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3.31am
25 November 2010
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Celebrated_Mr_K said:
StarWisher said:
With an hour they could have done some kind of collaboration with Ravi Shankar who was there.
Ravi Shankar was a world-class musician. Absolutely amazing. You can watch him in “Monterey Pop”, the movie about the big music fest before Woodstock.
You know who Ravi's daughter is, right? Norah Jones. Her full name is Geethali Norah Jones Shankar.
Ahhh! Yes, I knew she was his daughter but I had made up this story in my head to explain why she was “Nora Jones” and her sister was named…Anoushka, is it? Ah, anyways, they are apparently half-sisters. Thank you, Google.
1.57pm
4 September 2010
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StarWisher said:
Celebrated_Mr_K said:
StarWisher said:
With an hour they could have done some kind of collaboration with Ravi Shankar who was there.
Ravi Shankar was a world-class musician. Absolutely amazing. You can watch him in “Monterey Pop”, the movie about the big music fest before Woodstock.
You know who Ravi's daughter is, right? Norah Jones. Her full name is Geethali Norah Jones Shankar.
Ahhh! Yes, I knew she was his daughter but I had made up this story in my head to explain why she was “Nora Jones” and her sister was named…Anoushka, is it? Ah, anyways, they are apparently half-sisters. Thank you, Google.
Yeah, Anoushka played at Concert for George. Wonderfully I must say.
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11.11pm
4 February 2011
Offline The beatles were not a tight unit at that stage, they would have bombed unless the practisied
11.33pm
4 December 2010
Offline deboraht said:
The beatles were not a tight unit at that stage, they would have bombed unless the practisied
I would think they would practice. Paul would probably have formed them too.
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12.41pm
31 March 2008
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They spent most of January 1969 practising for a live show. They didn’t seem to enjoy it all that much. I think a Woodstock appearance would have broken them.
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14 April 2010
Offline Joe said:
They spent most of January 1969 practising for a live show. They didn't seem to enjoy it all that much. I think a Woodstock appearance would have broken them.
That's an interesting thought. Joe. I'd have to think about that for a while.
My first reaction is to agree with you. But then, I think the audience at Woodstock would not have been filled with screaming little girls. A well-rehearsed act at Woodstock could have led towards turning things around.
Yes sir, this could be an interesting discussion indeed.
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4.58pm
31 March 2008
Offline It might have made the difference. IIRC Woodstock took place in August 1969, and Toronto was in September. Toronto was the first Plastic Ono Band gig, and on the way out John Lennon decided to leave The Beatles. If they’d played at Woodstock and it had gone well it might have taken things the other way, at least for a while.
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6.18pm
1 February 2011
Offline It wouldn't have happened because George refused to play in front of an audience anymore. The only reason he did the rooftop concert was because he didn't have to be right in front of every one. If they were rehearsing for Woodstock and George stormed out he probably wouldn't have been able to be convinced to come back like in Let It Be .
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6.19pm
1 May 2010
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This reminds me of the (one sided) conversation between Paul and John from the Let it Be movie in which Paul says that the Beatles were just nervous and that once they got over that nervousness is when they really excelled as a band. That was Paul's reason for wanting to have them perform somewhere for the conclusion of the Let it Be movie because it seems as if they had become too inhibited as just a studio group. Not that they were inhibited by the studio, but rather they were inhibiting each other and that's why Billy Preston was brought in.
I think they sounded pretty spectacular at the rooftop performance as a group for the most part and if that's the end result of a rather unmotivated effort, imagine what they could have been like had they been motivated and excited to perform at Woodstock. But the key would have been Lennon, had he been excited to actually do something, I think it would have worked out just fine. Then again, would he have insisted that Yoko join them on stage?
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8.04pm
1 December 2009
Offline It's all down to a “what if?” exercise. I've already imagined a scenario where Yoko performs onstage, although John persuades her to stick to tambourine or some unobtrusive keyboards for the most part.
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GEORGE: In fact, The Detroit Sound. JOHN: In fact, yes. GEORGE: In fact, yeah. Tamla-Motown artists are our favorites. The Miracles. JOHN: We like Marvin Gaye. GEORGE: The Impressions PAUL & GEORGE: Mary Wells. GEORGE: The Exciters. RINGO: Chuck Jackson. JOHN: To name but eighty.
8.08pm
19 September 2010
Offline I say a performance means the band never releases Let It Be
As if it matters how a man falls down.'
'When the fall's all that's left, it matters a great deal.
8.21pm
25 November 2010
Offline mr. Sun king coming together said:
I say a performance means the band never releases Let It Be
That could very well be. A live album means no studio time. I hate to ask this, but were they on Apple at this point in time? Because if they weren't, the easiest way to satisfy a record company's provisions to make x number of albums before the contract is renewed or they are released is to put out live albums and greatest hits compilations.
But it looks like they were on their own at this point. Oh well. Interesting theory, anyways.
8.42pm
19 September 2010
Offline StarWisher said:
mr. Sun king coming together said:
I say a performance means the band never releases Let It Be
That could very well be. A live album means no studio time. I hate to ask this, but were they on Apple at this point in time? Because if they weren't, the easiest way to satisfy a record company's provisions to make x number of albums before the contract is renewed or they are released is to put out live albums and greatest hits compilations.
But it looks like they were on their own at this point. Oh well. Interesting theory, anyways.
I say that because Paul, Ringo and George never would have recorded I Me Mine or some of the Overdubs they did.
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As if it matters how a man falls down.'
'When the fall's all that's left, it matters a great deal.
10.05pm
27 February 2010
Offline Celebrated_Mr_K said:
StarWisher said:
With an hour they could have done some kind of collaboration with Ravi Shankar who was there.
Ravi Shankar was a world-class musician. Absolutely amazing. You can watch him in “Monterey Pop”, the movie about the big music fest before Woodstock.
You know who Ravi's daughter is, right? Norah Jones. Her full name is Geethali Norah Jones Shankar.
That's a mystery to me: How could an ugly dad had had such a beautiful daughter?
I'd like to say "thank you" on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we passed the audition.
John Lennon
10.13pm
27 February 2010
Offline vonbontee said:
It's all down to a “what if?” exercise. I've already imagined a scenario where Yoko performs onstage, although John persuades her to stick to tambourine or some unobtrusive keyboards for the most part.
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Yoko didn't perform in the rooftop concert, did her? But she do in Rock'n'Roll Circus…
It would have been all up to John to play a decent set or let his lady scream like a banshee.
I'd like to say "thank you" on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we passed the audition.
John Lennon
12.23am
19 September 2010
Offline Marcelo said:
vonbontee said:
It's all down to a “what if?” exercise. I've already imagined a scenario where Yoko performs onstage, although John persuades her to stick to tambourine or some unobtrusive keyboards for the most part.
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Yoko didn't perform in the rooftop concert, did her? But she do in Rock'n'Roll Circus…
It would have been all up to John to play a decent set or let his lady scream like a banshee.
Or do both as in the Toronto show.
As if it matters how a man falls down.'
'When the fall's all that's left, it matters a great deal.
3.56am
1 May 2010
Offline Marcelo said:
You know who Ravi's daughter is, right? Norah Jones. Her full name is Geethali Norah Jones Shankar.
That's a mystery to me: How could an ugly dad had had such a beautiful daughter?
It's the Disney law.
Ugly Dad.
Beautiful daughter.
Here comes the sun….. Scoobie-doobie……
Something in the way she moves…..attracts me like a cauliflower…
Bop. Bop, cat bop. Go, Johnny, Go.
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1.27pm
13 November 2009
Offline And no mother.
Ad hoc, ad loc, and quid pro quo! So little time! So much to know!
2.35pm
27 February 2010
Offline skye said:
And no mother.
In every case, The father kill the mother and eat her.
I'd like to say "thank you" on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we passed the audition.
John Lennon
2.56pm
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14 April 2010
Offline Marcelo said:
skye said:
And no mother.
In every case, The father kill the mother and eat her.
Wow – Walt Disney meets Wes Craven.
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