The Beatles (Group & Solo)

[RRA]

Potpouri, anything goes generalized thread for the Fab Four, pre and post split.

Anyway this was published online the other day.

Deep Cuts: Forgotten solo gems from the Beatles’ Ringo Starr

http://somethingelsereviews.com/2012...s-ringo-starr/

What comes to mind for me is that one track they didn't cite is one that I actually pick as among my favorite solo Beatle songs, top 10. I remember the old Beatles fan podcast Fab Fourum recommending it and I gave it a chance. Incredibly obscure, even among Beatles fans perhaps because this was released in the late 70s when Ringo's solo career was pretty much over and his label dropped him. For all the shit Ringo gets, I love this song.

[Eternal]

I think this is one of the best of group. Perhpas it was The Quarrymen when they recorded this. too bad they didn't record this lately with high quality.

[RRA]

That was recorded by the Quarrymen in 1958 (according to wikipedia.) I think we're lucky to actually have that important historical document considering they only made one copy (remember it was a bunch of kids in a garade band doing a quote on quote "record") and the Beatles themselves only got the recording back in the 80s when one of the Quarrymen who still had that copy tried to sell it at auction and McCartney changed his mind with a big check. I'm sure the reason it wasn't re-recorded later was that either (A) they didn't think much of it beyond an early amateur effort, or (B) they forgot/lost the lyrics.

[Eternal]

I first discovered "In spite of all the danger" for myself in Nowhere Boy.

This song is also great but it is also just studio tape. It is from Fly on the Wall bonus disc from Let it Be...Naked album:

[Harv]

Turns out those previously unseen color Beatles photos that just turned up were not from their first NY visit in `64 but were from a Los Angeles visit during their tour
later that year.

http://www.laobserved.com/archive/20...atles_phot.php

[RRA]

This song is also great but it is also just studio tape. It is from Fly on the Wall bonus disc from Let it Be...Naked album:

Of the many outtakes and alternate tracks the Beatles cranked out (many quite good), one automatically comes to mind that they should've released: George Harrison's "Not Guilty." Supposed to been on the White Album, but failed to make the cut for whatever reason. (Maybe doing 102 takes just soured everybody?) Pity since this knowledge is my own knawing complaint against an otherwise classic album. Harrison would later re-record and release this on his (pretty good) self-titled solo album in 1979.

[RRA]

Alledgedly as part of his solo catalogue reissues, McCartney this year will do the 1970s concert album WINGS ACROSS AMERICA. (or VENUS & MARS?) His fans are hoping he also finally remasters and releases the concert movie of that WOA tour on DVD/Blu-Ray. A time from when his concerts weren't Beatles Greatest Hits, he only played a handful Beatle songs. (But jesus christ, women and mullets don't go together.)

[Eternal]

If I am not mistaken there is a tape of Lennon ad Mccartney singing together in 1970s, no? But I couldn't find it anywhere.

[RRA]

If I am not mistaken there is a tape of Lennon ad Mccartney singing together in 1970s, no? But I couldn't find it anywhere.

You might be thinking of "A Toot and a Snore in '74," a bootleg where indeed they both jammed together when Paul and Linda dropped in (w/ other musical folks) to visit Lennon at the studio in L.A. (producing Harry Nilsson's album PUSSY CATS.) Lennon is on lead vocal and guitar, while McCartney sings harmony and plays drums. Stevie Wonder sings and plays electric piano, Linda on organ, Lennon's assistant/mistress May Pang on tambourine, Harry Nilsson provides vocals, Jesse Ed Davis is on guitar, Ed Freeman, who was producing Don McLean in the neighboring studio, fills in on bass, Bobby Keys plays saxophone. (source: Wikipedia)

Highlight: John asks Stevie if he wants "a snort." (Lennon by accounts was coked up that night.)

[Eternal]

You might be thinking of "A Toot and a Snore in '74," a bootleg where indeed they both jammed together when Paul and Linda dropped in (w/ other musical folks) to visit Lennon at the studio in L.A. (producing Harry Nilsson's album PUSSY CATS.) Lennon is on lead vocal and guitar, while McCartney sings harmony and plays drums. Stevie Wonder sings and plays electric piano, Linda on organ, Lennon's assistant/mistress May Pang on tambourine, Harry Nilsson provides vocals, Jesse Ed Davis is on guitar, Ed Freeman, who was producing Don McLean in the neighboring studio, fills in on bass, Bobby Keys plays saxophone. (source: Wikipedia)

Highlight: John asks Stevie if he wants "a snort." (Lennon by accounts was coked up that night.)

Thanks. I guess it is what I was searching.

[RRA]

Sorry Girls, He's Married

(My parents watched this, true story. So did 73 million other people.)

[Harv]

The Ed Sullivan Beatles episodes on DVD is a must... even has the original commercials (and a young Davy Jones).

There's also a Rolling Stones Sullivan collection available too that is really cool...

[RRA]

The Ed Sullivan Beatles episodes on DVD is a must... even has the original commercials (and a young Davy Jones).

There's also a Rolling Stones Sullivan collection available too that is really cool...

I've rented them before, and I agree completely. Not just for Beatles fans, but watching history unfold and you can witness the end of Elvis and the proper beginning of the 60s.

~Specially poignant during that moment when Elvis sent them a telegram. Neither party knew this was a symbolic passing of the torch.

[Eternal]

Someone heard anything new about the time travel film about the group?

[RRA]

Someone heard anything new about the time travel film about the group?

If you mean GET BACK, I've not heard jack about it in many years. I seem to remember Jason Lee was going to play Lennon (eh?) back then.

Pity because the pitch of Beatles fans going back to 1969 and try to rewrite history seemed like an intriguing one.

[Eternal]

If you mean GET BACK, I've not heard jack about it in many years. I seem to remember Jason Lee was going to play Lennon (eh?) back then.

Pity because the pitch of Beatles fans going back to 1969 and try to rewrite history seemed like an intriguing one.

Yes. In 2011 news reported that they will start filming late summer 2011. But then I didn't hear anything about it.

[RRA]

Interesting anniversary: This month 25 years ago, the music video for the George Harrison single "Got My Mind Set on You" (from his album CLOUD NINE) premiered on MTV.

George's 3rd (and final) #1 hit, and in fact the last #1 for any of the Beatles.

[Gregory]

The odd thing is that almost all of McCartney's best post-Beatle songs have been released since 1990, but they have never gotten much airplay. I'll have more to say on this at a later date, but for anyone who is interested, check out on YouTube such rarely played songs as "Hope of Deliverance," "Young Boy," "If You Wanna," "Lonely Road," "Follow Me," "Calico Skies," "Too Much Rain," " House of Wax," and, above all, "Dance Till We're high," a song whose brilliant joy (and I mean that) usually takes several listens to sink in fully (it exists in the regular album version and in an extended version as well). They are all from a variety of albums and there are other fine songs, too, though these really stand out.

[RRA]

The odd thing is that almost all of McCartney's best post-Beatle songs have been released since 1990, but they have never gotten much airplay. I'll have more to say on this at a later date, but for anyone who is interested, check out on YouTube such rarely played songs as "Hope of Deliverance," "Young Boy," "If You Wanna," "Lonely Road," "Follow Me," "Calico Skies," "Too Much Rain," " House of Wax," and, above all, "Dance Till We're high," a song whose brilliant joy (and I mean that) usually takes several listens to sink in fully (it exists in the regular album version and in an extended version as well). They are all from a variety of albums and there are other fine songs, too, though these really stand out.

I'll quabble with that statement considering (IMO) he's done alot of winners before 1990, but I will agree that his work 1990s and beyond are ignored or obscure as hell. Which is unfortunately the price for having a very rich legacy of classics and hits (more hits than Pete Rose) with both the Beatles and on his own. That's alot of good picks, I would also add from this era "Only Mama Knows," "The Songs We Were Singing," "The World Tonight," "The End of the End," "Riding to Vanity Fair," his rock n roll-licious cover of "All Shook Up" all come immediately to mind for me. That last one wasn't the single for RUN DEVIL RUN (a mistake IMO), but the single picked was still pretty good. I always assumed Paul picked it because of his own personal circumstances during that period after his first wife died and it reflected his mood.

[Gregory]

I did not include any mention of the rock 'n roll album, though I absolutely should have. All three of the original songs are solid or better than solid, and the covers are sometimes inspired, as you note. My favorite of the latter is "No Other Baby," which was a minor hit for two different bands in the mid-to-late fifties, but which McCartney slows down to a rock ballad, improving it enormously over the originals. I believe it is the only cover the Beatles together or separately have recorded that is on the same plane as "Twist and Shout." Though "Words of Love" came close--it might be the finest example of how perfectly Lennon and McCartney's voices could harmonize.