Trio jamming
When we were staying with John and Michelle (while house hunting), I bought The Beatles Anthology DVD box set. It’s 10 hours of Beatles footage on 4 DVD’s, and a bonus DVD that’s 81 minutes of mostly never seen before footage. Very cool…only for the hardcore Beatles freaks though. Others may just find it a bit long.
It was great watching the Beatles play shows in shitty little clubs in Liverpool when they were first starting off. I think one of the places was called the Cave. And my Wife liked their boots. Anyway, John and I watched 1 DVD a night until we were done. We both agreed that this is the most comprehensive Beatles documentary that we’ve seen (it being 4 DVD’s and all)The remaining Beatles actually get together for two more songs. The whole thing is captured on film. They even show then jamming on some stuff in between recording (old non-Beatles tunes) and some footage of them on the lawn with acoustics and a Ukulele.
Things they don’t talk about:
John and Paul’s bad relationship (made it seem like it really wasn’t so bad)
Paul is dead (nothing at all mentioned…Hmmm, I wonder?)
Things they do talk about:
John’s quote “the Beatles are bigger than Jesus” not exactly something you wanted to say back in the 60’s. And the redneck burned all their records.
Drug use
Almost getting killed in the Philippines.
There's a lot of concert footage, even a few song from Let it Be in the rooftop. I wish they showed more of that since there's not a lot of live stuff from that time in the Beatles career.
Things I learned:
John was not the serious artist type (all of the time) He was actually a pretty goofy guy most of the time.
Ringo was and still is a great drummer and will out live all of them.
George was the most level headed of the bunch.
George didn’t like Sergeant Peppers
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds doesn’t stand for LSD. Or so they say.
Paul was the best musician in the band, but seems very into himself. He does seem like a very nice person, maybe even approachable. I guess it's hard to not have a huge ego when you take who he is into consideration. One of the greatest songwriters in the history of Rock n Roll.
The Beatles were way better as a band than they were as solo artists. Even though McCartney and Lennon actually wrote by themselves and not as a team, there was chemistry between the band that just wasn’t there in the solo stuff. It was way too polished. They certainly complimented each other better than any of these studio guys that they hired ever could.
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