This week's Beatle's (related) rarity focus's on John Lennon who would've been 68 years old yesterday. I had a request last week for his pseudo-biographical Watching The Wheels and was hard pressed to decide which representation of it to use. I have a good many demos and session recordings for this one and some sound quite different than the finalized version we are most familiar with. In the end I elected to go with an alternate take that was a contender for the master yet different enough from it to notice. This was recorded sometime between August 4th and September 5th, 1980 for the upcoming Double Fantasy LP release.
John Lennon circa 1980
This week's BROW is from my forever-expanding collection of 6760 Beatles-related recordings. Want to make a suggestion for a future Beatles Rarity of the Week? Then let me hear from you. To help you decide you could visit my Beatles collection web site (www.MyBeatlesCollection.com) and hit the "Tracks" button and search my collection, then Mogmail me with what you’d like me to feature.
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Thanks -- really like this version. Sounds a little more direct?
I am always so sad hearing this song because I was really crushed when he died. I totaly associate this song with December 1980.
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Thanks. I prefer it as well. Yeah, that whole last album is just too sad to listen to. Plus it's 50% Oh no Joke-o.
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And another thing - your Beatle boot posts are like an oasis in the recent desert of MOG - so many crappy MMN posts, so many self-promoting jerkoffs. Even after turning on the "MOGs only" filter (whenever I don't I just get angrier...) it just isn't doing it for me today.
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God that was great! I so miss that man. To me he was the most "real" Beatle and all his songs just connected with me more.
Happy Birthday John! You are missed
Speaking of missed, my son loves Dizzy Miss Lizzy and I told him perhaps you could dig something up that has the same flavor (or an alternate take)
Thanks!