The Beatles Rarity Of The Week
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This weeks BROW takes us back to the infamous Get Back sessions at Twickenham Film Studios in London on January 9, 1969. Only two days before an embryonic version of Get Back had been performed for the first time. Now, with energy levels increased by a lunch break, The Beatles decide to bash out a hard series of "Get Back Jams" and what you are hearing is an excerpt from them. At this point Jo-jo has yet to even be written into the lyrics. Paul improvises various place-names which leads to Puerto Ricans and finally to Pakistanis. This leads to improvising more lyrics about discrimination as these two groups were talked about in the morning paper concerning how too many non-white citizens of the British Empire were living on visas in England and competing for limited job opportunities. Then Mohicans are added to the lyrics. Crazy, huh? Toward the end Paul amuses himself by shouting out the title and groaning as loudly as possible into the microphone. The song had a long way to go but it sounds like they were having fun along the way. In retrospect the Get Back sessions are always talked about as a time when The Beatles were constantly angry with each other but there were some good times in there too.
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Comments (5)
Despite those final days...their love for their musical craft still ruled!
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Perhaps the most telling part of the Twickenham/Abbey Road fiasco was Paul arriving one morning with Linda and her daughter Heather following John's “outrageous” insertion of Yoko into their inner recording sanctum.
The tapes of the fab four flubbing through their own catalogue of songs are painful to hear.
The Get Back sessions were as sad as they were bad. Of course the Beat Bros at their worst were and still are unsurpassed.
i was just listening to this tune last weekend when news hit of the Sgt Peppers drum skin selling for $1.1 mil. I love hearing the back stories about Beatles tunes...cause they are my most favorite band EVER.
i was just listening to this tune last weekend when news hit of the Sgt Peppers drum skin selling for $1.1 mil. I love hearing the back stories about Beatles tunes...cause they are my most favorite band EVER. i've heard the anthology version but do you have any otehr oldies of "She Came In Through The Bathroom Window." Always wanted to know where that came from and who the "she" was.
I don't think the "she" in "Bathroom Window" is anyone in particular but I can tell you that there were many takes of this song throughout the "Get Back" sessions of Jan. 1969. Paul wrote the song during that period. Perhaps I can dig a demo of it up sometime and post it.