Post by P(D)enny La(i)ne on Aug 27, 2008 11:51:14 GMT -5
I was watching the special features from the Anthology DVDs the other day, and well, there's just a TON of weirdness. There's a running theme of The Beatles as OTHER people. And it doesn't only come up a couple of times. It's all over the place. There's other random confusion, too, and it seems like it's because one or more of them is making stuff up because they weren't there.
Up first, George Martin, Ringo, Paul, and George are discussing Golden Slumbers.
At 0:51, George asks "which album was this?"
To which Ringo responds: "You're George, this is Paul, and I'm Ringo."
Then, from 2:04 to 3:06, there's a strange coversation, during which they try to determine who was playing bass on the first take of Golden Slumbers. There is MUCH confusion during this, and it seems too confusing to be explained simply by the passage of time.
Finally, from 9:30 until the end of part one, they're discussing the drums on Tomorrow Never Knows and at 9:42, Ringo says "How was HE doing that? How was THAT drummer doing that, George?"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2J9zIuredY
At 1:16 in the next clip, Ringo says: "I listened to it (Free As A Bird) and I thought, it sounds just like THEM."
Then Paul says "It sounds just like the Beatles."
Then George says 'It's gonna sound like THEM if it is THEM. It sounds like THEM *now*."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=51mROK3L358
The following clip begins with Ringo saying: "There isn't a lot of live stuff out on the Beatles and I haven't even got it, so it was a pleasure for me to hear, because THEY were a great little band."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yozclpqAz4
Next up, Ringo is describing the day that George took him to pick up a new car, and George remembers NONE OF IT, even though Ringo CRASHED THE NEW CAR on the way home, which seems like something George would remember, right?
This exchange is at at 0:19:
George: "Did I stop, or did I keep going?"
Ringo: "Oh, you just kept going."
George: "I didn't see what happened? Even to this day, I never knew what happened."
At 7:04, our old friends Roger Waters and David Gilmour strangely crop up when George says:
"We always had a thing between the four of us at that time, that if any one of us wasn't in it, we weren't gonna get Roger Waters and go out as the Beatles...or Dave Gilmour."
(Most of you know this, but Pink Floyd were recording PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN at Abbey Road during the Recording of Pepper, and they were there a lot more through 1970 and beyond. In addition, Waters seems to reference PID/PWR an AWFUL lot, and even the non-Waters Floyd albums are pretty PID/PWR heavy...see The Division Bell and Momentary Lapse)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFk9lmzFLI8
So, as I said, there's a lot of weirdness going on here. It's almost like they were DYING to tell us something, but couldn't be blunt about it.
Oh, and sorry, but these vids all have embedding disabled by the owner, or I would have embedded them.
Up first, George Martin, Ringo, Paul, and George are discussing Golden Slumbers.
At 0:51, George asks "which album was this?"
To which Ringo responds: "You're George, this is Paul, and I'm Ringo."
Then, from 2:04 to 3:06, there's a strange coversation, during which they try to determine who was playing bass on the first take of Golden Slumbers. There is MUCH confusion during this, and it seems too confusing to be explained simply by the passage of time.
Finally, from 9:30 until the end of part one, they're discussing the drums on Tomorrow Never Knows and at 9:42, Ringo says "How was HE doing that? How was THAT drummer doing that, George?"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2J9zIuredY
At 1:16 in the next clip, Ringo says: "I listened to it (Free As A Bird) and I thought, it sounds just like THEM."
Then Paul says "It sounds just like the Beatles."
Then George says 'It's gonna sound like THEM if it is THEM. It sounds like THEM *now*."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=51mROK3L358
The following clip begins with Ringo saying: "There isn't a lot of live stuff out on the Beatles and I haven't even got it, so it was a pleasure for me to hear, because THEY were a great little band."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yozclpqAz4
Next up, Ringo is describing the day that George took him to pick up a new car, and George remembers NONE OF IT, even though Ringo CRASHED THE NEW CAR on the way home, which seems like something George would remember, right?
This exchange is at at 0:19:
George: "Did I stop, or did I keep going?"
Ringo: "Oh, you just kept going."
George: "I didn't see what happened? Even to this day, I never knew what happened."
At 7:04, our old friends Roger Waters and David Gilmour strangely crop up when George says:
"We always had a thing between the four of us at that time, that if any one of us wasn't in it, we weren't gonna get Roger Waters and go out as the Beatles...or Dave Gilmour."
(Most of you know this, but Pink Floyd were recording PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN at Abbey Road during the Recording of Pepper, and they were there a lot more through 1970 and beyond. In addition, Waters seems to reference PID/PWR an AWFUL lot, and even the non-Waters Floyd albums are pretty PID/PWR heavy...see The Division Bell and Momentary Lapse)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFk9lmzFLI8
So, as I said, there's a lot of weirdness going on here. It's almost like they were DYING to tell us something, but couldn't be blunt about it.
Oh, and sorry, but these vids all have embedding disabled by the owner, or I would have embedded them.
