The Beatles - Two of Us (live)

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"Two of Us" is a 1969 song by The Beatles, written by Paul McCartney. It is credited to Lennon/McCartney. Lennon and McCartney sang the song as a duet. It was written for Linda Eastman, McCartney's soon to be wife, though it sounds at times as if it is addressing Lennon, whose relationship with McCartney was tense at that time.

"Two of Us" was originally released on Let It Be and was later released on Anthology 3 and Let It Be... Naked. Its title was used for the VH1 film Two of Us about a fictional reunion between McCartney and Lennon.

"Two of Us" was originally a hard, guitar-driven rocker. In the Let It Be film, McCartney and Lennon sing the song "rocker" style into the same mike. McCartney had never been satisfied with this style, which he described as "chunky." And so on 24 January, he and the band reworked it. Lennon had ideas about how the song might sound if Stevie Wonder performed it, and just before revisiting the song, the band had run through the Everly Brothers hit "Cathy's Clown". With these influences and a move from electric guitar to acoustic, the song transformed into the gentler, stripped-down version that fans know today. The Beatles performed a finished version of the song live at Apple Studios on 31 January 1969; this performance was included in both the Let it Be film and album.

The song was originally titled "On Our Way Home". In May 1969, McCartney produced a recording of the song using this title by the group Mortimer, a New York City trio that briefly recorded for Apple, but this recording was never released.

Personnel * John Lennon -- harmony vocal, acoustic guitar, and whistling. * Paul McCartney -- lead vocal, acoustic guitar and whistling. * George Harrison -- bass-line (played on electric guitar). * Ringo Starr -- drums

Covers * Denny Doherty of The Mamas & the Papas recorded the song as part of a medley with "Here Comes the Sun" on his 1971 album Watcha Gonna Do?. * Boney M. covered the song on their 1979 album Oceans of Fantasy. * Aimee Mann and Michael Penn covered "Two of Us" as part of the soundtrack for the 2001 film, I Am Sam. On some releases of this soundtrack "Two of Us" appeared also in a version of Neil Finn, in a duet with his son Liam Finn. * The Punkles did a punk cover of this song on their 2004 album Pistol. * Guster covered "Two of Us" on their 2007 EP Satellite. * Kenny Loggins covered it on his 2009 album All Join In. * Two of Us is the title of a 2000 VH1 television drama which offers a fictionalized account of 24 April 1976, the day Lorne Michaels of Saturday Night Live offered the Beatles $3,000.00 to appear on the program, when by coincidence McCartney was visiting Lennon at his New York apartment and watching the program. * During the 2007 All Things Digital conference, Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs quoted the lyric "You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead" in reference to his relationship with co-panelist Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, who wrote a book entitled The Road Ahead.

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[novanine9]

@novanine9 - correction....looks more like George is playing the bass parts on a Fender Telecaster

[novanine9]

@22MrSamuel - you know what? I DID find out who is playing the bass...George.

He's playing a rare Fender IV bass - 6 strings....kinda of a baritone type guitar, which shows why The Beatles were so great...it was never about the instruments BUT the overall painting that the 4 members created together.

[22MrSamuel]

@novanine9 i dont think there is bass

[MrDunkelberger]

Ringo looks like he just wants a sandwich............

[JustForBrieLarson]

What a classic.

[novanine9]

@LiveOnJohn40 - Lol, so true...it's funny that I'll get to thinking how clever I am until you find out someone else tried it some 40 years ago. This just puts them so far up on my list.

Yeah that guitar tone with a bass amp sounds very articulate, especially when you roll off the tone.

BTw, Paul's Ric / hofner sound had to do with a signal splitter that sent one signal to a bass amp and another to a mic'd vox guitar amp

So much so that later Rics were made w/ a stereo jack

[LiveOnJohn40]

@novanine9 Well, you know you're going in the right direction creatively if The Beatles tried! haha

[novanine9]

@postaciid - Oh I see it now. He's playing the bass part on a telecaster, most likely plugged into a bass amp?

I've done that on my own recordings but never figured anyone would try it.

[postaciid]

@novanine9 george is playing it

[novanine9]

who the hell is playing the bass line?