George Harrison

[jenton70]

Does anyone have the story on the guitar George Harrison is using here?


http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=JlWFpdPX45g

[rednwhiteblues]

it's an all rosewood telecaster with a strip of maple veneer in between to blocks of rosewood, also an all rosewood neck with a maple skunk stripe.

theres a couple threads about it i think, do a search for "Rosewood telecaster: and you'll probably find them.

[garytelecastor]

Does anyone else think about the cop and the person who called the cops to break up that spontaneous concert? I wonder if they ever think about the fact that their selfishness caused the end of the last time the Beatles ever played together. Just musing. The cop was just doing his job, but some tight a** had to be the one to register the complaint. I wonder if the person was ever identified.
Some of our tele buddies over across the pond know the answer to that?

[tcadam]

Originally Posted by garytelecastor

Does anyone else think about the cop and the person who called the cops to break up that spontaneous concert? I wonder if they ever think about the fact that their selfishness caused the end of the last time the Beatles ever played together. Just musing. The cop was just doing his job, but some tight a** had to be the one to register the complaint. I wonder if the person was ever identified.
Some of our tele buddies over across the pond know the answer to that?

But I wonder if the concert would be "legendary" if the cops hadn't broken it up.

[AngelStrummer]

Damn I still get goose bumps when I see that gig.

To the best of my knowledge the Rosewood Tele was a gift from Fender to George. Apparently, it was flown over to London from California in its own first-class seat, accompanied by some flunky and hand delivered. I think George then gave it to someone (can't remember) as a token of appreciation.

Feel free to set the record straight if I have been inaccurate or incomplete.

[jwells393]

Lots of information on the guitar. Just Google "George Harrison Telecaster".

..... also an all rosewood neck with a maple skunk stripe.

Actually, Harrison's guitar was built in 1968 when Fender was making all their necks by routing the truss rod channel from the top and applying a separate finger board. The neck therefore didn't have a skunk stripe......... similar to the recent $4K Custom Shop models. Fender returned to making one piece necks in 1969 so some of the later all rosewood Telecasters did have the maple skunkstripe.

[KevinB]

Click here and scroll down a bit for the full story.

It's very nice that Olivia has it back!

[jwells393]

Here's part of the history......

http://www.juliensauctions.com/aucti...on-guitar.html

[fivenote]

I remember reading that after giving this to George, Fender made a bunch for sale. They were heavy and had a very different tone. It didn't attract a lot of buyers, and was soon history.

[FirstBassman]

Originally Posted by garytelecastor

Does anyone else think about the cop and the person who called the cops to break up that spontaneous concert?

Does anyone here know that the Beatles actually stole the rooftop concert idea from the Jefferson Airplane, who did the exact same thing two months earlier?





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efgtHfQxyZE


The cops showed up here also and arrested Marty. (He often seems to bear the brunt of these things - see Altamont.)

Note - This is not the greatest Airplane song of all time. Apologies.

[MartineckArt]

[quote=jenton70;1183805]Does anyone have the story on the guitar George Harrison is using here?


I'd like to here the story about those green pants....

[Escondido Bound]

Originally Posted by garytelecastor

Does anyone else think about the cop and the person who called the cops to break up that spontaneous concert? I wonder if they ever think about the fact that their selfishness caused the end of the last time the Beatles ever played together. Just musing. The cop was just doing his job, but some tight a** had to be the one to register the complaint. I wonder if the person was ever identified.
Some of our tele buddies over across the pond know the answer to that?

The last time they played together in public, yes, but not the last time the Beatles played together. The recording of Abbey Road comes after that rooftop concert. The Let It Be material precedes the Abbey Road material, and in fact, if I remember correctly, George is helping Ringo with the writing of "Octopus's Garden" in the movie.

I often find it interesting when people note how fragmented the Beatles seem in the movie and on that record, as though they didn't care anymore and could not function as a group any longer, and then Abbey Road pops out of them and suggests we are reading a bit more into the movie than is actually there.

EB

[Del Pickup]

These clips from Let It Be are fantastic!! I would love to get a copy of that film. Is it available commercially?

I remember seeing it on tv in the UK sometime in the early 70's but have never found it on video or dvd.

I love the whole vibe of these sessions and the crowd scenes are just so 1960's!!

[zane]

Originally Posted by tcadam

But I wonder if the concert would be "legendary" if the cops hadn't broken it up.

yes

[Escondido Bound]

Originally Posted by Del Pickup

These clips from Let It Be are fantastic!! I would love to get a copy of that film. Is it available commercially?

I remember seeing it on tv in the UK sometime in the early 70's but have never found it on video or dvd.

I love the whole vibe of these sessions and the crowd scenes are just so 1960's!!

The first Beatles album that I ever heard was Let It Be, and unlike many people, I still find it a great album. A friend and I in junior high were in the record collection at the local public library, and we wanted to learn about the Beatles. He took home A Hard Day's Night, and I took home Let It Be: and to this day far too many years later, he still prefers early Beatles, and I still prefer late Beatles. I think there is something magical about the liveness of the Let It Be sessions, with all the chatter between songs and so on. Paul's remastering a few years back cut the very life out of the album for me.

In any case, the movie of Let It Be is a victim of the VHS-Beta wars. Apple Corp. awarded the rights to distribute the movie to a Beta video distributor. I saw the movie once in the late '80s when a friend found a Beta machine and we then tracked down a Beta copy of the movie at Blockbuster (yeah, Blockbuster had Beta movies!). It was amazing, absolutely electric viewing, both in the magic and the infighting that was happening. I wish Apple Corp. would just pay whatever they need to pay to get the copyright back and get that movie back in circulation.

It is one of the best rock documentaries ever, and even if it is about the impending collapse of the Beatles, I still also see in it just what the back of the album sleeve says: the Beatles could have headed in a very rich and new musical direction if they had followed this muse of more bare-bones writing and recording again.

EB

[jimmybusk]

.....I thought I read somewhere,that Delaney Bramlett kinda' destroyed that guitar..Stripped it,,.Etc. ?

[VWAmTele]

MF just put these on sale at $999

FSR Mahogony Tele

[Murphy Slaw]

So wait.

Serious here. I've seen the movie, but don't remember when. I think it was a rented VCR.

It is NOT AVAILABLE to buy, rent, or whatever?

Is this true?

[Ira7]

Originally Posted by Murphy Slaw

So wait.

Serious here. I've seen the movie, but don't remember when. I think it was a rented VCR.

It is NOT AVAILABLE to buy, rent, or whatever?

Is this true?

It's coming out, but I can't believe the delay has anything to do with Betamax versus VHS:

http://www.amazon.com/Let-Be-Mal-Evans/dp/B00005JKGT

Sounds more like a Yoko versus Paul feud.

God, how I can't stand that woman.

[TheDude]

Originally Posted by Murphy Slaw

It is NOT AVAILABLE to buy, rent, or whatever?

Not officially. Many DVD "imports" abound on ebay, etc. They are all ripped from the old VHS and/or laserdisc.

Apple supposedly has this movie ready to release on DVD, but they need the okay from all the surviving Beatles and their estates... one of the parties is balking at releasing the DVD (and it's not Yoko). The clips on the Anthology DVD show how good the restored footage is.

[Doug Ferguson]

Does anyone here know that the Beatles actually stole the rooftop concert idea from the Jefferson Airplane, who did the exact same thing two months earlier?

The Airplane actually did their roof top show a year before the Beatles. http://www.jeffersonairplane.com/1968.html Poor old Marty. He always got the short end. According to Jorma, when they came down from the roof, the cops asked who the band leader was. Everyone pointed to Marty and split.

[bluesjuke]

IIRC NetFlix had "Let It Be" available for rental.

I would love to see it again after all of these years.

[neocaster]

It's all over eBay, along with other unavailable DVDs such as Disney's "Song of the South"

[Escondido Bound]

Originally Posted by Ira7

It's coming out, but I can't believe the delay has anything to do with Betamax versus VHS:

http://www.amazon.com/Let-Be-Mal-Evans/dp/B00005JKGT

Sounds more like a Yoko versus Paul feud.

God, how I can't stand that woman.

Here's a link with some info. It really is the company holding the distribution rights that is the problem: http://www.rarebeatles.com/photopg5/letitbe.htm although it does appear that there were some VHS and even "videodisc" limited releases.

I've never understood the "I hate Yoko" thing, but that is for another thread.

The Amazon link above is not to an actual product, by the way. Amazon places those "advertisements" up on their site when a product has been pulled (i.e., there is mention of illegal copies being sold), or when customers have been requesting an item frequently and it is not available--but might be someday (this they do when, say, people are looking for a particular t.v. series to be released on DVD). In the case of Let It Be, customers have been requesting it, and Amazon had to yank links to a store selling illegal copies.

EDIT: I did also find some other sites on the web that strongly suggest that Apple Corp. has re-acquired the rights to the movie, but then these are supported by odd comments from the original director, from Ringo, and from Apple execs, or some other "closely-connected source" claiming the DVD will be out "this year" (first in 2003, then in 2004, then in 2005, etc.). The problem, according to these sources, is that the Beatles themselves don't seem to want the movie released. I guess that means it will see the light of day once the last Beatle has shuffled off this mortal coil, and the vultures are ready to make their quick buck and have no one left to stop them. I hope I'm wrong.

EB