re: Beatles Get Back trailer. Airs on Disney+ November 25 in 3 parts

Finished episode three today. Loved it. I jotted down some of my thoughts as I was watching it.

It’s cool seeing George stop what he’s doing to go help Ringo with Octapus’s Garden. And even though he helped him write it, it was credited to only Ringo. And I can’t imagine how exciting it was for Ringo to bring a song and it make an album. I think he had two solo credits in their entire catalogue. You can really tell that George and Ringo may have been the two closest Beatles.

Old Brown Shoe. Another example that George’s songs were not up to snuff with J&P’s (at this time at least).

John is fricking hilarious.

I love that they keep doing take after take of Get Back and everybody wants to move on but they keep wanting to do it again.

It’s interesting to hear John talk about Allen Klein knowing everything that’s coming with that dude. And interesting that Glyn Johns basically was warning John about him and John says basically that he’s a conman but at least he’d be on their side.

The conversation about the songs where Paul is making his points about doing a film rehearsal or George making an album, it’s very telling. And you can tell several things. Paul wants to lead but it also honestly seems like he tries to not be overbearing. John has sort of checked out. He keeps saying how tired he is but he’s the one staying up all night every night doing random shite (and not writing songs). And you can kinda tell that Paul is frustrated with John not pulling his weight.

There’s George talking about all of the songs he has that he wants to record. ATMP was definitely his creative outlet for all the songs he had building up inside of him. And I agree that had they been like “okay, let’s all go do our own solo stuff and reconvene every five years for new Beatles shite” the world would’ve been much better.

The concert is amazing. It’s crazy how good they sound live. And you can tell they (at least Paul and John) are really enjoying it. Paul was right that they perform their best when their backs are against the wall and they just have to shut up and perform. And I loved all the spliced in video of onlookers, each Beatle, policemen, etc.

I did feel kinda bad for the police dudes. Hahaa. But come on, dude, it’s the fricking Beatles performing live. Just relax a little and give them half an hour before you shut them down. Mal and the receptionist going back and forth stalling with them was great.

It was hilarious when Mal reaches over and starts turning off their amps because of the police, and George just calmly reaches back and turns his back on and keeps playing.

What’s weird is that some of the songs where it said “this version appears on the Let It Be album” didn’t sound like the actual versions on the album (unless the torrented albums I got years ago are not the original versions).

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Boy was I dumbass calling this out as yet another documentary.

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I think this shows tells more about the dynamic between them that anything we have ever seen.

Especially how they crafted so many amazing songs in such a short time and how good there really where in the studio and live.

Losing Brian Epstein (mentioned early in the doc) really was the beginning of the end when they didn't have a 3rd party to manage the egos. Elvis was the first one to go threw any close to what they went threw in the "new TV era" he was a solo act.

Seeing this makes what the Stones have done just that much more amazing.

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The concert is amazing. It's crazy how good they sound live. And you can tell they (at least Paul and John) are really enjoying it.

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My eyes actually watered up, for multiple reasons: vicariously feeling their absolute joy in getting to perform live again, me getting to watch the Beatles perform live again, and me realizing this was their last time ever performing live together.

just finished part 1. Loko sitting in on every session is annoying AF.

the song writing of Lennon/McCartney is incredible.

they smoke a LOT of cigarettes.

Ringo may be the smartest Beatle, he just stayed hung out and played when it was time.

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My eyes actually watered up, for multiple reasons: vicariously feeling their absolute joy in getting to perform live again, me getting to watch the Beatles perform live again, and me realizing this was their last time ever performing live together.

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Man, I got VERY emotional several times throughout all the episodes. You could tell these guys knew each other as well as the back of their hands, and the “love” for each other is subtle, but it’s there. The “Beatles” was the sum of these four individuals and that they created something their individual selves could not do as well is undeniable.

I like Harrison’s earlier music and some of his All Things Must Pass set. His music seems to me to be a lot of 7th chords or minor 7th chords…but definitely a lot of minor chords and they sound more “bluesy” to me. His stuff was more complex than L&M and watching them go through the All Things Must Pass song made me think that John and Paul were struggling to do the chord work. They could do it, don’t get me wrong, but I don’t think either of them wanted to labor that hard to make music. George was coming into his own style.

I personally think Something and Here Comes The Sun are the best songs on Abby Road.

I love what Peter Jackson did with this. It needs to win an Emmy or an Oscar. These episodes and that final concert made them human…yet very much the myth that grew after they parted ways.

shite and frick. I wish like HELL they had agreed to regroup every several years to make a Beatles album. I absolutely KNOW that album would have transcended anything they did individually. That’s a reason I got emotional. They could have done that.

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they smoke a LOT of cigarettes.

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Lol, my wife and I successfully quit smoking last December. We both had been smoking for around 35 - 40 years. We both had Covid and just got tired of it and threw our packs away.

I told her I felt like I was getting cancer from just watching them smoke!

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their favorite George song

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Cocomo: Here Comes The Sun

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FWIW, I don't have a favorite George song. If I had to choose, I guess it'd be between Here Comes the Sun and Something though, depending on my mood.

I really, really like While My Guitar Gently Weeps and think it's one of his best songs overall. But it does take a little away for me knowing that it's Clapton that stands out on that song, above the singing, the lyrics, the playing, etc. So while it's definitely one of my favorite George songs, I wouldn't pick it for that reason.

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You could tell these guys knew each other as well as the back of their hands, and the "love" for each other is subtle, but it's there.

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Fvck, I can't recall the songs now, but John was noting to Paul the ying-yang of the songs each had written, "You wrote Get Back and I wrote (??? something about going away, I forget) " then says something to the effect of "we are thinking about topics so alike, people might think we're sleeping together." They were definitely Brothers-from-another-Mother.

Speaking of which, Paul's mother died (Mother Mary from Let It Be, btw) when he was 14. John's mother died when he was 17. I am certain these tragedies/coping-with-loss helped strengthen bond between these two. It also helps explain the maturity in their early lyrics (Help!, Yesterday, In My Life, etc..) that you wouldn't ever expect from teenage-early 20s Boy Band.

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Billy Preston

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Yeah, they stepped up their effort significantly when Billy arrived. From random-song/half-assed jamming to actually actually working on songs for the album. Kind of like kids acting on their best behavior when a guest arrives.

Yea true enough, I just think the Twickenham start really had everyone out of sync, I don't think John was late much after the move, it felt like everyone preferred being there. John even says at one point it feels like home.