I think the top 3 musical genuises are Paul john & brian wilson. Hands down. John and brian had serious issues Paul seems like he's always been pretty ok mentally but john & brian I think their demons of childhood drove their genius they say the flip side of genius is madness
@@DveDveSold yeah. And his low voice creates the cool crisp sound while merged with Paul's Girls Faint- voice. I love their duet in each Btl song singly. Pun intended :)
I love John's uninhibited little-editing-before-responding approach to conversing. He dominates the conversation here; McCartney must've felt either a bit intimidated or too secure to care...
@@dedrajade5394 As Billy Preston said, John was the boss. As Paul said, to John, in Get Back- "You've always been the leader." It was John's group. John pretty much dominated any room.
Meh, John along with George, always flew off the deep end with "new" things. The Beach Boys actually described John and George arriving to their hotel to "forcefully proselytize" for the Maharishi, while Paul, as with drugs, was a bit more grounded, less likely to go overboard...and wary. So perhaps this is just an embarrassed John realizing that after running around proclaiming to everyone how amazing the Maha was, he just wasn't "all that" and needed some walking back.
A bit of interesting trivia about the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, he offered then mayor of Detroit, Coleman Young, for $2 million dollars that he could rid Detroit of crime forever. The mayor didn't take him up on the offer.
Wow, the Beach Boy play at little tiny Iona college in New Rochelle in 1968? 0:18 With the Beach Boys will being at the height of their popularity 1968, I would thought they would be playing much bigger arenas
In the United States, the Beach Boys were not a big draw at all in 1968. They went from Pet Sounds and Good Vibrations in 1966 to being unpopular by the end of 1967. In the UK, it was a different story, as they were huge from 65-70.
@@truthtransistorradio6716 Thanks for that information. As I was I was born in the mid 60s, I had no idea that after 1966 “Pet Sounds” & “Good Vibrations” they went from being super popular to not so popular. - IONA college in New Rochelle, NY, is smaller than most community college campuses. I bet it’s only 20 acres at the most. We used to jog around the campus 3 times before we started our swim team practice.
@@truthtransistorradio6716 True; the abortion of the "Smile" album and not playing at the Monterey pop festival in 1967 helped to kill their popularity, and fashions changed quickly in those days. They drew just 200 fans to a concert in New York in 1968, and played at the Corn Palace in Mitchell, South Dakota in 1969. The "Friends" album, released in the spring of 1968, reached only #126 in the Billboard chart, and "Stack-o-Tracks," released a few months later, didn't make it into most record stores and failed to chart. In addition to the U.K., where "Do it Again" reached #1, they retained their popularity in other countries such as the Netherlands and Australia. "Cottonfields," ignored in North America, reached #1 in Australia in July 1970.
Ringo and McCartney were the first to leave the Maharishi's ashram, because they were bored about the course's routine, the flies and the poor food. Lennon and Harrison stayed on, but soon they found out that the Maharishi was a greedy fellow (intent on collecting 25% of the Beatles next album royalties) and that, in spite of supposedly being a celibate monk, he was a shameless philanderer, having made a pass at Mia Farrow (who left the site in a hurry) and doing the same more successfully with another female student, witnessed by John, George and Magic Alex. The next morning Lennon and Harrison met the Yogi. Lennon said: «We're leaving.» Yogi: «But why, boys?» Lennon: «If you are so fucking cosmic, you'll know why...» The Maharishi gave him back a rabid look like "I'll kill you, you bastard!" A few years ago another one of the Yogi's students and once a time mistress would write a very revelatory autobiographical book about the matter. On 14 May 1968 at the Americana Hotel press conference, John and Paul were asked about the subject. JOURNALIST: What are your feelings about the Maharishi? JOHN: We made a mistake... JOURNALIST: Do you mean other people are mistaken too? JOHN: That it's up to them... He was human, you know... (with a knowing and serious glance that said it all) JOURNALIST: What do you mean by mistake? JOHN: That's all, you know... PAUL: We thought there was more to him than it was, you know, but... he's human. And for a while we thought that he wasn't. We thought that he was a... (making gestures, meaning that the Yogi might have been special or otherwordly). More recently, the old Maharishi was interviewed by a "60 Minutes" Australian journalist. JOURNALIST: They [the Beatles] established you in the world... MAHARISHI: No, no, forget about it. JOURNALIST: No? MAHARISHI (fuming): Hmm! Forget about it! The Beatles made me popular in the world?... Forget about it! Lately, people connected to the Maharishi, like Deepak Chopra, are trying to dismiss or even to erase the whole incident, saying that it was the other way around, that it was the Beatles who misbehaved by taking drugs to the ashram and were expelled by the Maharishi when he found out. After Harrison died, Chopra came up with a totally unsubstantiated story that George had asked the Maharishi forgiveness for their rude behaviour! TMer David Lynch even got McCartney and Starr (who, unlike Lennon and Harrison, had not witnessed the Yogi's misdemeanours) to go public about the merits of TM.
Just so you know a lot of what you’re saying here was made up by Magic Alex in order to sway John away from the Maharishi’s influence…in particular the trying to get with females stuff.
Lennon later admitted he was paranoid that Maharishi would put a spell on him if he talked trash about him publicly, so he wrote “Sexy Sadie” instead, a song that gave his about opinion on the man, disguising him as a “she” in the lyrics.
maybe but they used to watch him on BBC television when they were kids.... Later, I think it was George and Paul (2 of the Beatles) that went for his seminar in the UK somewhere and then the rest is history.
@@34hedgehog Yea, no!! If there is ever one individual whose name contradicts his behavior, it's Mike Love. As it's been said too numerous times since, imagine how bad it would be if he didn't meditate!! The history has been out there for now the 7th decade. No matter how much Love battles to rewrite history, too many reported on his behavior as it happened.
@Jess Hanks @xAthene The original lyrics were "Maharishi, what have you done? You made a fool of everyone." George convinced John to change it to "Sexy Sadie, what have you done? You made a fool of everyone." Definitely was about John being disillusioned when he saw Maharishi playing the ladies. There's tons of stuff here: www.beatlesbible.com/songs/sexy-sadie/
Apparently, “Magic” Alex, a manipulative fraud, invented the stories against the Maharishi, because he was jealous of his influence on Lennon and the Beatles… the remaining fabs have reconnected with the guru. Paul took his kids to see him in the early 2000’s, or around there… ✌🏻❤️
The Maharishi promised the visitors at Rishikesh that if they meditated their lives would bloom and blossom. On the contary. The Beatles split up acrimoniously. John Lennon became a heroin addict. Ringo Starr became an alcoholic. George Harrison became a connoisseur of many different drugs and when the Beatles finally finally split Paul McCartney turned to drinking strong spirits. Mike Love, the less said there the better. Donovan has since turned into an egomaniac. Mia Farrow has had fierce and embarrassing family problems. Perhaps a case could be made that practicing TM does more harm than good. I admire all the Beatles for the great music they made and it can't be denied they had a huge cultural influence. But not all the influence was good.
Meditation is simply a tool it doesn’t sever you form the ties of karma or magically fix all of your interpersonal problems. It’s a tool that also only aids when it’s actually done more often than not especially in the 60s when it was a fad most people would drop it within a month, and I highly doubt Lennon was a disciplined meditator well into his addiction
Well, one huge benefit did come from that trip: a truckload of songs, many of which would appear on the White Album, an album many think is their best.
I thought Johnny Carson hosted the show starting in 1962. Was there a guest host filling in for him here? I know he did that sometimes in the 70’s and 80’s, go away somewhere and have someone guest host on his behalf, but I’ve never heard of him doing that in the 60’s. Not saying he didn’t yet start doing that then, but if this truly is from an episode of the Tonight Show, then where is he?
Mr Carson should have been there. He would have made all the difference. Other than that the interview was a flop from both sides which, historically is a shame!
I agree, I was watching that night and thought that Garagiola was somewhat uncomfortable with the whole arrangement. Besides he was of a different generation and seemed to not be that knowledgeable of their music or rock in general. Besides Carson was THE MASTER of interviews at that time. You'd have the best interviewing the best
Probably not. NBC destroyed most (if not all) of the videotapes from The Tonight Show's earliest years ( 1962-70) when they were in New York. When Carson found out about it he went ballistic. He later got control (I'm told) over what happened to the tapes of his shows and that is what we see now online here on TH-cam. There were classics that are forever lost because someone at NBC wanted some more shelf space, tragically
@@Radioaddict2200 i found it. It isn’t the entire interview but a few Godly souls out there in Beatleland have made some noble attempts to sync what does survive with its accompanying audio. It looks about as good as you would expect an 8mm amateur film of a tv set in a dark living room in 1968 to look. Which is not good. Anyone interested can use search terms “Lennon”, “McCartney”, “Tonight Show”, “NBC” and the date May 14th, 1968 to locate it. Also interestingly, this episode was also Tallulah Bankhead’s last interview and Johnny Carson was off on vacation that night.
Co-Hosts on the Tonight Show? I don't remember this. A bit before my time because I'd be in bed by this time of night in 1968--if it was a school night.
I watched it live, also recorded the audio on my little Craig cassette recorder. So disappointed Johnny wasn't hosting that night, Joe was filling in. John and Paul were disappointed, too.
What does it mean when he’s they say the Beach Boys act “folded”? No matter how bad the Maharishi was, weren’t the Beach Boys very popular in 1968? so who cares if the opening act was not very good?
As successful as Paul is I think John has made the biggest impact on humanity with Imagine. They both have legacies that will live on forever but there’s something about John that feels more impactful. I’d like to believe John was the more for caring than any.
How so? George seemed to get a lot from it, it didn't really influence Ringo or Paul because they didn't stay there too long, and John got some good from it. They wrote some phenomenal songs while there too. So how did he make fools of them?
People comparing John & Paul since ever and never enjoying both of them.
well, I do
@@wayneschlegel1340 How DARE YA, TROLL?!?! (Just kidding, I do too!)
I think the top 3 musical genuises are Paul john & brian wilson. Hands down. John and brian had serious issues Paul seems like he's always been pretty ok mentally but john & brian I think their demons of childhood drove their genius they say the flip side of genius is madness
thats a pretty narrow analysis.LSD had many casualties................
bobdylab&johnlennon are on one side of the spectrum and paulmccartney&brianwilson are on the other.... john and paul meet in the middle
"There must be chaos to give birth to a dancing star."Nietsche
I think Jim Morrison, Kate Bush, and R.E.M. as a band are more genius than McCartney. McCartney was a great student of what Wilson was doing.
Dear Natalie, thank you for your profound assessment.
My 2 favorite bands ❤
You have excellent taste.
I can't wait for that May 6th show in Boston!
love john's voice
Nasaly
@@DveDveSold yeah. And his low voice creates the cool crisp sound while merged with
Paul's Girls Faint- voice. I love their duet in each Btl song singly. Pun intended :)
I loved them together!!
I love John's uninhibited little-editing-before-responding approach to conversing. He dominates the conversation here; McCartney must've felt either a bit intimidated or too secure to care...
vampyros1 John was always more of a talker than Paul.
They were friends since they were kids. They weren't intimidated by each other.
@@dedrajade5394 As Billy Preston said, John was the boss. As Paul said, to John, in Get Back- "You've always been the leader." It was John's group. John pretty much dominated any room.
Meh, John along with George, always flew off the deep end with "new" things. The Beach Boys actually described John and George arriving to their hotel to "forcefully proselytize" for the Maharishi, while Paul, as with drugs, was a bit more grounded, less likely to go overboard...and wary. So perhaps this is just an embarrassed John realizing that after running around proclaiming to everyone how amazing the Maha was, he just wasn't "all that" and needed some walking back.
@@dedrajade5394 Not at all. There are conversations where Paul takes over
When Joe Garagiola said he had something in common with the Beatles, I thought it’s gonna say that he also played with “Yogi” (Berra) 😅
A bit of interesting trivia about the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, he offered then mayor of Detroit, Coleman Young, for $2 million dollars that he could rid Detroit of crime forever. The mayor didn't take him up on the offer.
Wow, the Beach Boy play at little tiny Iona college in New Rochelle in 1968? 0:18
With the Beach Boys will being at the height of their popularity 1968, I would thought they would be playing much bigger arenas
In the United States, the Beach Boys were not a big draw at all in 1968. They went from Pet Sounds and Good Vibrations in 1966 to being unpopular by the end of 1967. In the UK, it was a different story, as they were huge from 65-70.
@@truthtransistorradio6716 Thanks for that information. As I was I was born in the mid 60s, I had no idea that after 1966 “Pet Sounds” & “Good Vibrations” they went from being super popular to not so popular.
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IONA college in New Rochelle, NY, is smaller than most community college campuses. I bet it’s only 20 acres at the most.
We used to jog around the campus 3 times before we started our swim team practice.
@@truthtransistorradio6716 True; the abortion of the "Smile" album and not playing at the Monterey pop festival in 1967 helped to kill their popularity, and fashions changed quickly in those days. They drew just 200 fans to a concert in New York in 1968, and played at the Corn Palace in Mitchell, South Dakota in 1969. The "Friends" album, released in the spring of 1968, reached only #126 in the Billboard chart, and "Stack-o-Tracks," released a few months later, didn't make it into most record stores and failed to chart. In addition to the U.K., where "Do it Again" reached #1, they retained their popularity in other countries such as the Netherlands and Australia. "Cottonfields," ignored in North America, reached #1 in Australia in July 1970.
thank you !
Seeking validation from a Guru. Learned to look 'with in'.
I see what you did there! "Within You Without You"--George Harrison from "Sergeant Pepper's"
Ringo and McCartney were the first to leave the Maharishi's ashram, because they were bored about the course's routine, the flies and the poor food.
Lennon and Harrison stayed on, but soon they found out that the Maharishi was a greedy fellow (intent on collecting 25% of the Beatles next album royalties) and that, in spite of supposedly being a celibate monk, he was a shameless philanderer, having made a pass at Mia Farrow (who left the site in a hurry) and doing the same more successfully with another female student, witnessed by John, George and Magic Alex. The next morning Lennon and Harrison met the Yogi. Lennon said: «We're leaving.» Yogi: «But why, boys?» Lennon: «If you are so fucking cosmic, you'll know why...» The Maharishi gave him back a rabid look like "I'll kill you, you bastard!"
A few years ago another one of the Yogi's students and once a time mistress would write a very revelatory autobiographical book about the matter.
On 14 May 1968 at the Americana Hotel press conference, John and Paul were asked about the subject.
JOURNALIST: What are your feelings about the Maharishi?
JOHN: We made a mistake...
JOURNALIST: Do you mean other people are mistaken too?
JOHN: That it's up to them... He was human, you know... (with a knowing and serious glance that said it all)
JOURNALIST: What do you mean by mistake?
JOHN: That's all, you know...
PAUL: We thought there was more to him than it was, you know, but... he's human. And for a while we thought that he wasn't. We thought that he was a... (making gestures, meaning that the Yogi might have been special or otherwordly).
More recently, the old Maharishi was interviewed by a "60 Minutes" Australian journalist.
JOURNALIST: They [the Beatles] established you in the world...
MAHARISHI: No, no, forget about it.
JOURNALIST: No?
MAHARISHI (fuming): Hmm! Forget about it! The Beatles made me popular in the world?... Forget about it!
Lately, people connected to the Maharishi, like Deepak Chopra, are trying to dismiss or even to erase the whole incident, saying that it was the other way around, that it was the Beatles who misbehaved by taking drugs to the ashram and were expelled by the Maharishi when he found out. After Harrison died, Chopra came up with a totally unsubstantiated story that George had asked the Maharishi forgiveness for their rude behaviour! TMer David Lynch even got McCartney and Starr (who, unlike Lennon and Harrison, had not witnessed the Yogi's misdemeanours) to go public about the merits of TM.
That was super interesting and well written! I love how bold Lennon was “if your such a cosmic person, you’ll know”
Just so you know a lot of what you’re saying here was made up by Magic Alex in order to sway John away from the Maharishi’s influence…in particular the trying to get with females stuff.
ALL SO CALLED RELIGIOUS LEADER'S OF RELIGION ARE EFFING CONMEN. TOTAL SHITE.
Deep Pocket Chopra.
5 million & 10 people. Low-key comedy at its finest.
Lennon later admitted he was paranoid that Maharishi would put a spell on him if he talked trash about him publicly, so he wrote “Sexy Sadie” instead, a song that gave his about opinion on the man, disguising him as a “she” in the lyrics.
Wasn't it George who introduced the others to the teachings of the Maharishi even though they all met him for the first time together?
maybe but they used to watch him on BBC television when they were kids.... Later, I think it was George and Paul (2 of the Beatles) that went for his seminar in the UK somewhere and then the rest is history.
Nah Pattie his wife did
@@AlbPerNil Yes.
The bottom line--Mike Love got the wrong idea (as usual!)
That might be your opinion.... but you're wrong.
@@34hedgehog Yea, no!! If there is ever one individual whose name contradicts his behavior, it's Mike Love. As it's been said too numerous times since, imagine how bad it would be if he didn't meditate!! The history has been out there for now the 7th decade. No matter how much Love battles to rewrite history, too many reported on his behavior as it happened.
sexy sadie was about the Maharishi,
@Jess Hanks @xAthene The original lyrics were "Maharishi, what have you done? You made a fool of everyone." George convinced John to change it to "Sexy Sadie, what have you done? You made a fool of everyone." Definitely was about John being disillusioned when he saw Maharishi playing the ladies. There's tons of stuff here: www.beatlesbible.com/songs/sexy-sadie/
@Jeshex Proof?
@@FloatsOnSatellites Oh so this is the reason they said they made a mistake... I didnt know this.
Apparently, “Magic” Alex, a manipulative fraud, invented the stories against the Maharishi, because he was jealous of his influence on Lennon and the Beatles… the remaining fabs have reconnected with the guru. Paul took his kids to see him in the early 2000’s, or around there… ✌🏻❤️
The Maharishi promised the visitors at Rishikesh that if they meditated their lives would bloom and blossom. On the contary. The Beatles split up acrimoniously. John Lennon became a heroin addict. Ringo Starr became an alcoholic. George Harrison became a connoisseur of many different drugs and when the Beatles finally finally split Paul McCartney turned to drinking strong spirits. Mike Love, the less said there the better. Donovan has since turned into an egomaniac. Mia Farrow has had fierce and embarrassing family problems. Perhaps a case could be made that practicing TM does more harm than good.
I admire all the Beatles for the great music they made and it can't be denied they had a huge cultural influence. But not all the influence was good.
Meditation is simply a tool it doesn’t sever you form the ties of karma or magically fix all of your interpersonal problems. It’s a tool that also only aids when it’s actually done more often than not especially in the 60s when it was a fad most people would drop it within a month, and I highly doubt Lennon was a disciplined meditator well into his addiction
Well, one huge benefit did come from that trip: a truckload of songs, many of which would appear on the White Album, an album many think is their best.
@@pauldavies5611 good point!
I thought Johnny Carson hosted the show starting in 1962. Was there a guest host filling in for him here? I know he did that sometimes in the 70’s and 80’s, go away somewhere and have someone guest host on his behalf, but I’ve never heard of him doing that in the 60’s. Not saying he didn’t yet start doing that then, but if this truly is from an episode of the Tonight Show, then where is he?
My understanding is that Carson was on vacation and they chose Joe Garagiola to host the show. A horrendous choice, in my opinion.
Mr Carson should have been there. He would have made all the difference. Other than that the interview was a flop from both sides which, historically is a shame!
For years, I’ve heard that Joe G was not good in this interview. Upon listening, he is asking good questions and is on point.
I agree, I was watching that night and thought that Garagiola was somewhat uncomfortable with the whole arrangement. Besides he
was of a different generation and seemed to not be that knowledgeable of their music or rock in general. Besides Carson was THE MASTER of interviews at that time. You'd have the best interviewing the best
@@drummer78 Better than I'd remembered. I watched it. Johnny would have been so much better.
Are there any video recordings of this interview?
This just popped up. Apparently the original videotapes have all been erased. th-cam.com/video/h9ksrH6DEdE/w-d-xo.html
Probably not. NBC destroyed most (if not all) of the videotapes from The Tonight Show's earliest years ( 1962-70) when they were
in New York. When Carson found out about it he went ballistic. He later got control (I'm told) over what happened to the tapes of his
shows and that is what we see now online here on TH-cam. There were classics that are forever lost because someone at NBC wanted some more shelf space, tragically
Someone videotaped part of it from their TV and posted it on TH-cam.
Is only the audio available? Thanks for sharing!
There is video but it’s super 8 of someone Filming their tv screen. The broadcast was never archived by NBC unfortunately.
@@Radioaddict2200 link? Thanks for the info
@@Radioaddict2200 i found it. It isn’t the entire interview but a few Godly souls out there in Beatleland have made some noble attempts to sync what does survive with its accompanying audio. It looks about as good as you would expect an 8mm amateur film of a tv set in a dark living room in 1968 to look. Which is not good. Anyone interested can use search terms “Lennon”, “McCartney”, “Tonight Show”, “NBC” and the date May 14th, 1968 to locate it. Also interestingly, this episode was also Tallulah Bankhead’s last interview and Johnny Carson was off on vacation that night.
Did NBC destroy the original videotape?
Likely dubbed over. It was cheaper than replacing archived reels back then
Co-Hosts on the Tonight Show? I don't remember this. A bit before my time because I'd be in bed by this time of night in 1968--if it was a school night.
I watched it live, also recorded the audio on my little Craig cassette recorder. So disappointed Johnny wasn't hosting that night, Joe was filling in. John and Paul were disappointed, too.
What does it mean when he’s they say the Beach Boys act “folded”? No matter how bad the Maharishi was, weren’t the Beach Boys very popular in 1968? so who cares if the opening act was not very good?
How is there no video of this, did they think these guests weren’t famous enough, lol
As successful as Paul is I think John has made the biggest impact on humanity with Imagine. They both have legacies that will live on forever but there’s something about John that feels more impactful. I’d like to believe John was the more for caring than any.
Hey-O!
It wasn't just the alleged sexual harassment. The 'guru' wanted 25% profits off the Beatles next album. Which Lennon replied "over my dead body".
the speed's too fast. Doesn't sound like The Beatles -- sounds more like Alvin & the Chipmunks.
The Maharishi period was so silly. He made fools of them
How so? George seemed to get a lot from it, it didn't really influence Ringo or Paul because they didn't stay there too long, and John got some good from it. They wrote some phenomenal songs while there too. So how did he make fools of them?
y'kno
They don’t want to say anything about Maharishi’s sexual endeavors! Supposedly he was quite a ladies man, if you want to call it that!
the beach boys are better then the beatles and that is my opinion
You should try listening to the beatles then😂