@@Procrastinacion_ He meant this video is missing the early bit where Paul starts strumming and humming. I also think it's the highlight of the whole film :)
My favorite part of the whole Documentary was how happy Ringo was to be there. You could tell in almost every scene he is just smiling and happy and loving every minute.
You do realize that ALL songs effectively "come out of thin air." Every masterpiece of a song had a songwriter struggling at a piano or a guitar or whatever to compose it. You just happen to be seeing the Beatles do it here but this is what songwriters do.
This song was originally "It's OK to leave your dog in a hot car". But the uptight suits at EMI vetoed it, so they dubbed in the Get Back lyrics into this clip. It actually took Paul a fortnight to come up with the song.
I’m eleven years older than the oldest Beatle pictured here. They were just kids. It’s unbelievable not only the prodigious talent but also the Rolodex of rock and roll history they summoned on command. You cant buy this level of artistry, it is genetic predisposition combined with peerless work ethic, luck and timing. I’m ecstatic Jackson’s team gave us the definitive document of a world class band at the peak of their powers.
I wouldn't say genetic, I feel like genetics play very little role in it, like John taking an insanely long time to learn how to play the chords on instruments. I'd say it was more that the expression was important enough that they expanded their mastery to suit the needs of the message they intended to spread.
@@theperson8539 I don’t deny that’s a part of it, but I do think the potential for songwriting, appetite and aptitude for music is something, more or less, that is “baked in” to the individual independent of natural ease with instrumentation. They were all artistically inclined, and lucked into an unusually fertile moment in the history of popular music that was primed for the taking.
@@claytonshank6871 I guess, I dunno, I feel like people are too fatalistic nowadays, whereas it has always been the case that anyone can have the ingredients for success. Simply lacking the instruments to make it.
In relation to the Beatles there was a kind of magic that occurred between them that made them what they were. It was however primarily born out of their time in Hamburg. Constant, intensive playing and performing. It absolutely hones a musician let alone ones with serious talent.
They’re the best, and we’re all extremely lucky to be alive in time and space while they were! Grateful I’ve got to see half of the Beatles live in concert
He wrote this song on a base guitar. Someone rang him up 1973, friday afternoon, and the song was ready to be recorded saturday evening! Im talking about ”Live and Let die!”
So fucking what? Any decent songwriter can write a song quickly. You idiots act like they were the only ones in history who could write songs! Big fuckin whoop!
This is one of the most bonkers behind the scenes or “making of“ clips I’ve ever seen in any genre of music or film or sport or television. Paul gets a basic idea. He begins nurturing.. massaging.. willing.. what will become one of the greatest songs ever written completely out of thin air. Absolutely astonishing.
@@47imagine Oh is that whats its called, dude? If it was that simple, dude, then everyone would do it, dude. People would be shitting out greatest songs ever written left and right, dude.
The rhing that strikes me most is their focus on creation, rather than just playing something written before. Most of us (myself included) are happy to spend time just trying to cover music others have already made. It's so inspiring seeing creativity being front and centre, and wirh that mindset, no wonder they were able to create so much. Of course, crearing is one thing - their talent was creating music that other people loved, for generations.
Learning to play what others have made is a good way to practise playing and get a feeling for what works, which then makes it easier to create something if you decide you'd like to do that. Having too many options can make a task feel overwhelming, but learning that there are certain constraints means the choices you have to make are better defined and easier to conceptualise.
Just sitting around, screwing about with the guitar, he produces GOLD! The Tavistock Institute unsuspectingly unleashed a giant entertainment phenomenon they hadn't counted on.
This isn't proto funk lol this is derivative OF funk which is much much older and comes from black American musicians in the late 1800s-1920s, THAT'S proto funk. Don't use words anymore dude
@@kylezo Funk wasn't popularised until the 70s so by that token this was proto-funk. Any genre of music can claim dated ancestry but proto-funk was a 60s thing. Also, did you have to be such a bellend with your comment to the other person? Nob head.
It's called songwriting, dude. Every masterpiece of a song starts somewhere. Just because you're seeing how the sausage is made doesn't make Paul like Mozart. Granted, he's a very talented songwriter.
One thing about fender amps back then is they had a particular smell, one which I always associate with that time ( a few years after this ) never really knew where it came from, the factory, the Tolex, the glue…. ( I’m guessing the Tolex ) I can almost smell that fender Bassman….. ahhh contented sigh
The longer version is more interesting: George & Ringo are sitting down. George has his guitar on his lap and looks sleepy. Ringo looks a bit tired and hungover. Paul walks in, ready to work. There's some conversation. Paul plugs in his bass guitar to the amp. He starts playing some chords he's obviously been working on. George yawns (probably thinking how much he doesn't want to be in this cold studio, when he could be riffing with Dylan & Clapton in Malibu, instead of being here with Mr. Bossy pants and passive- aggressive John.) John is somewhere else in the studio. So, now, Paul's got his own groove going with the beginnings of "Get Back." George wakes up. Begins to strum his guitar (which is not gently weeping). Ringo starts finger drumming. Now, John, listening to the fun, walks over (wearing Yoko's fur coat), flings a magazine on the floor, sits down, picks up his guitar, and starts playing. And, that's how the song, " Get Back," began. Sleepy Ringo, uninterested George, distracted John, and workaholic Paul.
Wrangling in a piece of The ‘Verse and weaving an oeuvre like it’s just another day. Always an impressive watch. And that is why legends are who they are and why no one will remember your name..😏
Supposedly, he and Yoko thought it might be aimed at her, telling her that she should 'get back'. Which, to be fair, was an understandable way for the rest of them to feel.
@@god124812 There are *tons* of people today who legitimately unironically think that the earth is flat. I don’t think anything is off the table anymore when it comes to insane, reality-denying conspiracy theories.
Except when you realize all the stuff he wrote pre66 was very different compared to after. Or that there really was a lookalike contest where no one was ever declared winner but a fairly well known aspiring musician named Billy Shears was a finalist. Eye color is also a giveaway. The reasoning for this plot is pretty stupid as I understand it but the connections I’ve heard are pretty cool rock history. And what an amazing story if it did turn out to be true. He will have fooled us all and “Paul McCartney”will be referred to as myth
I mean there’s really just a small handful of truly inspired musical geniuses in all of human history; Bach, Mozart , John Williams … but Paul McCartney is in that conversation
John Williams lmao. It's just Holst bro. Damn this is the most eurocentric comment I've ever seen. Listen to miles Davis or something Andrew, please I beg you.
I think whats interesting about this video yo me is the see them compose. Really, like any other musician ever has and with people that connect with you. Astonishing really. I hope to see either legally or not this documentary some day
Hard to say, but he was probably the most disciplined one. John had extraordinary talent, but was very lazy. Especially towards the end. He also had a heroin problem during these sessions. George was incredibly talented too, but had built up a lot of frustration, understandably. Ringo was an amazing drummer and the perfect fit for the band.
What's wild is how the lyrics are dubbed in post because the prod studio didn't want to publish the actual audio from the session. This was the dog in a hot car session. You're not even hearing the original audio and you're foaming at the mouth about how it's genius and magic and singular lol
It wasn't even meant to be a song. Paul was just asking John to get back to his seat. That's why the video ends so abruptly, he just stopped playing and said: "Ah, you're back. Now let's write some songs... Anyone have any ideas? I got nothing."
