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

Proving it was possible to shoot a great performance of the band at Twickenham !

Now I’m wondering if there’s a mix of that version that includes Paul and George’s backing vocals.

(a studio mix, I mean)

is I Want You/She's So Heavy a Zeppelin pastiche (Dazed and Confused, How Many More Times etc.)?

always wondered about/suspected something like that

hum. interesting. I always thought it was influenced by Santana and like Deep Purple.
But LZ would make sense too.

They absolutely succeeded at recording a long song

Ha, exactly

it's not just that it's long - the riff at the end is sort of an ascending inversion of the descending Dazed and Confused riff, and has the same general tempo/rhythm.

Dazed and Confused also flirts with tedium

haha yeah it is uh not my favorite Zep tune

I'm not sure how aware the Beatles would have been of Santana during the AR sessions, as Santana really wasn't known much outside of California until Woodstock and the release of their first album in August '69, which was when--after several months of work--the finishing touches were being put on "I Want You".

The verse part does have a bit of a Black Magic Woman groove, would they have been listening to early Fleetwood Mac?

John Paul Jones and Page were such insider London studio dudes I'm sure the Beatles would have known them

They surely knew The Yardbirds

They were definitely listening to Fleetwood Mac--"Sun King" was a particular nod to "Albatross".

who is playing organ on this I Want You/She's So Heavy outtake anyway? Is that Preston? cuz that playing is p wild.

Yep, Billy's on that and on "Something." Weirdly, he's not credited on the sleeve.

I mean, they co-credited him on a single -- the only non-Beatle to get that treatment -- but didn't list him in the thank-yous on Abbey Road...?

https://youtu.be/L1zQDMizcKw

Thanks for confirming that was Preston, was wondering the same thing this morning. That outtake version is so killer with the organ.

There's a story that has George asking Bonham why Zep never did ballads, and Page is said to have written Rain Song is response, with the opening a nod to "Something"

That outtake version is so killer with the organ.

it's definitely the most striking/interesting of the outtakes, a no-brainer to make it the opener

organ playing also reminded me of JPJ tbh. It's definitely not the way Paul, John or George played organ.

John Lennon on Led Zeppelin

Q: “Do you think in terms of feelings? Do you think of music, popular music, in terms of emotional reaction as opposed to saying something…”
JOHN: “I think in any of those terms. You know, I just think it’s either something I like or don’t like or it’s heavy or it’s light. I like heavy music, I call it rock. I like Zeppelin, I’ve only heard a couple you know, they’re okay.

Lennon said this about them :
“I don’t really know much of what they’re about. But one thing’s for sure, Jimmy Page is a bloody good guitarist”.

it's definitely the most striking/interesting of the outtakes, a no-brainer to make it the opener

I've only got the 2xCD version, where it lands closer to the middle, but still definitely my favorite of the outtakes I've heard.

I thought it was the of the outtakes in the tracklisting? idk

I'm not sure how aware the Beatles would have been of Santana during the AR sessions, as Santana really wasn't known much outside of California until Woodstock and the release of their first album in August '69, which was when--after several months of work--the finishing touches were being put on "I Want You".

Ah yeah, thanks, I had never compared the dates. So "I Want You" is definitely not inspired by Santana then !

I've had it up to here with Peter Jackson's film being put back a year.

But not the Let It Be anniversary set, apparently.

Considering how often the Get Back project was delayed in 1969, I suppose it's only fitting the film is as well.

i've had it up to here waiting for the beatles to be done in lego*

https://www.lego.com/en-gb/product/the-beatles-31198

(*yeah, ok, yellow submarine, i have one over there -> )

also haven't they missed a trick by not using the cover of let it be?

Paul doesn't look like paul either. either paul.

(and you get enough bricks to make one of the pictures at a time for £115)

Paul doesn't look like paul either. either paul.

I dunno. Looks enough like him to me.

https://i.imgur.com/h06obLF.png

Looks like the white album.

I thank you

Nice to see they didn't neglect the big zit on Lennon's forehead.

I realise these have probably been around for a decade, but someone has put up a bunch of the Beatles Rock Band split up tracks into handy YouTube vides with one stem following another and they are just amazing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usMLf62YzBg

Obviously their singing and their arrangements are absolutely incredible but hearing them in isolation really drives that home. Still new stuff to hear.

Thanks for that - the isolated strings and moog is the most eye opening. Always loved the drum fills in the middle eight of Here Comes...

OMG!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UocEGvQ10OE

get back: actually a very fun, happy experience!

the beatles never broke up

(this footage does look great though)

v excited :D

yeah me too

So, wait...did they ship actual Beatle guitars, amps, and drums to New Zealand just for a background shot on a teaser trailer?

Was wondering about that as well

Perhaps they were used to help digitally restore the images of them in the footage?

Ah, that makes some kind of sense, good point!

More likely some sort of newly filmed section, an intro perhaps, cgi?