The Beatles

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."

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

I believe at one point Lou O'Neill Jr. migrated to the NY Post along with his soulmate Headphone Dan Aquilante

Surely you read Wayne Robins in Newsday back in the day?

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

And some further hilarious Beatles-related Lou O’Neill Jr. anecdotes on another borad: https://iorr.org/talk/read.php?1,1495183