Beatles documentary “Get Back”

Bill Walker said:
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.
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(Not) Surprising, considering the casinos are shite compared to other epiphones such as the sheraton...as are those hofner basses.
 
Jamshopbridge said:
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.
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I bought a Rick once, I couldnt get on with it even though I tried really hard. (Paul did all his wings tours with the Rick mainly) And yes, heavy when you doing a 4 hour gig. Ive got a Hofner violin which I quite like, very easy to play due to the short scale. But mainly I use a Fender Jazz.

There's this story I read by a PM fan in the States, he tracked down PM at Juniors Farm in Arizona and pretended to be a journalist. Anyway he met Paul and gave him his Rick Bass, just because he wanted him to have it. Not a wealthy guy just normal. Anyway a few weeks later Paul tracks him down and gives him the Rick back, saying "it wouldnt be right for me to keep it, but Ive used it for a while and Im giving it back to you, it might mean more now"
Very nice of Paul I thought.
 
Exeter Blue I am here said:
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.







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The fade out to sour milk sea is what Paul is messing about with when he starts riffing Get back for the first time in the doc

Skip to around 3.30 mark

 
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I was born in 1964. I remember singing along to many of their songs as a young child, Yellow Submarine and When I'm 64 in particular. ;-)
So I've always loved them, although over the last 20 years or so my interest has been up and down. Mainly because I thought I knew all there was to know
Not anymore. This series has been incredible.
One major thing I have learned regarding each of them.....they were human. None of them was the villain and each of them brought something unique to the table. Plus, Paul and John had something completely unique and, it really shows, that nobody else mattered to them when they got into the zone of each other.
 
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