She Said She Said

She Said She said is a song about an acid trip that the Beatles (minus the sweater-vest-clad McCartney) took with Peter Fonda, son of Henry Fonda. Henry Fonda was the good guy in 12 Angry Men. The guy who does the voice of Piglet was in that movie too. So, they're all at this secluded house in a canyon, resting up during a break from their European tour. Girls are trying to get in, climbing down the walls of the canyon and over the fence. It was like the end of Scarface. They kept finding girls hiding under the tables and jumping out of closets and the like. John and George and Ringo were trippin pretty hard; George thought he was going to die. Peter Fonda, who had accidentally shot himself in the stomach as a child, said, "Don't worry. I know what it's like to be dead," which is quite possibly the least comforting thing ever. At this point, they were all sitting in the tub, which, according to some accounts, was full of maple syrup. John was like, "Hey man, don't bring that in here. You make me feel like I've never been born." And then they all fell asleep. And then later John Lennon wrote this song, in which Peter Fonda turned into a girl. This is one of the only Beatles songs in which Paul McCartney didn't do anything: No bass, no vocals, no nothing.

The acoustics in this tub were pleasant.