Lennon on Great Performances

shamustwin · Post by **shamustwin** » Wed Sep 08, 2004 10:16 am

tonight, sorry late notice. "Great Performances browses John Lennon's record collection for an insight into the Beatles' musical influences".

Scastles · Post by **Scastles** » Wed Sep 08, 2004 10:47 am

Great heads up on that one...hope to catch it myself. But get quirky PBS showings here.

mike_d · Post by **mike_d** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 5:33 am

Great show. Saw it last night. lots of interesting interviews with some of the artists featured in the jukebox such as John Sebastian, The Isley Brothers and Leiber and Stoller. You can see where the lads copped a lick or two! Great stuff.

loendmaestro · Post by **loendmaestro** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 6:10 am

It was a fantastic show...cool stuff like seeing Lennon's own handwriting on the jukebox (misspelling Otis Redding as "Ottis"!)

Also, for all of you Stax folks out there, the PBS show P.O.V. played the "Wattstax" concert from 1972 last night. A re-broadcast is scheduled for tomorrow night.
Albert King, The Bar Kays, Rufus & Carla Thomas, Isaac Hayes, Johnnie Taylor - good good stuff!

shamustwin · Post by **shamustwin** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 11:18 am

Seems the Stax band (Booker T) in their '65 clip was playing very early Marshalls.

admin · Post by **admin** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 12:10 pm

I keeping with the spirit of this threat, I am reminded that 33 years ago today "Imagine" hit the airwaves. A timeless classic that revelas that sometimes the simplest productions are the best. I wonder what his inspiration was for this one?

byu · Post by **byu** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 7:49 pm

I still remember getting that 45 with the funkiest of Apple labels on it. B/W "It's So Hard and a great King Curtis sax solo. Oh hell, now you've made me want to listen to the whole damn album(CD). Here's a scan of the B side.
Cheers,
Bill