[FairfieldLife] "If you're so enlightened, you should know"

[Jonathan Chadwick]

  
The Tonight Show 14 May 1968  Joe Gargoyle: “Listen now, I have something in 
common with both of you. I met the guru, the Maharishi. And I noticed that he 
went out with an act—the Beach Boys. And it folded.”
  JOHN : “Yeah. Right.”
  JG: “What do you think of the Yogi as an act?”
  JOHN : “Yeah. Well, we found out that we made a mistake there.”
  PAUL : “We tried to persuade him against that, you know. I thought it was a 
terrible idea.”
  JOHN : “We believe in meditation, but not the Maharishi and his scene. But 
that’s a personal mistake we made in public.”
  JG: “When did you find out it was a mistake?”
  JOHN : “Well, uhh, I can’t remember the date, you know, but it was in India. 
And meditation is good, and it does what they say. It’s like exercise or 
cleaning your teeth, you know. It works, but uhh, we’ve finished with that bit.”
  ED McMAHON: “Has he changed? Is that what…”
  JOHN : “Well, no. I think it’s just that we’re seeing him a bit more in 
perspective, you know, ‘cuz we’re as naive as the next person about alot of 
things.”
  PAUL : “We get carried away with things like that, though. I mean, we thought 
he was… uhh… magic, you know—just floating around and everything. Flying.”
  JG: “Do you think the kids in America have turned him off?”
  JOHN : “Well, it could be something to do with it. But I wouldn’t say, ‘Don’t 
meditate’ to them, because alot of them would get a great deal from it.”
  PAUL : “You know, the system is more important than all those things.”
  JOHN : “He’s surrounded with, it seems like, the old establishment that we 
know so well.”
  JG: “Are you saying, ‘Meditate, but not with the Yogi’?”
  PAUL : (long pause) “Yeah. I mean, he’s good. There’s nothing wrong with him. 
But we think the system is more important than all the two-bit personality bit. 
You know, he gets sort of treated like a big star. He’s on the road with the 
Beach Boys, and it’s all that scene. And also… It folds, you know. That’s the 
silly thing.”
  (laughter)
  TB: “Does he giggle as much as…”
  JOHN : “Yes. It’s his natural asset.”
  (laughter)
  JOHN : “Well, you see, it depends on what way you’re looking at it at the 
time. If it’s not getting on your nerves, it’s ‘Oh, what a happy fellow.’ It 
depends how you feel when you look at him.”
  JG: “I had him on the show, and he just giggled and giggled the whole time. I 
figured there was something, maybe my tie was loose. Who was the first one that 
met the Yogi?”
  JOHN : “We all met him at the same time.”
  JG: “Can you tell us the circumstances?”
  JOHN : “Well, he was just doing a lecture in London at the Hilton. So we all 
went and we thought, ‘What a nice man.’ And we were looking for that. You know, 
everybody’s looking for it, but we were looking for it ‘that day’ as well. And 
then we met him and he was good, you know. He’s got a good thing in him. And we 
went along with it.”
  JG: “But now, you just got off the train, huh?”
  JOHN : “Right. Nice trip thank you very much.”
  (laughter)

 
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