The Beatles

(Guess this actually aired when Paul was on Letterman around 2009)

One of the first Beatles albs I owned, took it to parties and played between Never Mind The Bollocks and This Year's Model---Lennon was a born screamer--Paulie not so much, but he hung in there, while George and Ringo smoked all of this 27 minute epic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatles_VI

Larry Williams' "Bad Boy" was thee anthem---Lennon: "Aw BUYYYYYYY evah rock 'n' roll book on tha mag-a-zine, stand."

Also Yesterday and Today: even without the butcher block cover, it was some fucken tasty chopnserve, pieces shaken up together like that.

It's Beatles Night!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QagEV5zujw

😳😀

I only watched a tiny bit though

4K upload of 8mm footage filmed by an attendee at their final touring stop at Candlestick Park in 1966:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn5ayAJcxkU

This is kind of great for putting things in better perspective. You see how primitive the set up looks (a given when stadium tours were still new), and why they were a pain - it must be exhausting to have a bunch of policemen running around the outfield to catch fans. Also never realized they used a spotlight like some sort of high school theater production.

I guess this is what the Disney+ teaser that went out today is for?

That looks like a fan effort. Googled about whatever Disney is up to... sounds like they are going to release the original cut of the Let it Be movie.

that vid is fkn chaos lol. See @3:15!

Amazed how good they sound really - harmonies on "If I Needed Someone" are bang-on.

it's very understandable why they totally lost interest in touring at the time lol

my fave part is ringo looking over both his shoulders at the kids running around the outfield circa 3:17 - 3:29 without missing a beat on "baby's in black"

Did any vocal harmony groups make a point of singing live into the same mics simultaneously since these days? Is there something about the microphones of that era that made this set-up more feasible? I mean surely they could have brought along four vocal mics if they had wished.

they did it for close harmonies a lot even when everyone has their own mic esp on that song - plus it makes the performance hotter for them and for the audience

Hoping for their sake they brushed their teeth well before every performance.

I think they recorded the studio version of BiB through the same vocal mic and it probably gives some harmonies on other songs a different feel as well

there's the bit in get back when J&P get too horny singing into the same mic and have to calm themselves down after getting self conscious about it so I guess it had more baggage by that point

paul is on record saying he grew to love john's beery breath xp

Not sure how many mics 1966 PA systems could handle.

4 on shout a couple of years earlier but fidelity isn't really the point there

I would have loved to see them with a mid 70s wings set up circa 69-70 (but I don't know where the technology was at that point) in an alternate universe where they managed to deescalate their bullshit and do a well recorded live series with a bunch of new songs and oldies

No offense that sounds awful, they should have “gone back” to the bullshit and escalated it, get into neu and synths

they did it for close harmonies a lot

...and if the monitor systems at the time were inadequate or non-existent, being that close physically would obviously help them actually sing the harmonies in tune.

OTM

there's the bit in get back when J&P get too horny singing into the same mic and have to calm themselves down after getting self conscious about it so I guess it had more baggage by that point

― Left, Tuesday, April 16, 2024

love u for being as or more committed to parsing for homoerotica as/than I am.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_oyIPNjxGE

that sounds awful

have you heard some of those wings sets they sound great. yeah it's stadium rock or whatever but we only think the beatles were above that because they didn't do it (aside from playing stadiums before the tech was ready for it). add some plastic ono noise rock and george's slide and let paul fuck around with synths and it could have been something. they could have even worked out how to do some of the studio numbers live in a different way (15 minute drone jam on strawberry fields, yoko does her thing on helter skelter, IWTHYH as surprise closer just when everyone has forgotten that side of them). idc if it sounds corny because they were always corny

corny horny bitches

i am old and saw the "wings over america" show at the nassau coliseum and of course memory could be playing tricks but that was easily the best *sounding* arena show i have ever seen. like, not even close.

ringo should have filmed douglas adams' spec script for "goodnight vienna", that's my opinion

also god the security situation there is not just "exhausting" but fucking scary, they could _very easily_ be mobbed in a situation like that, i'd have fucking quit touring too

it looks like a horror movie, like theyre being held hostage & forced to play against their will

I would watch a true horror movie about the ecstasy of beatlemania gradually turning into something really fucked up and scary

we'll see whether paul or ringo turns out to be the final girl

now I've made myself too sad and angry thinking about britney spears again

for George, Beatlemania was fucked up and scary.

TSF, I didn't see the WOA show on the tour but I did win a copy of the triple album along with the accompanying songbook from the Long Island Press because I correctly answered a Beatles trivia question posed by Lou O'Neill Jr. based on knowledge gleaned from the copy of ALL TOGETHER NOW in the Womrath bookstore near the Bloomingdales in the Fresh Meadows Shopping Center (I wonder if I ever unknowingly crossed paths with Will Hermes in those parts). My dad drove me to the LIP office in Jamaica so I could pick it up. Lou was not at his desk when I arrived but eventually he strolled in looking very rock and roll journo, like Joey Ramone in Almost Famous drag, and told me he was going to (the) Eagles show that night and asked me "do you have tickets?" or maybe even "do you have tix?"

Here's some less scary footage from a couple weeks before Candlestick, playing the Olympia in Detroit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBIfn0LjCFg

...and here they are at the same venue in '64:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXkmpSmpeKU

Left there's this guy named Charles Manson you may want to look into...

yeah I saw charlie says

but like what if the beatles did that and wrote the songs for it on purpose

it would have been so much bloodier

or if they had been literally engulfed and eaten by a swarming mass of fans. one or the other

the beatles in the philippines sounds like a nightmare, i haven't read this but here's a longread:

https://www.esquiremag.ph/long-reads/notes-and-essays/remember-the-beatles-nightmare-in-manila-a1542-20170524-lfrm10

I approve of all this speculation

Why was Manson hanging out with the Beach Boys but getting all his secret messages from the Beatles? Couldn't Wild Honey or Friends have inspired murders too?

in the candlestick park footage, are the only on-stage monitors the two little gray boxes in the front corners, and maybe a larger speaker to ringo's left pointing at him? that seems like a nightmare in terms of being able to hear on stage even before all the screaming. the monitors are so far away from john/paul

(xp) Smiley Smile probably could.

i mean if "transcendental meditation" wasn't enough to inspire a man to kill i don't know what song could

and i _like_ transcendental meditation

ringo should have filmed douglas adams' spec script for "goodnight vienna", that's my opinion

i totally forgot about that, I see the script finally got published a few years back. b-ark is in it apparently (which got recycled twice!)

I did win a copy of the triple album along with the accompanying songbook from the Long Island Press

nice! long island press was a queens thing? i don't recall seeing it around me. in nassau county it was "good times."