On Tuesday, December 28, 2021 at 7:12:31 PM UTC-5, geoff wrote:
> On 29/12/2021 9:55 am, P-Dub wrote:
> > On Friday, December 24, 2021 at 12:50:44 PM UTC-5, Willie Williams wrote:
> >> On Thursday, December 23, 2021 at 6:59:49 PM UTC-5, Chris Schram wrote:
> >>> On 2021-12-23, Willie Williams <williamg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>> On Sunday, November 28, 2021 at 9:57:12 AM UTC-5, Blueshirt wrote:
> >>>>> Just finished watching the third part on Disney+ and this was really
> >>>>> really good! I'm not sure a casual viewer would have made it past the 30
> >>>>> minute mark of part one, but it's great for a fan to see the bigger
> >>>>> picture of the events we got to see in the "Let It Be" documentary.
> >>>>> Peter Jackson has done a brilliant job on this.
> >>>>
> >>>> I don't come here often, but just finished the "Get Back" series, and
> >>>> have a kind of random question. At one point George moves to the piano
> >>>> and starts playing a terrific rhythmic thing, and Billy Preston picks
> >>>> up a guitar and joins in, as do the others. As with all the other
> >>>> songs they start (until the roof), they stop somewhat randomly, and
> >>>> have a conversation. (I think George speculates on how different it is
> >>>> composing on the piano vs. guitar.) Anyway, while they had it going, I
> >>>> thought this was one if the best things they did in those sessions. I
> >>>> think George even improvised some words (gotta go back and find that
> >>>> bit). But nothing that I know of ever came of it. Has any of you heard
> >>>> any more about that piece? Did George play some piano in his solo
> >>>> years?
> >>> That was Old Brown Shoe. One place to find it is on Past Masters Volume
> >>> Two. There's a moment during that sequence in the film where Billy is
> >>> suggesting certain chord patterns, and George remarks that it is
> >>> impossible to play that on a guitar. Billy knew all the cool jazz
> >>> chords.
> >>>
> >>> I'm too lazy right now to look up who played what on the final
> >>> recording, but yes, it's a gem.
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> chri...@me.com is a filtered spam magnet. Email replies may be lost.
> >>> You're better off replying to this newsgroup.
> >> Thanks Chris. I just reviewed it and gave myself a dope slap because George has the lyrics, with "Old Brown Shoe" written at the top, right before him on the piano as he plays. for the "offifcial" version (released on the Hey Jude, 1967–1970, and Past Masters, Volume Two albums), George reverted to guitar. Wikipedia, as usual, has a pretty comphehensive entry on the song.
> >>
> >> It was interesting in the series how that one fellow (big, with horned rim glasses: Mal Evans?) is, among other things, their scribe, constantly writing down lyrics as they come up with them during song work ups. I wonder if other bands have scribes like that. (Doh, I just learned that Mal Evans was killed by a policeman in 1976 after friends, nervous about his mental state, called the police and Mal had a weapon which he refused to drop.)
> >
> > Mal Evans assisted the Beatles as a bouncer, a road manager, a problem solver, shopper, and even a songwriter. This is fascinating. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mal_Evans
> >
> A very sad outcome ;- (
>
> geoff

There are some Mal Evans anecdotes in May Pang's first book. Also a photographs of Evans and Julian Lennon, both beaming, in the Mad Teacups ride at Disneyland in 1973.

Nothing to hint at the strange death that would befall Evans.

On Tuesday, December 28, 2021 at 3:55:04 PM UTC-5, P-Dub wrote:
> On Friday, December 24, 2021 at 12:50:44 PM UTC-5, Willie Williams wrote:
> > On Thursday, December 23, 2021 at 6:59:49 PM UTC-5, Chris Schram wrote:
> > > On 2021-12-23, Willie Williams <williamg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > On Sunday, November 28, 2021 at 9:57:12 AM UTC-5, Blueshirt wrote:
> > > >> Just finished watching the third part on Disney+ and this was really
> > > >> really good! I'm not sure a casual viewer would have made it past the 30
> > > >> minute mark of part one, but it's great for a fan to see the bigger
> > > >> picture of the events we got to see in the "Let It Be" documentary..
> > > >> Peter Jackson has done a brilliant job on this.
> > > >
> > > > I don't come here often, but just finished the "Get Back" series, and
> > > > have a kind of random question. At one point George moves to the piano
> > > > and starts playing a terrific rhythmic thing, and Billy Preston picks
> > > > up a guitar and joins in, as do the others. As with all the other
> > > > songs they start (until the roof), they stop somewhat randomly, and
> > > > have a conversation. (I think George speculates on how different it is
> > > > composing on the piano vs. guitar.) Anyway, while they had it going, I
> > > > thought this was one if the best things they did in those sessions. I
> > > > think George even improvised some words (gotta go back and find that
> > > > bit). But nothing that I know of ever came of it. Has any of you heard
> > > > any more about that piece? Did George play some piano in his solo
> > > > years?
> > > That was Old Brown Shoe. One place to find it is on Past Masters Volume
> > > Two. There's a moment during that sequence in the film where Billy is
> > > suggesting certain chord patterns, and George remarks that it is
> > > impossible to play that on a guitar. Billy knew all the cool jazz
> > > chords.
> > >
> > > I'm too lazy right now to look up who played what on the final
> > > recording, but yes, it's a gem.
> > >
> > > --
> > > chri...@me.com is a filtered spam magnet. Email replies may be lost.
> > > You're better off replying to this newsgroup.
> > Thanks Chris. I just reviewed it and gave myself a dope slap because George has the lyrics, with "Old Brown Shoe" written at the top, right before him on the piano as he plays. for the "offifcial" version (released on the Hey Jude, 1967–1970, and Past Masters, Volume Two albums), George reverted to guitar. Wikipedia, as usual, has a pretty comphehensive entry on the song.
> >
> > It was interesting in the series how that one fellow (big, with horned rim glasses: Mal Evans?) is, among other things, their scribe, constantly writing down lyrics as they come up with them during song work ups. I wonder if other bands have scribes like that. (Doh, I just learned that Mal Evans was killed by a policeman in 1976 after friends, nervous about his mental state, called the police and Mal had a weapon which he refused to drop.)
> Mal Evans assisted the Beatles as a bouncer, a road manager, a problem solver, shopper, and even a songwriter. This is fascinating. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mal_Evans

Had no idea about his work in producing & cowriting songs.

On Sunday, November 28, 2021 at 9:57:12 AM UTC-5, Blueshirt wrote:
> Just finished watching the third part on Disney+ and this was really
> really good! I'm not sure a casual viewer would have made it past the 30
> minute mark of part one, but it's great for a fan to see the bigger
> picture of the events we got to see in the "Let It Be" documentary.
> Peter Jackson has done a brilliant job on this.

The editors of the Let It Be film had access to all this footage, right?

I wonder why they chose the footage they did.