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Location: closely held secret | I'm sorry, Brad. Really, I am. It's an compulsive thing, I guess. I was much to into these things when they were happening.
'Most' of "Let It Be" was recorded before the "Abbey Road" sessions, for a documentary film of them recording 'live' in the studio, originally titled "Get Back" (an attempt to recreate the live feeling).
Unfortunately the 'studio' was a Twickenham film studio sound stage, which was huge, cold, and they all hated. Throw into the mix the fact that there was a lot of infighting going on and Yoko attended (the first spouse to do so) it wasn't a great situation.
The film got shelved along with most of the tracks until after "Abbey Road" is completed.
It could even be argued that "Abbey Road" was thier 3rd to last album, considering the "Hey Jude" album had material recorded during the "Abbey Road" sessions, but was released after.
01/02/69 Start of 'Let It Be' rehearsal sessions (filmed).
01/16/69 End of 'let It Be' rehearsal sessions.
01/20/69 'Let It Be' shooting moves to a new studio at Apple.
Sometime in early 02/69 Paul convinces George Martin to produce an album 'the way we used to do it'.
02/22/69 Start of 'Abbey Road' sessions.
08/26/69 End of 'Abbey Road' sessions.
10/01/69 US Release of 'Abbey Road'.
01/03/70 Studio work resumes on 'Let It Be'. 'I Me Mine' last song recorded by the Beatles.
02/26/70 US release of "Hey Jude" lp.
04/02/70 Mixing completed on 'Let It Be'.
05/13/70 World premier of 'Let It Be' in New York.
05/18/70 US release of 'Let It Be' lp.
I'm sorry. It's a sickness, really it is. I am to be pitied.
EDIT: I would defintely agree that "Abbey Road" should be remembered as the Beatles final album. While the "Let It Be" sessions were riddled with accusations, bad feelings and general disgust with the whole situation (very obvious in the film), everything I've read about the "Abbey Road" sessions truly pictures it as 'the way it used to be' - talented musicians, outstanding songwriting, amazing production, cooperation... everything that made them great in the first place. |
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Location: ms | Well thats it for me.Waskel having a humble moment,saying hes sorry!I`m moving to the Taylor site.... |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Summer of 1969, Mark moves from wilderness of North Dakota to the relative civilization of western Kansas and asks, "What beatles?" |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by gulfcoast:
Well thats it for me.Waskel having a humble moment,saying hes sorry!I`m moving to the Taylor site.... Ouch.
We'll miss you... |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Originally posted by Waskel:
I'm sorry, Brad. Really, I am. It's an compulsive thing, I guess. I was much to into these things when they were happening.
If your knowledge of the Mozart canon was this good, no one would think to criticize! Why appologize for knowing all you can about the most influencial music of our age?
Maybe not false humility, but definately unnecessary! ;)
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.....unless you were hanging around outside the dakota and have pictures of Mark and John together! :eek: |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Imagine
John Lennon
Imagine there's no heaven,
It's easy if you try,
No hell below us,
Above us only sky,
Imagine all the people
living for today...
Imagine there's no countries,
It isn't hard to do,
Nothing to kill or die for,
No religion too,
Imagine all the people
living life in peace...
Imagine no possessions,
I wonder if you can,
No need for greed or hunger,
A brotherhood of men,
imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...
You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one,
I hope some day you'll join us,
And the world will live as one.. |
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Location: closely held secret | Thanks, Fillhixx. Actually I was apologizing to Brad for making him feel bad. He's a good friend.
I must be feeling guilty about something today. Normally I would just say  |
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Location: ms | OK i`m back... |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | must be really horrible over there. |
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Location: ms | Didnot have the nads to go..I`ve toughed it out here too long to quit now,no matter how nice Waskel gets :eek: |
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Location: closely held secret | Oh, you'll regret this... yes, you will...  |
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Location: WILMINGTON, DE | I heard the train
In the Tulsa night
Calling out my name
Looking for a fight
Tulsa Queen by Emmylou Harris/Rodney Crowell |
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Location: Avondale, AZ | 'Out upon the Indian Nation,
I ride my pony on the reservation
in those old Oklahoma hills
where I was born'.
Very old song. My dad would sing it when I was a tot. |
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Location: Avondale, AZ | Well they tell me I was born there
but I really don't remember.
In Oklahoma not Arizona.
What does it matter? |
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Location: Avondale, AZ | Well, I'm proud to be an Okey from Muskogee.
A place were squares can have a ball. |
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Location: Avondale, AZ | You're the reason God made Oklahoma. |
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Location: Avondale, AZ | OOOOOOOOklahoma where the wind comes rolling from the plains. |
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Location: Isle of Man, UK | Something in your voice makes me want to lose myself,
Makes me want to lose myself in your arms.
And something in your eyes makes my heart beat fast.
I hope this feeling lasts the rest of my life.
If you knew how lonely my life has been,
And how low I’ve felt for so long.
If you knew how I wanted someone to come along,
And change my world the way that you’ve done…
Feels like home to me, like home to me.
Feels like I’m all the way back where I came from.
Feels like home to me, like home to me.
Feels like I’m all the way back where I belong.
A window breaks down a long dark street,
And a siren wails in the night.
But I’m all right, because you are here with me.
I can almost see, through the dark there’s a light.
If you knew how much this moment means to me,
And how long I’ve waited for your touch.
If you knew how happy you are making me…
I never thought I’d love anyone this much.
Feels like home to me, like home to me.
Feels like I’m all the way back where I came from.
Feels like home to me, like home to me.
Feels like I’m all the way back where I belong.
If you knew how lonely my life has been,
And how low I’ve felt for so long.
If you knew how I wanted someone to come along,
And change my world the way that you’ve done…
Feels Like Home, Randy Newman.
I challenge anyone to hear Bonnie Raitt's version of that and not be moved. My favourite crying song of all time!
JB |
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Location: Madison, Wisconsin | Kinda' pushing the envelope in a thread called "great lyrics" aren't we? (Refering to the OK lyrics) |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | I was up the road on easy street
Watching everybody stand around and cheat
A man comes up and says, "Move along
Down to the corner where you belong"
But mama just wants to barrelhouse all night long
I hear the city singing like a siren choir
Some fool tried to set this town on fire
TV preacher screams "come on along"
I feel like Fay Wray face to face with King Kong
But mama just wants to barrelhouse all night long
Sometimes I wonder what I am
I feel like I'm living in a hologram
It doesn't seem to matter what's right or wrong
Everybody's grabbing and coming on strong
But mama just wants to barrelhouse all night long
Bruce Cockburn |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Look away across the bay
Yankee gunboat come this way
Uncle Sam gonna save the day
Come tomorrow we all gonna pay...
And it's burn baby burn
When am I going to get my turn
Something dead under the bed
Local diplomats hang their heads
Never mind what the government said
They're either lying or they've been misled...
And it's burn baby burn
When am I going to get my turn
Phillipines was yesterday
Santiago and Greece today
How would they ever make the late news pay
If they didn't have the CIA?
And it's burn baby burn
When am I going to get my turn
Here it comes, the loaded gun
"Must keep the Commies on the run"
You'd buy or bury everyone
For liberty and life
And just plain fun
And it's burn baby burn
When am I going to get my turn
Bruce Cockburn |
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Location: closely held secret | Many's the time I've been mistaken
And many times confused
Yes, and often felt forsaken
And certainly misused
But I'm all right, I'm all right
I'm just weary to my bones
Still, you don't expect to be
Bright and bon vivant so far away from home,
So far away from home
And I don't know a soul who's not been battered
I don't have a friend who feels at ease
I don't know a dream that's not been shattered
or driven to its knees
But it's all right, it's all right
We've lived so well so long
Still, when I think of the road we're traveling on
I wonder what went wrong
I can't help it, I wonder what went wrong
And I dreamed I was dying
And I dreamed that my soul rose unexpectedly
And looking back down at me
Smiled reassunngly
And I dreamed I was flying
And high up above my eyes could clearly see
The Statue of Liberty
Sailing away to sea
And I dreamed I was flying
We come on the ship they call the Mayflower
We come on the ship that sailed the moon
We come in the age's most uncertain hour
And sing an American tune
But it's all right, it's all right
You can't be forever blessed
Still, tomorrow's going to be another working day
And I'm trying to get some rest
That's all I'm trying to get some rest |
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Location: Tennessee | [First Verse]
Tequila!
[Second Verse]
Tequila!
[Third Verse]
TEQUILA!!! |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Now that's writin'! |
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Location: SoCal | Concise.... |
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