Beatles Get Back documentary

While it’s clear there was a lack of motivation, I found the collaborative process of their songwriting depicted in the first two segments absolutely fascinating, and it showed that, even though the band was on its last legs for numerous reasons, the professionalism of their craft itself was not.

Have any of you ever been in a band?

Some of these comments prove you have not, thus appreciate music but have no idea how it is written or performed by musicians.

I have not been in a band, but I don’t think what’s been going on in Episodes 1 & 2 demonstrates The Beatles’ approach to songwriting and recording at its best.

From Wikipedia regarding the recording of Abbey Road:

Producer George Martin returned on the condition that the Beatles adhere to the discipline of their earlier records. They found the album’s recording more enjoyable than the preceding Get Back sessions, but personal issues still permeated the band.

and

McCartney, Starr and Martin have reported positive recollections of the sessions, while Harrison said, "we did actually perform like musicians again".

So, though I’ve never been in a band, It seems that people who were in bands, specifically some of The Beatles, share my opinion on the Get Back sessions.

However, if anyone thinks that the Get Back sessions are how The Beatles normally worked, I won’t try to convince them it was not because we don’t have film of other recording sessions.

I am a huge Beatles fan, watched the first 2 and thought it was stretched way to long. There were some shinning moments like Maxwell Silver Hammer which showed on the White LP and when Billy Preston arrived and everything got much tighter. Paul was in charge and the others were there in body prior to that point.

The high and low moments of the first 2 could have been shown in half the time.

I imagine part 3 will be the most interesting with the roof top concert.

After watching the first episode, I have to agree with Johnto. While some parts are fascinating, there is just too much meandering and downtime. Other than Paul, the other 3 Beatles seemed to lack focus and the episode could have easily been condensed to an hour.

I was really looking forward to watching as a die hard Beatle fan.

I must say that it got interesting when one of the hit songs were developed and played but a bit of a drag in many other parts were they were unfocused or playing seemingly unrecorded or old songs.

Surely, the first several days tracked the evolution of the process but there was a lot that was wasted or otherwise uninteresting and a bit boring.

I felt kind of sad that John seemed to be uninvolved much of the time.

For sure, it would be great to see the Lenon-McCartney writing process!

At least Part One was kind of a disappointment. My expectations were high.

Especially with the expectation of "great film making".

A great narrative film maker is not necessarily a great documentarian.

Wonder what Ken Burns could do with this material?

I remember reading a quote from John Lennon saying something like he thought that Phil Spector had done a great job on Let It Be considering the load of crap that we gave him to work with.