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Post by mommybird on Oct 24, 2007 19:59:05 GMT -5
HomeLife & StyleMy ProfileOffersSitemapFrom The Sunday TimesMarch 20, 2005 Diary extracts January 20, 1963: Mal drives the Beatles to London Picked up George at about 10.45 then picked up John, Paul & Ringo... George bought me dinner at Whitchurch and took over the driving up to about 20 miles before the M1... My only wish was for better headlights on the van otherwise admirable to drive, and I could not have wished for better company. They [the Beatles] made me feel at home with them at once. After steady 70-75 down the M1, entered London via Finchley... The boys seemed to know their way and... took us to the door of EMI house. There we met Kenny Lynch, Jess Conrad & Carole Deene all nice people... January 4, 1967: recording Penny Lane Travelled to London left about 11am. Lil's back acting up a little again. Recording "Penny Lane" but Paul and John still not satisfied. So will do voices again tomorrow. Went to Bag O' Nails about 3.45 after session. Cyn, Terry and Stan. Jane came to studio in her car. Had fish and chips in studio. Joss sticks burning a plenty tonight, really do get to like the smell. January 27, 1967: Sgt Pepper Started writing song with Paul upstairs in his room, he on piano. What can one say about today — ah yes! Four Tops concert at Albert Hall. Beatles get screams they get the clap. Off to Bag after gig. Did a lot more of "where the rain comes in". Hope people like it. Started Sergeant Pepper. February 1, 1967 "Sergeant Pepper" sounds good. Paul tells me that I will get royalties on the song — great news, now perhaps a new home. February 2, 1967 Recording voices on Captain [sic] Pepper. All six of us doing the chorus in the middle, worked until about midnight. Bag took Cynthia [Lennon]. Bed about 5.30pm after no sleep. Ugh! Cleaning lady Mrs Turner. Cor!!! Had to go to doctor in 6 George Street. Bought Ringo some undies for his visit to the Doctor. March 30, 1967 Played cow bell on Ringos number [With a Little Help from My Friends]. Paul asked after who played that great cow bell... In India, and recording the White Album February 17, 1968 The press really tried kicking down the gates into the Ashram — the Indian people on the Ashram called me half way through, but as soon as an Indian reporter told me "No bloody foreigner is going to stop me in my own country" I cooled it. February 23, 1968 The Beatles all met Maharishi on his cottage roof... off to the beach after lunch, well it's not really the beach but the bank of the Ganges... Jane is still not well although the others minor complaints have been "faith healed", and Ringo had a dead rat in drawer. July 9, 1968 Oobledee [Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da] goes well and Eric Clapton plays a visit... Off to the pub for toasted cheese sarnies, later Paul went to the pub, with George, Neil and Pete for a pint. John and George guitars — Ringo drums for new version of "Revolution". Put up slide for kids and filmed Julie on it. September 13, 1968 Heard today that police arrived at EMI to bust us after we had left. On further enquiries this did not appear to have happened — wouldn't matter anyway, what would they find? March 12, 1969: Paul and Linda's wedding Paul & Linda got married this morning at Marylebone Registry Office; due to at 9.45am but Mike's train from Birmingham was delayed... When Peter Brown and myself passed the Registry Office at about 9.15 there were only a few photographers and ardent fans standing in the rain, but when we left at 11.30am or perhaps it was 11.15am we were mobbed by a crowd of about 1,000. Heather [Linda's daughter] was carried out by a policeman and Ray of the hire car company... Back at home, they did a couple of TVs and then went to the local church to be "BLESSED". Off to the Ritz Piccadilly for a wedding lunch, where we were joined by Neil and Sue, Escargot for moi; TV interview in the Ritz and deliver Paul & Linda McCartney to home and feet up by the fire. www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article424669.eceWhy do the extracts jump from January 20th, 1963 to January 4th, 1967 ? I find that very interesting indeed.
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Post by Jude on Oct 26, 2007 0:43:33 GMT -5
There's something wrong with one of the alleged journal entries. Mal said they were in India recording the The White Album? The White Album doesn't exist....it's a name that people attached to the album called The Beatles. Unless he was writing about it years later, why would he call it that in his diary, before the album was even released?
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Post by JoJo on Oct 27, 2007 10:21:15 GMT -5
There's something wrong with one of the alleged journal entries. Mal said they were in India recording the The White Album? The White Album doesn't exist....it's a name that people attached to the album called The Beatles. Unless he was writing about it years later, why would he call it that in his diary, before the album was even released? Yes: March 30, 1967
Played cow bell on Ringos number [With a Little Help from My Friends]. Paul asked after who played that great cow bell... In India, and recording the White Album
You are correct Jude. Not only the name of the album, but they didn't exactly "record" the White Album in India, they wrote and played around with acoustic guitars in between meditating, the recording came after they returned. Maybe this was added later, (by Mal) but you couldn't properly call this a 'journal entry' then..
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Post by Jude on Oct 28, 2007 15:18:00 GMT -5
Better yet, I think the journal is fake. His real journal was probably in the briefcase that the LAPD "conveniently" lost.
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Post by pataphysical on Oct 28, 2007 18:06:41 GMT -5
March 30, 1967
Played cow bell on Ringos number [With a Little Help from My Friends]. Paul asked after who played that great cow bell...
In India, and recording the White Album
February 17, 1968
The press really tried kicking down the gates into the Ashram — the Indian people on the Ashram called me half way through, but as soon as an Indian reporter told me "No bloody foreigner is going to stop me in my own country" I cooled it.
Entry corrected with a couple of carriage returns!
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Post by TotalInformation on Oct 28, 2007 23:13:28 GMT -5
exactly, pata
it's a subhed added by the Times and accidentaly put back into the text
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Post by plastic paul on Oct 29, 2007 6:47:31 GMT -5
Ah, makes perfect sense now!
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Post by ipuffin on Apr 13, 2011 16:10:25 GMT -5
Ah, makes perfect sense now! The thing is....I can't hear the cowbell. if it's so great....
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Post by B on Apr 14, 2011 14:37:06 GMT -5
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Post by seasaltcaramel on May 23, 2012 12:37:51 GMT -5
i discovered a curious thing yesterday. it is an interview with bob weir and phil lesh of the grateful dead about their album workingmans dead. in this interview which lasts about 5 minutes phil mentions that jack cassady - the bassist from the jefferson airplane - brought an acetate test pressing of a day in the life to the deads rehearsal space right before sgt pepper was released. i think its curious that some time between the release of surrealistic pillow and sgt pepper some one in england flew to san francisco and gave the jefferson airplane a copy of the song.
phil says it was just a day in the life though it may have been the whole album. ( or every song on its own 45 scattered across america in the name of psychedelic kinship ) i remember reading something about mal going out there on a fact finding mission and the airplane being mentioned by name. but there are a lot of people in the airplane. theres also a slight issue of chronology. for the airplane to be "in on it" youd think they that they must have known before writing white rabbit. before the album was released. before jerry re-arranged the music. before grace joined the band. before it was written by her previous band the great society.
my intuition tells me that when this person from england brought the acetate to san francisco they brought back a large amount of owsleys LSD to england. i remember that the electric kool aid acid test refers to the beatles bus in the magical mystery tour as a subtle nod to owsley and the pranksters. the beatles were also "on the bus". owsley the foolish prankster he was is and shall always be has his weirdness imprinted all over the period.
you see there was a discordian around at this time from texas observing all of these things leaving a channel open for those of us in the future. he had a small pamphlet called the mercurial messenger - one of the first rangers. one of the nomadic types. the guy they call jesus in "easy rider". the discordian cabals in new york releasing the american metaphysical circus. it wise to consider certain things.
stockhausen came from one of the twin stars of thence. music of the future or art of the future is the foundation of the "avant garde". thats the whole point. its totally at odds with normalcy at the same time just like the psychedelic experience it brings out or exposes the hang ups of anything and everything you could ever hope to be see or do.
but theres another part. what happens when the future you see and envision is made impossible or illegal. what if your lifestyle is criminal? what if youre made illegal because of your lifestyle? what the forces of law and order fail to recognize is they are working against the forces of nature. and so isolation and concentration is the method of controlling this fact. its a shade of what karl marx was talking about when he said the proletariat has nothing to lose but its chains.
its a subtle stream but if you follow it youll realize it will take you to the truth. and maybe youll ever get to meet that discordian. and you wont take any of this shit too seriously. look what happened to john. it exposes us as the phonies that we really are. now the jokes on you. are you going to laugh or hold onto a crumbling world until your knuckles are white and you get buried too?
i chi chi i chi eye choose to choose choose to go black angel of death song velvet underground 1967
i dont have to tell lies.
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Post by seasaltcaramel on Jun 11, 2014 16:13:30 GMT -5
my intuition tells me that when this person from england brought the acetate to san francisco they brought back a large amount of owsleys LSD to england. i remember that the electric kool aid acid test refers to the beatles bus in the magical mystery tour as a subtle nod to owsley and the pranksters. the beatles were also "on the bus". owsley the foolish prankster he was is and shall always be has his weirdness imprinted all over the period. You have it the wrong way round but you're on the money all the same. Ken Kesey's bus trip was Paul's inspiration for MMT, not the reverse so Paul was getting The Beatles on the bus, so to speak. While Paul has rarely made this lineage explicit, it has never been in doubt and Ken Kesey shortly before his death refuted the suggestion that Paul had 'stolen' the idea saying that everyone was totally honoured that he'd taken it and spread it. This was a time when transatlantic vibes by nods and winks were de rigeur so Paul's keeping the allusion implicit was (protectively) part of this. McCartney was in the States to see Jane for her birthday in early April 67, for just a day or so, as she was in a production, after which he was around and about 'the scenes' on the West Coast. So he is the one who brought the acetate*. 'Pepper' had mostly been wrapped up before his departure and he had hurried things along in order to free himself for Jane's birthday. I'm not sure if this is the same time that 'lenses' were brought into the USA for 'filming' and returned filled with Owsley acid but I suspect that it was so again you're right on the money here *Extraneous Info: Acetates were generally single track 'work in progress' affairs made for people to take home until cassettes replaced that function and there have been a lot of them floating about from The Beatles because they felt that they'd soon be worn thin (this was pre-bootlegging) not anticipating that some people wouldn't play them but copy them! (I'm sure Jerry made a couple!)*Later, the term 'acetates' comes to refer to anything from 'promo copies' to 'test pressings' but originally 'an acetate' was a short-life disc, usually of a single track, cut for musicians' reference. Different grades of materials ranging from flexidisc to something a little thicker if, say, Brian Epstein playing it to Joseph Lockwood was the intended purpose of the cut. Bob Weir and Phil Lesh discuss the Recording of "Workingman's Dead" Here is the video. Around 5:43 Phil Lesh begins the story of how Jack Cassady (The Bassist of the Airplane) brought an acetate of "A Day In The Life" to the Dead and it blew their collective mind. This ties into what I refer to as "The Looking Glass War", which wasn't really a 'War' at all, but was recognition that groups of people on both sides of the Atlantic had been 'Turned-On' and it was every-band-for-itself to convert as many people as possible. A form of Evangelical revolutionary state of mind. It reminds me of what can be found at the church owned by the Christian Science Monitor: "Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons" in Boston, Ma - in the Back Bay. I can't tell you how may late-nights I have spent smoking spliffs by that dome... Under that dome is an inscription with the above motto. It's worth noting, the man that designed the Christian Science Center was the same man that designed the pyramids at The Louvre: I'm sure everyone here know that the primary Pyramid had 666 glass panels. In a few days I will begin quoting from my copy of Hank Harrison's biography, "The Dead", about the Grateful Dead esoteric/hermetic period from 1972-1974. They were visited by a Rosicrucian and delved DEEP into the hermetic tradition. Harrison happens to be Courtney Love's father, and the book has three dedications: Courtney, someone I cannot remember right now (without having the book here), and the "Guys at the Bohemian Club"; as in, the Bohemian Grove: * Jerry was the guitar player. If anyone made copies it was Owsley... He may have been in jail, though, "Busted, Down on Bourbon Street..."
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Post by seasaltcaramel on Jun 11, 2014 17:04:06 GMT -5
^Awesome stuff! Can't really add anything except that every word was educational. I am pretty weak on matters Grateful Dead and more generally on the US side of the counterculture. I was curious about why Paul was moved to make his 'Photofilm' tribute after Jerry's death when he's admitted that he never even saw the band play. I suspect that they had a correspondence by letter or other means that in time will be revealed. It certainly seems that Paul rated him highly as a figure. Alternatively, or in addition, there may be some ' business'* connections there as per the "Owsley Lenses" John Lennon & Paul McCartney Apple Launch Interview (1968) Around 2:40 Larry (To Paul): "It seemed to me ... you had endorsed [LSD]..." Lennon: "We were manufacturing it. Business went bonkers..." * Maybe... Here is some proof if you need it.
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