UTCzech III

Just some random thoughts, observations, maybe a little trivia... Watched parts 1 and 2 the past two nights, am saving part 3 for tomorrow. I'm also a super fan, have easily over 100 bootlegs of the Beatles and solo members. I have the Nagra tapes, I've listened to them, all 95+ hours of them. They are a slog to get through. The doc has really fleshed these out though, allowing me to put a visual to a lot of what I've heard over the years. And definitely the conversations are a lot clearer here than on the Nagra tapes. I'm loving it, my son and I watched both parts, he was ready last night for part 2 after the "cliffhanger" of part 1... He's a guitar player too and was really digging John's Epiphone Casino. Some observations: I really feel that this is (to me) not indicative of their normal recording process, Paul and John are clearly playing it up for the camera, John especially, just really hamming it up, I don't think the Abbey Road sessions were probably conducted this way. Ringo and George both seem really annoyed but the cameras, rather George does, I think Ringo is bored with all the TV show/location etc talk, he seems to me like he just wants to play, let the others sort all this shit out, the ultimate musicians' musician. Have really grown in my respect and love for Ringo over the years (I'm telling you right now - no more autographs! Peace and love! Peace and love!) When John and Paul are talking in the canteen, unaware that they are being recorded, you hear a much more serious, candid discussion. When they are in front of the cameras, discussing where to perform, or when John remarks on how this was Paul's number (the whole movie/tv show idea etc) but now it's become all of their number and they've taken away Paul's grandiose ideas, you can see Paul eyeing the camera, and just kind of shrugging off John, agreeing with him, when I'm sure he had much more to say but didn't want to air it in public. I'm sure the meetings at George's house were much more animated and raw than what we see in Twickenham. Although we are getting an intimate look at the Beatles, I'm not sure it is a totally accurate one, but somewhat of a facade. The sessions are so unstructured, that had a lot to do with it. Even though George Martin is listed as producer and shows up in the film, he was rarely there, he left it to Glyn Johns to run the recordings, and Glyn is not going to step in and tell the Beatles that they need to get cracking, as George Martin would have (and did a time or two in the doc when he was there). He assumed after the Get Back sessions that he would never work with them again. That's the reason Abbey Road is so Immaculate, because after the fiasco of the Get Back sessions, they asked George if he would help on their next album, he agreed on the terms that they go back to EMI and "do it the way we used to" with him in charge. John is so fucking strung out on heroin in these sessions. The day that Peter Sellers stopped by, John is high as a fucking kite, just google the Canadian interview he and Yoko did right before that, just search for "Two Junkies". One of the reasons Peter left so quickly is because John began talking about needles and getting high. Go back and watch John just staring at the camera, eyes never blinking. Spooky, and he's so damn pale. A lot of the songs that appear to be created in the studio were in fact rejects from earlier times. There is a clip on the White Album 50th Anniv. box set of Paul performing "Let It Be", the melody is more of a jam, but the lyrics are already beginning to percolate. Same for "Long and Winding Road", a demo was recorded during the summer of 68 and given to Tom Jones as a pitch, but he didn't want it. "Get Back", however, wow! That's totally organic, we get to see that song being born. And it is amazing that as huge artists as they were, and how albums were really coming into their own for all rock artists, the single still ruled the day. George remarks that it's been a whole 5 months since their last single, "Hey Jude", and that they could have "Get Back" recorded, mixed, mastered and out in a week. The public (and record companies) were a fickle lot back then. No 2/3 years between albums back then... Man, you could really tell how pissed George was getting, after he came back, and John and Paul began slagging the Maharishi and their trip to India. To them it was a joke, to George, that was his life at the time, I'm really surprised he didn't walk out again. I fucking love Mal. Such a big teddy bear. He did so much for them, I knew he was their main roadie and body guard, but hell, writing down lyrics as they are being created, I never knew he did that, that's a big job. And hell, he helped Paul write "Long and Winding Road", he offered some great lyric suggestions ("standing" instead of "waiting"). Man, were these guys some smoking fools. Really surprised Paul or Ringo haven't turned out like George. Someone upthread mentioned how they were able to cobble Let It Be together, They didn't cobble shit, they didn't want anything to do with it after they were done. Tey gave all the tapes to Glyn Johns and said, here, you figure it out. Johns did a fucking hell of a job, He's the one that picked out the takes used on the album and inserted all the little sound bites in between. There's a Glyn Johns 1st and 2nd mix of Get Back (as it was originally called), search them out if you can (the 2nd mix is included in the Let It Be box set that just came out). Phil Spector just took Johns' mix and added strings to it. Need to go back and watch the first two parts a few more times, lots of stuff I am forgetting. I finally got smart and put the subtitles/closed caption on for part 2, need to go back and watch part 1 with the captions on, a lot of those conversations are so low or have so many people talking at once that it's hard to make a lot of it out. I'm blown away so far, can't wait for the full rooftop concert (at least I've heard the full 30 minutes is supposed to be shown, I hope so...)

I actually had already toasted the bread in the skillet with butter/bacon grease I used to brown the turkey patty/onions/egg, but I have done the mayo instead of butter trick before.

Had a lone turkey burger in the back of the freezer, so scrounged the fridge, instant patty melt, with an egg on top since why not

I haven't LOL'd in a long time, that did it, what a maroon...

Surprised this one (the commercial I mean... no racist) hasn't show up yet since it's almost Christmas.

Why not? Have we won since this? Fucker cursed DKR. Now we need a live rooster, etc, etc...

A few from my youth, back when KILT 610 AM ruled the airwaves...

Paul Simon - American Tune

A few from the early 80's. These next two came out within months of each other, and they are always linked in my mind, probably from hearing them on the radio at the same time:

I'll let the Donnie Iris slide, although he did have a follow up: And technically, he had a huge hit in the 70's, although as a member of this group (he wrote the song):

Can he go one day without getting owned?

Some info LINK My brother used to live right behind it in those apartments on Music Lane, nice area (well used to be anyway)

Shannon Brewing Coconut Coffee Stout

Texas Beer Co. Pecos Amber

Cleaning out the beer fridge, picked this up over the summer on vacation, good stuff

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I made it as far as “peak” under the hood…

Produced by Pete Townshend, who also plays bass on it, and featuring a very young Jimmy McCullouch on guitar, who would go on to play in Wings (that's his scorching guitar in Junior's Farm...)

Funny, I just scanned a bunch of my ticket stubs a month ago... A couple are from other venues, just included them all... A few random thoughts: Roger Waters 1985 - still one of the best concerts I ever saw, on my 19th birthday, went to the Union bowling alley, bought my first legal beers, then headed over for the show, mindblowing Supertramp 1985 - surprisingly great show, even without Roger Hodgson, the Motels opened up, nice little pop band as well, bought my tickets at the Tower Records (is that right, the big giant record store, not Record Exchange, that's right, before it was Sound Exchange, it was Record Exchange), got to the other side of campus, tickets were gone, rode the loop bus back around, there they were just laying on the sidewalk next to the Union, I guess nobody else was a Tramp fan back then... Roger Waters 1987 - took my girlfriend (now wife) to this one, she still raves that it's the best concert she's ever seen, I remember Welcome to the Machine and the bass shaking the entire Drum Boston 1987 - man what a snoozefest, Tom Scholz is a musical genius but Mr. Exictement he was not Floyd 1987 - besides being insanely good, then thing I remember is that at the Roger Waters show two months before, there were two drunk a-holes from Taylor (my wife knew them from high school) in the row in front of us yelling the whole damn show, fast forward two months, what two a-holes are seated in the same section as us at Floyd? yep, imagine the luck U2 1987 - top 5 concert for me ever, I have a theory, right before U2 went on stage, I remember distinctly being hit with just a wall of heat, either they told the FEC to turn the heaters on or turn the AC off, probably neither and it was just me, I think they wanted the audience to be as worked up and sweaty as they were, just my imagination probably, but man what a show, Bullet the Blue Sky is an all-time high for me Sting - yawn Springsteen - great show but weird seeing him come out in a suit, what a weird time for him VH - good show, too many guitar solos, I'm a DLR guy, but it was OK Robert Plant, David Bowie - great to see legends, but nothing groundbreaking, just two pros doing what they know how to do AC/DC - went with my brother, one of the last times we went to a show together, what a night, those guys just put on a fantastic show, that's what rock and roll is all about Neil Young - with Booker T and the MGs backing, Steve the Colonel Cropper, Donald Duck Dunn, fuckin kicked ass, especially when they did Sittin on the Dock of the Bay Johnny Cash - what can I say, it's John Cash, Don Walser and Jimmie Dale Gilmore opened, fuck, even June Carter Cash and the Carter kids coming out for the gospel/Branson spectacle at the end couldn't ruin that night A few others I lost or misplaced stubs to, these all with my son, Rush 2008, Roger Waters 2012, Macca 2013, all just incredible, especially when you can share them with your kid(s) Oh, and don't forget to get your free Taco Bell taco after the show!

Was gonna be biscuits with sausage gravy til I started cooking and realized the wife bought eye-talian styled sausage, jeezus. Luckily had some hamburger meat, so SOS it is

Exactly, it's ripped straight from "Baby Let's Play House". See also George Jones' "I'm Gonna Burn Your Playhouse Down"

Pretty sure Jimbo has told her to pound sand since he doesn't need her anymore. Anyway, you'd have to fight Norman for that BJ...

Also love the fact that she changed her Twitter handle from JimboLover or Jimbo's NumberOne Fan or whatever bullshit it was last week to Karen and Norman. She's even ashamed of her lover boy now.

she has, she's posted plenty of pics over the past few months on Twitter that any reasonable creepy internet person could figure it out, down to the exact house (not that I did that of course...) Let's just say she's definitely back home in her white trash element...

From the end of a long week FIGHT!