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Re: Bootleg City: The Beatles

Sorry — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 01:28:08 -0000

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rwcass — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:44:21 -0000

Move the political talk here, boys:

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mojo — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:13:16 -0000

the poor?

You said that.

I would have phrased it "denying health care to the poor--and middle class--so insurance CEOs can pocket multimillion dollar bonuses and brag about the tight financial ships they're running...while Glenn Beck fiddles." Oops, did I say **that?**

Re: Bootleg City: The Beatles

DwDunphy — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 11:02:05 -0000

Unethical to copy a bootleg. Sounds right to me, like denying health care to the poor because insurance companies pay for my campaign - OOPS. Did I say that?

Re: Bootleg City: The Beatles

rwcass — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 10:15:02 -0000

Those kids have got moxie!

Do you need a couch, Matt? Let me know.

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Matt — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 09:38:18 -0000

I think these Beatles cats are going to be something. Thanks for the post and the good reading material!

Re: Bootleg City: The Beatles

rwcass — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 02:00:50 -0000

Hmm ... I feel like "Commonwealth" relates to current events in this country somehow, but I can't quite put my finger on it.

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JonCummings — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:55:11 -0000

Thanks for that link. "Commonwealth" is an ultra-rare "Get Back" jam-session outtake of the group fooling around while Paul is trying to figure out what he wants to do with the song "Get Back" itself. It is a parody of a speech given by a douchebag member of the House of Commons named Enoch Powell, which became known as the "Rivers of Blood" speech. It was militantly anti-immigrant and racist in nature, and turned Powell into a pariah. During the jam session Paul sang a line going "You better get back to your Commonwealth homes," a reference to Powell's desire to re-patriate immigrants from British Commonwealth nations.

A later session featured Paul singing a tune much more similar to "Get Back," but featuring a similar satire of anti-immigrant conservatives, which is now known as "No Pakistanis." I don't have that, either, but would like to.

Re: Bootleg City: The Beatles

rwcass — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:34:54 -0000

Never heard of it, but you might find some interesting stuff at this blog:

http://juliocmail.blogspot....

I've noticed that there are multiple versions of "The Alternate Abbey Road" floating around. Beatles minutiae makes my head spin -- and I LIKE minutiae.

Re: Bootleg City: The Beatles

JonCummings — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:27:45 -0000

I'm still waiting for someone to drop a copy of "Commonwealth" in my lap. I've never had a copy of it--I've only ever heard a sliver of it once, back in college, on a record owned by a friend who (nonsensically) thought it would be somehow unethical for me to make a cassette copy of his bootleg LP.

Anybody? Bueller?