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

It was in the series.

was not expecting an Eric Wareheim character to appear playing the hammer on the initial run through of "Maxwell's Silver Hammer"

Then one of the policemen said, ‘Who is in charge?’ Everybody pointed to Michael Lindsay-Hogg, who was just sitting there. The policeman said, ‘If you don’t stop this right now, we’re gonna take you to jail.’”
“So Michael stopped it. Which was probably a silly thing to do. It would have been fantastic to have seen him taken away by the police, and down the stairs, and up Savile Row, because nothing would have happened.”

Cinematographer Tony Richmond in https://recordcollectormag.com/articles/rolling-stones-beatles

BTW, I looked into what happened with Lindsay-Hogg's DNA test, re: Orson Welles paternity. There was no follicle on the hair sample, so it couldn't provide an answer.

Xpost I thought they'd pretty much finished by then

Lmao at the guy who ignores the rooftop concert and the hullabaloo and walks right past the cops wanting to get paid by the receptionist, too cool

Ok, lol at them the day before still trying to figure out if they are going to do the rooftop or not, sort of deciding, yes, we need to get serious, then fucking around in the studio a bunch more instead.

i was so rmde that they were STILL deciding an hour til showtime! brian epstein is screaming at you from his grave, lads

For as unseriously as they were taking it they certainly banged those songs out live almost perfectly.

yeah I had no idea the rooftop concert performances were some of the actual takes from the album

yeah me neither!

I always thought it was odd how Johns only picked ONE take from the rooftop concert whereas Spector took three (not counting "Get Back" which was a mutilated forgery on Let It Be).

Are there scenes or footage in the original 1970 movie that didn't make it into this new documentary?

Also it was cool that Jackson included 10 takes of Paul and John doing Two of Us in "funny" voices but would loved an even dozen

I think it was VG or someone who pointed it out upthread but the Apple and studio employees who kept constantly coming up with new bullshit and moving the goalposts with the cops were just killing me, so funny

Esp when the receptionist asked the sargeant to not go on the roof because he might make it collapse 😂

xpost if not, you could knit your own version of "Let It Be"...

actually, I think there's quite a few "complete" versions in the original movie that are excerpted on the new.

"You can't go up there [on the roof], it's already over-weight"

oh sorry xp

For as unseriously as they were taking it they certainly banged those songs out live almost perfectly.

"Blah Blah, Bleep Bloop Bleep Bloop really done me....."

Also it was cool that Jackson included 10 takes of Paul and John doing Two of Us in "funny" voices but would loved an even dozen.

I dunno. The long shots of Lennon's rictus face as he does his ventriloquism act with Paul is gonna haunt me for awhile.

I did love the version they did with the faux Russian accents in Pt 1. Sorry, I'm basic.

a couple times it was funny but they really couldn't let go

one thing i liked about the rooftop was george really seemed to be having fun and enjoying himself

a couple times it was funny but they really couldn't let go

a couple times it was funny but they really couldn't let go

for sure.

They just couldn't... let it be

They could have let it lie...

...around, all over the place.

one thing i liked about the rooftop was george really seemed to be having fun and enjoying himself

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown),

I got the opposite impression. He looks spirited and plays and sings awesome on "Don't Let Me Down," but his body language registered some combo of "Why don't John and Paul throw me a loving look for a change?" and "It's fucking cold."

These guys have been blogging about January 1969 for *ten years*, some fantastic stuff in here, apologies if it's already been mentioned

https://twitter.com/TheyMayBeParted

What would you like to see in a mythical 10-hour version of another 1969 rock documentary, Gimme Shelter?

Bobby Goldsboro recording "Honey."

lol
also i hate that song

when has Goldsboro ever written or sung a good song

Just did a cursory search of the archives to see if he had any defenders on ILX, couldn't find any.

Following Marty Balin around for 10 hours

The amount of smoking indoors in this movie is giving me the willies (former smoker here).

It always freaks me out how cavalier people are about smoking in older movies. I was watching a French film from about 1971 and you had several adults all smoking around their young children (like no more than 5 or 6 years old, probably younger). It was one long take with everyone sitting indoors in a circle, just breeeeeeathing it all in.

What freaks me out is how cavalier people in old movies are about smoking around nice clothes. Everyone's wearing suits and nice dresses that will surely be ruined by a lit cigarette wielded carelessly by any rando. How people like Bogart and Bacall were able to preserve their clothes in these conditions is a total mystery to me. It's one thing if the studio is supplying the clothes, but when it's a social set that is dressing this way all the time, like the way most people apparently did in the 1940s/50s I just don't get it.

ahah, yeah. That said, as a kid, ALL the adults around me were smoking outdoors, indoors... during long journeys in a car !
As for clothes, you don't need to go back that far, it was still the case for me in Paris like 10-15y ago (restaurants, bars, clubs, parties...).

I’m wondering when recording studios started instituting no-smoking rules, or at least when it became apparent that smoking could (and did) seriously damage mixing boards, tape machines, the tape itself, etc.

hence why I could never imagining Bogart, Cooper, etc. I dislike the taste of tar-encrusted ashtrays.

Dear kids, there used to be smoking "sections" in restaurants and even planes and hospitals (!). Everything everywhere smelled like stale cigarette smoke. Signed, an old person.

P.S. Don't recall smoking in supermarkets and movie theatres, but there must have been.

I’m wondering when recording studios started instituting no-smoking rules, or at least when it became apparent that smoking could (and did) seriously damage mixing boards, tape machines, the tape itself, etc.

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, December 14, 2021 7:15 AM

Hey! Now they did have that sign posted in the documentary that said "PLEASE PUT CIGARETTES OUT IN ASH TRAY".

i'm finally watching this non-ambiently, i'm in the middle of episode two and it's very good and much better than let it be. surprised at how much of a narrative there really is tying these eight hours together: watch a band try and fail and then try again and then sort of succeed re: getting their shit together literally at all

one distinct difference between the two is, iirc, let it be really lingers on the grueling "maxwell's" rehearsals at twickenham, possibly as a shorthand way to develop the tension between paul and george, whereas the sessions come off far more varied and dare i say ramshackle in this film

The narrative arc is well developed and/or imposed by Jackson, it really does have a shape. Which makes sense, given that they had created this ridiculous film/recording schedule for themselves. It's like someone gave Jackson the raw footage from a reality show.

Every event seems less harsh than what hundreds of books and interviews have sold us. It's not how life or bands work, right? No event triggers withdrawal -- a long weariness, the telling yourself to count to three, the inside jokes you no longer find amusing, that's what Jackson shapes here.

Good point.

It's like everything you have read about the "Let it be" sessions has turned out to be incorrect.

Sounds a bit suspicious when you say it like that.

the walrus was Paul!