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Sebowski said:
Today is the 45th anniversary of The White Album.

Fire it up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_DK3Y2Yk30

"Unplugged" Demo versions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbF-bBBbDsk
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Love the White Album but no where close to my favorite. People like to point to the Get Back/Let It Be sessions and say that was the disintegration of the band but it really started with the White Album.

The White Album, more than any other, shows John, Paul and George working their own material and using their bandmates as session musicians (and some cases not at all). Ringo quit the band during the recording of it and George Martin was away for much of it and even when he was there he was hopping from studio to studio.

Tremendous songs, ground breaking work, and I love it all (with the exception of Revolution #9) but it is the least "Beatle-y" of all their albums.

 
I liked a lot of the beatles. Not so much the early stuff but more when they were all high and jacked up! Once I saw maroon gay come out and sing, then stevie wonder I couldn't change the channel fast enough. Blah.....

 
LinusMarr said:
I liked a lot of the beatles. Not so much the early stuff but more when they were all high and jacked up! Once I saw maroon gay come out and sing, then stevie wonder I couldn't change the channel fast enough. Blah.....
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you're missing a great show. Too bad you're intimidated by guys better looking than you.
 
LinusMarr said:
JuniorNB said:
LinusMarr said:
I liked a lot of the beatles. Not so much the early stuff but more when they were all high and jacked up! Once I saw maroon gay come out and sing, then stevie wonder I couldn't change the channel fast enough. Blah.....
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you're missing a great show. Too bad you're intimidated by guys better looking than you.
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haha thanks for the laugh, "Junior"....
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sweet t-shirt ...take another half inch off the sleeves tho bra

 
Binky The Doormat said:
LinusMarr said:
JuniorNB said:
LinusMarr said:
I liked a lot of the beatles. Not so much the early stuff but more when they were all high and jacked up! Once I saw maroon gay come out and sing, then stevie wonder I couldn't change the channel fast enough. Blah.....
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you're missing a great show. Too bad you're intimidated by guys better looking than you.
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haha thanks for the laugh, "Junior"....
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sweet t-shirt ...take another half inch off the sleeves tho bra
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Maybe I will just for you, hot pants....

 
Man, the older I get the more I appreciate the sheer genius of these guys. I was trying to explain it to my young son this morning. I don't think he gets it. Someday he will.

 
This has been much much better than I expected. A few of the newer artists were meh but there have been some great performances.

 
Premier said:
How often do Paul and Ringo play together. Fairly rare, no?
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Other than the Grammies, on stage, roof top concert on Apple Records if you count that, or Candlestick, I think (45 years?). Paul might have played on a Ringo studio album, he did write a song or two (?), not sure if the converse was true, don't think so. Ringo and George played together at Concert for Bangladesh. George and Ringo might have done some studio things with Lennon. Lennon and George wrote some studio things for Ringo. Paul collaborated least, except Ringo, and seemed to be either shunned or in a position where he was at times on his own in some of the bitter aftermath of the corporate infighting post-breakup.

 
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Great show ...lots of special performances. Paul, as always, a great showman (got to see him at Wrigley Field a few years ago). But: I'm still not impressed with Ringo.

 
Bob Magaw said:
Premier said:
How often do Paul and Ringo play together. Fairly rare, no?
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Other than the Grammies, on stage, roof top concert on Apple Records if you count that, or Candlestick, I think (45 years?). Paul might have played on a Ringo studio album, he did write a song or two (?), not sure if the converse was true, don't think so. Ringo and George played together at Concert for Bangladesh. George and Ringo might have done some studio things with Lennon. Lennon and George wrote some studio things for Ringo. Paul collaborated least, except Ringo, and seemed to be either shunned or in a position where he was at times on his own in some of the bitter aftermath of the corporate infighting post-breakup.
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Paul showed up on stage for Ringo's 70th birthday in 2010.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyUGER7QKDY

 
My only criticism were that my one of my favorite songs sucked ("in my life") and two were ignored ("blackbird" and "day in the life"). But something was awesome and hey bulldog was great.

 
Great show... I changed the channel after it was over before recording. In the doghouse now, any chance they will be replaying this?

 
Abraham said:
My only criticism were that my one of my favorite songs sucked ("in my life") and two were ignored ("blackbird" and "day in the life"). But something was awesome and hey bulldog was great.
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When my daughter got married last year, that was the song she chose for me and our dance. I have the greatest daughter...

 
Interesting website called truthcontest. Calls the Beatles prophets. I found this piece of it to be pretty insightful. It's my favorite line in all of music and literature, and their spin on it is very interesting - completely different than I have always interpreted it:

The last line, in their last song medley, in the last album the Beatles released, Abbey Road, says it all. "Golden Slumbers," "Carry That Weight," "The End." It says, “And in the end the love you take, is equal to the love you make.”

In other words, the more love you take from life or accept from life, the more you will be able to make or reflect back to people. It is the most important thing to do. People think it means the more love you make, the more love you will take, but they have it backwards. You cannot make love; only God/life can make love. You can only let it in and reflect it back out. The more love you take, the more love you can make or reflect to other people.

 
Encyclopedia Brown said:
Bob Magaw said:
Premier said:
How often do Paul and Ringo play together. Fairly rare, no?
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Other than the Grammies, on stage, roof top concert on Apple Records if you count that, or Candlestick, I think (45 years?). Paul might have played on a Ringo studio album, he did write a song or two (?), not sure if the converse was true, don't think so. Ringo and George played together at Concert for Bangladesh. George and Ringo might have done some studio things with Lennon. Lennon and George wrote some studio things for Ringo. Paul collaborated least, except Ringo, and seemed to be either shunned or in a position where he was at times on his own in some of the bitter aftermath of the corporate infighting post-breakup.
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Paul showed up on stage for Ringo's 70th birthday in 2010.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyUGER7QKDY
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They also played together in the fantastic Concert for George - the memorial service for George at Royal Albert Hall

 
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The LA Times had a full page piece that quoted every major critic from around the country following the Ed Sullivan show performance. Comical - mostly about how awful the Beatles were, telling the parents to not worry because "they'll be gone in a year, and probably be going bald too". Pretty funny how badly the "experts" whiffed.

 
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Judge Smails said:
The LA Times had a full page piece that quoted every major critic from around the country following the Ed Sullivan show performance. Comical - mostly about how awful the Beatles were, telling the parents to not worry because "they'll be gone in a year, and probably be going bald too". Pretty funny how badly the "experts" whiffed.
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http://www.latimes.com/opinion/commentary/la-oe-beatles-quotes-20140209,0,1146431.story

"The Beatles are not merely awful, I would consider it sacrilegious to say anything less than that they are godawful. They are so unbelievably horrible, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically insensitive to the magic of the art, that they qualify as crowned heads of anti-music."

William F. Buckley, 1964
 
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Watching the show now. Brings back good memories, I was almost 6 that night. I got the Beatles lunch box, "The Chipmonks Sing the Beatles" album, few singles and their first album over the next year or so.

Hell ya, I loved this thing. Was still before it wasn't cool to have a metal lunch box and thermos.

http://flavorwire.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/beatles-lunch-box.jpg

Pretty weird that so much time has passed - I don't feel that old ...

 
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What strikes me about the program as I am watching it - though there are some decent performances, no one is touching the Beatles original versions in quality. I was really hoping for some great takes from some of these stars.

Stevie Wonder's performance is heads above anyone else's so far (watching Joe Walsh, etc. doing While My Guitar Gently Weeps currently - and I will say he is kicking the guitar solo). Anything exceptional ahead of me?

 
The show is much better than I thought it would be when they listed the performers at the beginning. The guests' affection for the music shone through all of the performances. None were essential but they were universally decent. The segments from the Ed Sullivan Theater were well done, especially the reminiscences of the people who were there in 1964.

We're fortunate that the surviving members of the band are the biggest hams of the Fab Four. If only John and George were around, they'd probably wouldn't have returned the phone calls from the producers. How can you not love Ringo? He always comes off as someone who knows he's the luckiest guy in the world. Paul still can rock.

My biggest gripe was with the director. He (or she) had a ton of equipment at his disposal since the broadcast obviously shared the setup from CBS' Grammys broadcast. But just because you have 30 cameras, it doesn't mean you have to constantly cut between them. I could have done without the constant crowd shots of unfunky celebrities, except for Yoko who deserves her own channel.

 
Encyclopedia Brown said:
Bob Magaw said:
Premier said:
How often do Paul and Ringo play together. Fairly rare, no?
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Other than the Grammies, on stage, roof top concert on Apple Records if you count that, or Candlestick, I think (45 years?). Paul might have played on a Ringo studio album, he did write a song or two (?), not sure if the converse was true, don't think so. Ringo and George played together at Concert for Bangladesh. George and Ringo might have done some studio things with Lennon. Lennon and George wrote some studio things for Ringo. Paul collaborated least, except Ringo, and seemed to be either shunned or in a position where he was at times on his own in some of the bitter aftermath of the corporate infighting post-breakup.
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Paul showed up on stage for Ringo's 70th birthday in 2010.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyUGER7QKDY
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Actually it was John that collaborated the least. He was on Ringo's "Ringo" LP and "Goodnight Vienna" and that was it.

Paul was on the "Ringo" LP and Ringo's "Stop and Smell the Roses" LP. Paul and Ringo also played and sang on George's tribute song to John "All Those Years Ago" on the "Somewhere in England" LP. Paul, George and Ringo also teamed up for the two Anthology songs "Free As A Bird" and "Real Love".

George helped Ringo out quite a bit, especially early on with "It Don't Come Easy", the "Ringo" LP and the "Stop and Smell the Roses" LP. George also played guitar on John's Imagine LP. George did not play on any Paul McCartney solo song.

Ringo worked with his former band mates the most. He played on John's LP "John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band" and Yoko's companion LP "Yoko Ono\Plastic Ono Band". He was on Paul's "Give My Regards to Broadstreet" and "Flaming Pie" LPs and he and his wife Barbara Bach also starred in the film "Give My Regards to Broadstreet". Ringo played on the first couple of George's LPs and George's comeback LP "Cloud Nine". Ringo also was in the "Concert for Bangla Desh" and Lennon was also going to perform without Yoko (as per George's wish) but Yoko got pissed so John backed out. Paul was asked but did not go due to hard feelings over the Beatles breakup.

One meeting between Paul and John occurred in 1974 when John was producing Harry Nilsson's #####cats LP. Paul stopped by the studio and sang a little (very little) and played Ringo's drums along with John, Stevie Wonder and few others (Ringo was not there). As tantalizing as it sounds it is really pretty awful as Lennon was stoned and they were just screwing around. There is a bootleg of it but it is not worth listening to.

 
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The cherry on top of the no Julian thing...closing with Hey Jude. Oof. I didn't expect to see him involved, but I didn't even seen him there. Have to assume they'd have shown him if he was, as ridiculous as they were with the asinine crowd shots. Hey look, there's some chick from the Big Bang Theory looking moved my Yellow Submarine! CBS and the producers totally blew would should have been a big night. Of course, Paul's band was great, and even Ringo delivered Matchox well and sounded good on drums. But ultimately, far too much concern for bland, current pop stars. Should have taken a page out of the Concert for George book.

 
General Tso said:
Interesting website called truthcontest. Calls the Beatles prophets. I found this piece of it to be pretty insightful. It's my favorite line in all of music and literature, and their spin on it is very interesting - completely different than I have always interpreted it:

The last line, in their last song medley, in the last album the Beatles released, Abbey Road, says it all. "Golden Slumbers," "Carry That Weight," "The End." It says, “And in the end the love you take, is equal to the love you make.”

In other words, the more love you take from life or accept from life, the more you will be able to make or reflect back to people. It is the most important thing to do. People think it means the more love you make, the more love you will take, but they have it backwards. You cannot make love; only God/life can make love. You can only let it in and reflect it back out. The more love you take, the more love you can make or reflect to other people.
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wasnt this a chris farley skit on SNL?

 
Apple Jack said:
The cherry on top of the no Julian thing...closing with Hey Jude. Oof. I didn't expect to see him involved, but I didn't even seen him there. Have to assume they'd have shown him if he was, as ridiculous as they were with the asinine crowd shots. Hey look, there's some chick from the Big Bang Theory looking moved my Yellow Submarine! CBS and the producers totally blew would should have been a big night. Of course, Paul's band was great, and even Ringo delivered Matchox well and sounded good on drums. But ultimately, far too much concern for bland, current pop stars. Should have taken a page out of the Concert for George book.
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Per Julian's web site:

February 3:

I'm currently away on assignment, on behalf of http://www.whitefeatherfoundation.com/ in Kenya & rural Ethiopia, visiting water, humanitarian & environmental projects with http://millenniumvillages.org/millenniumpromise/ and Charity: Water. If you'd like to learn more about our work, bringing clean drinking water to people in need, please visit http://www.charitywater.org/.

Also, if you're interested, I'll be posting photos, when possible, here at: http://instagram.com/julespicturepalace

I'll have very limited internet access until the week commencing February 17th.
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Julian has turned out to be a fine young man.

 
bicycle_seat_sniffer said:
General Tso said:
Interesting website called truthcontest. Calls the Beatles prophets. I found this piece of it to be pretty insightful. It's my favorite line in all of music and literature, and their spin on it is very interesting - completely different than I have always interpreted it:

The last line, in their last song medley, in the last album the Beatles released, Abbey Road, says it all. "Golden Slumbers," "Carry That Weight," "The End." It says, “And in the end the love you take, is equal to the love you make.”

In other words, the more love you take from life or accept from life, the more you will be able to make or reflect back to people. It is the most important thing to do. People think it means the more love you make, the more love you will take, but they have it backwards. You cannot make love; only God/life can make love. You can only let it in and reflect it back out. The more love you take, the more love you can make or reflect to other people.
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wasnt this a chris farley skit on SNL?
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That Chris Farley skit was hilarious.

 
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