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[HIGHLIGHT] When a Beatle Walked In… “The Room Changed” - From EP 377 · Booked On Rock with Eric Senich

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  Speaker 1: Going behind the music once more with this highlight from
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  Speaker 1: a recent episode of Booked on Rock, Barry Greenfield back
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  Speaker 1: with the new book titled All You Need Is Courage.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get into John and Yoke a little bit. The
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  Speaker 1: opening chapter it ends with quote, I was content and
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  Speaker 1: challenged by John Paul Jones. Derek Taylor was honest and
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  Speaker 1: straight with me. I commenced my journey down the Yellow
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  Speaker 1: Brick Road to Oz. In the background lay the wizard
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  Speaker 1: who would make things happen, The silent shadow of John
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  Speaker 1: Lennon loomed large. You describe a little shiver when John
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  Speaker 1: and Yokol walk in the way you describe them almost
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  Speaker 1: like they shift. The energy of the rule. Is that intentional?
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  Speaker 2: I Am was recorded in Los Angeles in nineteen seventy
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  Speaker 2: three when I walked into a bathroom and Harry Nilsen
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  Speaker 2: was in the bathroom snorting coke.
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  Speaker 3: Harry Nilson then invited me back to studio A.
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  Speaker 2: I was in the studio be doing my album and
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  Speaker 2: for two hours I worked with Harry Nilsen, having the
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  Speaker 2: most blissful time of my life. He was asking me
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  Speaker 2: about bass sound and whether I thought the volumes are right.
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  Speaker 2: He was mixing Son of Dracula for the movie. It
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  Speaker 2: was just an amazingly normal time, like talking to Eric
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  Speaker 2: on his podcast. Then in walked Ringo Starr two hours
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  Speaker 2: two and a half hours later. He was drunk, he
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  Speaker 2: was disheveled, He had a half full bottle of Jack
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  Speaker 2: Daniels in his hand, and he was with Richard Perry,
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  Speaker 2: his producer, who was also Nilson's producer in those days.
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  Speaker 2: During Nielson Schmilsen Eric, the room changed when Ringo walked in.
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  Speaker 2: It was I became invisible. Nielsen completely ignored me. Everybody
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  Speaker 2: ignored me. I go up from the chair next to
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  Speaker 2: Harry and I went to sit in the back of
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  Speaker 2: the room. I sat there's the three of them, talked
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  Speaker 2: about the parking lot at RCA, passing the battle around,
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  Speaker 2: snorting coat, the three of them and I became invisible
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  Speaker 2: because there was a beatle in the room. I then
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  Speaker 2: excused myself and left and went back to be went
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  Speaker 2: back to work on my son, Jack and Jill. I
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  Speaker 2: believe that when I Johnny Yoka entered the room, fame
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  Speaker 2: has an incredible effect on us.
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  Speaker 3: So if you.
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  Speaker 2: Think about how famous John Lennon was in nineteen sixty eight,
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  Speaker 2: just in the same area as him would have an
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  Speaker 2: effect on most everyone. Maybe not everyone, but most everyone.
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  Speaker 2: And that's why they liked being together so much, the
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  Speaker 2: four of them. When they had dinner in Abbey Road,
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  Speaker 2: it was just the fourth them. Even Male Evans wasn't
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  Speaker 2: at the table.
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  Speaker 3: It's just the four of them.
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  Speaker 2: And I remember reading about Eric Clapton saying that he
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  Speaker 2: was thought of as being God in England. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: they described him as God back in the period when
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  Speaker 2: he was the guitar player of Note.
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  Speaker 3: And he said, wherever I went, I was like the king.
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  Speaker 2: I was loved, But when I went places with George Harrison,
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  Speaker 2: I became invisible because George Harrison was a beatle.
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  Speaker 3: So that's why I'm John half that effect.
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  Speaker 2: But as the book progresses, I start to go the
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  Speaker 2: day for dinner to John and Yoko's. I start to
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  Speaker 2: see a different side of Yoko. John comes in the
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  Speaker 2: studio when I'm recording this. He really wants to produce
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  Speaker 2: the one cover song I do, which is the Dylan
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  Speaker 2: song Don't thinks twice It's all right. He produces it.
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  Speaker 2: Jumpele Jones sits there quietly. He's the master of everything.
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  Speaker 2: And he was the reason that the beat As it
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  Speaker 2: says in the book, he controlled the Beatles until Rubber Soul,
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  Speaker 2: and that's when Paul McCartney started driving the bus through Revolver,
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  Speaker 2: through Pepper and into Abbey Road because John had given
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  Speaker 2: up the reins.
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  Speaker 3: He was tired.
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  Speaker 2: It was enough already, seven days a week, three hundred
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  Speaker 2: and sixty five days a year, three and sixty six
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  Speaker 2: days in a leap here. They never ever stopped. I
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  Speaker 2: just wanted to say that I wrote about John Paul George.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't write about Ringo because I never had a
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  Speaker 2: relationship with Ringo. I just try to make it about
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  Speaker 2: I read biographies about them, you know, I did my research,
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  Speaker 2: and so it's as honest as I could have been.
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