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9.03am
26 January 2017
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*immediately starts scouring the internet for it*
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50yearslateI've been up on the mountain, and I've seen his wondrous grace,
I've sat there on the barstool and I've looked him in the face.
He seemed a little haggard, but it did not slow him down,
he was humming to the neon of the universal sound.
10.35am
18 April 2013
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Bongo said
Hope you folks got to watch the Joko Film “Above Us Only Sky” on A&E last night.. Jealous guy was in it!https://www.aetv.com/specials/…..s-only-sky
I’m not able to watch A & E so I didn’t see it. I don’t really like how every new thing comes out on a completely different channel that you have to subscribe to in order to watch that one thing…Maybe my experience is not the same as most peoples’, though. I don’t really watch TV. I only recently got Netflix (just so I could watch Stranger Things). Before that I only watched DVD and Blu-ray.
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1.16pm
26 January 2017
Offline Agreed ^^
Back on topic, I like to see this song as part of a progression from the more misogynistic outlook of John’s earlier writing (Run For Your Life , You Can’t Do That ) to a more self aware point of view with this song and others like Getting Better and Woman . It’s songs like this and Watching The Wheels that helped me come to terms with the worse sides of John’s personality. He wasn’t perfect, he was just human, but he did acknowledge his mistakes and try to better himself.
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Expert Textpert, BeatlebugI've been up on the mountain, and I've seen his wondrous grace,
I've sat there on the barstool and I've looked him in the face.
He seemed a little haggard, but it did not slow him down,
he was humming to the neon of the universal sound.
1.01pm
26 January 2017
Offline I am crazy about the piano playing on this somg, especially the runs at the end. Probably my favorite track off of the new box set is the instrumental version, where you can hear guess who? Nicky Hopkins playing away in my favorite piano style.
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Beatlebug, Timothy"The pump don't work cause the vandals took the handles!"
-Bob Dylan, Subterranean Homesick Blues
"We could ride and surf together while our love would grow"
-Brian Wilson, Surfer Girl
7.42pm
14 June 2016
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Agreed ^^Back on topic, I like to see this song as part of a progression from the more misogynistic outlook of John’s earlier writing (Run For Your Life , You Can’t Do That ) to a more self aware point of view with this song and others like Getting Better and Woman . It’s songs like this and Watching The Wheels that helped me come to terms with the worse sides of John’s personality. He wasn’t perfect, he was just human, but he did acknowledge his mistakes and try to better himself.
Indeed. That’s why it’s not fair to bash someone for past deeds when they’ve changed their thinking over time. Do we as the human race believe in redemption or not? Or is the perceived slight from the past just too great to get over? I’d like to think people can move on and live for today, as John said in Imagine . I have no doubt people today would slam John’s past. Honestly it would be ancient history. He spoke all about his thoughts and feelings, in his last interview especially. He was honest. John never proclaimed to be perfect, or someone running for office. His appeal is being human, learning and evolving like all of us. But he also had this ability to seem ethereal and wise. It’s these contradictions that make him endlessly fascinating and still hard to completely pin down.
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QuarryMan, Beatlebug1.The Beatles 2.Sgt. Pepper 3.Abbey Road 4.Magical Mystery Tour 5.Rubber Soul 6.Revolver 7.Help! 8.Let It Be
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8.02pm
26 January 2017
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That sums it up perfectly. I’m glad we now live in a world where abusive artists aren’t given a pass because of their popularity, though. If an artist today was accused of what John did today, their career would probably be over unless they did a very convincing job at redemption. I truly believe John changed his ways though, particularly after 1975. This song is a testament to how much he matured as a person.
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TimothyI've been up on the mountain, and I've seen his wondrous grace,
I've sat there on the barstool and I've looked him in the face.
He seemed a little haggard, but it did not slow him down,
he was humming to the neon of the universal sound.
7.06am
14 June 2016
Offline Recently been addicted to the JL anthology version of Jealous Guy . Really good perspective on the same song.
1.The Beatles 2.Sgt. Pepper 3.Abbey Road 4.Magical Mystery Tour 5.Rubber Soul 6.Revolver 7.Help! 8.Let It Be
9.A Hard Day’s Night 10.Please Please Me 11.Beatles For Sale 12.With The Beatles 13.Yellow Submarine
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1.08pm
26 January 2017
Offline I learned Nicky Hopkins’s piano part a few years ago and haven’t heard the song the same since. It is such a genius arrangement that follows the progression with perfect flow. John also stands out here, with an excellent lyric and tune. He’s so great at building themes and then paying them off, which is exactly what happens during the I Began To Lose Control… section
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-Brian Wilson, Surfer Girl
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1 May 2011
Offline This is the very first outtake I ever heard of John’s as it was included on a Beatles bootleg cassette (‘The Sweetest Apples‘ – I didn’t own a CD player at the time) and I was obsessed with it.
There was also an outtake of ‘How Do You Sleep’ which I still prefer to the released version.
"I told you everything I could about me, Told you everything I could" ('Before Believing' - Emmylou Harris)
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