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

John and Heather's pie talk might be my favorite thing about this. reminded me of how my uncles messed with me at that age

yeah that and the little bit where shes sitting w/ringo and she hits a drum and ringo jumps like a foot in the air in mock surprise

re:their ridiculous release schedule, i kept having to remind myself that the idea of one big album per year being enough for a major band hadnt fully become settled law yet at that time. what a world-famous band 'should' do, what fans could expect from them, what kind of shape their career should take, seems like everyone was kind of still figuring that out in real time to a certain extent.

funny thing, wild to me that a lot of the expectations *were* self imposed. they'd just released the white album. . . why do they have to work on new music and come up with Let It Be? And then start on Abbey Road right after?

Heather rules and it warmed my heart when John teased her ("kitten pie," which should've found its way into a lyric).

I believe the original idea for the TV show/concert was to do White Album songs though.

yeah! one of them mentions this in the 2nd or 3rd episode

Purr Together

why do people hate Teddy Boy so much?

It's another "Little Nicola"

Funny, history has it that John envied Paul's easy way with little Julian, and yet here's two where he messes with kids and they don't run off crying..

Maybe he made a better Uncle than a Dad.

the doc made me appreciate "teddy boy" for the first time

Yeah, it’s crazy to realize that the White Album had come out just two months before the Get Back sessions started (and recording had finished just a month before that)

oh lol yeah my timeline upthread is incorrect

Funny, history has it that John envied Paul's easy way with little Julian, and yet here's two where he messes with kids and they don't run off crying..

yeah in one of his last interviews while explaining the genesis of "Hey Jude," he manages to toss as an aside re Paul, "He's always been good with kids, you know," not without envy. But it looks like they all are?

Mal’s the best

his enthusiasm playing the anvil

I could not play the anvil with half the skill and enthusiasm of Mal Evans.

that White Album promotion idea blows my mind. the sheer overachiever ambition of turning "we should do a TV special to promote our recent album, a thing a normal band might conceivably do" into "we should write, rehearse, and record an all-new album in front of these cameras," with the same timetable!

As if they were making "Please Please Me"

yeah in one of his last interviews while explaining the genesis of "Hey Jude," he manages to toss as an aside re Paul, "He's always been good with kids, you know," not without envy. But it looks like they all are?

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Julian has been pretty blunt about what a shitty dad John was. And Zak Starkey has said that Ringo was a pretty awful father as well, strenuously trying to dissuade him from taking up the drums (among other things).

Yeah there's quite a gap between being able to entertain a small child for a short while and being a present and loving parent.

heres some stuff re: Nicola filming MMT and having a great time with all of them

http://www.meetthebeatlesforreal.com/2010/12/no-youre-not-said-little-nicola.html

See also shots of young Ari at VU rehearsals. #OneThread

Meant to say something like, Ari underfoot, Ari being wrangled by Paul Morrissey, etc.

i was one of those kids who grew up surrounded by adults working on something. i was always puttering around, reading in a corner. there were always a lot of adults, but only a few i was willing to interact with. seeing Paul & co interact with the child (is this Heather?) reminded me of those people and it warmed my heart. doesn't say much about parenting but it was always nice to interact with an adult who i felt comfortable with.

Yeah there's quite a gap between being able to entertain a small child for a short while and being a present and loving parent.

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Yep, and while Zak Starkey speaks fondly of the drum lessons he got from Uncle Keith Moon (and drum kits, which Ringo later got the bill for), Moon was a generally not-present and not-great father to his own daughter.

Julian has been pretty blunt about what a shitty dad John was. And Zak Starkey has said that Ringo was a pretty awful father as well, strenuously trying to dissuade him from taking up the drums (among other things).

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I knew about Julian, not about Zak! Damn.

Ringo was also abusive to both his wives and was getting through 16 bottles of wine per day and inhuman amounts of coke at his lowest point, so yeah, probably not the best father figure

he looked absolutely zonked out of his mind in this, like every day surfacing for air after some legendary bender the night before

And yet he still was probably the nicest Beatle of all. ✌️💟

Drummers will be able to comment better than me, but isn't it hard to keep time if you're zonked out of your mind?

depends on the individual drummers definition of zonked

also to me he just looked tired/exhausted

they'd also played in hamburg wasted and on pills for 5+ hours a night (right?) so maybe he was just used to it

I didn't think Ringo looked that bad, bar the one session near the end of Part 2, where he falls asleep at the kit.

Ringo is the only one who received no Paul direction, right? He's always perfect.

I didn't particularly notice Ringo seeming out of it, some of that is just his personality I think. He was definitely as on as he needed to be. One thing about being a drummer in that kind of setting is you need to conserve your energy when they don't need you, because then they'll suddenly want to do 6 takes in a row or whatever.

Missed the part where people were posting favorite Beatles songs, it's funny, I don't think I've ever tried to make a list. Let's see what 20 come to mind:

And Your Bird Can Sing
I've Just Seen a Face
It Won't Be Long
Day Tripper
Dear Prudence
I'm a Loser
I Feel Fine
Tomorrow Never Knows
Here Comes the Sun
Yer Blues
Helter Skelter
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (and Reprise)
Rain
Paperback Writer
Help
Don't Bother Me
You Won't See Me
The Word
I Am the Walrus
Strawberry Fields Forever

That's unranked, just the ones that jumped out. I like their power pop and hard rock about equally, and really love the mid-period folk-psych stuff too. And I like John being ridiculous more than Paul being ridiculous. "The Word" is such a template for psychedelia, just so great structurally and sonically.

lol apparently The Word was the first song they wrote while actually stoned in the studio, so, yeah.

Also now I realize I left off Norwegian Wood and She Said She Said, ah well.

iirc Ringo also had ongoing health problems didnt he? cant remember details off the top of my head though

yeah i don't mean zonked like fucked up on drugs i mean zonked like utterly exhausted and hung over. and yes he kills it every time obviously.

The movie begins w Paul giving Ringo directions, which he ignores. I thought that was funny.

Wasn't there a tiny bit of daylight between Ringo and the rest of them because of his pre-history with Rory Storm and the Hurricanes?

ILM is like a gathering of dogs when one starts barking pretty soon they all start barking, except instead of barking it's posting gratuitous lists and rankings. Now that its been made socially acceptable in this thread, I can't resist. Here's 20:

She Said She Said
And Your Bird Can Sing
Yesterday
Penny Lane
Ticket to Ride
Dear Prudence
Sexy Sadie
Revolution (single version)
In My Life
Here Comes the Sun
With a Little Help from My Friends
Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!
Happiness is a Warm Gun
Mother Nature's Son
Good Night
Paperback Writer
Hello Goodbye
The Ballad of John and Yoko
Lady Madonna
I Should Have Known Better

And yet no "Good Morning Good Morning"?

If they had decided not to release an album of the early 1969 material (except for what had already come out on singles), were there enough spare singles and outtakes sitting around to release a different final Beatles album, more like Led Zeppelin's Coda? Sort of a combination of the US Hey Jude, plus "Across the Universe", "You Know My Name", maybe "Not Guilty", "What's the New Mary Jane" etc?

Notable quote time:

Michael LH : "I'm the biggest Beatles fan here"
Linda : "Well, if you want a fight about it..."

Michael LH : "John.... We were talking..."
John : "What, about the space between us all?"
Michael LH : "um.. no..."

I don't remember them verbatim, but John had several quips when non-band people liked a song or a take where he said things like, "Well I'm a literal Beatle, you know." Just these little signals of how much confidence they had as a band, they conquered the world.

I downloaded the mono White Album. Whoa -- who knew "Long, Long, Long" had a piano?!

Michael LH : "John.... We were talking..."
John : "What, about the space between us all?"
Michael LH : "um.. no..."

yeah lol I liked this bit. John's favorite Harrisong too!

john loves quoting beatles lyrics unbidden

There were so many lines like that, that if someone had written it as fiction, would appear as too corny. But, there they are...

One other side effect of Get Back has been a lingering desire to where a fur coat, which has never even occurred to me previously.

But not to grow an accompanying
beard?