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Post by P(D)enny La(i)ne on Nov 27, 2009 13:10:18 GMT -5
A few nights ago, the History Channel showed a new BBC documentary called The Beatles On Record.It was mostly rehash, but there were a few bits that I hadn't seen/heard before. The most interesting of which was George's quote about songwriting for Help!: "I had these two guys who used to write songs whenever we needed some. I think we just called them up and said look, we'll be doing a movie now lads, would you come up with a couple of catchy hits?" Obviously, he could have just been talking about John and Paul, but as they often did/do, he was vague enough that he could have been talking about ANYBODY... You can watch the whole thing on Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWnCCPOXbwI |
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Post by TotalInformation on Nov 27, 2009 17:08:11 GMT -5
do you know which cip of 7 the geo martin quote is in?
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Post by P(D)enny La(i)ne on Nov 27, 2009 17:47:03 GMT -5
do you know which cip of 7 the geo martin quote is in? The quote's at 2:40 of clip three. And it's a George Harrison quote. |
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Post by P(D)enny La(i)ne on Nov 29, 2009 16:13:05 GMT -5
The History Channel is re-airing this again TODAY @ 5 PM.
Yup.
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Post by Jude on Nov 30, 2009 4:33:35 GMT -5
A few nights ago, the History Channel showed a new BBC documentary called The Beatles On Record."I had these two guys who used to write songs whenever we needed some. I think we just called them up and said look, we'll be doing a movie now lads, would you come up with a couple of catchy hits?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWnCCPOXbwIInteresting. If he was talking about John and Paul, why does say "whenever WE needed some", "WE just called them up" and "WE'll be doing a movie now lads". Can he really just be referring to he and Ringo, as if they would approach the other half of the band with the idea of writing a few catchy hits? I really don't think he was referring to John and Paul as the "two guys", because he makes it sound as though utilizing their songwriting talents was a group decision. Good job catching that, PD.. |
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Post by P(D)enny La(i)ne on Nov 30, 2009 11:08:04 GMT -5
A few nights ago, the History Channel showed a new BBC documentary called The Beatles On Record."I had these two guys who used to write songs whenever we needed some. I think we just called them up and said look, we'll be doing a movie now lads, would you come up with a couple of catchy hits?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWnCCPOXbwIInteresting. If he was talking about John and Paul, why does say "whenever WE needed some", "WE just called them up" and "WE'll be doing a movie now lads". Can he really just be referring to he and Ringo, as if they would approach the other half of the band with the idea of writing a few catchy hits? I really don't think he was referring to John and Paul as the "two guys", because he makes it sound as though utilizing their songwriting talents was a group decision. Good job catching that, PD.. Yes Jude, it's strange, and it's NOT the first time any of them have spoken about themselves/the Beatles in this bizarre, third-person manner. I posted about this last year, but it bears repeating: invanddis.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=Clues&thread=4998&page=1I 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 conversation, 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?"
All of the above can be viewed here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2J9zIuredY
Up next...
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)
The above situations can be seen here:
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.  |
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Post by Jude on Dec 2, 2009 11:25:04 GMT -5
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*." [/blockquote][/quote] Why did George and Ringo continually refer to the Beatles as "them"? How utterly freaky! Oh, and the bit about Pink Floyd is interesting, too. I can't say I've listened to a lot of their early stuff, but I think there are some very McCartney-esque melodies on Dark Side of the Moon, and "Money" might as well have been written by John Lennon. Maybe Roger Waters and David Gilmour started ghost-writing for the Beatles in '67-68, right around the time they all began to lose interest. |
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Post by jestertor on Dec 2, 2009 12:32:19 GMT -5
"Oh, and the bit about Pink Floyd is interesting, too. I can't say I've listened to a lot of their early stuff..."
Jude, you talkin' 'bout The pepper at the gates of dawn bro?
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Post by Jude on Dec 2, 2009 12:35:31 GMT -5
"Oh, and the bit about Pink Floyd is interesting, too. I can't say I've listened to a lot of their early stuff..." Jude, you talkin' 'bout The pepper at the gates of dawn bro? The Piper at the Gates of Dawn....Sgt. Pepper.... I think I see where you're going with this. |
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Post by jestertor on Dec 2, 2009 12:39:41 GMT -5
Mmmm! (looking at my pocket watch) Mustn't be late! ... Where's that darned hole?
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Post by P(D)enny La(i)ne on Dec 2, 2009 14:47:54 GMT -5
"Oh, and the bit about Pink Floyd is interesting, too. I can't say I've listened to a lot of their early stuff..." Jude, you talkin' 'bout The pepper at the gates of dawn bro? The Piper at the Gates of Dawn....Sgt. Pepper.... I think I see where you're going with this. Well, Pan is the Piper, no? Paul as Pan? Coming up!  |
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Post by TotalInformation on Dec 3, 2009 4:31:58 GMT -5
Note that the version aired on the History Channel has 16 of 60 minutes cut and the audio horribly botched for the first 35 of the 44 minutes they did air. The YouTube clips feature the entire 60 min.
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Post by ekauqodielak on Aug 9, 2019 13:58:13 GMT -5
Interesting. If he was talking about John and Paul, why does say "whenever WE needed some", "WE just called them up" and "WE'll be doing a movie now lads". Can he really just be referring to he and Ringo, as if they would approach the other half of the band with the idea of writing a few catchy hits? I really don't think he was referring to John and Paul as the "two guys", because he makes it sound as though utilizing their songwriting talents was a group decision. Good job catching that, PD.. Yes Jude, it's strange, and it's NOT the first time any of them have spoken about themselves/the Beatles in this bizarre, third-person manner. I posted about this last year, but it bears repeating: invanddis.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=Clues&thread=4998&page=1I 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 conversation, 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?"
All of the above can be viewed here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2J9zIuredY
Up next...
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."
…… Hmmmm… |
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Post by maclen on Aug 23, 2019 13:32:12 GMT -5
it's evident that not one participant of this thread understood the beatles humor or their meaning
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