Sir Peter Jackson's The Beatles: Get Back | Page 2 | Fab Forum | The Beatles Bible

meanmistermustard said
There are suggestions on other forums that Apple could screen the ‘Let It Be ’ film like they did with the Shea concert and negate a general release be it on DVD, Blu-Ray and Digital release. Nothing more than idle speculation but it wouldn’t surprise me, I do have a deep untrusted of Apple after all. 

Only time will tell so we shall just need to wait and see.  

I don’t buy it at all myself.

Firstly, there is the obvious in the statement, “Following the release of this new film…” rather than “Along with the release of this new film…”. Granted, that could be a sleight of hand to distract from their intentions.

But then there is the time. The Touring Years clocked in at 97 minutes and they added on a 30 minute concert, taking it up to just over two hours. Let’s say Jackson’s version clocks in at roughly the same as TTY, though it could well be longer knowing Jackson — he has been known to make 2 hour + films (which were then longer when they got released for home viewing in extended versions), but for the sake of this let’s say it’s around an hour and 40 minutes, and the suggestion is that they’re going to show the eighty minute original after it, with all the crossover footage between the two that there’s bound to be (after all, we might get different camera angles on some scenes but I can’t see them, for instance, representing the rooftop using only performances that aren’t in the original)?

Also, would Jackson want his take on January 1969 instantly compared to Lindsay-Hogg’s?

TTY was a different beast to the Shea Stadium footage, a documentary about their live performances along with one of those performances, while showing the Lindsay-Hogg original alongside Jackson’s new take would be showing two films together which will follow roughly similar narratives.

That doesn’t make sense to me.

Billy Rhythm’s suggestion (though I disagree with much of the rest of his post) that the original will come as a bonus feature on the DVD/Blu-Ray/Digital release wouldn’t surprise me though.

Myself, the constant cynicism that are the defaults of some bores me.

Sorry.

No, @meanmistermustard, I was responding to the discussions you noted are taking place elsewhere, though I’ll concede that — by default — it would include your approach oft-times, it also includes Billy Rhythm, and those who on other forums who are suggesting by your account that making the original available following the release of Jackson’s film means they’ll just show it alongside Jackson’s new take on January 1969 and then bury it again without a home market release.

Billy R seems to have already written off what Jackson will do with the footage…

Yes, Apple have a history of disappointing (I was very critical of the White Deluxe not including Revolution  (1) [take 20] — a massively important recording that still remains officially unreleased) but I think overall they’ve done pretty well the last couple of years.

I’m not shy of criticising, as you know, but I’ll wait to see what we get before I damn it, hoping I don’t need to.

It’s a shame you didn’t have a riposte to the main arguments in my post rather than just the aside at the end of the post that addressed all those already dismissing this project before we’ve seen even a few seconds of it.

I certainly wasn’t aiming that aside directly at you, it just so happens that you often fall into that group, but it really was a general comment about the approach of some fans to this kind of project rather than being directly aimed at, and being only about, you.

@Billy Rhythm said
I’ve never been one to think that The Beatles would need to spend much time “working on the vocal harmonys”…  it was second nature (think I’ve even used the word “Supernatural” on here before) for them to fill out any song with their signature harmonies…  they seemed to dial in without even thinking (let alone “working”) on it…

Of course they had to work on getting their harmonies right. Think For Yourself  — and the vocal harmony overdub session that was taped in case anything might be usable on that year’s Chrimble record is a perfect example of them working hard on the vocal harmonies…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?…..QdcpmFQOZs

There was nothing “supernatural”, just great musicians who worked hard to get it right.

So, some people have a problem with Jackson’s comment that:

After reviewing all the footage and audio that Michael Lindsay-Hogg shot 18 months before they broke up, it’s simply an amazing historical treasure-trove. Sure, there’s moments of drama – but none of the discord this project has long been associated with.

They think it shows signs of an upcoming whitewash of what the atmosphere at the sessions was really like. Yet, in October 2012, Kevin Harrington (@kneeler)…

…who was there throughout, the redhead on the rooftop holding up lyrics for John, when asked on this forum by @Into the Sky with Diamonds, “Was the atmosphere during the Get Back sessions as bad as they’re made out to be? Worse?” replied:

Personally I don’t think they were as bad, but bear in mind they were not used to having so many people around when recording and I think that just highlighted the personal tensions that were around at that time.  everything that happened in the studio was recorded, I know there were meetings outside studio time but hey there was no hate between them just disagreement’s, which every band I have ever worked for has had.

A very similar view to Jackson’s.

And Jackson says he’s got 140 hours of audio alongside the 55 hours of footage, now I’ve got just under 98 hours of audio from the sessions, and I know others do as well, and while not the most upbeat of sessions, they’re not the fecking infamous Troggs Tapes… (language advisory)

(Heh! Heh! They were trying to record a song called Tranquility!)

Same as I don’t think Giles distorted what the White Album  period was like. He didn’t say there were no tensions during the sessions, just that it didn’t show up on the tapes.

Seems to me that some people want to cling to John’s view that they were most miserable sessions ever, rather than take Ringo’s line that when they were playing music and it was good, it was good and the politics were left outside.

Always surprises me, every time, when people here find LIB  to watch, and they pluck up the courage to watch it, dreading its reputation, most say it’s nowhere near as ugly and dark as its reputation suggests.

From what I understand, @Zig, some believe that Jackson will produce a whitewashed version of what happened in January 1969 on the orders of Apple, making it out to be a happy-clappy time without any tensions between them.

Obviously there will be comparisons between Lindsay-Hogg’s original and Jackson’s revisit to footage and audio that Lindsay-Hogg was responsible for.

Rather than be happy that this is being done, the instinct of some fans — as always with this type of thing — is to complain about the what the new film will be like before they know.

Some of us are glass half-empty people, while others – like myself and you – are glass half-full.