From: barash@umbc4.umbc.edu (Mr. Steven Barash; MATH (GRAD))
Newsgroups: rec.music.beatles
Subject: Really bizarre GET BACK take
Date: 14 Dec 92 06:32:43 GMT
Organization: Univ. of MD, Baltimore County


I recently rediscovered a profoundly weird take I have of the Beatles doing 
the song Get Back, and I wonder if any of you RMBers have heard it or can tell 
me anything about it.  It sounds like it *might* have been recorded during
the normal Get Back / Let It Be sessions.  I had taped this off the radio
around 1977 or so (on WHFS, no relation to the modern station with those
call letters).  By the way, I've heard a dozen bootleg CDs incl URT1-4
and it didn't appear on any of those.

Here's how it goes:
(Paul on vocal, winging the lyrics)
----
[mumble] don't dig no Pakistani taking other people's jobs
Get Back, Get Back,  Get Back to where you once belonged (etc)
[mumble..] was a purto rican
La da da da da da da
[mumble] poked around to buy he a mohican
Livin in the USA
Get Back, Get Back,  Get Back to where you once belonged (etc)
[Paul hooting in falsetto like a maniac for a few minutes as they keep jamming]
[mumble..] was a  Pakistani
La da da da da da da
[mumble] don't dig no Pakistani
taking other people's jobs
Get Back, Get Back,  Get Back to where you once belonged (etc)
[More spastic hooting from Paul]
----

It is very sloppy and grungy sounding, with the guitars in psychedelic
wah-wah mode (John playing more the way you'd expect him to (slamming that 
major-3rd-minor-7th-minor-10th guitar chord after each "get back") instead 
of the delicate obligatto he plays in the familiar version of this song).
It finally ends with Paul apparently engulfing the mike into his mouth
and growling (GET BAAACK!!!!  GET BAAAACK!!! etc) and then the instuments
taper off one by one.


Then (on my tape) it is followed by another totally different version of 
Get Back.  This time the tempo is very fast - they get thru whole song in about
two minutes, and this time the lyrics are a lot closer to final form
but the verses are in reverse order, and John sings along with Paul in unison:
----
[Paul (counting):] One two three four
[John and Paul:]  La da da da modern thought she was a woman
But she was another man
All the folks around her said she got it comin'
But she gets it while she can  [John: ] He he he
[Both] Get Back Get back (etc)
Jo Jo da da da da home in Arizona
La da da da da da da
Da da da da da da thought he'd be a loner
Da da California Grass
----
Again the arrangement is nothing like the familiar version,
the guitars are wah-wah, and Billy Preston is definitely not present.



So, can some serious Beatleologist out there place these recordings
in Beatle history, or are you all just going to keep staring at me like
I'm making all this up?   (I'm not).



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