Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Beatle Bits #535 ZONE BOOTED!
Wow, are all those freaks freaked out over the recent apparent loss of the Bootleg Zone, considered the preeminent website for collectors, and other.
Yes, for the past 3 or 4 days, the Internet forums have gone koo-joo for coca-puffs over the sudden removal of the Zone, which many "collectors" frequented for info, and artwork for their less than legit CDs.
The Bootleg Zone was a great reference tool for finding out about the thousands of boot CDs that have been circulating for 20 years or so.
Although some of the info was not exactly kosher, and I could never find a sound sample although there was always an icon for one, the Zone certainly WAS the Wal-Mart of off market music, and I, like many others, shall miss it.
(The importance of boots: doubtful if the Anthology Series or legit Dylan Bootleg Series would gave ever seen the light of day without bootlegs.)
But, within 48 hours, some sharp Internet posters had found a Polish version of the Zone, which has English translation, although not as extensive as the original.
Yet the 64 million dollar question is what happened to the Bootleg Zone.
Some speculated that it was hacked.
Some believed it had been shut down abruptly due to the heat.
Some, like me, really had no idea what happened, as anything is possible.
So, for those who would like a temporary fix of a sort, try this: http://hometown.aol.com/lestatkatt/myhomepage/personal.html
But Mike would like to remind that his is a "trade only" site, so the fuzz can fookin' nevermind.
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BOOTY: www.quiz-u-boomer.blogspot.com
Yes, for the past 3 or 4 days, the Internet forums have gone koo-joo for coca-puffs over the sudden removal of the Zone, which many "collectors" frequented for info, and artwork for their less than legit CDs.
The Bootleg Zone was a great reference tool for finding out about the thousands of boot CDs that have been circulating for 20 years or so.
Although some of the info was not exactly kosher, and I could never find a sound sample although there was always an icon for one, the Zone certainly WAS the Wal-Mart of off market music, and I, like many others, shall miss it.
(The importance of boots: doubtful if the Anthology Series or legit Dylan Bootleg Series would gave ever seen the light of day without bootlegs.)
But, within 48 hours, some sharp Internet posters had found a Polish version of the Zone, which has English translation, although not as extensive as the original.
Yet the 64 million dollar question is what happened to the Bootleg Zone.
Some speculated that it was hacked.
Some believed it had been shut down abruptly due to the heat.
Some, like me, really had no idea what happened, as anything is possible.
So, for those who would like a temporary fix of a sort, try this: http://hometown.aol.com/lestatkatt/myhomepage/personal.html
But Mike would like to remind that his is a "trade only" site, so the fuzz can fookin' nevermind.
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BOOTY: www.quiz-u-boomer.blogspot.com
Monday, February 26, 2007
Beatle Bits #534 DIRK DOWN TO BRIGHTON!!
Your dear correspondent's net of world wide informants hath informed that Dirk McQuickly has returned to his fave gym down Brighton way, near his sprawling intestate in Peesmash, UK.
The reason, I understand, is that Heathen Millstone has been sacked from the sweat palace, and she and her "personal trainer," er, yuk, yuk, have fled for some other place, even though Dirk graciously offered her a shack to crash in whilst the legals are sorted.
And the reason that Heathen has fooked off, and Dirk returned, is reportedly due to the departure of the aforementioned "personal trainer" of Heathen who previously had his hands full, but now only grasps at flattened cow patties as it were.
Even more ironic, is that some wags speculate that the gym is where McQuickly actually met and later bedded Millstone back around 2000, of which the accompanying cacophony was said to be audible for some distance from Peesmash, and quite blush-worthy.
No sex please, we're skittish.
Beatle Bits has also learned that Dirk is working out in preparatory for his "When I'm Bloody 65 Paying For Me Divorce" tour, which should kick off later this year, God willing.
Yes, he damn well should have known better.
THAT'S SHOWBIZ: www.quiz-u-boomer.blogspot.com
The reason, I understand, is that Heathen Millstone has been sacked from the sweat palace, and she and her "personal trainer," er, yuk, yuk, have fled for some other place, even though Dirk graciously offered her a shack to crash in whilst the legals are sorted.
And the reason that Heathen has fooked off, and Dirk returned, is reportedly due to the departure of the aforementioned "personal trainer" of Heathen who previously had his hands full, but now only grasps at flattened cow patties as it were.
Even more ironic, is that some wags speculate that the gym is where McQuickly actually met and later bedded Millstone back around 2000, of which the accompanying cacophony was said to be audible for some distance from Peesmash, and quite blush-worthy.
No sex please, we're skittish.
Beatle Bits has also learned that Dirk is working out in preparatory for his "When I'm Bloody 65 Paying For Me Divorce" tour, which should kick off later this year, God willing.
Yes, he damn well should have known better.
THAT'S SHOWBIZ: www.quiz-u-boomer.blogspot.com
Saturday, February 24, 2007
Beatle Bits #533 HERE COMES ANTHOLOGY 4!!!!
So, Yoko Ono says she has given her blessing to Dirk and Barry to complete a 1970s era John Lennon demo, entitled, Now and Then.
Apparently, this song was considered for Anthology 3, but perhaps Stig was not too enthused, so the Threetles +1 from the grave went undone.
Now, even though Rutle Corp has previously claimed that the Anthology series was kaput, don't count on the remaining lads putting out a one-off tune anytime soon.
Rather, look for another anthology type project, if not in fact, a formal Anth4.
And hell, why not?
The first 3 compilations only began to mine the miles of tape at Shabbey Road, and so a double CD of new alts and outs would be greatly appreciated by the hard core.
But please, Apple rocket scientists; put 'em out as nature intended. instead of fookin' with them the way you did before.
One of the great things about the boots like Unsurpassed Masters and such, was the feeling that one was eavesdropping on the Beatles as it really happened.
Yet one they started tacking on this bit, to another bit, and adding another take, it became more of a manufactured thing, rather than a found relic.
Oh well, I guess that's showbiz!
PS: Rutle Corp; PUT THE 22 MINUTE HELTER SKELTER ON THE NEXT ARCHIVE RELEASE!!!!
Apparently, this song was considered for Anthology 3, but perhaps Stig was not too enthused, so the Threetles +1 from the grave went undone.
Now, even though Rutle Corp has previously claimed that the Anthology series was kaput, don't count on the remaining lads putting out a one-off tune anytime soon.
Rather, look for another anthology type project, if not in fact, a formal Anth4.
And hell, why not?
The first 3 compilations only began to mine the miles of tape at Shabbey Road, and so a double CD of new alts and outs would be greatly appreciated by the hard core.
But please, Apple rocket scientists; put 'em out as nature intended. instead of fookin' with them the way you did before.
One of the great things about the boots like Unsurpassed Masters and such, was the feeling that one was eavesdropping on the Beatles as it really happened.
Yet one they started tacking on this bit, to another bit, and adding another take, it became more of a manufactured thing, rather than a found relic.
Oh well, I guess that's showbiz!
PS: Rutle Corp; PUT THE 22 MINUTE HELTER SKELTER ON THE NEXT ARCHIVE RELEASE!!!!
Friday, February 23, 2007
Beatle Bits #532 MILLSTONE MADDER THAN A MARCH HARE!!
Cor blimey!
Heathen Millstone is reportedly getting ready to attack the Macca with slings and arrows of outrageous fabrications about Dirk's two daughters.
Apparently, Millstone will claim that Dirk was so mean and unparenting to his 2 girls that they were extremely distraught, and depressed.
And we have all this because supposedly, Macca has asked for complete custody of young Beatrice, and not only is Millstone saying "fook you," to that suggestion by Dirk, but also demanding a pad in LA, because evidently she believes it never rains in California.
That's right, but it does pour. And pouring-brass, that is-into Mz. Millstone's change purse is something Mr. Macca better get used to on the way to his trillion Penny Lane.
Millstone apparently said early she'd get lost with a zipped lip for 100 mill, or so.
But now, it is being said that-and don't forget predicted by BB a long time ago-heathen wants considerably more, and is convinced that Dirk will pay to make the humiliation stop.
Or, as the late, great Frank Zappa once noted, the torture never stops.
Finally, in regards to Millstone Dancing With The Stars, reader Doc Rob hopes someone sez to her, "break a leg." Cheeky!
YO: www.quiz-u-boomer.blogspot.com
Heathen Millstone is reportedly getting ready to attack the Macca with slings and arrows of outrageous fabrications about Dirk's two daughters.
Apparently, Millstone will claim that Dirk was so mean and unparenting to his 2 girls that they were extremely distraught, and depressed.
And we have all this because supposedly, Macca has asked for complete custody of young Beatrice, and not only is Millstone saying "fook you," to that suggestion by Dirk, but also demanding a pad in LA, because evidently she believes it never rains in California.
That's right, but it does pour. And pouring-brass, that is-into Mz. Millstone's change purse is something Mr. Macca better get used to on the way to his trillion Penny Lane.
Millstone apparently said early she'd get lost with a zipped lip for 100 mill, or so.
But now, it is being said that-and don't forget predicted by BB a long time ago-heathen wants considerably more, and is convinced that Dirk will pay to make the humiliation stop.
Or, as the late, great Frank Zappa once noted, the torture never stops.
Finally, in regards to Millstone Dancing With The Stars, reader Doc Rob hopes someone sez to her, "break a leg." Cheeky!
YO: www.quiz-u-boomer.blogspot.com
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Beatle Bits #532 DANCING WITH THE SOWS!
Well, well, well.
Ohhhh, WELL!
Events are undressing so fast your dear correspondent can hardly keep up to here with them.
As talked about in this space some time ago now-BB520- it has been made official by the alphabet network that Mz, Heathen Millstone WILL in fact be a 50% thespian on Dancing With The SARS, this year.
I mean even as a joke this ain't funny, honey, money.
What will Millstone dance with, a walker?
As the 4th Best Beatle Blogger in the WWW has also merrily mused before, the ongoing nutters involving the Millstone/Macca wampum wars is perhaps more bizarre than anything the Rutles ever presented.
Who, woulda thunk it?
Truth-or something resembling it-is surely stranger than fiction.
Again, Dirk, pay this spot the loony off straight away, sort the lout out, and get on with it!
Touring After You're 64, of course, and the obligatory break-up album, sure to be entitled: I Married A Wankette.
Ohhhh, WELL!
Events are undressing so fast your dear correspondent can hardly keep up to here with them.
As talked about in this space some time ago now-BB520- it has been made official by the alphabet network that Mz, Heathen Millstone WILL in fact be a 50% thespian on Dancing With The SARS, this year.
I mean even as a joke this ain't funny, honey, money.
What will Millstone dance with, a walker?
As the 4th Best Beatle Blogger in the WWW has also merrily mused before, the ongoing nutters involving the Millstone/Macca wampum wars is perhaps more bizarre than anything the Rutles ever presented.
Who, woulda thunk it?
Truth-or something resembling it-is surely stranger than fiction.
Again, Dirk, pay this spot the loony off straight away, sort the lout out, and get on with it!
Touring After You're 64, of course, and the obligatory break-up album, sure to be entitled: I Married A Wankette.
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Beatle Bits #531 MILLSTONE/SAPHHO SIS RIP-OFF OF BB!!!!!!
I read the newz today, and oh boy, was I knackered!
Heathen Millstone hath been "borrowing" from the 4th best Beatle Blogger in the WWW, with a tarted up Dirk McQuickly cartoon, cheekily entitled the "McFartney's."
Good God, you swag, is nothing sacred?
When a slag like this goes besmirching the name of a famous pop star with a bloody cheeky "cartoon," well then I say we've had enough.
I mean, you leave the satire to the experienced satirists, or else now we have all this.
And of course for sure such an endeavour by Heathen will wanna make Macca give a quite generous deevorce settlement to the cow.
My secret source in Jolly Olde England confirms that Millstone has been reading BB, and in fact, got her inspiration from your dear correspondent's singularly sick meanderings over 500 posts, or so.
So, in the age olde tradition of Rutle Cor, I announce today a 1 billion-with a B-dollar lawsuit against Mz. Millstone.
However, I will settle for a dub of that 22 minute outtake of Helter Skelter that apparently Millstone is holding.
LOOK OUT! www.quiz-u-boomer.blogspot.com
Heathen Millstone hath been "borrowing" from the 4th best Beatle Blogger in the WWW, with a tarted up Dirk McQuickly cartoon, cheekily entitled the "McFartney's."
Good God, you swag, is nothing sacred?
When a slag like this goes besmirching the name of a famous pop star with a bloody cheeky "cartoon," well then I say we've had enough.
I mean, you leave the satire to the experienced satirists, or else now we have all this.
And of course for sure such an endeavour by Heathen will wanna make Macca give a quite generous deevorce settlement to the cow.
My secret source in Jolly Olde England confirms that Millstone has been reading BB, and in fact, got her inspiration from your dear correspondent's singularly sick meanderings over 500 posts, or so.
So, in the age olde tradition of Rutle Cor, I announce today a 1 billion-with a B-dollar lawsuit against Mz. Millstone.
However, I will settle for a dub of that 22 minute outtake of Helter Skelter that apparently Millstone is holding.
LOOK OUT! www.quiz-u-boomer.blogspot.com
Monday, February 19, 2007
Beatle Bits #530 WHEN SHE'S 74!
Big month for the self proclaimed witch, Yoko Ono, what with her new CD, the DVD release of the US Vs. John Lennon, and her 74th birthday.
First, the CD, Yes I'm A Witch. Although Rolling Stone mag gave it a rather dodgy 4 star review, I'd have to say in all honesty that, yes, I would like a broom.
Um, save your money for the below.
Second, the US v JL is obviously a polemic, yet it is good at any time to see footage of John, although to my eyes anyway, there is precious little that has not been seen in one form or the other before.
The 5.1 mix is nice, although I don't think there was enough music in the film to make proper use of the format.
Nice to see David Peel-even if it were only a minute or so-as he was the first "Beatle person" I ever interviewed, just shortly before John's death.
But not nice to keep seeing pr weasel supremo Ellie Mince, who when he talks, I feel like I'm subjected to extra long claws screeched a blackboard. Don't care much for this ball washer.
Perhaps the film should have been longer, as the 45 minutes of outtakes seem to flesh the thing out better than the shorter, released version.
No booklet with this thing, though, and that, is a no-no.
Oh, oh, do I smell a "special edition" coming?
Finally, Yoko at 74 is certainly an amazing thing to see.
Whatever she is doing agrees with her, and she even sez she will tour behind her new record.
They say it's your birthday?
Well, happy birthday to ya.
ALLO: www.quiz-u-boomer.blogspot.com
First, the CD, Yes I'm A Witch. Although Rolling Stone mag gave it a rather dodgy 4 star review, I'd have to say in all honesty that, yes, I would like a broom.
Um, save your money for the below.
Second, the US v JL is obviously a polemic, yet it is good at any time to see footage of John, although to my eyes anyway, there is precious little that has not been seen in one form or the other before.
The 5.1 mix is nice, although I don't think there was enough music in the film to make proper use of the format.
Nice to see David Peel-even if it were only a minute or so-as he was the first "Beatle person" I ever interviewed, just shortly before John's death.
But not nice to keep seeing pr weasel supremo Ellie Mince, who when he talks, I feel like I'm subjected to extra long claws screeched a blackboard. Don't care much for this ball washer.
Perhaps the film should have been longer, as the 45 minutes of outtakes seem to flesh the thing out better than the shorter, released version.
No booklet with this thing, though, and that, is a no-no.
Oh, oh, do I smell a "special edition" coming?
Finally, Yoko at 74 is certainly an amazing thing to see.
Whatever she is doing agrees with her, and she even sez she will tour behind her new record.
They say it's your birthday?
Well, happy birthday to ya.
ALLO: www.quiz-u-boomer.blogspot.com
Friday, February 16, 2007
Beatle Bits #529 JOHNNY CARSON-LESS FABS
The 4th Best Beatle Blogger brings to ewe, the following regarding John Lennon and Paul McCartney's 1968 appearance on the Tonight Show as requested by reader Chris.
All hosannas to Kabir AKA Evil Ed Sullivan, for the info.
Enjoy.
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Hello Terry! Being both a Beatles and Tonight Show fan, this piqued my interest. I'm sure you've gotten numerous letters about how all the pre-72 Tonight Shows were erased, etc. BUT, someone apparently took some Polaroids off the screen that night, and I saw them posted online a few years ago. Here's 2. Also, someone made an audiotape, and here's a transcript I copied from the site. Can't remember the link, so I hope someone else points you to it.
In your blog, it sounds like Chris taped this item off the TV somehow back in '68...if so, is he just looking for more recorded evidence? Does HE in fact have a copy (audio or video) of this? I would love to see/hear it, so please feel free to pass along my email to him- maybe we can trade or something.
-Evil Ed : )
NB: JG stands for Joe Garigiola, who was subbing for Carson.
JG: "Ladies and gentlemen, from the Beatles-- John Lennon and Paul McCartney!" (excited screams and applause as they walk out)
JG: "Good evening, good evening. Can I ask you something? How did you get here? Not from England, but from the hotel with all the people out there?"
JOHN: "Uhh, car."
JG: "Car. Did you have any problems?"
JOHN: "No, no. All under control. (jokingly) Well how are you, Johnny?"
JG: "Well, I figure you've been interviewed all day-- if there's any questions you'd like to ask us..."
JOHN: "What are you doing?"
(laughter)
PAUL: "Mmm, where's Johnny?"
JG: "Where is he? Gatorsburg!"
ED McMAHON: "Gatorsburg!"
JG: "A wonderful town."
TB: "May I ask you, a big favorite all over the world, a question? Are the other two gentlemen... of the four of you... are they still in India?"
JOHN: "No, they're in England."
TB: "I want to ask you something, because I wish I'd learned to meditate, and I can't... I don't know how you do it. I would love to."
JOHN: "Well you gotta go and find out, haven't you."
TB: "Well I'm not going that far."
JOHN: "Oh well."
(laughter)
PAUL: "Forget it."
TB: "If it's taken me this long, and couldn't do it, I couldn't learn there."
JOHN: "Well, you can't learn to swim if you keep inland, can you? Unless you've got a pool around you."
TB: "Oh honey, I can float sitting up. Don't be silly."
(laughter)
JG: "I get the feeling there are two different conversations here!"
PAUL: "Yeah right, yeah. We had a bit of trouble today-- this fella-- We did an interview for the educational program. And he started asking us questions, and they were quite sort of serious questions, you know. So it was a choice between just laughing it up, or answering seriously."
JG: "So what did you do?"
PAUL: "We were a bit serious."
JG: (jokingly) "You? Serious?"
PAUL: "Yeah. We were just sort of-- (clears throat comically) --not too serious, you know, just sort of."
JG: "Listen, of all the..."
PAUL: "So tell us a joke!"
(laughter)
JG: "I don't really have that many jokes, you tell me a joke."
JOHN: "We don't know any."
TB: "I think they're very serious fellows."
PAUL: "That's it. We are, you know."
JOHN: "We can never remember 'em, you see."
JG: "Would you like to be a comedian?"
JOHN: "No."
JG: "In many ways you are."
JOHN: "Well..."
(laughter)
JG: "The four of you, socially, are you that close, or are you...?"
PAUL: "Yeah."
JOHN: "We're close friends, you know."
JG: "Sometimes when you work together-- I've been with groups that when the job's over, that's it. Do you have houses pretty much together?"
JOHN: "Within twenty miles all together."
JG: "If you couldn't have been in music-- if it hadn't happened for you-- what do you think you would like to do?"
JOHN: "Ahh, I don't know. Films for me."
(Paul relaxes back comfortably)
JG: (pause) "How about you, Paul... I'm not breaking your mood, am I?"
PAUL: "No. You're doing great, you know. But, umm..."
(laughter)
PAUL: "So, what would I like to have been?"
JOHN: "A policeman."
PAUL: (to John) "...no. Not a policeman."
(laughter)
PAUL: "Uhh, I don't know, you know. I was nearly gonna be a teacher but that fell through, luckily."
(music swells for a commercial break... Paul begins humming along... girls scream)
JG: (to John) "Why don't you read that (cue card) and see what the reaction is."
JOHN: "And now a word from your local stallion."
(laughter)
JG: "...a word from your local STATION!"
[COMMERCIAL]
JG: "Listen. Paul, you said something that's hard for me to believe. You were in Central Park, and no one recognized you, Sunday?"
PAUL: "Yes, that's true. Yes."
JOHN: "We were very pleased, you know."
JG: "You just kinda wandered around? You just walked around? The police weren't with you?"
JOHN: "No, we just walked out, you know. We often do it. If people don't know-- expect us, what are they gonna do but see a bit of long hair walking around like all the other long hair."
(laughter)
JG: "How long have you been in New York now? We just found out about it."
PAUL: "Three days."
JOHN: "Is it three, now?"
PAUL: "Three days."
JOHN: "And we still haven't got a tan."
PAUL: "And it's been enough, you know, actually." (laughs)
JG: "When you get into a city-- You were on tour, and you got to a lot of cities. How much of it do you really see? It's ballpark to a hotel, I think."
JOHN: "You just pick up the vibrations. We never saw it, you know."
PAUL: "The room."
JOHN: "A castle full of rooms all over the place."
JG: "How about this new organization, 'Apple'?"
JOHN: "Oh yeah. Well you see, our accountant came up and said, 'We got this amount of money. Do you want to give it to the government or do something with it?' So we thought..."
JG: "Which government?"
JOHN: "Oh... Any old government."
(laughter)
JOHN: "So we decided to play businessmen for a bit, because, uhh, we've got to run our own affairs now. So, we've got this thing called 'Apple' which is going to be records, films, and electronics-- which all tie-up. And to make a sort of an umbrella so people who want to make films about... grass... don't have to go on their knees in an office, you know, begging for a break. We'll try and do it like that. That's the idea. I mean, we'll find out what happens, but that's what we're trying to do."
PAUL: "If you want to do something, normally you've got to go to big business and you've gotta go to 'them,' the big people, you know."
JOHN: "You don't even get there. Because you can't get through the door 'cuz of the color of your shoes."
PAUL: (laughs) "But you know, people are normally... Big companies are so big that if you're little and good it takes you like 60 years to make it. And so people miss out on these little good people."
JOHN: "It just takes 'em longer."
PAUL: "So we're trying to find a few."
JG: "Paul, is that because of your background? You came from a poor background."
JOHN: "No, it's no sort of... it's just a common thing."
PAUL: "There's a little bit of that."
JG: "If you didn't feel it as a youngster, you wouldn't feel it now."
JOHN: "Yeah."
PAUL: "Yeah that's right, you know. It's just 'cuz, we know what we had to fight to, sort of..."
JG: "Was it tough for you to get started?"
JOHN: "Well, no tougher than anybody else, you see, but George said, 'I'm sick of being told to keep out of the park.' That's what it's about, you know. We're trying to make a park for people to come in and do what they want."
PAUL: (comical voice) "Symbolically speaking."
(laughter)
JG: "Is he the spokesman, would you say, John?"
JOHN: "Well, if his spokes are working, he is. And if mine are..."
(laughter)
JG: "Do you have the privacy that you're leading me to believe you have, or is it a tough job?"
JOHN: "We have enough to keep us sane, you know. If we are sane-- we have enough."
(laughter)
JOHN: "But it's not like touring. Our life isn't like a tour, or like 'A Hard Day's Night' or any of those things. That's only what we're doing now. We create that, or that is created. But when we're just living, it's calm."
JG: "Is it calm, Paul?"
PAUL: "Yeah. Not at the moment, you know. It's hectic-- New York. Very hectic place. 'Cuz we came over from England and it's a very sort of quiet place, you know."
JG: "What's so different about New York?"
JOHN: "Louder."
PAUL: "It's very... (imitates cars honking and police sirens) ...you know."
(laughter)
JG: (jokingly) "You've got a hit record on your hands already!"
PAUL: "You know, that happens a lot here."
JG: "Don't you like that kind of life?"
JOHN: "It's alright. You get into it. I mean, three days isn't enough to get used to that."
JG: "Would you 'like' to get into it?"
JOHN: "Ahh, not today."
TB: (laughs) "Are you nervous on a show like this?"
PAUL: "Always nervous."
JOHN: "Yeah, sure. Sure."
JG: "Why would you be nervous?"
JOHN: "Because, uhh... It's not natural."
(laughter)
JG: "I don't know, I'm just kind of visiting with you... I would feel it's natural. I feel like I've read about you and I want to meet you."
JOHN: "I mean, this 'situation' isn't natural."
PAUL: "If we meet you and talk at your house, then that's alright you know, because we can actually talk naturally. It's a bit difficult when you know you're going out into a million homes."
JG: "So you're guarded, pretty well, in what you say then?"
JOHN: "No, not guarded."
PAUL: "No, but it's still difficult, you know. (gesturing to the camera crew) There it is!! Look!! It's going out!!!"
(laughter)
JOHN: "Well, aren't you nervous at all?"
JG: "I am nervous because of the... uhh..."
JOHN: (comically) "Well, because-- because-- because!!! But it's the same thing!"
(laughter)
JG: "Except that you are very successful in what you do."
JOHN: "It doesn't make any difference."
JG: "So what you're telling me is that you have fears and anxieties like everybody else?"
JOHN: "Sure! We're human, man!"
PAUL: "You know that old showbiz thing everybody says, 'Well, you know, you always get nervous before you go on the stage.' Uhh, I think we get 'em all the way. When you go on stage it's just one of those things."
JG: "But you get over that alright."
JOHN: "Oh sure. It's part of the game."
[COMMERCIAL]
JG: "Listen now, I have something in common with both of you. I met the guru, the Maharishi. And I noticed that he went out with an act-- the Beach Boys. And it folded."
JOHN: "Yeah. Right."
JG: "What do you think of the Yogi as an act?"
JOHN: "Yeah. Well, we found out that we made a mistake there."
PAUL: "We tried to persuade him against that, you know. I thought it was a terrible idea."
JOHN: "We believe in meditation, but not the Maharishi and his scene. But that's a personal mistake we made in public."
JG: "When did you find out it was a mistake?"
JOHN: "Well, uhh, I can't remember the date, you know, but it was in India. And meditation is good, and it does what they say. It's like exercise or cleaning your teeth, you know. It works, but uhh, we've finished with that bit."
ED McMAHON: "Has he changed? Is that what..."
JOHN: "Well, no. I think it's just that we're seeing him a bit more in perspective, you know, 'cuz we're as naive as the next person about a lot of things."
PAUL: "We get carried away with things like that, though. I mean, we thought he was... uhh... magic, you know-- just floating around and everything. Flying."
JG: "Do you think the kids in America have turned him off?"
JOHN: "Well, it could be something to do with it. But I wouldn't say, 'Don't meditate' to them, because a lot of them would get a great deal from it."
PAUL: "You know, the system is more important than all those things."
JOHN: "He's surrounded with, it seems like, the old establishment that we know so well."
JG: "Are you saying, 'Meditate, but not with the Yogi'?"
PAUL: (long pause) "Yeah. I mean, he's good. There's nothing wrong with him. But we think the system is more important than all the two-bit personality bit. You know, he gets sort of treated like a big star. He's on the road with the Beach Boys, and it's all that scene. And also... It folds, you know. That's the silly thing."
(laughter)
TB: "Does he giggle as much as..."
JOHN: "Yes. It's his natural asset."
(laughter)
JOHN: "Well, you see, it depends on what way you're looking at it at the time. If it's not getting on your nerves, it's 'Oh, what a happy fellow.' It depends how you feel when you look at him."
JG: "I had him on the show, and he just giggled and giggled the whole time. I figured there was something, maybe my tie was loose. Who was the first one that met the Yogi?"
JOHN: "We all met him at the same time."
JG: "Can you tell us the circumstances?"
JOHN: "Well, he was just doing a lecture in London at the Hilton. So we all went and we thought, 'What a nice man.' And we were looking for that. You know, everybody's looking for it, but we were looking for it 'that day' as well. And then we met him and he was good, you know. He's got a good thing in him. And we went along with it."
JG: "But now, you just got off the train, huh?"
JOHN: "Right. Nice trip thank you very much."
(laughter)
JG: "Do you think that your own careers have kind of switched? Not that you lose a group, but you seem to be changing your audience."
JOHN: "See, everything changes. So we change as well. And our audience changes, too, all the time. We don't sort of put our finger on 'What age group or why.' But we know-- everything changes, and us too."
PAUL: "When we first started we had leather jackets on, you know. Little caps and big cowboy boots. But then we changed to suits, you know."
JOHN: "We thought, 'That'll get 'em.'"
(laughter)
PAUL: "And we lost a whole lot of fans. They all said, 'You've gone ponched.' They didn't like it, you know, because we were all clean."
(laughter)
PAUL: "So we lost that crowd, but we gained all the ones that liked suits. It happens like that. That's what keeps happening. And we lost a lot of people with 'Sgt Pepper,' but I think we gained more."
(crowd applauds in agreement)
JG: "Do you think you're going to be able to top 'Sgt. Pepper'?"
JOHN: "Well, you know, it's the next move, and I can't say 'yes or no,' but I think so. Why not? 'Cuz it's only another LP really... it's not that important."
JG: "Well, you have to be the most imitated group."
JOHN: "Well maybe. Yeah."
(laughter)
JG: "When you talk about Lennon/McCartney songs, do you work together, or one writes one, or..."
JOHN: "It's all those combinations you can think of. Every combination of two people writing a song... inasmuch as we can both write them completely separately, and together, and not together. But we obviously influence each other, like groups and people do."
JG: "I can think of my favorite-- 'Yesterday.'"
(crowd applauds)
JG: "What are the circumstances behind that, Paul? How does that happen?"
PAUL: "I don't know. I woke up one morning..."
JOHN: (singing as blues) "'I Woke Up One Morning...'"
(laughter)
PAUL: (pauses, then continues, rhythmically) "'Piano By My Bed...'"
JOHN: (sings blues lick) "'duh-dut duh dut-a-la-dut!'"
(laughter)
PAUL: "'Went To The Piano...'"
JOHN: "Yeah?"
PAUL: (rhythmically) "And This- Is What- I Said!'"
(laughter)
PAUL: "You know, I just started playing it and this tune came. 'Cuz that's what happens. They just, sort of-- they COME, you know. It just came and I couldn't think of any words to it, so originally it was just, 'Scrambled Egg.' It was called 'Scrambled Egg' for a couple of months..."
(laughter)
PAUL: "...until I thought of 'Yesterday.' And that's it."
JG: (pause) "Are you putting me on?"
PAUL: "No, that's true."
JG: "'Scrambled Eggs'? You write a song about scrambled eggs?"
PAUL: "True story."
JOHN: "'Scrambled Egg' was over here as an instrumental first."
PAUL: "That's true, you know."
JOHN: "Didn't do so well with that title, you know."
(laughter)
JG: "How long are you gonna stay here?"
JOHN: "Uhh, It could be any minute now."
(laughter)
JG: "I know we've probably kept you out here longer than we should have, but I'm going to take a..."
(members of audience groan, realizing the interview is almost over)
JG: "I have a reverse question I'm going to ask you, and feel free not to answer it. What is the one question that bugs you the most. About your hair?"
JOHN: "No. We're past being bugged by questions, unless they're very personal. I mean, you just get normal human reactions to a question. You know, but there used to be one about, 'What are you going to do when the bubble bursts?' and we thought we'd have hysterics because somebody always asked it."
JG: "Let's go down the list of the questions. What are you going to do when the bubble bursts?"
JOHN: "I haven't a clue, you know. I'm still looking for the bubble."
(laughter)
JG: (to Paul) "I've heard you on interviews, you have fun with reporters! You stay right with him."
PAUL: "No, no. I'm serious. Serious."
JG: "You are? I think you're the kind of a guy that would say, 'Here's a match-- I wonder how much gas is in the tank.' Would you be that kind of a guy?"
PAUL: "Yeah, sure."
(laughter)
JG: "Paul, John, I know that you've got a busy, busy schedule."
(groans from the audience)
JOHN: (comically, to the crowd) "That's the way it goes, folks!"
(laughter)
JG: "We have to say goodbye. Does that make you sad to have to leave me, John?"
JOHN: "All goodbyes are sad aren't they, Joe."
JG: "Why don't you write a song. Call it, 'Say Goodbye To Joe.'"
JOHN: "'Goodbye Joe. See You In The Morning.' ...oh, that's some other line."
(laughter)
JG: "Paul, you got any ideas?"
PAUL: "Uhh... no... Joe..."
(laughter)
PAUL: "Ok, umm... No, I can't think of a song."
JG: "When you get home and you start to write 'Scrambled Eggs Number Two' will you think about me?"
PAUL: "OK."
JOHN: "And I'll join you somehow."
JG: "Thank you very much."
(applause and screams)
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All hosannas to Kabir AKA Evil Ed Sullivan, for the info.
Enjoy.
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Hello Terry! Being both a Beatles and Tonight Show fan, this piqued my interest. I'm sure you've gotten numerous letters about how all the pre-72 Tonight Shows were erased, etc. BUT, someone apparently took some Polaroids off the screen that night, and I saw them posted online a few years ago. Here's 2. Also, someone made an audiotape, and here's a transcript I copied from the site. Can't remember the link, so I hope someone else points you to it.
In your blog, it sounds like Chris taped this item off the TV somehow back in '68...if so, is he just looking for more recorded evidence? Does HE in fact have a copy (audio or video) of this? I would love to see/hear it, so please feel free to pass along my email to him- maybe we can trade or something.
-Evil Ed : )
NB: JG stands for Joe Garigiola, who was subbing for Carson.
JG: "Ladies and gentlemen, from the Beatles-- John Lennon and Paul McCartney!" (excited screams and applause as they walk out)
JG: "Good evening, good evening. Can I ask you something? How did you get here? Not from England, but from the hotel with all the people out there?"
JOHN: "Uhh, car."
JG: "Car. Did you have any problems?"
JOHN: "No, no. All under control. (jokingly) Well how are you, Johnny?"
JG: "Well, I figure you've been interviewed all day-- if there's any questions you'd like to ask us..."
JOHN: "What are you doing?"
(laughter)
PAUL: "Mmm, where's Johnny?"
JG: "Where is he? Gatorsburg!"
ED McMAHON: "Gatorsburg!"
JG: "A wonderful town."
TB: "May I ask you, a big favorite all over the world, a question? Are the other two gentlemen... of the four of you... are they still in India?"
JOHN: "No, they're in England."
TB: "I want to ask you something, because I wish I'd learned to meditate, and I can't... I don't know how you do it. I would love to."
JOHN: "Well you gotta go and find out, haven't you."
TB: "Well I'm not going that far."
JOHN: "Oh well."
(laughter)
PAUL: "Forget it."
TB: "If it's taken me this long, and couldn't do it, I couldn't learn there."
JOHN: "Well, you can't learn to swim if you keep inland, can you? Unless you've got a pool around you."
TB: "Oh honey, I can float sitting up. Don't be silly."
(laughter)
JG: "I get the feeling there are two different conversations here!"
PAUL: "Yeah right, yeah. We had a bit of trouble today-- this fella-- We did an interview for the educational program. And he started asking us questions, and they were quite sort of serious questions, you know. So it was a choice between just laughing it up, or answering seriously."
JG: "So what did you do?"
PAUL: "We were a bit serious."
JG: (jokingly) "You? Serious?"
PAUL: "Yeah. We were just sort of-- (clears throat comically) --not too serious, you know, just sort of."
JG: "Listen, of all the..."
PAUL: "So tell us a joke!"
(laughter)
JG: "I don't really have that many jokes, you tell me a joke."
JOHN: "We don't know any."
TB: "I think they're very serious fellows."
PAUL: "That's it. We are, you know."
JOHN: "We can never remember 'em, you see."
JG: "Would you like to be a comedian?"
JOHN: "No."
JG: "In many ways you are."
JOHN: "Well..."
(laughter)
JG: "The four of you, socially, are you that close, or are you...?"
PAUL: "Yeah."
JOHN: "We're close friends, you know."
JG: "Sometimes when you work together-- I've been with groups that when the job's over, that's it. Do you have houses pretty much together?"
JOHN: "Within twenty miles all together."
JG: "If you couldn't have been in music-- if it hadn't happened for you-- what do you think you would like to do?"
JOHN: "Ahh, I don't know. Films for me."
(Paul relaxes back comfortably)
JG: (pause) "How about you, Paul... I'm not breaking your mood, am I?"
PAUL: "No. You're doing great, you know. But, umm..."
(laughter)
PAUL: "So, what would I like to have been?"
JOHN: "A policeman."
PAUL: (to John) "...no. Not a policeman."
(laughter)
PAUL: "Uhh, I don't know, you know. I was nearly gonna be a teacher but that fell through, luckily."
(music swells for a commercial break... Paul begins humming along... girls scream)
JG: (to John) "Why don't you read that (cue card) and see what the reaction is."
JOHN: "And now a word from your local stallion."
(laughter)
JG: "...a word from your local STATION!"
[COMMERCIAL]
JG: "Listen. Paul, you said something that's hard for me to believe. You were in Central Park, and no one recognized you, Sunday?"
PAUL: "Yes, that's true. Yes."
JOHN: "We were very pleased, you know."
JG: "You just kinda wandered around? You just walked around? The police weren't with you?"
JOHN: "No, we just walked out, you know. We often do it. If people don't know-- expect us, what are they gonna do but see a bit of long hair walking around like all the other long hair."
(laughter)
JG: "How long have you been in New York now? We just found out about it."
PAUL: "Three days."
JOHN: "Is it three, now?"
PAUL: "Three days."
JOHN: "And we still haven't got a tan."
PAUL: "And it's been enough, you know, actually." (laughs)
JG: "When you get into a city-- You were on tour, and you got to a lot of cities. How much of it do you really see? It's ballpark to a hotel, I think."
JOHN: "You just pick up the vibrations. We never saw it, you know."
PAUL: "The room."
JOHN: "A castle full of rooms all over the place."
JG: "How about this new organization, 'Apple'?"
JOHN: "Oh yeah. Well you see, our accountant came up and said, 'We got this amount of money. Do you want to give it to the government or do something with it?' So we thought..."
JG: "Which government?"
JOHN: "Oh... Any old government."
(laughter)
JOHN: "So we decided to play businessmen for a bit, because, uhh, we've got to run our own affairs now. So, we've got this thing called 'Apple' which is going to be records, films, and electronics-- which all tie-up. And to make a sort of an umbrella so people who want to make films about... grass... don't have to go on their knees in an office, you know, begging for a break. We'll try and do it like that. That's the idea. I mean, we'll find out what happens, but that's what we're trying to do."
PAUL: "If you want to do something, normally you've got to go to big business and you've gotta go to 'them,' the big people, you know."
JOHN: "You don't even get there. Because you can't get through the door 'cuz of the color of your shoes."
PAUL: (laughs) "But you know, people are normally... Big companies are so big that if you're little and good it takes you like 60 years to make it. And so people miss out on these little good people."
JOHN: "It just takes 'em longer."
PAUL: "So we're trying to find a few."
JG: "Paul, is that because of your background? You came from a poor background."
JOHN: "No, it's no sort of... it's just a common thing."
PAUL: "There's a little bit of that."
JG: "If you didn't feel it as a youngster, you wouldn't feel it now."
JOHN: "Yeah."
PAUL: "Yeah that's right, you know. It's just 'cuz, we know what we had to fight to, sort of..."
JG: "Was it tough for you to get started?"
JOHN: "Well, no tougher than anybody else, you see, but George said, 'I'm sick of being told to keep out of the park.' That's what it's about, you know. We're trying to make a park for people to come in and do what they want."
PAUL: (comical voice) "Symbolically speaking."
(laughter)
JG: "Is he the spokesman, would you say, John?"
JOHN: "Well, if his spokes are working, he is. And if mine are..."
(laughter)
JG: "Do you have the privacy that you're leading me to believe you have, or is it a tough job?"
JOHN: "We have enough to keep us sane, you know. If we are sane-- we have enough."
(laughter)
JOHN: "But it's not like touring. Our life isn't like a tour, or like 'A Hard Day's Night' or any of those things. That's only what we're doing now. We create that, or that is created. But when we're just living, it's calm."
JG: "Is it calm, Paul?"
PAUL: "Yeah. Not at the moment, you know. It's hectic-- New York. Very hectic place. 'Cuz we came over from England and it's a very sort of quiet place, you know."
JG: "What's so different about New York?"
JOHN: "Louder."
PAUL: "It's very... (imitates cars honking and police sirens) ...you know."
(laughter)
JG: (jokingly) "You've got a hit record on your hands already!"
PAUL: "You know, that happens a lot here."
JG: "Don't you like that kind of life?"
JOHN: "It's alright. You get into it. I mean, three days isn't enough to get used to that."
JG: "Would you 'like' to get into it?"
JOHN: "Ahh, not today."
TB: (laughs) "Are you nervous on a show like this?"
PAUL: "Always nervous."
JOHN: "Yeah, sure. Sure."
JG: "Why would you be nervous?"
JOHN: "Because, uhh... It's not natural."
(laughter)
JG: "I don't know, I'm just kind of visiting with you... I would feel it's natural. I feel like I've read about you and I want to meet you."
JOHN: "I mean, this 'situation' isn't natural."
PAUL: "If we meet you and talk at your house, then that's alright you know, because we can actually talk naturally. It's a bit difficult when you know you're going out into a million homes."
JG: "So you're guarded, pretty well, in what you say then?"
JOHN: "No, not guarded."
PAUL: "No, but it's still difficult, you know. (gesturing to the camera crew) There it is!! Look!! It's going out!!!"
(laughter)
JOHN: "Well, aren't you nervous at all?"
JG: "I am nervous because of the... uhh..."
JOHN: (comically) "Well, because-- because-- because!!! But it's the same thing!"
(laughter)
JG: "Except that you are very successful in what you do."
JOHN: "It doesn't make any difference."
JG: "So what you're telling me is that you have fears and anxieties like everybody else?"
JOHN: "Sure! We're human, man!"
PAUL: "You know that old showbiz thing everybody says, 'Well, you know, you always get nervous before you go on the stage.' Uhh, I think we get 'em all the way. When you go on stage it's just one of those things."
JG: "But you get over that alright."
JOHN: "Oh sure. It's part of the game."
[COMMERCIAL]
JG: "Listen now, I have something in common with both of you. I met the guru, the Maharishi. And I noticed that he went out with an act-- the Beach Boys. And it folded."
JOHN: "Yeah. Right."
JG: "What do you think of the Yogi as an act?"
JOHN: "Yeah. Well, we found out that we made a mistake there."
PAUL: "We tried to persuade him against that, you know. I thought it was a terrible idea."
JOHN: "We believe in meditation, but not the Maharishi and his scene. But that's a personal mistake we made in public."
JG: "When did you find out it was a mistake?"
JOHN: "Well, uhh, I can't remember the date, you know, but it was in India. And meditation is good, and it does what they say. It's like exercise or cleaning your teeth, you know. It works, but uhh, we've finished with that bit."
ED McMAHON: "Has he changed? Is that what..."
JOHN: "Well, no. I think it's just that we're seeing him a bit more in perspective, you know, 'cuz we're as naive as the next person about a lot of things."
PAUL: "We get carried away with things like that, though. I mean, we thought he was... uhh... magic, you know-- just floating around and everything. Flying."
JG: "Do you think the kids in America have turned him off?"
JOHN: "Well, it could be something to do with it. But I wouldn't say, 'Don't meditate' to them, because a lot of them would get a great deal from it."
PAUL: "You know, the system is more important than all those things."
JOHN: "He's surrounded with, it seems like, the old establishment that we know so well."
JG: "Are you saying, 'Meditate, but not with the Yogi'?"
PAUL: (long pause) "Yeah. I mean, he's good. There's nothing wrong with him. But we think the system is more important than all the two-bit personality bit. You know, he gets sort of treated like a big star. He's on the road with the Beach Boys, and it's all that scene. And also... It folds, you know. That's the silly thing."
(laughter)
TB: "Does he giggle as much as..."
JOHN: "Yes. It's his natural asset."
(laughter)
JOHN: "Well, you see, it depends on what way you're looking at it at the time. If it's not getting on your nerves, it's 'Oh, what a happy fellow.' It depends how you feel when you look at him."
JG: "I had him on the show, and he just giggled and giggled the whole time. I figured there was something, maybe my tie was loose. Who was the first one that met the Yogi?"
JOHN: "We all met him at the same time."
JG: "Can you tell us the circumstances?"
JOHN: "Well, he was just doing a lecture in London at the Hilton. So we all went and we thought, 'What a nice man.' And we were looking for that. You know, everybody's looking for it, but we were looking for it 'that day' as well. And then we met him and he was good, you know. He's got a good thing in him. And we went along with it."
JG: "But now, you just got off the train, huh?"
JOHN: "Right. Nice trip thank you very much."
(laughter)
JG: "Do you think that your own careers have kind of switched? Not that you lose a group, but you seem to be changing your audience."
JOHN: "See, everything changes. So we change as well. And our audience changes, too, all the time. We don't sort of put our finger on 'What age group or why.' But we know-- everything changes, and us too."
PAUL: "When we first started we had leather jackets on, you know. Little caps and big cowboy boots. But then we changed to suits, you know."
JOHN: "We thought, 'That'll get 'em.'"
(laughter)
PAUL: "And we lost a whole lot of fans. They all said, 'You've gone ponched.' They didn't like it, you know, because we were all clean."
(laughter)
PAUL: "So we lost that crowd, but we gained all the ones that liked suits. It happens like that. That's what keeps happening. And we lost a lot of people with 'Sgt Pepper,' but I think we gained more."
(crowd applauds in agreement)
JG: "Do you think you're going to be able to top 'Sgt. Pepper'?"
JOHN: "Well, you know, it's the next move, and I can't say 'yes or no,' but I think so. Why not? 'Cuz it's only another LP really... it's not that important."
JG: "Well, you have to be the most imitated group."
JOHN: "Well maybe. Yeah."
(laughter)
JG: "When you talk about Lennon/McCartney songs, do you work together, or one writes one, or..."
JOHN: "It's all those combinations you can think of. Every combination of two people writing a song... inasmuch as we can both write them completely separately, and together, and not together. But we obviously influence each other, like groups and people do."
JG: "I can think of my favorite-- 'Yesterday.'"
(crowd applauds)
JG: "What are the circumstances behind that, Paul? How does that happen?"
PAUL: "I don't know. I woke up one morning..."
JOHN: (singing as blues) "'I Woke Up One Morning...'"
(laughter)
PAUL: (pauses, then continues, rhythmically) "'Piano By My Bed...'"
JOHN: (sings blues lick) "'duh-dut duh dut-a-la-dut!'"
(laughter)
PAUL: "'Went To The Piano...'"
JOHN: "Yeah?"
PAUL: (rhythmically) "And This- Is What- I Said!'"
(laughter)
PAUL: "You know, I just started playing it and this tune came. 'Cuz that's what happens. They just, sort of-- they COME, you know. It just came and I couldn't think of any words to it, so originally it was just, 'Scrambled Egg.' It was called 'Scrambled Egg' for a couple of months..."
(laughter)
PAUL: "...until I thought of 'Yesterday.' And that's it."
JG: (pause) "Are you putting me on?"
PAUL: "No, that's true."
JG: "'Scrambled Eggs'? You write a song about scrambled eggs?"
PAUL: "True story."
JOHN: "'Scrambled Egg' was over here as an instrumental first."
PAUL: "That's true, you know."
JOHN: "Didn't do so well with that title, you know."
(laughter)
JG: "How long are you gonna stay here?"
JOHN: "Uhh, It could be any minute now."
(laughter)
JG: "I know we've probably kept you out here longer than we should have, but I'm going to take a..."
(members of audience groan, realizing the interview is almost over)
JG: "I have a reverse question I'm going to ask you, and feel free not to answer it. What is the one question that bugs you the most. About your hair?"
JOHN: "No. We're past being bugged by questions, unless they're very personal. I mean, you just get normal human reactions to a question. You know, but there used to be one about, 'What are you going to do when the bubble bursts?' and we thought we'd have hysterics because somebody always asked it."
JG: "Let's go down the list of the questions. What are you going to do when the bubble bursts?"
JOHN: "I haven't a clue, you know. I'm still looking for the bubble."
(laughter)
JG: (to Paul) "I've heard you on interviews, you have fun with reporters! You stay right with him."
PAUL: "No, no. I'm serious. Serious."
JG: "You are? I think you're the kind of a guy that would say, 'Here's a match-- I wonder how much gas is in the tank.' Would you be that kind of a guy?"
PAUL: "Yeah, sure."
(laughter)
JG: "Paul, John, I know that you've got a busy, busy schedule."
(groans from the audience)
JOHN: (comically, to the crowd) "That's the way it goes, folks!"
(laughter)
JG: "We have to say goodbye. Does that make you sad to have to leave me, John?"
JOHN: "All goodbyes are sad aren't they, Joe."
JG: "Why don't you write a song. Call it, 'Say Goodbye To Joe.'"
JOHN: "'Goodbye Joe. See You In The Morning.' ...oh, that's some other line."
(laughter)
JG: "Paul, you got any ideas?"
PAUL: "Uhh... no... Joe..."
(laughter)
PAUL: "Ok, umm... No, I can't think of a song."
JG: "When you get home and you start to write 'Scrambled Eggs Number Two' will you think about me?"
PAUL: "OK."
JOHN: "And I'll join you somehow."
JG: "Thank you very much."
(applause and screams)
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Thursday, February 15, 2007
Beatle Bits #528 MILLSTONE MELTS DOWN!!!!
In between Anna Nicole Smith nonsense, Inside Edition reported today-and broadcast photo's that show Heathen Millstone kicking ass of pesty paparazzi-that Ms. Millstone had a nasty cock-up in London, towne.
Apparently Millstone took exception to the photog going about his lawful duties, and gave the boy the boot, so to speak.
Millstone wielded a video camera herself during the row, and appeared to be seriously
unhinged.
In addition, Inside Edition is reporting that Millstone may be considered for the next season of Dancing With The Stars.
Good God ! This is stuff even Eric idle could not conjure up for Rutland Weekend Television.
A one pinned prancer on national TV?
Give over, mate.
Heathen should put all her energies into prying as much brass out of Macca as is humanely-or other-possible, and then take a vacation down to Brighton.
Beats working!
Apparently Millstone took exception to the photog going about his lawful duties, and gave the boy the boot, so to speak.
Millstone wielded a video camera herself during the row, and appeared to be seriously
unhinged.
In addition, Inside Edition is reporting that Millstone may be considered for the next season of Dancing With The Stars.
Good God ! This is stuff even Eric idle could not conjure up for Rutland Weekend Television.
A one pinned prancer on national TV?
Give over, mate.
Heathen should put all her energies into prying as much brass out of Macca as is humanely-or other-possible, and then take a vacation down to Brighton.
Beats working!
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Beatle Bits #527 SHE'S LOOKED AT FABS FROM ALL SIDES, NOW and JOHNNY CARSON '68!
The New York Times is reporting that 60's icon Judy Collins is preparing a Beatles tribute album for later this year, or next.
Tentatively entitled, "Good Day Sunshine," Miss Collins is said to be keen on the project, and a long time Beatles admirer.
Personally, I'd love to hear her croon Tomorrow Never Knows...
Got an e-mail from reader, Chris, who is looking for any kind of recorded record of John Lennon and Paul McCartney's visit to the Tonight Show in New York in 1968, during their Apple announcement media blitz.
The thing that really makes this chat show visit interesting is that Johnny Carson was on vacation, and former baseball star Joe Garigiola-an unlikely Beatles interviewer if there ever was one-was acting the twit and it became obvious that he knew next to nothing of what the lads were on about.
Therefore, as one might imagine, John gets increasingly pissed off, and it sort of goes downhill from there.
But still, a highly desirable piece of history that Chris actually taped off the TV, now some 39 years ago.
So, if you have the broadcast in question, please e-mail me and I will pass it on.
YO: Valentine Special www.quiz-u-boomer.blogspot.com
Tentatively entitled, "Good Day Sunshine," Miss Collins is said to be keen on the project, and a long time Beatles admirer.
Personally, I'd love to hear her croon Tomorrow Never Knows...
Got an e-mail from reader, Chris, who is looking for any kind of recorded record of John Lennon and Paul McCartney's visit to the Tonight Show in New York in 1968, during their Apple announcement media blitz.
The thing that really makes this chat show visit interesting is that Johnny Carson was on vacation, and former baseball star Joe Garigiola-an unlikely Beatles interviewer if there ever was one-was acting the twit and it became obvious that he knew next to nothing of what the lads were on about.
Therefore, as one might imagine, John gets increasingly pissed off, and it sort of goes downhill from there.
But still, a highly desirable piece of history that Chris actually taped off the TV, now some 39 years ago.
So, if you have the broadcast in question, please e-mail me and I will pass it on.
YO: Valentine Special www.quiz-u-boomer.blogspot.com
Monday, February 12, 2007
Beatle Bits #526 WOT'S UP AT APPLE/RUTLE COR, THEN?
So, just wot the bloody 'ell and all IS going on over in London towne with the company formerly known as Apple?
The chattering classes and bloody press have been hinting for some time now that Rutle Cor wanker-in-chief Nell Asperguminall, will, sadly, soon leave for Australia due to ill health.
So, if trysty Nell is sacked, who will figure-head the asylum?
London bookmakers don't even have a line on who would succeed the nearly 50 year handler who started waiting for the van to come, and then counted the millions.
And with the infamous "committee" having to be unanimous on any decision involving Rutles business, I'd fear that the Dali Lama would not make the cut.
Could there be a split-up of the Beatles again, with each going their own (business) way?
That would mean licensing the brand to a third party, possibly by all 4 Fab players individually, bringing mind-boggling possibilities of sturm and drang.
But if it would an end to all the wankings-Let it Be/Rot, when? when?!-and we would have a release sked that did not consult the (heavenly) stars, that would be an improvement, I'd reckon.
Check it out: www.quiz-u-boomer.blogspot.com
The chattering classes and bloody press have been hinting for some time now that Rutle Cor wanker-in-chief Nell Asperguminall, will, sadly, soon leave for Australia due to ill health.
So, if trysty Nell is sacked, who will figure-head the asylum?
London bookmakers don't even have a line on who would succeed the nearly 50 year handler who started waiting for the van to come, and then counted the millions.
And with the infamous "committee" having to be unanimous on any decision involving Rutles business, I'd fear that the Dali Lama would not make the cut.
Could there be a split-up of the Beatles again, with each going their own (business) way?
That would mean licensing the brand to a third party, possibly by all 4 Fab players individually, bringing mind-boggling possibilities of sturm and drang.
But if it would an end to all the wankings-Let it Be/Rot, when? when?!-and we would have a release sked that did not consult the (heavenly) stars, that would be an improvement, I'd reckon.
Check it out: www.quiz-u-boomer.blogspot.com
Friday, February 09, 2007
Beatle Bits #525 MORE FOOKIN' TOLD YA CLUSE FOR YOU'SE ALL!
As your dear correspondent, the current 4th best Beatle Blogger in the www has maintained all along, it may appear that Dirk McQuickly may be ready to sort out Heathen Millstone to the Northern tune of about $60 mill, US, to keep her yap shut about their 4 year matrimony.
Although McQuickly apparently vowed to his ring of sycophant peeps that the WAG would not get nary a shilling, He know appears ready to come to his senses and pay the piper, if not the ho.
However, one of me mates sez that shelling out peanuts is all very fine, but until as such time heathen sign, who knows. Beep-beep-beep, yeah.
Moving right along... a trusted source tells BB that besides the already inevitable downloads and remastered UK back catalogue CDs, there may be 2 or even 3 CD special editions of certain Fabs' albums, most likely within a year.
Now, the most obvious common sense move-I know, I know, this IS the Beatles we are talking about here-would be download, CDs and then special editions, including maybe even 5.1, in that very order.
If the iPod generation gets filled within the first quarter of 2007, the CDs follow soon after, and then maybe some special stuff for X-Mas, which is the usual Rutle Cor Blimey racket.
As BB predicted, '07's gonna be big.
But still not bigger than God.
Finally...it was 43 years ago today, Feb 9! The really big shew, that is.
HEY!! Feb. 1964 new q's at www.quiz-u-boomer.blogspot.com
Although McQuickly apparently vowed to his ring of sycophant peeps that the WAG would not get nary a shilling, He know appears ready to come to his senses and pay the piper, if not the ho.
However, one of me mates sez that shelling out peanuts is all very fine, but until as such time heathen sign, who knows. Beep-beep-beep, yeah.
Moving right along... a trusted source tells BB that besides the already inevitable downloads and remastered UK back catalogue CDs, there may be 2 or even 3 CD special editions of certain Fabs' albums, most likely within a year.
Now, the most obvious common sense move-I know, I know, this IS the Beatles we are talking about here-would be download, CDs and then special editions, including maybe even 5.1, in that very order.
If the iPod generation gets filled within the first quarter of 2007, the CDs follow soon after, and then maybe some special stuff for X-Mas, which is the usual Rutle Cor Blimey racket.
As BB predicted, '07's gonna be big.
But still not bigger than God.
Finally...it was 43 years ago today, Feb 9! The really big shew, that is.
HEY!! Feb. 1964 new q's at www.quiz-u-boomer.blogspot.com
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
Beatle Bits #524 BLOODY HYPOCRITES!
Two items about Mark Chapman.
1/ Hawaii Ann forwarded the poster for the movie Chapter 27-a rather tacky reproduction of the Yoko Ono cover of John Lennon's broken, bloodies spectacles.
I suspect that the producers may garner some flack for this advert, but even so-and I guess especially so-they will have accomplished what they set out to do.
Once again, let's see the movie before a dump is taken on it.
2/ A Yahoo Beatles forum is buzzing about an upcoming auction of what purports to be a Chapman signed copy of Catcher in the Rye. Possibly signed by MDC while in prison in 1981, with 6 bids for nearly $500 by late Tuesday night.
(And give Beatlegs credit, in that the moderator is not playing censor on the issue like the dope at Collectors does on many non-PC piddle-fests.)
Of course much hand wring and scold over this rather macabre offering, and even a publicity seeking stunt by a glossy Beatle fanzine, which apparently is offering to buy the item, and then destroy it.
I'm sorry, but GIVE ME A BREAK!
Like it or not, the item in question is an important historical artifact, and burning books smacks too much of the Nazis, for me.
Recall the Fabs themselves laughing disgustingly so at the "bigger than God" uproar and subsequent Beatle bonfires of 1966?
Look, I have just about zero regard for MDC-excepting that he was/is obviously mentally ill and therefore should be treated as such-but vilifying an inanimate object to protest John's murder seems retarded, in my opinion.
Beatlegs poster John had a thought: raise money and donate it to anti-gun violence, instead of the crapola endorsed by the sorry mag.
In other words, keep on rockin'-not wanking- in the free world.
NEW QUIZ-U at www.quiz-u-boomer.blogspot.com
1/ Hawaii Ann forwarded the poster for the movie Chapter 27-a rather tacky reproduction of the Yoko Ono cover of John Lennon's broken, bloodies spectacles.
I suspect that the producers may garner some flack for this advert, but even so-and I guess especially so-they will have accomplished what they set out to do.
Once again, let's see the movie before a dump is taken on it.
2/ A Yahoo Beatles forum is buzzing about an upcoming auction of what purports to be a Chapman signed copy of Catcher in the Rye. Possibly signed by MDC while in prison in 1981, with 6 bids for nearly $500 by late Tuesday night.
(And give Beatlegs credit, in that the moderator is not playing censor on the issue like the dope at Collectors does on many non-PC piddle-fests.)
Of course much hand wring and scold over this rather macabre offering, and even a publicity seeking stunt by a glossy Beatle fanzine, which apparently is offering to buy the item, and then destroy it.
I'm sorry, but GIVE ME A BREAK!
Like it or not, the item in question is an important historical artifact, and burning books smacks too much of the Nazis, for me.
Recall the Fabs themselves laughing disgustingly so at the "bigger than God" uproar and subsequent Beatle bonfires of 1966?
Look, I have just about zero regard for MDC-excepting that he was/is obviously mentally ill and therefore should be treated as such-but vilifying an inanimate object to protest John's murder seems retarded, in my opinion.
Beatlegs poster John had a thought: raise money and donate it to anti-gun violence, instead of the crapola endorsed by the sorry mag.
In other words, keep on rockin'-not wanking- in the free world.
NEW QUIZ-U at www.quiz-u-boomer.blogspot.com
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
Beatle Bits #523 FOOKIN' TOLD YA!!!!!
Well, well, well, and well again.
Even though those wankers over on some of the Internet Beatle forums failed to give BB and Coach our due for a WORLD EXCLUSIVE story on the Fabs'/Apple Inc marriage, now some some 17 days ago, this morn's official announcement between the deuce Apples should make them ashamed.
Ashamed not just because they dislike the 4th best Beatle Blogger in the www, but more so because they were depriving their posters and members of the info.
So sod you, Soozit, or whatever the hell yo real name is, dopey. (Oh my: the twit did link to a Apple agreement news item late Monday. Stings eh, wanker?)
OK, now today's announcement did not complete the sealing of the deal-at least not officially, yet-but the downloading's are on the wall, coming down, soon. For sho enuf.
Now, will the Apple/Apple thang be a 3 month exclusive?
Will Apple Corp get a juicy deal, say 50 to 75 cents per song in "peaceful co-operation"?
And then the CDs come out in June?
A reader by the name of Erik reminded me today that he predicted the Apple pissfest would be handled just the way it has done, so, hey, he's a smart guy.
Wonder if they let him post on Yahoo?
NEW ONE at www.quiz-u-boomer.blogspot.com
Even though those wankers over on some of the Internet Beatle forums failed to give BB and Coach our due for a WORLD EXCLUSIVE story on the Fabs'/Apple Inc marriage, now some some 17 days ago, this morn's official announcement between the deuce Apples should make them ashamed.
Ashamed not just because they dislike the 4th best Beatle Blogger in the www, but more so because they were depriving their posters and members of the info.
So sod you, Soozit, or whatever the hell yo real name is, dopey. (Oh my: the twit did link to a Apple agreement news item late Monday. Stings eh, wanker?)
OK, now today's announcement did not complete the sealing of the deal-at least not officially, yet-but the downloading's are on the wall, coming down, soon. For sho enuf.
Now, will the Apple/Apple thang be a 3 month exclusive?
Will Apple Corp get a juicy deal, say 50 to 75 cents per song in "peaceful co-operation"?
And then the CDs come out in June?
A reader by the name of Erik reminded me today that he predicted the Apple pissfest would be handled just the way it has done, so, hey, he's a smart guy.
Wonder if they let him post on Yahoo?
NEW ONE at www.quiz-u-boomer.blogspot.com
Sunday, February 04, 2007
Beatle Bits #522 (NOT) THE COVER OF ROLLING STONE, BUT INSIDE!
Well, well, well.
Your dear correspondent has been borrowed from for the Grammy preview ish of Rolling Stone, #1019, Feb. 8, 2007.
Yes, RS repeats many of the details of my Jan. 17 Toronto Sun story about the coming Beatles remastered CDs and i-Tunes eventually, claiming that at least two RS sources confirm the deal(s), plus the possibility that the official announcement will be made on Valentines Day, to tie in with a Vegas Love promotion.
Now bloody 'ell and all, you just got to know it's a fact if it's in the Rolling Stone!
And one of Beatles Bits own informers has advised that yes, their sources tell them '07 WILL be a big year for Fabs' fans.
But here's a thought: can you imagine the second-guessing and wanking that will take place if the remasters don't end up as devine as those freaks want them to be?
For instance, what if the rockets scientists at Apple insist on the first 4 UK albums STILL being in mono?
OK, maybe the first two LPs that were just 2 track, but For Sale and A Hard Day's Night both were 4 track and both had not bad original (UK) stereo mixes.
And with technology being what it is today, I'm sure prefectly acceptable stereo mixes could be fashioned from the 2 tracks of Please Please Me, and With The Beatles. Heck, they did it with the Capitol Albums Vol. 1, to a degree.
But now, we will fer sure find out sooner, rather than later.
Hey! Super Bowl Quiz at www.quiz-u-boomer.blogspot.com
Your dear correspondent has been borrowed from for the Grammy preview ish of Rolling Stone, #1019, Feb. 8, 2007.
Yes, RS repeats many of the details of my Jan. 17 Toronto Sun story about the coming Beatles remastered CDs and i-Tunes eventually, claiming that at least two RS sources confirm the deal(s), plus the possibility that the official announcement will be made on Valentines Day, to tie in with a Vegas Love promotion.
Now bloody 'ell and all, you just got to know it's a fact if it's in the Rolling Stone!
And one of Beatles Bits own informers has advised that yes, their sources tell them '07 WILL be a big year for Fabs' fans.
But here's a thought: can you imagine the second-guessing and wanking that will take place if the remasters don't end up as devine as those freaks want them to be?
For instance, what if the rockets scientists at Apple insist on the first 4 UK albums STILL being in mono?
OK, maybe the first two LPs that were just 2 track, but For Sale and A Hard Day's Night both were 4 track and both had not bad original (UK) stereo mixes.
And with technology being what it is today, I'm sure prefectly acceptable stereo mixes could be fashioned from the 2 tracks of Please Please Me, and With The Beatles. Heck, they did it with the Capitol Albums Vol. 1, to a degree.
But now, we will fer sure find out sooner, rather than later.
Hey! Super Bowl Quiz at www.quiz-u-boomer.blogspot.com
Friday, February 02, 2007
Beatle Bits #521 BB PREDICTS!
I've just had tea, and feel emboldened to say that I think 2007 will go down as the biggest Beatle year since, well, the last big one.
In addition to the much supposed Apple/Apple wedding and i-Tunes, my hunch is that we are going to see lots of stuff this year simply because it would make good business and demographic sense.
With early onset Boomers turning and passing 60 this year, how long will hard core, first gen fans stay interested in all things Fab?
Even the bulk of the Booms are in-or very close-to their 50s and if the good product, ie; half decent sounding recordings damn soon, the window for peddling this product could slam closed.
In fact, some are predicitng the demise of the regular audi CD within 5 years, so it would make perfect sense-I know, I know, this IS Apple we are talking about here-to get this booty out toots sweet, so that by the time the new format debuts, they can repackage it and sell it all over again in 10 years, or so.
40 years ago today come June, is just too juicy a thang to pass me by.
HEY! New www.quiz-u-boomer.blogspot.com on THE BEATLES!
In addition to the much supposed Apple/Apple wedding and i-Tunes, my hunch is that we are going to see lots of stuff this year simply because it would make good business and demographic sense.
With early onset Boomers turning and passing 60 this year, how long will hard core, first gen fans stay interested in all things Fab?
Even the bulk of the Booms are in-or very close-to their 50s and if the good product, ie; half decent sounding recordings damn soon, the window for peddling this product could slam closed.
In fact, some are predicitng the demise of the regular audi CD within 5 years, so it would make perfect sense-I know, I know, this IS Apple we are talking about here-to get this booty out toots sweet, so that by the time the new format debuts, they can repackage it and sell it all over again in 10 years, or so.
40 years ago today come June, is just too juicy a thang to pass me by.
HEY! New www.quiz-u-boomer.blogspot.com on THE BEATLES!
