This comment is to Allan Kozinn. I gave your McCartney Legacy Volume 1 book as a gift to a friend this last Christmas. He is absolutely glowing in his praise for the book. He is a huge Beatle and especially McCartney fan (early solo years especially) and he is amazed with all the new stuff he is learning from your book. He is about halfway thru. I know he is looking forward to Volume 2. Congrats on a job well done! An absolute must for Beatle/McCartney fans.
Regarding the SNL music special… very disappointed they didn’t show even a few seconds of George doing Here Comes The Sun with Paul Simon . I think there was one quick blink and you miss it photo of them. At least they ended with Paul and Hey Jude.
He should at least do What's My Name. Colin Hay wrote it for him, he is in the band. Agree, he should do some of the new stuff in his shows. Even a song like Weight of the World, La Di Da, etc. which got lots of play when they were released don't even get a thought.
Where did Ken find that bit about the Netflix Ringo doc? This is the first mention I’ve heard of it and I can’t seem to find anything else about it when I search.
I know there was an article I read where I got that information from, and when I google for it now, the content is no longer available. They even had the title-"Ringo: The Beat Goes On." I will look further into it. Thanks!
I've said it before; I think it's great that they can remaster Free As A Bird with John's voice recording quality improved. I would love it if they also sped up the tempo of the song. Something that can definitely happen with today's technology. For anyone who thinks it's not a Beatles thing to do, just remember that Please Please Me was initially presented to George Martin at a much slower tempo.
@@roystonsbailey they'll never 'let it be', every individual has to decide when to get off the train, it does bother me tho that all the decisions George Harrison made in the 90's which he regarded as being the final word are all gradually being overwritten
@MercuriusHibernicus life is for the living. Future generations shouldn't be forever deprived of Beatles music because of George's (or anyone's) whims.
@@D97Music The Beatles existed from 1962 to 1970, I don't think anyone is arguing that all those digital and analogue copies of their music should be destroyed. The question is what can you keep scraping from the bottom of the barrel before you can only create complete fabrications. I think there's a subset of Beatle fans who believe it's their legal and moral right to have a new Christmas present from the Beatles every year until the sun burns out.
George was on board for the first two songs. Maybe he didn’t like Now and Then as a song or maybe he felt the original demo was so bad it couldn’t be salvaged and would be pleasantly surprised with the results with the new technology. We have to assume Olivia and Dhani are doing what they felt George would want. They knew him better than anyone else. And we do know he wasn’t opposed to remixing because he had expressed a desire to de Spectorize All Things Must Pass
So many people talk non stop throughout shows now and need numerous drinks apparently. I assume they paid good money for their tickets so I don’t understand why they even bother. So if they want to make a beer run any time a song they don’t know is played I say let them go and hopefully get caught in long lines so the rest of us that want to hear what’s being played can enjoy the show.
'Look Up' sounds utterly generic copy and paste autotuned on a laptop coroporate pop... with the odd bit of slide guitar to make you think 'country', I think the record sales only reflect how much effort is put into marketing and you get a success when you sweep up a lot of people who only occasionally buy music, I thought 'Hackney Diamonds' was utter junk but the marketing was a complete success, the same can be said of McCartney's albums going back to 'New', each album sounds worse than the last one but is accompanied by ever more elaborate paths of commercialization to ensnare the casual and hardcore fan. All these old artists are now at the point where they're 'national treasures' and no longer receive any bad reviews, it would be entertaining to read a genuine scathing reviews of 'Hackney Diamonds' or 'McCartney III' or Dylan sings the phone book...
Interesting thoughts! I think in the first 10 years of solo Beatles, critics probably tended to underrate their work (especially Macca), and in the twilight years of their careers the opposite is probably happening. I think Ringo changed up his game on this release just enough for some more people to take notice, but his "flooding the zone" with product every year for decades has also made less people take notice than the attention he might have got. Agree with you that there's some generic-ness to Look Up and maybe I was wishing for an Oh Brother type treatment from T-Bone... or dare I say it, a more stripped down Rick Rubin American Recordings Johnny Cash treatment. But the "middle of the road" generic vibe of Ringo's last 20-30 years waters down the record a bit, even as it stands out a bit. On my 5th listen I stopped half way through and happened to reach for Randy Newman's Sail Away CD instead and it was shocking. Right, here's a monumental album by an essential artist and life is short. Not sure how soon it will be for Look Up to get another spin.
Good show gentlemen. It's been said many times, but that Ringo is still relevant is absolutely amazing and great.
This comment is to Allan Kozinn. I gave your McCartney Legacy Volume 1 book as a gift to a friend this last Christmas. He is absolutely glowing in his praise for the book. He is a huge Beatle and especially McCartney fan (early solo years especially) and he is amazed with all the new stuff he is learning from your book. He is about halfway thru. I know he is looking forward to Volume 2. Congrats on a job well done! An absolute must for Beatle/McCartney fans.
Loved the conversation guys. Very interesting about why Ringo doesn’t play new or different songs on his tours. Good review of ‘Look Up’ . Thanks
Regarding the SNL music special… very disappointed they didn’t show even a few seconds of George doing Here Comes The Sun with Paul Simon . I think there was one quick blink and you miss it photo of them. At least they ended with Paul and Hey Jude.
He should at least do What's My Name. Colin Hay wrote it for him, he is in the band. Agree, he should do some of the new stuff in his shows. Even a song like Weight of the World, La Di Da, etc. which got lots of play when they were released don't even get a thought.
Where did Ken find that bit about the Netflix Ringo doc? This is the first mention I’ve heard of it and I can’t seem to find anything else about it when I search.
I know there was an article I read where I got that information from, and when I google for it now, the content is no longer available. They even had the title-"Ringo: The Beat Goes On."
I will look further into it. Thanks!
I've said it before; I think it's great that they can remaster Free As A Bird with John's voice recording quality improved. I would love it if they also sped up the tempo of the song. Something that can definitely happen with today's technology. For anyone who thinks it's not a Beatles thing to do, just remember that Please Please Me was initially presented to George Martin at a much slower tempo.
And where's Martin today? The fact is two of the Beatles, and their producer, are no longer with us. It's time to "let it be"
@@roystonsbailey they'll never 'let it be', every individual has to decide when to get off the train, it does bother me tho that all the decisions George Harrison made in the 90's which he regarded as being the final word are all gradually being overwritten
@MercuriusHibernicus life is for the living. Future generations shouldn't be forever deprived of Beatles music because of George's (or anyone's) whims.
@@D97Music The Beatles existed from 1962 to 1970, I don't think anyone is arguing that all those digital and analogue copies of their music should be destroyed. The question is what can you keep scraping from the bottom of the barrel before you can only create complete fabrications. I think there's a subset of Beatle fans who believe it's their legal and moral right to have a new Christmas present from the Beatles every year until the sun burns out.
George was on board for the first two songs. Maybe he didn’t like Now and Then as a song or maybe he felt the original demo was so bad it couldn’t be salvaged and would be pleasantly surprised with the results with the new technology. We have to assume Olivia and Dhani are doing what they felt George would want. They knew him better than anyone else. And we do know he wasn’t opposed to remixing because he had expressed a desire to de Spectorize All Things Must Pass
So many people talk non stop throughout shows now and need numerous drinks apparently. I assume they paid good money for their tickets so I don’t understand why they even bother. So if they want to make a beer run any time a song they don’t know is played I say let them go and hopefully get caught in long lines so the rest of us that want to hear what’s being played can enjoy the show.
Compared to his last few records.Ringo's Look Up album sounds fresh. Maybe because he's with different writers and musicians.
this was posted right after Ringo's concert at the Ryman th-cam.com/video/zn1nWc40u9U/w-d-xo.html
'Look Up' sounds utterly generic copy and paste autotuned on a laptop coroporate pop... with the odd bit of slide guitar to make you think 'country', I think the record sales only reflect how much effort is put into marketing and you get a success when you sweep up a lot of people who only occasionally buy music, I thought 'Hackney Diamonds' was utter junk but the marketing was a complete success, the same can be said of McCartney's albums going back to 'New', each album sounds worse than the last one but is accompanied by ever more elaborate paths of commercialization to ensnare the casual and hardcore fan. All these old artists are now at the point where they're 'national treasures' and no longer receive any bad reviews, it would be entertaining to read a genuine scathing reviews of 'Hackney Diamonds' or 'McCartney III' or Dylan sings the phone book...
Interesting thoughts! I think in the first 10 years of solo Beatles, critics probably tended to underrate their work (especially Macca), and in the twilight years of their careers the opposite is probably happening. I think Ringo changed up his game on this release just enough for some more people to take notice, but his "flooding the zone" with product every year for decades has also made less people take notice than the attention he might have got. Agree with you that there's some generic-ness to Look Up and maybe I was wishing for an Oh Brother type treatment from T-Bone... or dare I say it, a more stripped down Rick Rubin American Recordings Johnny Cash treatment. But the "middle of the road" generic vibe of Ringo's last 20-30 years waters down the record a bit, even as it stands out a bit. On my 5th listen I stopped half way through and happened to reach for Randy Newman's Sail Away CD instead and it was shocking. Right, here's a monumental album by an essential artist and life is short. Not sure how soon it will be for Look Up to get another spin.