That really surprises me, it's not like it is a rocket ship control panel.
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Beatles Let it Be movie
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As mentioned in the other thread on this The Beatles - "Get Back". An in-studio fly-on-the-wall documentary with the Fab-Four | Page 6 | TalkBass.com (maybe a merger is in order) I thought this all a fascinating and eye-opening experience, in so many ways.
A couple of things really stood out in part 3 for me.
Discussing doing the rooftop...once Ringo said he wanted to do it, that seemed to decide it.
On the rooftop, when Mal Evans turned off the guitar amps, George's defiance in turning back on saved the day.
A couple of things really stood out in part 3 for me.
Discussing doing the rooftop...once Ringo said he wanted to do it, that seemed to decide it.
On the rooftop, when Mal Evans turned off the guitar amps, George's defiance in turning back on saved the day.
That was my assumption as well. When we first see the Ric, paint intact, the strings were super wonky! He said it needed to be fixed. Then, it's gone, and we see it with the paint stripped later. I assume it was stripped when they worked on fixing the nut.
When Paul wanted to use this bass with Wings, he had to send it to Ric to basically have it completely refurbished as it was in really bad shape.
The story of that Ric, and the crazy high action on his Hofner, shows me Paul wasn't any good with the upkeep of his basses.
Haven't watched "Get Back" yet, but remember seeing "Let It Be" a few times when it came out. Would like to see that again, although remember it being pretty somber.
Don't know if I need to see 9+ hours of Beatles coming up with songs in a studio. Pretty amazing idea to write, record, and prepare enough songs for an album and a concert in a short time. To return to the bands roots, ditch the multitrack endless studio fixing, and do it as a bare bones rock band. Quite a project - and actually they suceeded!
But this is how they ended up creating songs in the latter half of their career. Endless studio time and money and they would come in and write songs. The studio was their home. Of course they all had home studios and recorded demos - that's pretty much how the White Album was made. But they wanted to get back to where they once belonged - to being a good lil' rock and roll band.
Some discussion about Macca's Ricky being refinished. This article (link below) is from later 1976 but talks about the professional Rick factory refurbishing preceeding the Wings Over America Tour by Mark Arnquist.
Mark Arnquist ended up living in Seattle working as a tech repair God at Amereican Music. In '80 he modded my P bass into a JPJ configuration using Seymour Duncan Quarter Pounders. Great guy!
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Don't know if I need to see 9+ hours of Beatles coming up with songs in a studio. Pretty amazing idea to write, record, and prepare enough songs for an album and a concert in a short time. To return to the bands roots, ditch the multitrack endless studio fixing, and do it as a bare bones rock band. Quite a project - and actually they suceeded!
But this is how they ended up creating songs in the latter half of their career. Endless studio time and money and they would come in and write songs. The studio was their home. Of course they all had home studios and recorded demos - that's pretty much how the White Album was made. But they wanted to get back to where they once belonged - to being a good lil' rock and roll band.
Some discussion about Macca's Ricky being refinished. This article (link below) is from later 1976 but talks about the professional Rick factory refurbishing preceeding the Wings Over America Tour by Mark Arnquist.
Mark Arnquist ended up living in Seattle working as a tech repair God at Amereican Music. In '80 he modded my P bass into a JPJ configuration using Seymour Duncan Quarter Pounders. Great guy!
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I suspect you could say that about many, if not most musicians of that era.
Something I noticed watching 2 episodes so far..guitar stands weren't invented yet, don't see one anywhere.
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I'm startled they didn't have a guitar tech on hand. Either at Abbey Road or on the Wing's tours.
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Different times I guess…
Cause that's Ringo. When Paul jumped on the drums at one point, Ringo went and started trying to play his bass, upside down. Paul even got off the drums and tried to show him how to play something. Upside down!
What I've taken away is that they were all pretty good friends. They seem exactly the same as any band of friends that has been together for a while. I also kind of realized that a lot of Beatles "experts" take that stuff way to serious and literal. It was really cool to watch the way that they write and realize that it's not that far off from most other bands. They just happened to be way better at it than most bands.
I definitely feel like at some point they would have gotten back together. After watching this it makes me sure of it.
I definitely feel like at some point they would have gotten back together. After watching this it makes me sure of it.
I'm sure they did have people, maybe not right there, but you have to care that your instrument needs adjustments and repairs in order for that to all work. I don't thing The Beatles cared too much. Listening to their albums, they certainly didn't bother to have the guitars, or basses properly intonated.
That's a 5 string that came much later. He certainly didn't have that back in the day!
Yes, I know...cropped the photo to see how many people would say "That's George!" or "That's John!"
