The Beatles Post

Hi and welcome.

I'm a Beatles fan. Say what you will about them, you have to give them credit, for better or worse, for creating the template that most bands in popular music follow. They exemplified the notion of a band writing and playing their own material, which was not really the case before them. They also were the first band to play in large stadiums, which is the norm today. The also happened to have made incredibly beautiful and moving music.....but that's just my opinion.

Another thing they did, which did not seem to catch on after them, was to make movies that were not just a film of them performing. I'm talking about A Hard Day's Night and Help, were there was of bit of a story and funny situations to play around in. In this case, I think they were definitely following the idea of a popular musician staring in a feature film that Elvis made successful. I know that there are other movies from that have popular singers or bands in them, but none of those seem to be as memorable as the respective Beatles and Elvis movies are. Perhaps, it's just that the Beatles and Elvis were just personable and famous enough to make it work.

Anyway, I found 3 clips that are from the Beatles last film Let It Be. Contrary to what I wrote earlier, Let It Be is in fact a performance film, with them rehearsing and recording songs that would eventually appear on their last album, also called Let It Be. I've wonder if this film will ever be officially reissued, and my guess is that it may a while before it ever happens. I say this because most of what I've heard about it is that it mostly shows them struggling and arguing, basically illustrating their not too far in the distance breakup. Understandably, it's just something that the surviving Beatles and the widows of Lennon and Harrison would not like to revisit.

These 3 clips are what are probably the highlight of the film, their rooftop performance which serves as the finale for the film.

Enjoy

Beatles rooftop part 1



Beatles rooftop part 2



Beatles rooftop part 3

The Stones Post

Hi and welcome.

I'm a big fan of the Rolling Stones. They've had a few different periods in their ongoing career, but my favorite is from the late 1960s onward, like from Jumpin Jack Flash onward.

I've found some concert footage of them from their 1972 tour of America to promote the Exile On Main Street album, and I think it's them at a great time in their history, before drugs and other things dragged them down for a while in the 1970s. There's also a clip from 1971 that's got the same spirit as that 1972 tour. The footage in these clips is unofficial, so to speak, so please allow if the image and sound quality is just ok.

This is a clip of them doing Tumbling Dice



If you like it, see below for more clips. I took notice of the outfit that Mick Jagger has on in some of the clips - a jumpsuit with a big sash around his waist. I couldn't help but think of Elvis in his later years with his white jumpsuits. Coincidence or is that what all the rock singers was wearing back then on stage?

Sweet Virgina



Happy



From 1971, Live With Me

The First Post

Hi and welcome.

This is my first post, and I'm going to start with how I came to be writing this blog as well as give you a couple of songs to enjoy.

Basically, I'm a big music fan and I somehow got directed to a blog called Never Get Out Of The Boat that had a lot of interesting posts and music on it. A short time after that I read a short little piece in the August 2007 Wired magazine with some advice about launching a music blog of your very own.

There's a little more to it than that, like little thoughts, ideas, inspirations, and situations that occurred before those two things I mentioned, but that's about as far back in history I want to go about it.

I'm going to use this blog to write about music that I like and want to share with you readers, who will mostly likely be people in my life that I've directed to check out this blog and whoever else may come across this blog. Unlike a lot of music blogs, I'm not going to be posting MP3s to download, instead, I'm going to post links to musical performance on youtube that I've come across and have enjoyed.I may also slip in some other commentary too about other things. I also am open to suggestion from you readers about content too, so please let me know too.

The first piece I want to share is a song that I heard back in the mid 1990s. The song is Sucked Out by the band Superdrag. I remember the video for this song getting a fair amount of play on MTV back then. It's a power pop gem, but also a bit punk sounding too. I picked this particular song to start with because the theme of the song is all about doing something you want to do, even if it's only you who ends up enjoying it.