McCartney 3 2 1- Hulu

[wease]

Started this last night. Watched the first ep and part of the second. Wonderful.

[epilogue]

I'm excited to dive into this.

[wease]

My dad watched it yesterday. He said it changed (for the good) his whole view of the Beatles.

[epilogue]

Love to hear that. What was his take prior?

[spike]

[McCartney voice]Our little band would just write these little ditties.[/McCartney voice]

[doug rr]

good stuff, we watched 5 of them over the weekend

[wease]

good stuff, we watched 5 of them over the weekend

There’s only six! You should’ve finished it.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[wease]

Love to hear that. What was his take prior?

He’s been a HUGE (too small a word) fan since seeing them on Ed Sullivan. Just like most in his generation. He was always a Paul guy. Which is interesting to me because they seem so similar as people. Both left-handed. Both guitar players that got stuck with playing bass. Similar views on most sociopolitical topics. (Pa Wease is NOT vegetarian, tho). He has always seen them as the geniuses they are. Read a lot of the books and such, but just in the little bit I’ve seen, it’s presented in sort of a different way. Almost simplistic. Like Spike said, their little band would write a little ditty. And while he’s always known that’s how the band saw it, it’s this presentation that kind of SHOWS how the simple ideas they had formed the songs. And it shows some of what gave them the simple ideas.

It really is a great show.

[Anders]

Sounds great.

[E.H. Ruddock]

[McCartney voice]Our little band would just write these little ditties.[/McCartney voice]

Perfect. Exactly why I hate listening to McCartney speak. His whole “ho hum I’m a country bloke who became a billionaire” schtick is so grating to me. Heck of a songwriter, though.

trag

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[E.H. Ruddock]

He’s up there with Springsteen for least palatable rockstar faux-humility I’ve ever seen.

I hope strat doesn't see this

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He’s up there with Springsteen for least palatable rockstar faux-humility I’ve ever seen.

I hope strat doesn't see this

Springsteen is far worse.

[spike]

He’s up there with Springsteen for least palatable rockstar faux-humility I’ve ever seen.

I hope strat doesn't see this

Springsteen is far worse.

[wease]

Two things:

1) that was hilarious
2) I love Janeane Garofalo