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@meanmistermustard I’ve been checking through audio cassettes and videos since you asked the question. Have found the radio broadcast. Definitely Radio 2. There are station idents during it. And interview material (which explains the length). Had it been broadcast earlier, and live, I would have that on tape. I don’t. There is no way I would not have taped it.
I have found the Channel 4 broadcast I remembered, but that was much later. I was going to post on the subject after I’d found the original TV broadcast. Got a bit caught caught up when I found an eight hour (long play) tape of news coverage from the day/following couple of days when we lost George (BBC News 24, ITN, Sky News, CNN, very nice tribute compilation on BBC2). I was going to get back on task this evening. Don’t need to now you’ve found the initial TV broadcast.
What it has reminded is that I need to sit down and properly catalogue what I have on cassette and video!!!
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So the net is wrong?
Ron’s on the net so the net is still right?
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Offline What kind of strings does he use, flatwound or roundwound?
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What kind of strings does he use, flatwound or roundwound?
Roundwound. Apparently, people have sussed that out by listening to the isolated parts, and focusing on the sound of his fingertips against the strings as he changes chords.
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Offline JPM-Fangirl said
lillo78 said
What kind of strings does he use, flatwound or roundwound?Roundwound. Apparently, people have sussed that out by listening to the isolated parts, and focusing on the sound of his fingertips against the strings as he changes chords.
Makes sense to me. I did think of that, listening for those roundwound fret-squeaks.
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Offline On a related note, I wonder what type of strings he uses on his guitars. And by that, I mean alloy and gauge.
I really like the sound of phosphor-bronze strings for acoustics (I’m using 0.12 gauge on my 6-string, and 0.10 gauge on my 12-string because that’s the only gauge DR does for 12-strings), but I know not everyone likes the sound of them.
I’ve got nickel-plated ones (0.11) on my electric guitar (sometimes hex core, sometimes round), but that definitely isn’t the only option either.
I’m willing to bet Paul uses 0.13 or 0.14 on his acoustics, going by the fullness of the sound on his albums. The Gibsons will probably be 0.11 since that’s the preferred gauge for those, but I’m still curious to know.
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Offline Ron Nasty said
@meanmistermustard I’ve been checking through audio cassettes and videos since you asked the question.
What it has reminded is that I need to sit down and properly catalogue what I have on cassette and video!!!
Cassettes and VHS ???? 
A few years back, I got around to putting everything on to DVD or CD. What a big job that was 
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Offline Did Stella really say that her dad is a “tight b*****d” ??? There seem to be conflicting reports on this matter. I’ve read an article where she denies doing so, and then in some articles it keeps popping up.
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Offline Stella’s response to the claim was (in bold, first two paragraphs for background)
Listening to McCartney talk, it is extraordinary how much she wants to be seen as normal. ‘To me I had a normal childhood. I had normal parents. I had a mum who was at home, who picked us up from school in her old mini and cooked our tea. We watched telly and went to bed. Normal.’
The children went to local schools. ‘I don’t know how I would have turned out if I had gone to a posh school. If I have kids, I will do the same. I think Alasdhair would feel the same, we would send them to the local comprehensive school. It was one of the best things that happened to me. I know in my heart if I had gone to a posh school in London I would be a pain in the arse.’ I laugh as she says this, but she is not joking. She is quite serious on this point. Partly, I think, because recently, she says, she was misquoted, allegedly calling her father a ‘tight b*****d’ for not sending her to a private school.
‘It was such bullshit,’ she spits. ‘I did not say that. It went against everything I have ever said. When you go to a comprehensive and you come from my background, people don’t really love you for it. You get a hard time. And that is so valuable as a kid to know that. Otherwise you would just go through life thinking you are fabulous the whole time.’ She starts to laugh. ‘People would have said, ‘Oh your dad’s great. You are great. They would have been impressed by all the money and all that stuff. It would have been gross. That is so not the way I was brought up.’
I would go on the basis that she didn’t and a mixture of lazy journalism and stupid people keeps bringing it to the surface.
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Ringo isn’t Jewish. Its somewhere in the Anthology dvds, I remember him laughing about it but forget where or what the comment was about – possibly one of the many problems in ’66 when touring (US, Manila, Japan).
Ringo received death threats in Montreal, Canada, because they thought he was a Jew! He had a cop sitting next to him on the stage, with his Cymbals turned up, blocking him a bit.
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Offline Has anybody listened to the Let it be tapes? I read somewhere that they were leaked, and I also read that Paul was more nice to Yoko than it’s been made out, even defending JohnandYoko to Neil, Ringo, and Linda. Is this information correct?
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Has anybody listened to the Let it be tapes? I read somewhere that they were leaked, and I also read that Paul was more nice to Yoko than it’s been made out, even defending JohnandYoko to Neil, Ringo, and Linda. Is this information correct?
I haven’t listened to them all (it would take an age and great patience to do so, far more than I have) but they have been leaked and been bootlegged ever since 1969. One of the most complete sets is ‘A/B Road’ which i something like 78 cds in total.
As for your question I’ve read the books that document the sessions but cannot be of help as I cannot remember. Its been a while. @Joe, @Ron Nasty or someone else here may be able to actually answer.
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Offline I understand a book has been written about the LIB tapes, particularly the stuff that was left on the cutting room floor. Apparently, the analysis of the discarded footage shows a much more favourable view of Paul, and debunks quite a few of the things people keep repeating. For instance, it shows what most real fans already knew: that George did not leave because of the ‘I won’t play at all if it pleases you’ debacle, but because of a fight with John, which took place days later.
Additionally, I have listened to clips on YouTube in which Paul does, indeed, defend John and Yoko against Ringo, Linda and John Eastman. This was when George was absent, I think. Apparently, he was quite accommodating to them, whereas George, and even Ringo were much more (passive) aggressive about it.
There’s a blog with loads of audio clips from the Twickenham sessions, and what I heard so far indeed does debunk a lot of the ‘Paul was a controlling bully’ rhetoric. But one of the things that struck a chord with me, was a clip in which Paul is alone in the studio, playing a classical piece (adagio for strings?) on the piano. It’s very beautiful and impressive to hear he can play something like that by ear, but there’s also something very sad about it. It’s hard to explain, but it made me tear up.
Anyway, there seems to be a lot more to it than the standard story.
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Offline The books that analyse the Get Back sessions were written by Doug Sulpy (with Ray Schweighardt) and the most recent and up-to-date edition is the 2007 ‘Drugs, Divorce and a Slipping Image’.
Well worth reading.
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There’s a blog with loads of audio clips from the Twickenham sessions, and what I heard so far indeed does debunk a lot of the ‘Paul was a controlling bully’ rhetoric. But one of the things that struck a chord with me, was a clip in which Paul is alone in the studio, playing a classical piece (adagio for strings?) on the piano. It’s very beautiful and impressive to hear he can play something like that by ear, but there’s also something very sad about it. It’s hard to explain, but it made me tear up.
Anyway, there seems to be a lot more to it than the standard story.
That’s the music which opens the Let It Be film. You see Mal Evans and Kevin Harrington arrive at Twickenham to set up, and Paul’s playing piano in the background.
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