A "fly on the wall" moment in music history! January 7, 1969 #GetBack #PaulMcCartney #TheBeatles FREE DOWNLOAD: BUYING YOUR FIRST GUITAR! rodgoelz.click...
McCartney with his voice and his accent: "Well I had 10 minutes off...so I composed a hit U know....Yesterday came in a dream, Get back came in a nap u Know"
Love how ringo is cool with everyone, sticks up for John and cares deeply about Paul's new tune. He also would always go to George first when he had new songs he needed help composing. Love Ringo!
Ringo is awesome, but I think he went to George for help with songwriting because George would help him. John and Paul would either dismiss or take over. (George complained about that before.)
It's Ringo's intense listening of Paul composing, that allows him to find the perfect beat and that's what nails the song/single. Ringo was so important because of how he complimented anything they wrote. It's like a custom made suit vs off the shelf. Most drummers are oblivious to the singer and just play their parts. But Ringo uses the drums in a different way he blends them to the song/singers/music.
Exactly!! It’s why I’ll always consider him one of the best drummers. He was never as flashy as some other guys, but his presence really took a great band to one of the best musical groups ever.
As a singer myself, in reality many singers are listening to the drums more than it appears they are. its all about timing and rhythm for both players. it's just that they are behind you and there is no need for eye contact so it may seem that they are closer to the lead instruments.
This is kind of what Cynthia Lennon said about the few times she went during a Beatles recording session. "We were there waiting, and the boys were strumming and it felt like hours that nothing was happening. We left with Pattie and Mo for lunch for a few hours, when we came back, all of a sudden a full song was finished! Where did that song come from?"
John walking in, late, and just sitting down and picking up the tune is freakin legendary. It shows how in sync he and Paul were. Even in those tumultuous later years. They were just always lock step. Finishing each other’s sentences even when they couldn’t stand each other anymore.
That isn't really hard when you play the guitar even a fair bit to be honest, especially with bar chords. You can even just copy what hes doing on the bass straight to chords
I didn’t see them not being able to stand each other. I saw them having the friction that’s inevitable in any serious relationship, especially when you have pressure to complete something together. There was a lot more fun than misery between them. George, however, clearly was resentful.
@@SAK1855 Judging by Harrison's behavior in this clip, I'm not sure he was resentful so much as just tired of the grueling early morning filming sessions! (and yes, I know all about his actual resentments at this time)
@@spiritof6663George was very resentful with Paul. If you watched this documentary he actually left the band around that time. If there was one person that couldn't stand to be a beatle anymore that person was George Harrison because he felt, and in my opinion quite right, that his talent as a songwriter and musician wasn't respected especially by Paul.
Well ..that's a great opening line/lyric anyway! But let me open it up a bit "Gonna go to work today, an' write a tune that'll still be great, 50 years from this very date"
@@faithcurrent658 He calls him 'Lennon' because he's taking the piss, talking about John as if he was an employee - 'I'm thinking about getting rid of him...' They're just larking about.
I am currently watching the film. There’s a scene a little after this one, perhaps the day after, where Ringo is discussing something with the director (I think) while Paul is on the piano (apparently composing Let it Be). Ringo is disagreeing with the man then says « I could listen to Paul play the piano for hours…isn’t it just beautiful » or words to that effect. It choked me up a little, just the communication of love and admiration. Gotta love Ringo!
Ok so this right here is a brilliant example of why I love the Beatles so much. The songwriting was absolutely amazing and they seemingly just plucked these tunes right out of thin air. As a musician myself, it astounds me how a good songwriter is the driving force behind a band. What are the chances that you’d have not one, not even two, but THREE great songwriters in one band?!? And we aren’t talking about just one hit wonder stuff but a constant flow of worldwide hit after hit! How?!?! I’m in awe of it really
This is pure genius... it looks like Michelangelo the Sculptor, who, by placing his hands on the bare stone, "felt" the underlying work of art and brought it to the surface by removing superfluous parts.
Paul had a gift for melodies and arrangements, but you can see how little effort he puts into the lyrics. John liked to make songs that had double meanings, and George always wanted his songs to get a specific message across.
Regardless of how successful and enjoyable "Get Back" is, the fact remains is that it is STILL just a three chord blues in A major. It's not an amazing work of musical art but a nice pop song. A less good "Back In The USSR" mixed in with "Sour Milk Sea".
So incredible, to hear this song which I know so well and hear Paul play around and almost get it, I am simultaneously in awe amd want to yell through the screen, "Paul it goes like this..."
Donhski, Yes also watch the entire documentary, Get Back, all the way through. And I would highly suggest that others hear that have not seen it, to watch the documentary in its entirety. Especially part one where it shows McCartney practicing the later evolution of the song, Get Back. It's originally a protest song as he points out the government official in London, Enoch Powell, ordering the Pakistanis to get out of England. Then MacCartney vocalizes these lyrics, but he does it in an Elvis Presley style. This is yet another hidden metaphor that Peter Jackson decided to put into the editing. For those not old enough to remember, President Nixon had assigned Elvis Presley and his manager, Colonel Tom Parker to spy on and get the Beatles run out of America. News storied show Presley at the White House confronting President Nixon, as Presley has a gun in a holster on his swivel hip, and a purple sport jacket. Presley had suggested that he be hired to be made a narcotics agent for the FBI. Nixon was afraid that the Beatles were perpetrating drug use to our youth in America. Shortly after one of these practice scenes with McCartney composing Get Back, you see the camera in the dark Twickenham Studios zoom in on Michael Lindsey-Hogg, the director. He appears to be perplexed or as if he's bloating while he holds that fat cigar, [in a similar way Orson Welles was seen directing his movie Citizen Kane,] then a clapboard appears, from the left side of the frame, then it pulls away and the camera zooms back, as Lindsey-Hogg seems to fade into the distance. This is just after John and Paul are shown to be playing Django Reinhardt style guitars and the theme music for the famous British film noir movie in 1949, The Third Man, starring Orson Welles. I've informed you a little bit here out of chronology in Part one of three of the documentary, but this is where it is divulged with symbolism in editing, and it is now historically archived if you look it up, such as Michael Lindsey-Hogg in Wikipedia. That it is disclosed that Lindsay-Hogg was the illegitimate son of Orson Welles. These are some of the beautiful hidden edits that Peter Jackson had executed into working for 4 years on this documentary that those who have not watched it, and even some of the younger generations today that do watch it, may not understand the historically accurate messages being shown here in the documentary.
I’m so glad this footage was found and included in the documentary. As extraordinary as it is, this is precisely how almost all great songs in history are conceived and created- just improvising and experimenting with patterns and melodies, going largely by “feel”, and then workshopping various iterations of the idea until, again according to “feel”, the song is finished. Paul obviously worked quickly here, but the process is the same regardless; what sets him apart is how readily he recognizes when he’s onto something good that’s worth workshopping, and how attuned to his “feel” the rest of the band is at any given moment. This footage demystifies the art of songwriting and lays bare its essential components; thus, the keys to good songwriting: experimentation, openness, patience, hard work, and trusting one’s vision or (feeling). Learn from the masters!
Ah, but how many other tunes came out that were diamonds in the rough? Remember, this song wasn't a hit yet at this point in time, he/they could've discarded it and moved on to something else, but, that could've been a hit as well and this one could've been lost "like tears in the rain".
@@davidpfingston3188 His fingerprints weren't identical to those Interpol had when he was drug busted in Japan though were they?! Check out Mike Williams Paul is Dead Channel and you'll find out how ..!
I think they key is to record all your sessions like that even if hours long. They listen back later and you will find some great chord sequences and melodies to hang a song over. Sometimes it's hard to know what sounds good in the moment.
Genius . This is surreal. Are there any other documentary tapes of other bands from the 60's or 70's which are lying undiscovered? . Give it to Peter Jackson
No portable videotape in 1969--this was shot in 16mm, and it was expensive. I'm sure there are plenty of 8mm home movies from the era that are unreleased, but professionally shot 50 plus hours of 16mm film like this won't be equaled. Add in the talent and resources of Peter Jackson and the Beatles to stitch it all into such a brilliant documentary, and we are even more in the land of "we won't see the likes of this again."
This is awesome! I'm a musician and a long time Beatles fan and this clip is inspiring to me. I've read many Beatle books and magazines on how their songs came into existence and I've heard personal home audio recordings from the three songwriting Beatles where song ideas began to take shape but this video is great! I get to see it!
Well he’s always said he’s a guitarist at heart. He played bass for The Beatles out of necessity, but it’s still amazing how innovative a bassist he became in just a few years.
Listening/watching Paul coax a classic into fruition will never get old. I bet I'm not alone that, while watching as he alllllllmost gets to the chord progression we all know, I'm anxiously rooting for him to figure it out, lol. Add in George and Ringo picking up their contributions and then, amazingly, Lennon walks in w/o having heard it at all and joins in perfectly. Just genius. The music world owes Peter Jackson a lot for finding this unique gem.
What makes it really mind blowing is, that after all the crazy world wide fame, songs, albums, films & concerts. Paul, John, George & Ringo were still in their 20's when The Beatles split up. How crazy is that then?!
Reminds me of the old days, back in '63/4, when John and Paul would just lock themselves in a room with two guitars and a tape machine and come out six hours later with half an album and two B sides ready to take to the studio.
This scene reminds me of the film Amadeus, where Mozart hears a small composition by Salieri once, replays it perfectly and improves it live. Geniuses.
A melhor cena . O cara força uma música até ela sair. Inesquecível. O processo de composição os instrumentos se juntando e criação dos solos é incrível. Sempre tive essa curiosidade em relação a várias canções.
Es interesante el cambio de actitud de George, al principio se muestra aburrido e incluso de bosteza, pero luego, cuando la canción empieza a tomar forms se nota una expresión diferente en su rostro, participa en la ejecución y después: ¡¡¡Otra composición para la historia!!!
Durante la visione del Docufilm diretto da Peter Jackson mi sono emozionata di continuo. Ho amato vedere la creazione artistica di Get back. I Beatles fanno parte della mia vita da sempre, li amo.
This clip floors me. Just pulling a hit song out of his ass. Never realized his genius until this recent doc. And I do not realize the word genius lightly.
But you absolutely do use the word genius lightly. "Just pulling a hit song out of his ass". What exactly is that if it isn't downplaying genius? It undervalues what went into making the song.
Such a cool moment or moments in time i so love this song and remember hearing it for the first time outside in my neighbors front yard when it was first released. Such a cool little down home rocker though i have never been that keen on the solo, i thought they could have come up with something much better than that johnny- one- note solo but that is what it is. To each their own. I gotta see all of this ducu eventually.
It's FASCINATING to watch Paul as he's casting about for the SONG Get Back, coaxing it out of hiding. Eyes cast down, looking somewhere...what IS the space he goes to when he's conjuring like this?
Ringo watches, looking bored but I bet he really was paying attention, and George yawns as Paul writes one of the biggest hits of all time. So Beatle-esque.
Remember, John ends up taking lead guitar on this number. It's Billy Preston that supplied the harmonic framework/inspiration for that awesome lead work.
Fantastic!!! After so many laghs in my life, only now I discover that I ever sang correctly!!!! ......"Nãnãnãnã lãnonononãn no lilolinoni"........kkkkkkkkkkkkk......pretty good!!!!
This is random I know, but hearing the first part of Paul strumming with his vocal noises, made me think of The Knife by Genesis which came about a year later 😊
didnt think i`d ever watch pure genuis on youtube... I stand corrected.. everything in this clip is pure magic(lennon just walksin from the street and starts playing btw
The Lost Weekend is as important to our understanding of John Lennon in the 70s as Peter Jackson's Get Back is to the end of the 60s. The movie is out today and I had the great pleasure to interview May Pang recently
Now I know I’m doing songwriting right. Cause I will come up with a melody on an instrument and then sing gibberish. It never fully accumulates into an actual song but this gives me hope that I can write music
Yes, and there's more about the early evolution of the song, Get Back, originally as a protest song by MacCartney about the government official, Enoch Powell, demanding that the Pakistanis be thrown out of England. Also watch the entire documentary, Get Back, all the way through. And I would highly suggest to others here, that have not seen it, to watch the documentary in its entirety. All three parts. That's nearly a full 8 hours, including the finale of the Rooftop Concert at the end of part 3. [Then keep in mind that there's another 52 hours that Peter Jackson has not edited yet, any plans to release all of this eventually, as it's already been discussed in short press conferences in recent months.] See especially in part one where it shows McCartney practicing the later evolution of the song, Get Back. It's originally a protest song as he points out the government official in London, Enoch Powell, ordering the Pakistanis to get out of England. [Well he's practicing this part, Linda Eastman, [later to soon become Paul's wife, Linda McCartney] is shown photographing this whole Paul is performing this early Get Back number. Then MacCartney vocalizes these lyrics, but he does it in a mocked Elvis Presley style. This is yet another hidden metaphor that Peter Jackson decided to put into the editing. For those not old enough to remember, President Nixon had assigned Elvis Presley and his manager, Colonel Tom Parker to spy on and get the Beatles run out of America. News storied show Presley at the White House confronting President Nixon, as Presley has a gun in a holster on his swivel hip, and a purple sport jacket. Presley had suggested that he be hired to be made a narcotics agent for the FBI. Nixon was afraid that the Beatles were perpetrating drug use to our youth in America. Shortly after one of these practice scenes with McCartney composing Get Back, [midway in part 1 of 3,] you see the camera in the dark Twickenham Studios zoom in on Michael Lindsey-Hogg, the director. He appears to be perplexed or as if he's bloating while he holds that fat cigar, [in a similar way Orson Welles was seen directing his movie Citizen Kane,] then a clapboard appears, from the left side of the frame, then it pulls away and the camera zooms back, as Lindsey-Hogg seems to fade into the distance. This is just after John and Paul are shown to be playing Django Reinhardt style guitars and the theme music for the famous British film noir movie in 1949, The Third Man, starring Orson Welles. I've informed you a little bit here out of chronology in Part one of three of the documentary, but this is where it is divulged with symbolism in editing, and it is now historically archived if you look it up, such as Michael Lindsey-Hogg in Wikipedia. That it is disclosed that Lindsay-Hogg was the illegitimate son of Orson Welles. Orson Welles last film, The Other Side of the Wind, also sat in film reels on shelves in the dust for nearly 50 years. It was just recently edited and released I believe in late 2018. And it also shows this rather slapstick like, and fast motion editing. These are yet other hidden metaphors that the casual younger generational movie watchers may not recognize. In this way Peter Jackson exercised something that Stanley Kubrick was known for putting little hidden at its an artistic camera direction into the film work of this documentary. It says they say about a movie such as Kubrick's 2001 A Space Odyssey every time you watch it you see something you didn't see before. Also keep in mind on this documentary was originally being filmed in early January 1969 Kubrick's 2001 A Space Odyssey was just released not even a half year before or just being seen in many movie theaters for the first time within the past few months before the Christmas holiday, prior to this January 1969 original film work being directed. You'll see a scene where Michael Lindsay-Hogg mentions - we could do it something like Kubrick would, as they discuss storyboards about where the Beatles will perform for their last live concert. These are some of the beautiful hidden edits that Peter Jackson had executed into working for 4 years on this documentary that those who have not watched it, and even some of the younger generations today that do watch it, may not understand the historically accurate messages being portrayed here in the documentary. [These are the things that would have only been known by people old enough to be living back in that era. In 1969 the first day of the Woodstock Festival on August 15th was my 15th birthday. We were already taking college level media classes in our high school, in our sophomore year, English Elective Classes, such as Propaganda and Logic, and Propaganda and Advertising.
