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Post by ccgoofball on Dec 15, 2008 22:44:12 GMT -5
I came across this interview with Jack Douglas re: Working with JL on double fantasy. Short but interesting.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2008 7:32:04 GMT -5
I haven't watched the youtube clip linked above yet but here is an interesting snippet from a Jack Douglas interview about Double fantasy.....
Lou: Let me take you a little back in time. When you were working with John Lennon, did Yoko Ono get much in the way?
Jack: She didn't get in the way and I'll tell you why. Because those two could not work at the same time. If she were there, it would have been impossible. It was just impossible. I had to treat that album as two separate albums. I know that they're both artists on the record, but I had to treat it as a John album and as a Yoko album. My routine was like this: 9:00AM, breakfast with John. Yoko from 11:00 and then John would go home. Yoko from 11 o'clock until about 6:30PM. And then she would go home. John would come in at 7:00 and would work until about one or two in the morning. I never worked with both of them at the same time. It was impossible. Because she drove John crazy.
Scott: Well, speaking as a married man, I couldn't work with my wife either.
Jack: Well, yeah. Just imagine it. I have to tell you, back in the early, early 70s, I was working on "Imagine" - I was an engineer at that time. And John asked me to work with him on Yoko's stuff. And so, John was producing, I was engineering, we were doing Yoko records and on the second day of that album, John got busted for laughing. He had to leave, he was banned from the studio. And that was that. And that kinda like set the tone of how it was going to be like. The only time we worked together was when were doing a song called "Walking on Thin Ice" because John and I were playing the instruments and Yoko was singing.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2008 7:41:58 GMT -5
Here's another Jack douglas snippet...
IT WOULD have been the sensational return of the Fab Four. But the bullet that killed John Lennon 25 years ago today destroyed plans for a Beatles reunion, according to new claims. Lennon was making secret plans to record an album with the other former Beatles when he was killed, Jack Douglas, the producer who was working with him until minutes before his death, told The Times.
He said in an interview in New York: "He and Paul planned to play on a Ringo album and that's how they were planning to do it, and George had not come aboard yet."
The sticking point, however, was with Harrison. "George was already in a lot of hot water with John because of George releasing his autobiography and not really mentioning much of John in it," Mr Douglas said. "But I think they assumed that George would come along as soon as the thing got going."
Mr Douglas, who won a Grammy award in 1982 for producing Lennon's Double Fantasy album, said that Lennon had already begun sending him material "earmarked verbally" on tape for the planned Ringo album. But he said that Yoko Ono was unhappy about the proposed reunion.
"Yoko discouraged Paul coming around," Mr Douglas said. "There was a writing session somewhere in the Dakota [the apartment block where Lennon and Ono lived] and there was one cancelled which John did not know about, cancelled by a third party," he said. "He was waiting for Paul to show up. He was told that Paul did not show. Paul was told that John was too busy."
The revelations were given credence by a new claim that a £6 million record contract, which McCartney signed with CBS in 1978, contained a clause that allowed him to record with the Beatles at any time.
But Beatles experts said they were unaware of any Lennon reunion plans. Ray Connolly, author of The Beatles Complete, said: "John liked to help Ringo and this could have been a way he saw to get the guys back together in the studio.
"But George and Yoko had rows and she would probably have tried to stop a reunion."
Eliot Mintz, Ono's longtime spokesman, confirmed last night that Lennon and Ono had planned to go on a limited tour with Double Fantasy, but added that he knew knothing about the ex-Beatles playing together again.
Mr Douglas, now 60, said that Lennon spent his final day finishing off a track featuring Yoko called Walking on Thin Ice. After weeks of work, they finally finished the mix at the Hit Factory studio and agreed to meet at 9am the next day to make a master tape.
"We were all thrilled with it. His [Lennon's] feeling was that this was the one that was going to take Yoko over the top and make her critically acclaimed, and cut him loose so that he could do his things with 'the boys' without Yoko tagging along. She could do her own thing," Mr Douglas claimed
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Post by Steve Marinucci on Dec 16, 2008 8:46:34 GMT -5
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Post by Beatle Bob on Dec 16, 2008 13:51:49 GMT -5
In the liner notes to Ringo's STOP AND SMELL THE ROSES CD, there is mention of John and Paul getting together to work on Ringo's album (that eventually became ROSES)as sort of an album of and by "brothers" that adds more credence to Douglas' comments (which originally were in an Goldmine interview about 2 years ago I think?). Also it mentions during the sessions in France, Paul received a phone call from John. So they obviously were planning something in a very quiet way imo. Regards, Beatle Bob
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Post by mrjinks on Dec 16, 2008 14:51:00 GMT -5
"Lennon had already begun sending him material "earmarked verbally" on tape for the planned Ringo album." That simply sounds like this:
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Post by jimc on Dec 16, 2008 16:05:48 GMT -5
"Lennon had already begun sending him material "earmarked verbally" on tape for the planned Ringo album." That simply sounds like this: I can't access that here at school. You're probably talking about Life Begins at Forty? Paul contributed Attention and Private Property -- George Wrack My Brain. Maybe All Those Years Ago as well. This sounds more like another Ringo album (with much weaker material up to this point) rather than some sort of reunion album. I watched the video with Jack Douglas. I question his belief that there are cassettes that the Lennon Estate has lost track of or lost interest in. As far back as the late 1980s, the Lost Lennon Tapes series seemed to catalogue and mine the archives for three or more years of material. After that the box set and reissues have gradually brought out more demos. I'll bet the caretakers of this material have a solid handle on what's there. Anyway, thanks for the link. I'm anxious to watch the other clips. I've read several interviews with Douglas in Beatlefan. I'll always be interested in what is on the tape (or was on it) that Douglas refuses to reveal or talk about.
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