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Post by Vale on Oct 8, 2019 5:38:14 GMT -5
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Post by pendlewitch on Oct 9, 2019 12:25:23 GMT -5
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Post by Al S on Oct 9, 2019 15:47:44 GMT -5
Just checked the inside of an old kettle in the shed, but alas, no “Inside Pop” reels to be seen. But, glass half full, I instead found inside; a paper clip; and a Kool mint that tasted a bit like a mothball (or vice versa?).
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2019 18:54:42 GMT -5
I just found some run of the mill type stuff like the missing frames of the Zapruder film, and a photo of Jim Morrison and Elvis hanging out on a beach dated 1985, that's all.
I'll keep looking.....
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Post by Mikie on Oct 9, 2019 21:34:29 GMT -5
I just found some run of the mill type stuff like the missing frames of the Zapruder film, and a photo of Jim Morrison and Elvis hanging out on a beach dated 1985, that's all. I'll keep looking..... Missing frames of the Zapruder film? Last I heard, all frames of the film are accounted for at the National Archives. I know, I know, you were kidding. By the way, for the past 56 years, Oswald has been rolling over in his grave laughing at all the conspiracy theories. |
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Post by Mikie on Oct 9, 2019 21:36:22 GMT -5
Too bad this wasn't found a little sooner so it could be included in the recent "8 Days A Week" film. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2019 20:02:20 GMT -5
I just found some run of the mill type stuff like the missing frames of the Zapruder film, and a photo of Jim Morrison and Elvis hanging out on a beach dated 1985, that's all. I'll keep looking..... Missing frames of the Zapruder film? Last I heard, all frames of the film are accounted for at the National Archives. I know, I know, you were kidding. Yes, yes, it was a joke, Andrew! Er….I mean Mikie!  |
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Post by sneakypete77 on Oct 11, 2019 9:04:42 GMT -5
It failed to sell, not even reaching its reserve price. Having seen the excerpt shown on BBC TV I can't say I'm that surprised.
It seemed to be the standard generic 60s interview with the Fabs just being the Fabs, nothing much separating it from everything else we've seen from that period. Couldn't have persuaded me to part with ten thousand Sovs, even if I'd had them. |
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Post by Will/P.P. on Oct 11, 2019 13:10:27 GMT -5
It failed to sell, not even reaching its reserve price. Having seen the excerpt shown on BBC TV I can't say I'm that surprised.
It seemed to be the standard generic 60s interview with the Fabs just being the Fabs, nothing much separating it from everything else we've seen from that period. Couldn't have persuaded me to part with ten thousand Sovs, even if I'd had them. The first, 1965, clip they describe I have either: Remember from 1965. Have seen the clip on a boot DVD (there are loads of them out there). Or, have heard on a boot, vinyl most likely. Apple can not stop all the interview tapes from being put on boots.
Ringo talking about their next movie being a Western is commonly known, he must have said it more than once if nothing else. Cowboy gear was one of their styles in 1965. I've definitely heard them break into "There's No Business Like Show Business".
The clip of John playing "God" sounds interesting. Do they mean while he was still with The Beatles? Did you see any of that excerpt? Whatever - all of them will soon be found on youtube!  I have it on a vinyl bootleg, but Yoko recently prevented the use of another John performance of a song from his first album he had written and recorded while in the group during the Abbey Road sessions. John, Paul, and of course George, had left-over songs from their Beatles days that were put on solo albums.
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Post by sneakypete77 on Oct 12, 2019 4:39:16 GMT -5
Sorry Will, no footage of Lennon's 'God', but as you say it'll turn up eventually. I'm thinking that if there was much merit to it then surely Yoko would have bid; ten grand would be loose change to her.
And McCartney loves to keep teasing with promises to release Carnival of Light. If it's actually anything like the bogus versions up on YouTube then I could probably stand the first two minutes. I have a sneaking suspicion that if and when we do finally hear it, it will sound oddly like Revolution#9 backwards. If he really wants the world to hear it then put the bloody thing out, the only copy is probably on his bookshelf at home so what's the problem? I'm guessing that copyright matters with Ringo and the other Fabs' estates shouldn't be an insurmountable hurdle. But what if it's just not that good?
Hey, and Ringo's just popped up too in the last 24 hours:
Abbey Road has this week returned to the top of the UK album charts following an absence of 49 years and 252 days, thereby setting a new Guiness World Record. I thought the new release might do well, but sheesh.
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Post by Will/P.P. on Oct 12, 2019 15:33:27 GMT -5
Sorry Will, no footage of Lennon's 'God', but as you say it'll turn up eventually. I'm thinking that if there was much merit to it then surely Yoko would have bid; ten grand would be loose change to her.
And McCartney loves to keep teasing with promises to release Carnival of Light. If it's actually anything like the bogus versions up on YouTube then I could probably stand the first two minutes. I have a sneaking suspicion that if and when we do finally hear it, it will sound oddly like Revolution#9 backwards. If he really wants the world to hear it then put the bloody thing out, the only copy is probably on his bookshelf at home so what's the problem? I'm guessing that copyright matters with Ringo and the other Fabs' estates shouldn't be an insurmountable hurdle. But what if it's just not that good?
Hey, and Ringo's just popped up too in the last 24 hours:
Abbey Road has this week returned to the top of the UK album charts following an absence of 49 years and 252 days, thereby setting a new Guiness World Record. I thought the new release might do well, but sheesh.
Paul doesn't tease me with anything 'cause I stopped listening to even interviews after Kisses On the Bottom. Never have I given up on an artist that meant so much to me in the past. I totally support his releasing old stuff, but his new music isn't worth a youtube check. I hear enough on the radio to know to stay away. A lot of that is due to his band, but he doesn't write or sing very well anymore, either. Like Brian should, Paul should stop touring, now (no pun intended). I can only take so much of butchering the old catalogue (no pun intended).
Paul hasn't played with a group of interesting musicians since that Super Group he put together for Run Devil Run (a fantastic record) in 1999, and to play the PETA show, the Cavern gig and Parkinson's chat show. I liked Working Classical, too. Then it all went sideways. Who knows? Linda, then George dying, meeting Heather, take your pick. Driving Rain, his worst album ever. Then the decision to re-do every Beatles song live, even the ones he didn't write. That got tired quick. The back in the u.s. concert film DVD (2002) - I've played that only a few times - what went wrong? Bad album; bad tour. The 2004 Russian shows, Red Square and St. Petersburg's Square are my favorite of them - the Glastonbury show, certainly not. He should have stopped right there. Compare those to the shows from 1989 thru 1993 to see what a difference ten years can make.
Chaos And Creation In the Backyard gave Paul a bounce in the studio, but he looked like a caricature at the G8 Concert. He may have well been one of the Pepper's bobbling-heads. Things only got worse when I got the The Space Within Us DVD (2006). Memory Almost Full had some good music buried underneath the loudness war presentation his new ear-bud fans wanted. I bought that one a second time as a Deluxe version, but that also should be held up in court as an example of how some Cds can't be played on a big speaker system. Fatigue sets in.
Fatigue of another kind set-in after I watched Good Evening New York City DVD (2009). Basically the same Beatles set he is playing these days. The Ed Sullivan theater/Letterman Show promo he did was interesting enough to get me to buy this DVD, but I've only played it once. Got to be too much to pay for something I was not watching/listening to.
Since then, it's all about tossing bones to the old fans with real memory releases of Deluxe album boxes and the wonderful The McCartney Years DVD set. Paul was a great artist, but was is all that is left.
Ringo and Paul's little Birthday surprise for John is okay, but not the same as it was in the hands of John. One of his very best late-day numbers. He could still string bells around the other Beatles when he had his heart in it. A happy way to end this.
Looking back with love:
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Post by sneakypete77 on Oct 14, 2019 6:44:53 GMT -5
Thanks Will, for an illuminating and forthright critique of McCartney's solo output, and also for those clips which are new to me. I am in no way qualified to make any serious contribution to this, because I don't own any of his solo albums (Jeez, is it really seventeen of them?). To be honest, it was always Julia who was the enthusiastic Beatles fan in our house but as for their individual efforts they never did gel with her, and she called a halt after Shaved Fish. Like me, her favourite was usually Lennon, but as that hoary old cliche goes, she believed that the whole was always far greater than the sum of its parts, particularly where that band was concerned.
I followed them as a kid, buying their singles and LPs with pocket money, until I was seduced by Pet Sounds in 1966, which was the real game changer. Living in a world of media saturation it's difficult to avoid catching the odd appearance of McCartney performing on such as talk shows, but even someone with an unbiased opinion of him can't fail to see that his singing voice is now shot to buggery. It might be just me, but I also can't dismiss the notion that this is more noticeable during his own, perhaps lesser known material, and he steps up a gear when he gets on to vintage Beatles songs. But even then he can sound woeful. I can fully appreciate why die-hard fans pay considerable sums to see him in concert, because they are there to witness the man, the living legend and they are ready to forgive any shortcomings in the vocal department. Sounds depressingly like someone else we all know and love.......
Like I said, I've never been a follower of McCartney the solo artist, so it's probably best to leave this open to those who can express more expert and valid opinions.
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I have it on a vinyl bootleg, but Yoko recently prevented the use of another John performance of a song from his first album he had written and recorded while in the group during the Abbey Road sessions. John, Paul, and of course George, had left-over songs from their Beatles days that were put on solo albums.