Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that both Get Back and McCartney 3,2,1 are nominated in the ILX TV poll, with voting ending this weekend:
ILX's Best Television of 2021 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends After January 31, 2022
If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (3 minimum, 25 maximum, ranked by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail. It'll take five minutes; get to it!
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 26 January 2022 20:56 (two years ago) link
Good piece on "Get Back":
https://ianleslie.substack.com/p/the-banality-of-genius-notes-on-peter
― o. nate, Friday, 28 January 2022 04:26 (two years ago) link
that was great
― lukas, Friday, 28 January 2022 06:10 (two years ago) link
Amazing article. Links to another one
https://theymaybeparted.com/2013/08/14/jan-7-on-their-own-at-the-holiday-camp/
Paul (talking over George): See nowadays, you’ve grown up and you don’t have to do that anymore. You don’t have to put the pancake on and go out in front and sweat and shake our heads because we’re not that anymore. We’ve grown up a bit.
George: And we’ve done that anyway.
Paul:What I mean is, we did it, the but it doesn’t mean to do it again means to do all that. For him (John) to do it, he has to do a thing in a black bag with Yoko. And you’re doing it.
Several voices correct Paul.
“White bag,” he says.
What's the bag here? Heroin?
― a (waterface), Friday, 28 January 2022 13:46 (two years ago) link
chocolate cake, iirc
― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Friday, 28 January 2022 13:56 (two years ago) link
wait really?
― a (waterface), Friday, 28 January 2022 14:35 (two years ago) link
ah ok, so the Ballad of John and Yoko
― a (waterface), Friday, 28 January 2022 14:36 (two years ago) link
Bagism?
― J. Sam, Friday, 28 January 2022 14:56 (two years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagism
― J. Sam, Friday, 28 January 2022 14:57 (two years ago) link
woah never heard of that. wild.
― a (waterface), Friday, 28 January 2022 15:02 (two years ago) link
They moved only twice in 45 minutes, hunkering further down. This was a strong challenge to the audience.
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 28 January 2022 15:08 (two years ago) link
this is beautiful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qfv7AewNVc
― global tetrahedron, Friday, 28 January 2022 15:38 (two years ago) link
I do not think this was a good idea at all.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZTIVgazJ6Y
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 30 April 2022 16:55 (one year ago) link
WT…?
― Eric B. Mash Up the Resident (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 30 April 2022 17:43 (one year ago) link
Surprisingly not as bad as “Free As A Bird”
― birdistheword, Saturday, 30 April 2022 19:04 (one year ago) link
Sorry for the double post, have no idea why my phone did that
― birdistheword, Saturday, 30 April 2022 19:05 (one year ago) link
Not as good as "Real Love."
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 30 April 2022 19:06 (one year ago) link
Don't be alarmed, they'll both be holograms soon.
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 30 April 2022 19:11 (one year ago) link
the 1960s were actually over 400 "real-time" years ago. this will become later on
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 30 April 2022 19:13 (one year ago) link
400 years…and it’s your bloody Yellow Submarine all over again
― Eric B. Mash Up the Resident (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 30 April 2022 19:41 (one year ago) link
xxp two down, two to go
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Saturday, 30 April 2022 20:35 (one year ago) link
Let me know when he starts doing "The Girl Is Mine".
― pplains, Saturday, 30 April 2022 21:06 (one year ago) link
― AlXTC from Paris, Saturday, 30 April 2022 21:32 (one year ago) link
Don't be alarmed, they'll *both* be holograms soon.
― AlXTC from Paris, Saturday, 30 April 2022 21:34 (one year ago) link
Don’t see the harm in this one, frankly. They’re just playing along to IMAX footage, it doesn’t strike me as tacky as a hologram.
― Chris L, Saturday, 30 April 2022 21:49 (one year ago) link
yeah this doesn't bother me, aside from how rough mccartney is sounding on the first show of this tour. Seeing him next week, will report back.
― akm, Saturday, 30 April 2022 22:01 (one year ago) link
Better he should've invited Yoko along on tour to sit on his amp throughout
― Hongro Hongro Hippies (Myonga Vön Bontee), Saturday, 30 April 2022 23:47 (one year ago) link
that would be something― AlXTC from Paris, Saturday, April 30, 2022 5:32 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Meet ya in the falling rain, momma?
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 30 April 2022 23:54 (one year ago) link
I finished this last week and thoroughly enjoyed myself. I thought I'd reached 'the end' of the Beatles but this dragged me into a whole other layer of immersion - much in the same way this thread has. A great read and damn you lot know a lot about the Beatles.
There was a discussion about a Sylvia Townsend Warner novel on the books thread. It's a novel set in the 14th century and sort of meanders through the lives of a bunch of nuns in a monastery. Someone described the experience of reading as 'needing to check in with the nuns' and that's what Get Back became for me - like there was a separate reality running alongside my own and I could access it through this portal whenever I wanted or needed to. The banality became part of the point but, equally, sections of it were incredibly moving. And goddamn, pipe the euphoria of the rooftop gig straight into my veins.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Wednesday, 4 May 2022 18:15 (one year ago) link
Dude is 80 and his mate died 42 years ago and, like us, he probably spent all of Xmas watching Get Back, so I'm absolutely fine with this. You think he doesn't realise these are his sunset years, that this is his farewell jaunt? Let him do what he wants. Frog Chorus the fuck out of this shit. He's Paul McCartney, he was a Beatle, let him reside within his excellence.
― politics is about vibes and the vibes are off (stevie), Sunday, 8 May 2022 20:19 (one year ago) link
Insane to think this guy has been gigging for 65+ years.
― bookmarkflaglink (Darin), Sunday, 8 May 2022 21:09 (one year ago) link
He gets away with it because he can legit look at the footage and say ‘Heh, that was all my idea’.
― piscesx, Monday, 9 May 2022 02:21 (one year ago) link
Saw this happen live last week and it was great, really. Very well synched up, Paul stood with his back to the audience for most of that Lennon clip watching it, and it was only for the second half of the one song. I'm a pretty big Macca defender, I'll say again: he wouldn't be doing this stuff if it wasn't giving him some kind of spiritual lift and adding joy to his life. He doesn't need to tour, he doesn't need any money, he very clearly thoroughly loves what he's doing.
― akm, Monday, 9 May 2022 20:47 (one year ago) link
Very true. Though that would be crazy af if he needed to tour. Like he blew all his money on the finest, rarest marijuana or something.
― birdistheword, Monday, 9 May 2022 21:02 (one year ago) link
Picturing ne'er-do-well Paul hitting up Stella to float him on a loan--"Ringo said he'll 'ave me knees broken!"
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 9 May 2022 21:09 (one year ago) link
There's a video of Dana Carvey's stand-up somewhere (pre-SNL) where he does a hilarious McCartney impression:
"Linda, I lost me wallet! It had a million dollars in it...I'd hate to back to the bank to get another million."
― birdistheword, Monday, 9 May 2022 21:23 (one year ago) link
Processed Star-Club tapes?
“I’m talking to The Beatles about another project, something very very different than ‘Get Back.’ We’re seeing what the possibilities are, but it’s another project with them. It’s not really a documentary…and that’s all I can really say” https://t.co/xMNNjei2gR— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) July 20, 2022
― Alba, Thursday, 21 July 2022 17:42 (one year ago) link
"i'm talking to the beatles." i love that, no matter what it might mean.
― Thus Sang Freud, Thursday, 21 July 2022 18:17 (one year ago) link
better be Yellow Submarine 2
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 21 July 2022 18:19 (one year ago) link
I really he hope he isn't reviving Robert Zemeckis's puke-tastic idea for a stop-motion animated Yellow Submarine.
― birdistheword, Thursday, 21 July 2022 18:23 (one year ago) link
Probably gonna use AI to make Up Against It.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 21 July 2022 18:25 (one year ago) link
of _course_ todd rundgren did the music for the musical theatre adaptation. that's so todd.
"She accepts the proposal of marriage — to all three heroes. Ian, Jack, and Christopher wed Miss Drumgoole in a mass officiated by Father Brodie and attended by the whole happy cast, and the screenplay ends with bride and grooms in polygamous morning-after intimacy, disappearing with squeals of delight under the conjugal sheets."
god dammit i hate it when wikipedia editors can't tell the difference between polygamy and polyamory, you have _no idea_ how many wikipedia editors mistakenly believe i'm their wife
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 21 July 2022 18:37 (one year ago) link
the Todd thing is so bizarre. he actually released a CD of it where he sings all the parts. its not great exactly but I was pretty damn entertained
― frogbs, Thursday, 21 July 2022 18:39 (one year ago) link
i have the star club double album and the energy is insane, but yes i wonder if peter jackson could pull off for audio what he pulled off for film in terms of an AI cleanup cause it’s preeeeeetty scuzzy
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 21 July 2022 19:01 (one year ago) link
it's not a documentary but would it not be a film? do they have the power to recreate visuals from scuzzy audiotape?!!? i'm thinking more like a concert movie. from real concert footage. but didn't they already do that with shea?
― Thus Sang Freud, Thursday, 21 July 2022 19:07 (one year ago) link
i didn’t know there was footage of the star club but in any case without good audio it doesn’t work afaict
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 21 July 2022 19:09 (one year ago) link
― Alba, Thursday, 21 July 2022 19:39 (one year ago) link
I think I remember some super grainy footage on The Compleat Beatles doc… the Star Club album is indeed nuts as hell. “Hippy hippy shake”
― brimstead, Thursday, 21 July 2022 19:40 (one year ago) link
There’s film of them doing “Some Other Guy” at the Cavern (used in Compleat and Anthology), but no Hamburg footage has yet surfaced, if it ever existed.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 21 July 2022 19:47 (one year ago) link