New Beatles Song!

First of all, a big thank you to Joel for pointing out my lack of activity on here lately. After years of sending fake e-mails full of obscenities and laced with improper innuendo (in-yer-endo...thank you Todd), you finally got me in a "Joel" moment. So to that effect, I congratulate you. Second of all, I'm pretty sure out of all five of my loyal, sexy and generally awesome readers, Tom is probably, and this is a big probably, the only one who will get anything out of this. So for the rest of you, I apologize and if you don't like it then go get on a boat and enjoy yourselves with Poseidon.

The reason for my non-posting lately as been the fact that I've been super duper busy at school and my usual "blogging" time was reduced to writing and reading papers about critical practice and comparing 19th century literature to the film, the Dark Knight. The second reason for not posting has been the lack of things interesting to talk about. The Pacers suzack and are slowly being herded like dying, disease-infested cows into the butcher's lottery this offseason. So without Pacers news, I basically decided that I was never going to post again unless there was a new Beatles song released. I mean, what are the chances of this happening with two of them dead? Not good right?

Well friends, today is a new day.

There are still three huge outtakes from the Beatles' recording sessions that have yet to find their way onto bootlegs. 1) The "Carnival of Light" crazy-ass session that Paul wants to release but the aforementioned dead Beatles' wives do not want released (thank you Yoko for again ruining everything that is great in the world); 2) the 30-minute version of Helter Skelter; and 3) the 10-minute version of Revolution that was eventually cut into seperate pieces to make Revolution 1 and Revolution 9, both on The Beatles (aka The White Album).

Well, somehow, and no one yet knows how it's happened, but the Revolution outtake has finally surfaced on YouTube. A couple of video posts have already been shut down by Sony due to copyright infringement, but I've got the feeling that enough people have ripped the thing off of there so that it's out there in society for good. I've just finished one listen through it and I finally understand where Revolution 9 comes from and why it's so freakin ridiculous. So here's a big kudos to whoever stole this from Yoko (the most probable of theories since John had the original tape in his archives at home and it's about time karma came around).

You Tube...no, you're a tube
So I literally listened to the song on YouTube, sent it to my dad via e-mail, then added to this post and by the time I published the blog, the video was already taken down by EMI. Damn you EMI...damn you. I'm guessing they're gonna be shutting this video down for awhile, but once I get home from B-town tonight, I'm guessing that I'll find the audio track somewhere online. Until then...