When we had our all-original band, the rhythm guitarist and I used to get together to work...
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... on acoustic versions of what the entire band would eventually play as electric music.
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These sessions would always start with us getting pleasantly stoned (we would record
EVERYTHING to make up for our short-term memory handicaps).
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Half the time, he would be listening to music in his room when I arrived and here's how the
first hour or two of THOSE sessions would ALWAYS progress:
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1. Get some soon-to-be-much-needed drinks -- depending on the season, either hot green or
herbal tea or ice-cold lemonade or sodas or iced tea.
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2. Smoke a bowl or three of fairly impressive pot. Laugh a lot. Not notice that our conversation
was tapering off to absolute silence.
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3. Get lost in wonderful introspection and/or enjoyment brought about by the mellow music
that had been pretty much background noise, but was now all-encompassing.
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4. My returning to being in the moment after about an hour or so (it was always me) and asking
who the hell was making such incredible music.
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5. It was ALWAYS Dead Can Dance. I never ever recognized or remembered their music later.
But it was aways them.
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6. We would go on to have an enjoyable and productive session -- figuring out paces and rhythms
and lyrics and arrangements for new material to be presented to the full band at our next
rehearsal.
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That's basically what I think this YouTube video is -- John and Paul and George getting together
at George's house for a pretty rough first draft (probably more likely second or third draft)
of what would mostly be songs in The White Album.
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I love this kind of early first draft demo type of stuff -- partly because I remember how much
fun and rewarding that part of the creative process could be.
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Enjoy.
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On edit:
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0:00 Intro
1:12 Cry Baby Cry
2:42 Child of Nature
5:25 The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill
8:15 I'm So Tired
11:24 Yer Blues
15:00 Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey
18:00 What's the New Mary Jane
20:39 Revolution
24:49 While My Guitar Gently Weeps
27:29 Circle
29:47 Sour Milk Sea
33:22 Not Guilty
36:36 Piggies
38:42 Julia
42:47 Blackbird
45:02 Rocky Raccoon
47:49 Back in the U.S.S.R
50:50 Honey Pie
52:54 Mother Nature's Son
55:09 Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
58:08 Junk
1:00:46 Dear Prudence
1:05:27 Sexy Sadie
1:07:52 Spiritual Regeneration
1:10:22 Spiritual Christmas.
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Thanks for sharing! 
