Syd Barrett with The Beatles

[bertin_brando]

They recorded a song together called 'What a shame Mary Jane', I downloaded it a while ago and find it oddly interesting, even though extremely inaudible at times, and I don't dare play it at a loud volume level. But it's still a curio piece. Does anyone want to share info. on that particular song or on the odd colaboration of Barrett with Paul, John, Ringo and George? Thanks!

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[thorin13]

i heard it once but i don't remember it too well. i thought it didn't really have syd on it. maybe just one of those online mistakes in the titles.

[cho.manno]

That's for sure a mistake. In my condition of an absolute Beatles fan, I can say that "What's The New Mary Jane" (that's the song's name) had no collaboration from Syd. It was recorded in late 1968 (Syd wasn't around EMI...), and the band just desisted of it. This song can be found in Beatles Anthology 3, a double CD set containing outtakes, new songs and other rarities.

[thorin13]

really? i didn't know it was on anthology 3.

[DaedalusLabyrinth]

Damn, you got my hopes up! My blood hasn't rushed for at least a decade and a half.

[thorin13]

that can't be good.

[Sydney]

really, that is very unhealthy, go see a live gig that could liven things up

cheers

[Organ Grinder]

Cho.Manno speaks the truth.

[bertin_brando]

OK, my mistake, the song is almost unlistenable anyway. So, I'm listening right now to vegetable man, what do you guys think about it. I think that along with Scream thy last scream, these are the two syd-floyd songs that Gilmour holds that really deserve recognition. What do you think?

See ya around southampton dock!

[thorin13]

i think they are great songs. i was hoping that they would be included on echoes which would have been cool. but no dice. oh well.

[bertin_brando]

I found this on the net:


WHAT'S THE NEW MARY JANE / WHAT A SHAME MARY JANE
John Lennon, the Beatles 1968

'What the New Mary Jane' was an unreleased Beatles song untill the release of Beatles Anthology 3. An early version was titled 'What's a Shame Mary Jane'. Beatles and Pink Floyd were both recording in the Abbey Road Studios and it sounds like Syd Barrett had more than a little influence on this song.



See ya, our species has amused itself to death!

[Not Now John]

I just downloaded What A Shame Mary Jane, and while it definitely sounds like something that Syd would have written I cannot hear him anywhere on it. It is though one of the trippiest, and scariest, things I have ever heard the Beatles do.

[Barrett Fan]

Originally posted by DaedalusLabyrinth
Damn, you got my hopes up! My blood hasn't rushed for at least a decade and a half.

Use some smack that oughta help you get yourself going

[thorin13]

it is a VERY weird song but damn good. i remember when i first heard it i though it had ended and that the odd middle part was another song (i was half listening) but then it came back with john saying "what a shame mary jane" over and over and i was surprised that it was still the same song. another odd beatles song is "you know my name (look up the number)"

[justabrick]

yah, comming from a beatles fan that is a pritty dicked up song. i had nightmares for weeks, some freaky african queen and john lennon as a rihno. really weird stuff man. j/k