A few thoughts on The Beatles Anthology on DVD

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A VERY few thoughts, apparently…

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The hamster was Paul

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Notyap no em nrut…Notyap no em nrut…Notyap no em nrut…

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Well, FWIW, I adore and love my Beatles Anthology DVD. Best gift I ever bought myself.

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I love it, but I’ve been so busy procrastinating by posting on the SDMB that I’ve only watched the first part of the first disc so far…

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Got my DVDs last week, even though I already have the Anthology series on VHS. The Police were my first Rock & Roll band, then my father showed me his box set of Beatles LPs. I learned how to use a turntable.

I learned guitar by reading Beatles songbooks, I still have some videotape of my dad playing piano and me playing guitar on Get Back and Come Together.

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Tengu,

Everybody thinks they’re a goddamn hilarious comedian.

Friggin hamsters.

I finished watching it this afternoon and had these thoughts about it:

  1. Watching George, Paul and Ringo sit around on the lawn and in the studio, the love that they had for each other came through quite clearly, but there was also some tension. I got the feeling that they really liked getting together and hanging out every so often, but if they got back together things would degenerate back to the arguements that they had during the sessions for the aborted Get Back album.

  2. I loved the scene where George was asked about the time they met Elvis and whether or not he remembered what Priscilla was wearing and he said, "No, because I spent most of my time there trying to suss out if any of Elvis’s guys had any reefer," and then he bursts into laughter.

  3. The scene on the bonus material where George Martin plays the first take of A Day In The Life. Just by looking at his eyes you can see the affection and love he has for the song, but there is also a bit of awe at how beautiful the song is when all there is to it at this point is Lennon’s vocals and his guitar. And you can also see in his eyes a bit of wistfullness as if he is going back to that day in January 1967.

  4. The interview scene with John where he says, “I]They ask you how long you’re gonna last. And you can be big headed and say, ‘I think we’ll last ten years,’ but then you think, 'We’ll be lucky if we last three months.”* and his quote at the end of the Anthology where he says, "It’s nothing earth-shaking. It’s just a rock group breaking up. It’s not the end of the world. The records are there to pull out and listen to." No, it wasn’t the end of the world, but what the Beatles accomplished and created was earthshaking. They were much more then a rock group.

  5. The scene with Paul by the campfire where he says, "I’m glad that the majority of the Beatles songs were about love, kindness and compassion. You know, there wasn’t a lot of this 'Hey! tell everyone to sod off and leaving your parents and such."

  6. It irritates me to no end when someone says ‘you know’ on a regualr basis in their daily conversations, but it didn’t bother me at all when the Beatles said it. Must be the accents.

  7. The scenes on the Bonus DVD showing inside the actual studio at Abbey Road where the Beatles recorded so much of their work gave me chills. I know, that sounds really cheesy and hokey and dorky, but just seeing that room, with it’s plain white walls and wood floor and realizing what fabulous sounds were created in that room…

  8. I had no clue or idea that Jeff Lynne was English. None.:smack: :smack:

  9. It seemed to me that they gave short shrift to the later stage of the Beatles career, although that was a time when there was a good bit of arguing going on, which they did show.

I may have more later.

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Wouldn’t it be funny if the DVD had commentary tracks by Paul, George and Ringo? “Yeah, I remember sitting down for this sound bite…it was warm outside…” (snurk)