Blur never did it for me and OCS was better in my book ? true many god bands from the Britpop time.
but when it gets to the stage when it become mass then they over killed it and far to many bands just jumped on the bandwagon
Oasis won the Britpop battle hands down
I thought the same about John’s input (relative to their standing in the band, that is).
But we only saw 7odd hours that the documentary-maker showed us from the 3 weeks it covered. At times songs just seemed to come from nowhere but they will have been worked on for ages, and from what seemed to be a handful of songs there were actually 14 that they’d been working on.
So where I thought John was always late and didn’t seem to be coming up with many songs (at one point Paul asked him if he had anything else and John said “no!”), he actually wrote “Across the Universe” “Dig a Pony” “Dig It” and “One After 909” for Let It Be; and “Don’t Let Me Down” which also featured in the doc and was played in the roof.
Paul got emotional in the Eight Days A Week docu about what Ringo brought to the band. And you could see that Ringo understood what Paul wanted from songs more than George did, Ringo just seemed to pick the beat up immediately.
Yeh I think I made the observation that it's a bit like MOTD highlights in that I can't trust them.I thought the same about John’s input (relative to their standing in the band, that is).
But we only saw 7odd hours that the documentary-maker showed us from the 3 weeks it covered. At times songs just seemed to come from nowhere but they will have been worked on for ages, and from what seemed to be a handful of songs there were actually 14 that they’d been working on.
So where I thought John was always late and didn’t seem to be coming up with many songs (at one point Paul asked him if he had anything else and John said “no!”), he actually wrote “Across the Universe” “Dig a Pony” “Dig It” and “One After 909” for Let It Be; and “Don’t Let Me Down” which also featured in the doc and was played in the roof.
Paul got emotional in the Eight Days A Week docu about what Ringo brought to the band. And you could see that Ringo understood what Paul wanted from songs more than George did, Ringo just seemed to pick the beat up immediately.
Don’t really want to get onto a britpop debate as this isn’t the thread for that, just pointing out there were other bands a lot more influenced by and sounded a lot closer to the Beatles than Oasis.
Jesus fucking wept...
Yep I have had the same issue - tried to get into settings but it didn’t seem to be giving me an option to amend profile so we could watch it grrrrMake sure you’re not on a kids profile, got to adjust the settings so you see everything.
I thought the same about John’s input (relative to their standing in the band, that is).
But we only saw 7odd hours that the documentary-maker showed us from the 3 weeks it covered. At times songs just seemed to come from nowhere but they will have been worked on for ages, and from what seemed to be a handful of songs there were actually 14 that they’d been working on.
So where I thought John was always late and didn’t seem to be coming up with many songs (at one point Paul asked him if he had anything else and John said “no!”), he actually wrote “Across the Universe” “Dig a Pony” “Dig It” and “One After 909” for Let It Be; and “Don’t Let Me Down” which also featured in the doc and was played in the roof.
Paul got emotional in the Eight Days A Week docu about what Ringo brought to the band. And you could see that Ringo understood what Paul wanted from songs more than George did, Ringo just seemed to pick the beat up immediately.
You were closest to the mark with your opening line I think. John really didn’t bring that much to the Get Back/Let It Be sessions….or at least not compared to Paul. “Across the Universe” was written almost 12 months earlier and a slightly speeded up version of it was released for use on a World Wildlife Fund charity album, right back in Feb ‘68. Very distinct from the version later released on Get Back/Let It Be in as much as it starts with the sound of a flock of birds taking off. Similarly, he wrote “One After 909”, which the Beatles first attempted to record in 1963, but ditched as being not good enough, way back when he was a teenager, and even the extended version of “Dig It” was a throwaway.
Ironic then that two cracking songs that he did have in the pipeline, in addition to the Abbey Road stuff that they all had lined up, “Gimme Some Truth” and “Child of Nature”, which would eventually morph into “Jealous Guy”, were both demo’d at the Get Back/Let It Be sessions, but not pursued further at that point. I think there’s a snippet in the Get Back footage where he (Lennon) says he wants to work on the “Road to Rishikesh” (aka Child of Nature, aka Jealous Guy) a bit more.
It’s greedy to want more from a band that was so unbelievably prodigious, but if you look back at the list of songs (many of them absolute gems in the making) they demo’d but ultimately discarded, or just didn’t get round to finishing, you’d have another complete album’s worth of Beatling brilliance.
Like dreamers do
Bad to Me
One and one is two
A world without love
That means a lot
Leave my kitten alone
Sour milk sea
Goodbye
Gimme some truth
Back seat of my car
Isn’t it a pity
All things must pass
Child of nature
Another day
And you could chuck in the early covers they did of “Where have you been all my life” and “Keep your hands off my baby”, both of which would have been superb had they ever gone into the studio with them. Of all of the songs listed above, it’s the 3 x George Harrison tracks we missed out on that are the biggest shame, as they amply demonstrate precisely why he was so pissed off….albeit that we eventually got to hear All Things Must Pass and Isn’t It A Pity as solo releases. All that exists of the superb Sour Milk Sea meanwhile is George’s original demo vocal grafted onto the backing track that George, Paul and Ringo (and I think Eric Clapton?) recorded for Jacky Lomax, who George generously gave the song to, to sing over.
Whatever, just an extraordinary band.
On episode 2 Glyn Johns ask Paul to play his Rickenbacker because they're struggling with the sound of his Hofner. He says he likes the Hofner because its lighter to handle. I play bass and I've played a Ricky and they're quite heavy, I now play a short scale bass and it's loads better.I heard yesterday that sales of the Epiphone Casino (as played by John) have increased significantly since Get Back came out. I'm sure parent company Gibson are very happy.
When John Paul & George got their Casino's in the mid sixties I remember sales soaring.
Paul still says its the best electric guitar he's got.
I think in terms of Bass guitars Paul has kept Hofner afloat over the years such has always been the demand for the Violin Bass he played.