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Post by respiratoryproblems on Nov 29, 2021 22:20:09 GMT
Have they left the bag in the tea, too? Foul.
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Post by Potsie Hoofman on Nov 29, 2021 23:55:14 GMT
Wow. An rfreeman poat without a shitty Beagles plug!
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Post by daved on Nov 30, 2021 0:12:30 GMT
I’m guessing the “bat” in batdude is short for bat shit crazy.
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Post by Norman ‘Whiplash’ Mailer on Nov 30, 2021 0:46:24 GMT
I must not be a real Beatles fan because I'm enjoying it so far. I don’t like the Beatles, and I enjoyed the first part (probably helped that “Don’t Let Me Down” and “Two of Us” are the few Beatles songs I like, so hearing them over and over and over wasn’t a dealbreaker). I’m not really sure I can do another five hours of this, but I found it was a really interesting look into the creative process.
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Post by My Avatar Is A Hot Babe on Nov 30, 2021 18:20:01 GMT
Anyone have a screen grab of Ringo's "I've farted"? For scientific purposes, of course. I have an internet connection, but apparently the wrong kind? I haven't heard a way of watching Get Back in a browser yet. Is there one? I pad ,or get new tv. ,you can watch Disney + on a browser you need to join Except for George, they all could have done with a good shampoo. But Paul's hair was extra poofy. I wanted to cut it off, so yeah, watching him endlessly fuss was like.. ugh. I thought playing with one’s hair was a sign of a healthy libido. Just finished part 1. Absolutely astonishing. Paul was truly a genius. Just being able to pop out these timeless songs like that. That being said, out of the 56 hours of footage, WHY did we have to see and hear Yoko SCREECHING for 2 minutes? Last I checked, she wasn’t a Beatle Watching this the same weekend that Stephen Sondheim died reminded me of how lucky we are that Paul and Ringo are still with us. It's hard to even imagine the day when they won't be. I thought exactly the same thing with relation to Sondheim and Paul and Ringo. Mick is probably ringing up the Jean-Luc Godard and the Maylses estates as we speak. 'Em, you got any of the Stones footage outtakes, eh?' Riddle me this Q) What is the only thing longer than a Beatles thread on the Hoffman forum’s ? A) A Beatles documentary directed by Peter Jackson ! Yeah, Maureen comes across really well. Loveable girl. Bopping to the music all the time whereas Yoko can't be bothered to just give the smallest sign of acknowledgement. She's just sitting there observing it all. I see why the others felt unconfortable having her around. When is it supposed to be on disney+ ? George says he'll play if they have to but says he doesn't favor doing so. Paul is surprisingly adamant against it. His body language and voice shows one scared Beatle. No, not scared of the location, but playing these new songs live. John knows they have them down, or close to it. George too. Ringo just wants to play. The joy they all show on the roof is clear. Paul and John exchanging glances and just exploding into wide smiles. George cracking up when John "bluchie goomies" Don't Let Me Down is a great moment. And Ringo is channeling his Washington DC 1964 self and pummeling the drums throughout. Even better was seeing how they jazzed they were listening to the playbacks. George is really excited. And Maureen, as pointed out, is just giddy with excitement. George Martin and Glyn are jazzed as well. Ron PS I think John really wanted George to do for For You Blue on the roof (his lap steel at the ready behind George's amp). George Martin wanted him to do "I Want A Love that's Right" ( Old Brown Shoe) but George says they've only practiced it a few times. I wonder if one of those would have been performed if the police hadn't forced them to stop. They talk about doing 6 or 7 songs, but only do 5. We can only dream. And it's very cool when John says he loves "You Blue" as they are discussing potential roof songs. Oh Darling would have been a killer choice too. They all dug that one too. I just finished watching Part I, it's excellent, everything I hoped for content-wise... I've skipped around the thread, trying to avoid spoilers and such to see viewers thoughts on the visuals... But is everyone cool with the waxy figure-thing?? I figured especially on this forum people would be livid at the lifelessness (how times have changed!).. There was a time when people would be up in arms for simply coloring a B&W film. Since it was so distracting for me, I had to stop, and think of this as watching a well re-created painting of what happened. When watching, say, The Irishman, effects distracting first five minutes and then I'm totally immersed in the film for 3+ hours. But these Madame Tussaud Beatles are creepy. Sacrilege to say what I think is obvious? Bummer because I'm not as immersed as the series wants me to be. Paul writing "Get Back" in real time should have been an almost holy experience. I won't be watching Part 2 in HDR on the big screen. I'll go with my smaller monitor at lower resolution. Great (life-long endless!) work by Doug Sulpy & others.. must be very rewarding!
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Post by sₚⲁᵣₖydₒg on Nov 30, 2021 19:27:00 GMT
PNeski@aol.com said: "I pad ,or get new tv. ,you can watch Disney + on a browser you need to join [SIC] "Jesus Christ. I watched it on my Dell XPS grandpa box with my Chrome browser. Captain Groovy said: I've skipped around the thread, trying to avoid spoilers and such to see viewers thoughts on the visuals... But is everyone cool with the waxy figure-thing??Idiot. It looked fine to me. Adjust your TV set. Soap Opera Effect
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Post by daved on Nov 30, 2021 19:37:52 GMT
PNeski@aol.com said: "I pad ,or get new tv. ,you can watch Disney + on a browser you need to join [SIC] "Jesus Christ. I watched it on my Dell XPS grandpa box with my Chrome browser. Captain Groovy said: I've skipped around the thread, trying to avoid spoilers and such to see viewers thoughts on the visuals... But is everyone cool with the waxy figure-thing??Idiot. It looked fine to me. Adjust you TV set. Soap Opera Effect I’m watching episode 3 now ( it’s more interesting than 1 and 2 but that’s not saying much) and I don’t see an issue with the picture. As I keep saying, they bitch when they get nothing and bitch when they get more than they asked for.
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Post by powerpoppackage on Nov 30, 2021 19:43:21 GMT
This Twitter thread has given me lots of laughs. Springsteen's my favorite.
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Post by gobshite on Nov 30, 2021 19:46:19 GMT
That's great. Bono
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Post by daved on Nov 30, 2021 20:19:56 GMT
Didn’t Steve shit all over Harrison’s rosewood Tele calling it “non-descript”? I love that guitar.
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Post by daved on Nov 30, 2021 20:22:29 GMT
Didn’t Steve shit all over Harrison’s rosewood Tele calling it “non-descript”? I love that guitar. Fuck you Steve.
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Post by Sounds.. ago on Nov 30, 2021 20:31:10 GMT
STeVE is so full of shit. Harrison's Tele cuts through the mix just fine on the rooftop recordings (I realise STeVE is referring to the Apple Studio take, but the rooftop takes of Get Back sound similar). The Tele sounds great, as does Harrison's playing during the entire rooftop performance. /shite off
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Post by My Avatar Is A Hot Babe on Dec 1, 2021 18:46:50 GMT
It might have been nice if Jackson ended the 8 hour odyssey with this sentence on a black screen: "Within a month of leaving the rooftop, the Beatles began recording what is considered one of the greatest rock LPs of all time, Abbey Road." Or it could have said: "Within a month of leaving the rooftop, Paul shaved off his beard, George had his tonsils removed, Ringo was hanging out with Raquel Welch, and John was picking out pillows and sheets for his first Bed-In for Peace...". As a onetime wannabe songwriter, I found Paul's development of Get Back spellbinding and it also shows, beautifully, his creative process....starts off with a basic beat while playing a basic chord feel...some humming, some phonetics, some stray wording that seems to fit..and onward as the whole thing becomes more clarified bit by bit. This is how great Rock and Roll is written (or as Jim McCartney would say, "made up"). Paul used the same process when it came to foreplay ... After viewing all 3 parts, I am happy that it wasn’t necessarily turned into a happy love-fest to whitewash the actual events and mood. It was a decent balance between light and dark. However, given the other instances of hidden cameras and microphones, the one glaring absence is the discussion after George’s leaving where Yoko arrogantly chimes in saying it is easy to get him back. I am sure her side of the team wouldn’t allow its inclusion here (even though Peter Jackson’s claims there was no interference of that kind in what he included). I’ve been trying to find a link to that on YouTube (or wherever I saw/heard it), but can’t find it with all the new content overwhelming the search results. Can anyone provide a link please? I've never been aware of this comment from Yoko...very interesting. Paul was like Brian Jones, you could stick any instrument in his hands and he could find a tune on it. I believe we get a shot of Paul fooling around on the Hawaiian/lap steel guitar at one point. Sure he could have picked that up too if he had kept fooling with it. I would have loved just five minutes of some " addendum" footage where Paul had shaved the beard and John's is coming in. We get some after-the-fact photos in the two Get Back books. I wonder if any such film exists in the unused footage. (I'm not saying this insatiably....I'm just sayin'....) I have to wonder now if we will still get a re-release of the original (real) LET IT BE film by Michael Lindsay-Hogg as promised upon the completion of this project. I am beginning to doubt it, as I fear seeing THAT Let It Be film again after it's been willfully (and unjustly) suppressed for so long would force everyone to reconsider this new Shiny Happy project. For myself, no matter how good it is, this new one will always be The WhiteWash Album. and as much as I love and respect Peter Jackson and a lot of his past work, I absolutely do not believe for one second that he got no briefs, directives or instructions from Apple or Paul on what to include or not. Hell, there's even word that Disney wanted to censor all the swearing! no, this is as artificial and manufactured (and selectively if subtly revisionist) as any other piece of product. I'm just glad that I still have a good copy of the original film. The WhiteWash Album is nothing more than the outtakes from that. This Video thread is in the Music Forum and the Audio thread is in the Visual Arts section! Just imagine if they took the Brian Wilson At My Piano album cover photoshop job and applied it to the entire Long Promised Road documentary. Wouldn't you be creeped out by seeing it in motion when you know the real Brian is right there, under it, even if not lit well or... filmed on a cell phone? One of these documentaries touched me deeply. The other feels unnecessarily artificially cold. Anyway you don't have to agree with me. Why else discuss? Again, my opinion only but it's about the Visuals, not the audio! We're Beatles fans from day one; given that, GET BACK completes a lot of details and reshapes some of it. After decades, I've learned to be pissed off at Yoko's arrogant attitude all over again. Jesus, the last time Paul got this much head must have been 1964. There’s a take of Don’t Let Me Down which is captioned as the final released take for the single…does anyone agree with me that it’s not?? Hey guys On part 3, during one of their meetings at Saville Row, a girl with long black hair dressed in green (maybe) appears sat down on the studio's floor. Does anybody happen to know who is she? thanks Press secretary Frankie Hart. I'm a John guy and maybe I disliked Paul because all of my ex-wives liked him best. I liked Ringo's fart because it seems Paul got a genuine chuckle out of it, and he deserved one at that point. Talking about sheet music - am I the only one finding it a little strange that Yoko felt the need to ask George Martin where she could buy classical piano scores? In London. With Mal Evans being able to supply anvils and bow ties apparently out of thin air. That odd little scene made me think that Yoko was trying to get George Martin's attention as in "you know I am a clasically trained pianist and I can read music, you know ? I am not just John's little 'pet' that he carries around with him wherever he goes." I might be wrong, it just felt that way to me. She was seeking credibility.
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Post by My Avatar Is A Hot Babe on Dec 2, 2021 18:36:19 GMT
It is the complete opposite of the Ron Howard movie that I really disliked and it s a real pleasure to be totaly immersed in the studio with the band and without any comment from Sigourney Weaver or Whoppie Goldberg ) I hated Ron Howard's movie as well for those reasons and a part of me feared Miss Goldberg would pop up somewhere in this movie and am thankful that she nor anyone else does. May have preferred what Whoopie added to Peter Sellers' contribution here When you look at the stellar results George and Eric got by working together on “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” (arguably the iconic White Album track) and “Badge” (and, slightly later, on All Things Must Pass) the idea of some version of Cream or Blind Faith continuing into 1969 and beyond with George Harrison on board as a full member becomes perhaps the most intriguing road not taken of all. John and Paul never fully took George seriously; Eric Clapton certainly did. I'm listening to the Things We Said Today podcast at the moment, and I hereby volunteer to transfer Peter Jackson's NTSC VHS copy of the original film. I have a rack of VHS, SVHS, Beta, Laserdisc and pretty much any other format plus time-base correctors. R.E.M. hired a therapist or professional mediator for a summit meeting after the recording of Up when their band was in real danger of splintering after Bill Berry’s departure. Maybe the Beatles should have done the same, although I’m not sure that concept fully existed yet. But, yeah, they never found a replacement for Mr. Epstein to help them sort out their problems. Glynis, an excellent British actress, was probably most familiar to USA movie-goers for her appearance in Mary Poppins. In the 1950s, I bet John Lennon and his Quarreymen mates had a couple of "Winston Churchill" sessions while looking at photos of Glynis: There's no chance I'll read through this entire thread, but here's something that I shared a couple of years ago on the Yesterday film thread about young musicians by a music teacher friend: I had an amazing lesson with a piano student this evening. He said he had gone to see the new film "Yesterday". We began talking about The Beatles, and I was surprised he knew so much about their music - that they went through four "eras" in just seven years; that they were courageous enough to experiment with style and sound; that they risked losing their audience; that their lyrics were often multi layered and explored topics previously unaddressed in pop music. He was familiar with their less famous but significant songs. He understood that their cultural impact went well beyond the musical sphere. He shared with me that his great uncle helped George to learn the sitar (the boy is East Indian). This led to a discussion of the history of his native country, helping me to understand more of a place I know little about. We played no music but talked until nearly 9 p.m He is eleven years old. I LOVE my job. I think those cigars were laced with herbal jazz. Don't be silly. They used a much easier method: The digestive biscuits were baked with marijuana... My wife, who's not Beatle fan I am, started out thinking this, nut it became obvious to her that Yoko's presence was a disruptive force as it moved along. Who is this nice woman sitting on the floor? I think somebody said that was Frankie Hart? Exactly: Frankie Hart Press Secretary I am not in doubt this documentary will be viewed over time as one of the most honest and in-depth music documentaries ever released. “Most honest,” except where Jackson edited out Yoko from the conversation. You think digitally removing people from conversations is an accurate reflection of reality? That’s what a documentary is supposed to do, reflect reality. That conversation as presented is as real as a Hobbit. Just because he’s unearthed 6-1/2 hours of footage never seen before doesn’t mean Jackson gets a pass on misrepresenting reality in a documentary. Personally, I think it’s more fascinating that Yoko and John together were able to talk to Paul about George than making up some mano y mano b.s. that didn’t happen. There were 3 people in that conversation, and it isn’t presented. Instead, we’re served up a fiction. Unless we know what Yoko actually contributed to that conversation, which may well have been nothing of significance, I don't think we're in a position to call this a "fiction". Yes, we are. If someone reports two people had a conversation, when in fact it was three, then it is at best a fiction. At worst, it’s an outright lie. Truth is that simple.
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Post by My Avatar Is A Hot Babe on Dec 3, 2021 20:02:41 GMT
If all you are after is some fictional version of the Beatles, then what’s wrong with Hard Day’s Night, Help!, Magical Mystery Tour, or Yellow Submarine? This is about a documentary director deliberately choosing to misrepresent an event, an incident. This supposedly isn’t “just” entertainment. If it’s “only” entertainment, then it wouldn’t matter. Except, they’re selling it as a culturally important, factual documentary. As such, it deserves critique by the standards Jackson set for it. That it falls short in that regard is not my fault. “Nit-picking?” It’s a documentary or it isn’t. Judge it by that standard. If something in there is fiction — and we KNOW it is — then there’s nothing wrong at all about criticizing it. Let me tell you what’s stupid. Fanbois who uncritically suck down whatever horsesh!t Peter Jackson, Walt Disney and Apple Corps serve hot and steaming. You want to check your critical faculties at the door, so be it. I’m judging the documentary on whether or not it is true. I've speculated before on what if Paul had had the same attitude and took all his songs for his first solo album? Paul McCartney's Come and Get It, a playlist by Dr. Pepper on SpotifyTrack List - Revised Side One Come and Get it The Lovely Linda Two Of Us - Linda sings John's part Junk I've Got A Feeling That Would Be Something The Long and Winding Road Side Two Maybe I'm Amazed Every Night Man We Was Lonely Get Back Oo You Teddy Boy Let It Be Goodbye P.S. Tell me this wouldn't be one of the all time classic albums in history and perhaps considered the best debut album by anybody ever. I love this as a listen and listen to it more than McCartney's actual first album. Give it a listen and tell me what you think. At least it's now clear John says "giggle" and not "giddle". I never understood how people heard that! I certanely doesn’t t miss Yoko talkingz It s not as bad as her ”singing” but atill. My somewhat pro-longed stay on the lovely Maldives have kept me from watching the series ifn full. Soon be home though and will get on with it The Dirty Mac’s performance of “Yer Blues” is about the greatest five minutes in all of rock’n’roll. John and that band of superstars are incredible for those scant minutes. Gearing up to watch R&R Circus for the first time right now!! Off-topic, but: Who the heck is Taj Mahal? When The Fellowship of the Ring opened, my wife had no interest in Tolkien, she was there solely because this was a film by Peter Jackson, the man who had directed The Frighteners and Heavenly Creatures. Of course she was hooked within a minute with Cate Blanchett's voice as Galadriel.
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