Also Yesterday and Today: even without the butcher block cover, it was some fucken tasty chopnserve, pieces shaken up together like that.
― dow, Tuesday, 28 November 2023 05:33 (five months ago) link
It's Beatles Night!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QagEV5zujw
― MaresNest, Sunday, 28 January 2024 13:41 (three months ago) link
😳😀
― Pictish in the Woods (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 29 January 2024 03:20 (three months ago) link
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.
― birdistheword, Monday, 15 April 2024 18:40 (one month ago) link
I guess this is what the Disney+ teaser that went out today is for?
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 15 April 2024 19:13 (one month ago) link
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.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Monday, 15 April 2024 19:20 (one month ago) link
that vid is fkn chaos lol. See @3:15!
― maf you one two (maffew12), Monday, 15 April 2024 19:22 (one month ago) link
Amazed how good they sound really - harmonies on "If I Needed Someone" are bang-on.
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 15 April 2024 22:43 (one month ago) link
it's very understandable why they totally lost interest in touring at the time lol
― ufo, Monday, 15 April 2024 23:21 (one month ago) link
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"
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 15:03 (four weeks ago) link
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.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 21:18 (four weeks ago) link
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
― Left, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 21:31 (four weeks ago) link
Hoping for their sake they brushed their teeth well before every performance.
― Andrew Goldsoundz (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 21:35 (four weeks ago) link
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
― Left, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 21:41 (four weeks ago) link
paul is on record saying he grew to love john's beery breath xp
― Left, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 21:42 (four weeks ago) link
Not sure how many mics 1966 PA systems could handle.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 16 April 2024 21:47 (four weeks ago) link
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
― Left, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 22:21 (four weeks ago) link
No offense that sounds awful, they should have “gone back” to the bullshit and escalated it, get into neu and synths
― brimstead, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 23:56 (four weeks ago) link
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.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 00:18 (four weeks ago) link
OTM
― Andrew Goldsoundz (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 00:38 (four weeks ago) link
― Left, Tuesday, April 16, 2024
love u for being as or more committed to parsing for homoerotica as/than I am.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 00:43 (four weeks ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_oyIPNjxGE
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 01:16 (four weeks ago) link
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
― Left, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 08:05 (four weeks ago) link
corny horny bitches
― Left, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 08:07 (four weeks ago) link
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.
― Thus Sang Freud, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 10:34 (four weeks ago) link
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
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 12:17 (four weeks ago) link
it looks like a horror movie, like theyre being held hostage & forced to play against their will
― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 13:06 (four weeks ago) link
I would watch a true horror movie about the ecstasy of beatlemania gradually turning into something really fucked up and scary
― Left, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 13:29 (four weeks ago) link
we'll see whether paul or ringo turns out to be the final girl
― Left, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 13:30 (four weeks ago) link
now I've made myself too sad and angry thinking about britney spears again
― Left, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 13:37 (four weeks ago) link
for George, Beatlemania was fucked up and scary.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 13:38 (four weeks ago) link
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?"
― Andrew Goldsoundz (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 13:42 (four weeks ago) link
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
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 14:02 (four weeks ago) link
Left there's this guy named Charles Manson you may want to look into...
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 14:39 (four weeks ago) link
yeah I saw charlie says
― Left, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 14:48 (four weeks ago) link
but like what if the beatles did that and wrote the songs for it on purpose
it would have been so much bloodier
― Left, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 14:52 (four weeks ago) link
or if they had been literally engulfed and eaten by a swarming mass of fans. one or the other
― Left, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 14:54 (four weeks ago) link
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
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 16:48 (four weeks ago) link
I approve of all this speculation
― brimstead, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 16:52 (four weeks ago) link
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?
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 16:59 (four weeks ago) link
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
― na (NA), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 17:16 (four weeks ago) link
(xp) Smiley Smile probably could.
― My God's got no nose... (Tom D.), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 17:23 (four weeks ago) link
i mean if "transcendental meditation" wasn't enough to inspire a man to kill i don't know what song could
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 17:32 (four weeks ago) link
and i _like_ transcendental meditation
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? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 17:44 (four weeks ago) link
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."
― Thus Sang Freud, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 18:41 (four weeks ago) link
Apparently so! Never thought about that before, made assumptions since it had "Long Island" in the title. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Island_Daily_Press
― Andrew Goldsoundz (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 22:46 (four weeks ago) link
I believe at one point Lou O'Neill Jr. migrated to the NY Post along with his soulmate Headphone Dan Aquilante
― Andrew Goldsoundz (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 22:48 (four weeks ago) link
Surely you read Wayne Robins in Newsday back in the day?
― Andrew Goldsoundz (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 18 April 2024 00:28 (three weeks ago) link