I’m Gary, and I’m a Youtube Addict. Youtube’s hooked me good, and with some thanks to PLDT’s unexplained increased bandwidth, I’m having my fill.
One particular vid’s got me reeling though, and for some odd reason I watch it everyday since I found it last week.
It’s the Beatles “Rain” from 1966. It was done in full-on MTV style, with the fab four on location, unlike the norm at the time where you’d just see a band performing on stage. I’m not sure if this really started MTV like George Harrison said at the beginning of the clip, but it’s certainly unique esp. for that time.
And there’s something about them, something about John Lennon in all his youth smiling, singing and looking like he’s enjoying himself, as opposed to all the surliness and melancholy I grew up thinking he represented in the later years. There’s Paul and George singing backup, and the unique Ringo Starr drum work.
I know their life stories as well as anyone by now. And as I watched them I couldn’t help wondering how’d they have reacted to the way things would turn out. This is Paul years away from the Eagles. Ringgo and George just strumming away and goofing around, and the tall pre-Yoko Ono John, just singing and smiling and doing what obviously to him felt good. A true icon, a legend and musical genius, years away from tragedy.
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