October 31, 2008

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
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Pantomime "Everywhere It's Christmas"

UPDATE: This was uploaded today. Note that this is from IAMAPH0NEY, but not Iamaphoney.



If the Berlin suitcase contains this item, then the finder has a nice collector's piece.


The flexi-record went out to British Beatles Fan Club members around the 16th of December, 1966. According to the accompanying Beatles Fan Club Newsletter, the recording was made "just six days after Paul's return from Kenya." That would be November 25, 1966, according to the letter. The letter indicated that Mal Evans was "given a Special Guest Star role." Paul is credited with the sleeve design and all four Beatles are credited for writing the Pantomime. Some pictures and background information about the disc can be found at http://www.jpgr.co.uk/lyn1145.html



The Beatles seemed in good spirits on the recording. There was no hint of grieving on the part of any members of the band. But there are a few oddities in the lyrics (which have never been accurately published to my knowledge) that make Paul Is Dead theorists wonder.

"TELL ME, ARE YOU ENJOYING THE WINE?"
-"I AM INDEED YOUR HIGHNESS. IT GOES WELL WITH ME. YEH, VERY GOOD
VERY GOOD, HA HA HA!"
-"THE KING SEEMS TO BE ENJOYING HIMSELF TONIGHT! YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE SEEN
HIM ON SUCH GOOD FOCUS SINCE THE OCTOBER FESTIVAL."
-"ALRIGHT! IS THERE A DOCTOR HERE? IS THERE A DOCTOR AROUND HERE?
DID ANYBODY SEE ONE?"

The above quote doesn't sound like something that would have emerged in a conversation built around, "I have an idea for our Christmas message," but all of the Beatles Christmas flex-discs were a little weird. Another oddity is a track entitled "OROWAYNA (Corsican Choir and Small Choir)." It sounds like a legitimate Christmas hymn of some kind, but a Google search of the word "Orowayna" yields only links to items related to this Beatles track. Attempts to transcribe the lyrics have also identified "ENDOMAINYA" as the second line to the song, but to me, the second line has always sounded like "angel manger."

What we don't know (and I honestly don't know why we don't know) is if the item in the suitcase is this actual collector's piece, or if it is something else. Is the disc inside the cover? Are there any annotations? If there was a record, was it the 1966 Christmas flexi-disc or something else? Seems to me that we should know this information by now. Hopefully someone will tell us something soon.

Reviews

Minor Iamaphoney Update at the bottom of this post...


The new video "All Together Now" gives those who haven't seen "Love" a glimpse of the spectacular show, and those who were lucky to catch the show in Vegas a reason to relive the experience. But, it is the compelling subplots within the documentary that make this DVD worth having. You get to watch Dominic Champagne approach the enormous task of directing this production, which was virgin territory in terms of staging and sound.

You can feel Champagne's anxiety as he prepares for the first time Mr. McCartney visits to see how the production is going. And you are happy for him when Paul completely puts him at ease immediately and soaks up the entire production with wide-eyed enthusiasm. Ringo Starr was an immediate supporter as well as he challenged Giles Martin to get even wilder with the remixes of the Beatles tracks. In fact, it was Olivia and Yoko who put the most pressure on the team. Olivia's intervention was more understandable since this entire project was George Harrison's idea. But it was a bit unsettling to see Yoko frantically scribbling down pages of notes about what she wanted changed. The conclusion drawn by those who had put so much into the show was "She hates it." In fairness, Yoko did have a point with the one argument that you see unfold on camera. She was offended by the sleaziness of the dance routine for "Come Together." Yoko, quite accurately said, "'Come Together' is not a sleazy song."

There is a great moment when Dhani Harrison reacts to the gigantic smile he sees from his lookalike dad on the projection screen. Another great moment is when we see George Martin sitting back in his surround sound chair in the huge theater absolutely loving what he is hearing. It was also fun to see the sound control room. On the wall behind the elaborate equipment was a Beatles Poster from the 1968 Mad Day Out Session. On the counter in between all of the monitors like an icon overseeing the production was an open gatefold cover of the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album.

The Bonus Features of the DVD are excellent. One item in particular features Giles Martin and his dad sitting in front of a mixer and going through some of the various tracks that made up "Love." It is obvious that Giles was the creative force behind all of the remixes. And as he goes through the "I took that from here and put it there" explanations of several of the tracks, you'll be compelled to hit the pause button and pull out your Beatles CDs.

I think this DVD will be enjoyed by all Beatles fans, even the ones who still don't understand the concept of mixing the Beatles, Vegas and Cirque du Soliel.





The other new Beatles DVD, "Magical Mystery Tour Memories" is a simple documentary not unlike those you see in discount bins, but there are two key differences. This one is focused on one particular period in Beatles history and the interviews are of much higher quality than the usual cheaply made Beatles DVD.

The show is hosted by the always entertaining Victor Spinetti. Other guests include Michael McCartney and Spencer Davis. The DVD contains the sparse amount of Magical Mystery Tour home footage that exists, along with some still pictures. Video collectors have probably seen most, if not all of it before, but the participants do a good job of providing context for the images.

One of the more interesting comments in the documentary came from Michael McCartney, who revealed that there was some seriously dangerous driving going on during the racing scene and that he was worried that some vehicles might roll over on some of the quick turns.

My favorite part is when Victor Spinnetti reenacts his famous nonsense talking scene. The camera alternates between Spinnetti's recreation and Michael McCartney's humorous imitation of the same event.

It is worth the effort to find this video, which for some reason seems to be having trouble making it into stores. However, it is widely available to order online.



And finally, Maccaspan2008 has provided a preview consisting of snippets of each song on the new Fireman Album, "Electric Arguments." NPR recently called Paul's upcoming release "inspired," and these clips reinforce that assessment.

In other news, you have this:


Minor Iamaphoney Update:Regarding sigil magic, I never felt that this was at the center of the Rotten Apple series, but I have always wondered about the meaning of the item below, which appeared in a few videos:

Suitcase Found, but...

UPDATE: I had some misgivings about the title of this post, but apparently I was dead on.

Sorry, but I don't think this is going to help the cause.

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MikeNL said...

SUITCASE RETRIEVED

10 minutes left.

got the video an hour ago. did a VERY quick edit.

I PROVED ALL THEM HATERS WRONGGG

lOLoloOLol.

NOW. go to my channel.

M.

Hopefully this is just a temporary malfunction!

No, I'm sure it will be available in a few minutes.

Possibly Nothing

UPDATE: A new background image was put on the YouTube channel for http://www.youtube.com/user/NAIR0BI1966

This enhanced version seems to say, "Good Morning...Sound Effects...Intro to...Billy Shears"

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I like to share with you when anything out of the ordinary happens. As you have probably figured out, I do allow myself to be jerked around a little bit just in case somebody is giving me something real.

So, in the comments section of my last post, someone posted under the name Brian. If you click on the name Brian, it takes you to http://www.youtube.com/user/NAIR0BI1966, which I believe is an Iamaphoney alias. Now, anybody can put the name Brian and link to that YouTube page, however, NAIR0BI1966 did appear to be logged in to YouTube when the comment was posted here. Brian's comment consisted simply of this link: http://www.picturepush.com/public/1130532

The link takes you to a photograph of the document below. I have slightly enhanced this one.



The document appears to be handwritten by John Lennon in the mid 1970s. He is referring to the Alan Williams book, "The Man Who Gave The Beatles Away," which I believe was released in 1977. It appears to have been doctored because some of the words seemed to be intentionally obscured. I can not determine the authenticity of the document or its relevance to the Paul McCartney mystery. But if you compare common letters between this and John's handwritten lyrics to "All You Need Is Love," there are some similarities. The letters "p" and "r" in particular seem similar between the documents.



This is not the way that Iamaphoney has sent me documents in the past, so I am not sure who is behind this action or the motive. It could be an attempt by Iamaphoney to prove that he really has genuine documents. It could be an obscured clue of some kind. It is possible that the missing elements of the document contained something sinister. It could also be something fake provided to wind me up and make me go for someone's amusement. I will leave that for the reader to decide.

Some Other Guys

With criticism of Iamaphoney on the rise, several of the alternative players have become active again.

Bread & Circus: Episode Five by breadandcircusfilms reveals that Aldous Huxley was the inspiration for their name.


40 46 35 - 73 58 34 by MilesDeo reveals...well, Miles has never been one to reveal much.

Lonely Hearts by youknowmyname231 reveals some truth about all of us.

Paul is Dead - 32 - Helter Skelter by grandfatheraleister reveals that Hollywood loves Volkswagen product placements.


Although it is likely to be just the brain playing tricks, it appears to me that even though each of these videos is unique and consistent in style with previous efforts of each respective author, there is a strange connectedness that emerged when I viewed all four videos consecutively in the sequence in which they were uploaded to YouTube.

Beginning with Bread and Circus showing Huxley, who appeared on the cover of Sgt. Pepper...

Then we RISE with MilesDeo, who ends with a quick nod to Magritte...

Then in youknowmyname's video, Magritte flies through the Sgt. Pepper cover, at one point sliding right between Laurel and Hardy creating an image of three mad hatters...

Continuing its trek over to Huxley as the Beatles sing "Where do they all belong"...

Leading us in the final chapter with grandfatheraleister to ABC Salvage in Reston, Virginia...

Yes, we end up in a garbage dump with Charles Manson, who actually sang
You could feed the world with my garbage dump
What an unfortunate tie-in Grandfather gives us on our way to the center of the circle...

Which is oh, so reminiscent of Paul McCartney's video of "The World Tonight"...

And the brain can't help but make connections. It is the way we are wired, I'm afraid. Maybe that's why we ended up in that garbage dump. We could stop here, but the obsession continues as we play with anagrams for the phrase "ABC Salvage, Reston" and come up with "Clone at bass grave," which of course leads the brain back to this...

It is usually at this point where the jokester says, "Nothing to see here, move along." But I think that line is trumped by grandfatheraleister's question in the description of the last video: "How long are you going to keep playing your part in their game?"
How long indeed...


Note: For an exhaustive analysis of the symbolism in the movie the Shining, check out this blog on the subject.

New Channel, New Suitcase Video

A new video called "Suitcase Catcher" appeared today on a new account called STRAWBERRYFlELDS

MikeNL answered affirmatively when a reader asked if this was a genuine account. The channel's background image is shown below.


The same video appeared on another Iamaphoney alias channel, THEKINGOFCOSMANIA, with the title "Suitcase Warrior."

I'm pretty sure the two videos are the same although the total time for "Suitcase Catcher" is 1:03 and the total time for "Suitcase Warrior" is 1:02. The description for both is "let it out" and the tags are "berlin iamaphoney."

Minor Rumblings and Stories

MikeNL spotted a new video today - NAIR0BI 43 60 by NAIR0BI1966. There appears to be some new footage included, so it appears to be one of those outside the canon Iamaphoney videos.

The numbers game continued this week with the help of YouTube user Y0KOONO, who has recycled several Iamaphoney videos and renamed (uh, renumbered) them.
22 60 82 20 09
32 60 82 20 09
42 60 82 20 09
I was not able to determine if Iamaphoney was able to beat the point spread.

Some unusual stories appeared in the news this week.
Find Sir Paul McCartney's head! (I didn't know it was missing until I played the song "Getting Better" in reverse)

Beatles songs as likely to explain Christianity as the Bible, says bishop (The Bishop must be another one of those Iamaphoney haters)

Someone calling himself "Billy" put a link to this image in the comments section with the words "they did good job in NAIR0BI." This was a few hours before it appeared in the NAIR0BI 43 60 video that was posted today.



And it appears that the videomaker who disappeared recently has returned under the name Sunssol.

And speaking of things that disappear...Remember that Ringo Video? What video? I don't remember no Ringo video.

Peace and love, peace and love, peace and love.

Correction

A reader asked me recently when the mirrored message "I ONEIX ♦ HE DIE" on the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band drum was first discovered. I answered that the first time I heard of putting a flat mirror horizontally in the center of the words "Lonely Hearts" on the drum was in the 1979 article by Joel Glazier that appeared in the Beatles Fanzine "Strawberry Fields Forever." However, after a trip back through my archives, I have found strong evidence that the discovery was made a decade earlier.



On Volume One, Disc Two of the bootleg "Miss Him Miss Him Miss Him," there is a rebroadcast of the "Paul Is Dead Special" from WPLJ-FM in New York City. The show focused on the debunking of "Paul Is Dead" theories. The tone of the host, Bob Lewis (aka Bob-a-Loo) was rather insulting to those who found clues in the Beatles music. He called them "cluesters" and "clue freaks" throughout the broadcast. Some of his explanations to discredit Paul is Dead theorists were more bizarre than the sinister interpretations of the clues.



The liner notes indicate the date of the original broadcast was 1969, but a rebroadcast from the mid 1970s is what served as the master for the CD. The mid-1970s introduction of the rebroadcast dates the original from the fall of 1969. The web site Gary Pfeifer's Radio Airchecks identifies the original air date as November 14, 1969. If that is correct, then the mirrored drum was in fact discovered during the initial wave of "Paul Is Dead" hysteria. Bob Lewis dismissed the drum clue by suggesting that there was a Beatle who died on the cover, and his name was Stu Sutcliffe.

The rebroadcast was followed by a much more sympathetic review of the major clues and had no input from Bob Lewis, who had apparently moved on by then. So, I am convinced that the Sgt. Pepper drum clue was part of the original broadcast. That proves that the mirrored drum was discovered in 1969, but it doesn't identify who found it. Lewis credited the discovery to those "Paul Is Dead" freaks, but doesn't give a specific source.



If the drum clue was known in 1969, it is surprising that it did not come up in the RKO television special "Paul McCartney: The Complete Story, Told For the First And Last Time." This TV Special, which aired Thanksgiving weekend of 1969, was in the form of a mock trial to determine the truth behind the McCartney rumors. The show featured an amazing group of "witnesses" including Russ Gibb, Peter Asher, Allen Klein, and Fred LaBour. Audio clips from the special can be found on Brian Moriarty's Excellent Web Site. The drum clue also did not appear in a "Paul Is Dead" Special from WKBW-AM, Buffalo, NY, despite the fact that it included a lengthy segment on the Sgt. Pepper cover art.

Bob Lewis must have heard that clue somewhere in 1969, but it doesn't seem to be available in any of the recordings known to still exist from that time period.

Bill Marx

I don't know if anyone picked up on this item that can be found deep in the first Beatles White Album Special Issue of Mojo (Sept. 2008), but there is an intriging question in the "Ask Fred" section towards the back. Billy White was an aspiring drummer in the early 1970s when he signed up for lessons with an "English Jazzer" named Bill Marx at a shop atop a train station in Sidney, Australia.

Bill Marx grew up in South Africa with his good friend Manfred Sepse Lubowitz (later known as Manfred Mann) and even had pictures to prove that he knew the future "British" pop star. Marx also had a picture of himself with Deep Purple lead singer Ian Gillan.

Marx had two framed silver singles in his studio that were perplexing to his drum student. One was "The Fool On The Hill," and included the statement "Lyrics by Bill Marx," and the other was "Let It Be," which said, "Music by Bill Marx." Billy White explained, "He told me that he had sold all rights to both songs, obtaining £2,000 for Fool and £1,000 for Let It Be." (Click picture for larger version)

There was not a lick of proof provided, but Mojo's Fred appears to be looking into it. I seem to remember Paul mentioning the name Bill in an early run through of "Let It Be" during the "Get Back" sessions, but that was most likely directed at Billy Preston. I also clearly remember a "Mr. Marx" (actually Marks) being mentioned as the agent who could provide a "Temporary Secretary." Paul said that "Mr. Marks" referred to Alfred Marks of the Marks Employment Bureau, but denied their request to use the song in their advertising.

Ringo Explains, Amid Attacks

In an attempt to combat the ruthless attacks that he has received in the press after the "Sorry, No More Signing Stuff" video update appeared on his web site, Ringo has issued a statement to clarify his motives. You can find the clarification on the Abbeyrd Beatles News Site, but amazingly you won't find it on Ringo's Official Web Site (at least not yet as this is being written).

The clarification will not get as much coverage as the bonehead P.R. mistake did. Ringo received savage criticism from people who would not consider buying his records anyway. Many of the critics who said, "What else does he have to do besides count his money?" have no idea that Ringo did five CDs, a DVD, an HBO Special, a concert tour, and a bunch of charity appearances in the past year or so. The critics also gave Ringo absolutely no credit for signing and returning things over the last 45 years (plus one week). I believe this mounting evidence clearly demonstrates that either Paul is dead or life is unfair.

In happier Ringo news, it appears he and one other Beatle contributed to a new album by Klaus Voorman.

In Fireman News, Paul revealed something interesting about the new "Electric Arguments" album. In the spirit of William S. Burroughs, Paul randomly took lines from poems and joined them in "cut-up" fashion to form lyrics on the album. In another one of those happy coincidences, footage of Burroughs has been included in recent Iamaphoney videos. This also means that you can add "Electric Arguments" to that big list of releases that in some way evoke the memory of the Sgt. Pepper album.