes of trying to deal with the Beatle banter.

Poor Yoko asking, "Why are they laughing?" only made it funnier.

It's not even that the banter is unfunny or annoying, it's just the feeling of being dropped in some group with an impenetrable mode of communicating with each other and years-old in-jokes.

yeah i get that, but it totally worked for me. i don't think it was impenetrable. but I can see that some people feel that way, but it was delightful for me.

i learned a lot by googling and keeping captions on the whole time--at one point, in the 3rd ep, Lennon mentions he's had a few to George Martin and says "remember Bob Wooler." Who the hell is Bob Wooler I thought.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Wooler#:~:text=Famously%2C%20Wooler%20was%20physically%20attacked,trip%20to%20Spain%20with%20Epstein.

Yikes!