― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 23:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― Zeno, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 23:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― funny farm, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 23:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Zeno, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 23:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 23:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 23:52 (seventeen years ago) link
gotta know how to have reach nirvana through music.. and beatles can do that.
― jahanzeb mir, Monday, 22 December 2008 11:09 (fifteen years ago) link
gotta hear how vina beach vana thru music beatles norwegian burn my house down
― Matt P, Monday, 22 December 2008 11:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Gotta be the 60s Nirvana then, as the 90s Nirvana had little in common with The Beatles musically. :)
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 22 December 2008 13:15 (fifteen years ago) link
turn me on, dead man.
― Pain don't hurt. (Pillbox), Monday, 22 December 2008 13:40 (fifteen years ago) link
not sure i know this band, anyone got any info?
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Monday, 22 December 2008 13:52 (fifteen years ago) link
The Beatles
― arular (unregistered), Monday, 22 December 2008 14:04 (fifteen years ago) link
whoever they are, i think it's cute how they spell their name :D
― Lingbert, Monday, 22 December 2008 18:06 (fifteen years ago) link
i only really liked the early 7 inches when sutcliffe and best were still in the band
― M@tt He1ges0n, Monday, 22 December 2008 18:08 (fifteen years ago) link
(xxpost) oh FFS whatta shit band, their name is just a take off of Buddy Holly & The Crickets...
― snoball, Monday, 22 December 2008 18:14 (fifteen years ago) link
I was listening to Please Please Me in my car today, and goddamn, I never noticed just how fucking AWFUL that CD sounds. "Do You Want To Know A Secret?" is nearly unlistenable, despite being a great song. Are there any rumours that new editions are being worked on?
And also, does Please Please Me sound better on vinyl?
― өөө (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 22 December 2008 18:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Fuck yes! It sounds brilliant on vinyl. It practically leaps outta the speakers. Sounds like there's a band playing right in front of you.
― everything, Monday, 22 December 2008 18:24 (fifteen years ago) link
intercourse
― Giorgio Moderator (PappaWheelie V), Monday, 22 December 2008 18:35 (fifteen years ago) link
This sounds great
― Jazzbo, Monday, 22 December 2008 18:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Where's Steve Hoffman when you need him?
― arular (unregistered), Monday, 22 December 2008 18:39 (fifteen years ago) link
I was listening to Please Please Me in my car today, and goddamn, I never noticed just how fucking AWFUL that CD sounds.
The 1986 mono mix is horrible. Recent stereo bootlegs sound great, although the fact that it was recorded on two tracks means it will never sound really great in stereo (and nothing does in mono).
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 22 December 2008 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Where is the goddamn Naked thread?
GET BACK
― Bimble's Got A Brand New Bag of Goth (Bimble), Sunday, 4 January 2009 18:55 (fifteen years ago) link
For some California grass
― Bimble's Got A Brand New Bag of Goth (Bimble), Sunday, 4 January 2009 18:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Geir rules the day. I'm not even going to stand in his way.
― Bimble's Got A Brand New Bag of Goth (Bimble), Sunday, 4 January 2009 18:57 (fifteen years ago) link
I like a lot of the new groups- The Beatles, The Beards and the whoever.
― ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 January 2009 21:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Get backto where you once belonged
― Sleep Tundra (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Monday, 23 March 2009 20:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Don't let me down
don't you know it's gonna lastit's a love that lasts foreverit's a love that has no past
wow, a love that has no past! Lennon lovers take note.
Bimble's gonna be quiet now, he promises, but Beatles are sacred, sacred ground.
― Sleep Tundra (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Monday, 23 March 2009 20:10 (fifteen years ago) link
I for one welcome our new Liverpudlian overlords.
― moe greene dolphin street (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 23 March 2009 20:17 (fifteen years ago) link
when the rain comes they run and hide their headsthey might as well be deadwhen the raaaaiin cooomes.....when the raaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiinnn cooooooooooommmmees....
― I am Robertson Speedo (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 23 March 2009 20:19 (fifteen years ago) link
"A Butt in the Life" by the Buttles
I read the news today oh buttAbout a lucky man who made the buttAnd though the butt was rather sadWell I just had to laughI saw the photographHe blew his butt out in a carHe didn't notice that the lights had buttsA crowd of butts stood and staredThey'd seen his butt beforeNo butt was really sureIf he was from the House of Butts.
I saw a butt toda oh boyThe English Army had just won the buttA crowd of butts turned awabut I just had to lookHaving read the buttI'd butt to turn you on
Woke butt, fell out of butt,Dragged a butt across my buttFound my way downstairs and drank a buttAnd looking up I noticed I was buttFound my butt and grabbed my buttMade the butt in seconds flatFound my way upstairs and had a butt,and somebody spoke and I went into a butt
I read the news today oh buttFour thousand butts in Blackbutt, LancashireAnd though the butts were rather smallThey had to count them allNow they know how many butts it takes to fill the Albert Hall
― LL Coolna (absolutely clean glasses), Thursday, 2 June 2011 16:44 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Beatles1.gif
neat
― iatee, Thursday, 5 January 2012 00:14 (twelve years ago) link
Not sure how they're making those determinations, though. Ringo came up with a line or two for "Eleanor Rigby," and suggested "look at all the lonely people" as the chorus.
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 5 January 2012 00:24 (twelve years ago) link
who is the "outside contributor" for "Julia", Yoko...?
― The Silent Extreme (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 5 January 2012 00:32 (twelve years ago) link
Also, were George Martin's arrangements not "contributions"?
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 5 January 2012 00:35 (twelve years ago) link
Nice. If accurate, more collaboration that I thought--at some point, I think I internalized the idea that, with prominent exceptions like "A Day in the Life," Lennon/McCartney almost always meant Lennon or McCartney.
― clemenza, Thursday, 5 January 2012 00:37 (twelve years ago) link
Lol at "Flying" and "Dig It." Never realized before that John had written almost all of A Hard Day's Night
― WATERMELON MAYNE aka the seed driver (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 5 January 2012 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
yeah that was my main take from it. I guess that explain's the albums v. consistent style.
― iatee, Thursday, 5 January 2012 20:31 (twelve years ago) link
Show how much George would have been pretty frickin major had he been in any other band. (Ignoring all the usual alternate-universe shit about how in another band he might not have been inspired to write, and maybe had he been in another band he would caused a butterfly to flapped his wings and make Borneo disappear, or Bono disappear, or something.)
― Ye Mad Puffin, Friday, 6 January 2012 02:04 (twelve years ago) link
Um, "shows," and "flap," sorry, but you get the idea.
― Ye Mad Puffin, Friday, 6 January 2012 02:05 (twelve years ago) link
I doubt George would have been anything than a decent guitarist in any other band whose two leaders inspired his best playing and writing.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 January 2012 02:06 (twelve years ago) link
um yeah, that's the usual alternate-universe shit
― we bought a zoo in a hopeless place (some dude), Friday, 6 January 2012 02:19 (twelve years ago) link
Go through the looking-glass.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 January 2012 02:26 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THbvc3lx2pk
― WATERMELON MAYNE aka the seed driver (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 6 January 2012 02:31 (twelve years ago) link
love george but he didn't really have enuff swag to be a guitar hero in a non-beatles band IMO
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 6 January 2012 02:34 (twelve years ago) link
Think I meant to post this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_am82sYFXU&feature=related
― WATERMELON MAYNE aka the seed driver (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 6 January 2012 02:35 (twelve years ago) link
Sorry to be all markers/frogman henry reposting the same non-sequitur embed buthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdAX7E34zkg&feature=related
― WATERMELON MAYNE aka the seed driver (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 6 January 2012 02:41 (twelve years ago) link
Without Ravi Shankar's influence, George would not have been as good a sitar player.
― timellison, Friday, 6 January 2012 02:48 (twelve years ago) link
man, you need to re-listen the early stuff to realize how massive of a player george was in terms of his contributions to the band sound. he was uniquely creative right from the beginning, in fact i would say his licks were pretty much unparalleled at the time (say, 62-64). the guy virtually invented a whole guitar vocabulary all by himself and i'm only taking into account the pre-psych beatles shit.
― cock chirea, Friday, 6 January 2012 03:00 (twelve years ago) link
My youtube meandering ultimately led me to some Beatle bloopers:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nPtbbO0c98&feature=relatedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2R4_jL1-Ts&feature=endscreen&NR=1
― WATERMELON MAYNE aka the seed driver (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 6 January 2012 03:03 (twelve years ago) link
Never mind the haters
― WATERMELON MAYNE aka the seed driver (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 6 January 2012 03:23 (twelve years ago) link
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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month ago) link
paul is on record saying he grew to love john's beery breath xp
― Left, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 21:42 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month ago) link
OTM
― Andrew Goldsoundz (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 00:38 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month ago) link
corny horny bitches
― Left, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 08:07 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month ago) link
we'll see whether paul or ringo turns out to be the final girl
― Left, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 13:30 (one month ago) link
now I've made myself too sad and angry thinking about britney spears again
― Left, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 13:37 (one month ago) link
for George, Beatlemania was fucked up and scary.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 13:38 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month ago) link
yeah I saw charlie says
― Left, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 14:48 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month ago) link
I approve of all this speculation
― brimstead, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 16:52 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month ago) link
(xp) Smiley Smile probably could.
― My God's got no nose... (Tom D.), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 17:23 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month 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 (one month ago) link
Heh, further discussion of Lou O’Neill Jr. here, including me telling a version of the same story I just recounted upthread: The end of Circus Magazine
― Andrew Goldsoundz (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 18 April 2024 00:30 (one month ago) link
And some further hilarious Beatles-related Lou O’Neill Jr. anecdotes on another borad: https://iorr.org/talk/read.php?1,1495183
― Andrew Goldsoundz (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 18 April 2024 00:33 (one month ago) link
#onethread
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU79J--YFcE
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 10 May 2024 18:16 (three weeks ago) link