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 (two 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 (two 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 (two weeks ago) link
we'll see whether paul or ringo turns out to be the final girl
― Left, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 13:30 (two weeks ago) link
now I've made myself too sad and angry thinking about britney spears again
― Left, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 13:37 (two weeks ago) link
for George, Beatlemania was fucked up and scary.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 13:38 (two 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 (two 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 (two 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 (two weeks ago) link
yeah I saw charlie says
― Left, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 14:48 (two 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 (two 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 (two 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 (two weeks ago) link
I approve of all this speculation
― brimstead, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 16:52 (two 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 (two 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 (two weeks ago) link
(xp) Smiley Smile probably could.
― My God's got no nose... (Tom D.), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 17:23 (two 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 (two 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 (two 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 (two 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 (two 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 (two 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 (two weeks 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 (two weeks 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 (two weeks ago) link