😎👍 Another interesting fact about this tour: The Moody Blues were the opening act. This is significant, as it's probably when Paul McCartney and Denny Laine exchanged phone numbers at some point (which of course, would have repercussions six years later). 🎸
4:55 John did the same thing during the Madison Square Garden concert in 1975. When he played electric piano his Les Paul Junior was strapped on his back.
Thanks for another great video Nick!👍👍 Andy Babiuk figures that Ivor Arbiter gave John the Strat because he knew that he liked black, but there's no evidence to confirm it. Do you have the book "The Beatles Live!" by Mark Lewisohn? It's an amazing resource that documents every gig they ever played, all the music and lots of commentary. From their first trip to Hamburg in 1960 they almost never stopped!
Wow! I tip my hat to a young fan who has provided such a flawlessly factual deep dive into a previously neglected subject. So many items I’ve never heard and photos I’ve never seen!
This is one of the holy grail mystery shows that will hopefully see the light of day. Same with that 66 UK show and the ending of their very last concert which figured a snippet of In My Life played by John. But another thing that I wonder about this their handful of Japan shows in 66. We always see the same 2 shows, but they actually played at least 5, some photos show them using Fender amps instead of the usual vox
Excellent video! The two things I find most interesting about it are Paul playing Yesterday (Live) on keyboards, and a black Stratocaster with matching black headstock. I thought the matching headstock thing was much more modern?
LIKED ...SUBSCRIBED !!! Thank you Nick . Over here in Wales UK , I just found this channel and am a 61 year old Beatles "trainspotter" . I appreciate the time and effort that you have put into making this video . I look forward to checking out your other releases . My eldest son spent three years at LIPA and met Paul , and I spent some time with drummer , Alan White of Plastic Ono fame .
Nick. I must compliment you on your research regarding the guitars, songs and details of those tours. I think Mark Lewisohn himself should be proud. This is one of the very best posts I’ve seen and I’ve seen a great deal of them. More power to you, my friend! Cheers!
I enjoy your channel really good work. Yes the Beatles had alot of gigs but you have to realize as a working band staying booked was what it was all about. Think of it as a regular job. you go to work 9 to 5 every day and some times on weekends. Being in a working band is no different. Working musicians live to play music either live or as a studio musician. it's a job not a hobby. They're not weekend warriors. I'm not sure but if you looked up other working bands like Zeppelin, Clapton or Dylan etc. they all probably had similar type schedules. Keep up the good work!
Good point. Many '60's bands worked this way, it was their "day job". Animals, Stones, Kinks always playing somewhere. At least thru the '60's. They were always playing, all the time.
Thanks very much for your "Deep Dives" into some Beatles anomalies! I thought we were big Beatles fans back in the day, but you have topped it!! Wow! Can't wait for more of your videos and perhaps guitar lessons of what tricks John played his short scale Rickenbacker, for example...
An excellent and timely video! I'm absolutely fascinated by this tour. I recorded a track trying to imagine what the live organ version of We Can Work It Out might have sounded. 😅
Nick you’re the best young man! can’t tell you how much I look forward to your videos the best on UA-cam for Beatles nerds specially musicians -as a bass player I loved your previous work. We all really wanna know what and how they played. You do a wonderful wonderful job. Keep them coming dude cheers from Chicago .
So cool Nick, thanks! I happened to see in the photo (with Paul playing the organ) that there is a big Fender Amp and head pictured prominently. Maybe the Vox's needed a supplement? !
Great video. I love the rare images and the information that you provided for this period of Beatles history. I just subbed and can't wait to check out your other videos.
Another notable moment is that the day after this tour's last show, Paul McCartney took LSD for the first time: without the other Beatles, but with Tara Browne, whose death in a car crash is immortalized in "A Day in the LIfe."
And where did the Gibson es345 go after this time period, did he trade it in for the SG Gibson??? Wish someone would ask Paul or Ringo while they are still alive. You do such a Great Work on these Videos.
Ahhh the world when it was sane, happy days listening to their music and every day was to be looked forward too.....fast forward to 2024 and a very dark cloud hangs over the World..peace and love replaced by hate and violence......I miss those days, my friends and the expectation that all was good and possible.....All you need is love..👍👍👍
This is great work! I know a lot about the Beatles at 70 years old, but you had most everything I didn't know. And interesting stuff too. Even the tiny things! Do you have any Beatle cards?
In The Beatles Anthology documentary, Ringo said after they stopped touring in the US in August 1966 that The Beatles did a few more concrets in England after Candlestick park before they actually called it quits, but I'm thinking he got the late 65 UK tour (after their major 1965 US tour which includes the famous Shea Stadium concert) confused thinking that the late UK 65 tour was 1966
Their dates in Scotland are really bizarre. They played places like Dingwall and Kirkcaldy that have tiny populations. The audience couldn't have been more than a couple of hundred people.
As always a very fun, cool, informative and Fab video! I had no idea, nor had seen the all black guitar strap Lennon wore instead of the VOX Python Strap! A lot of work indeed, but the effort shows! I have a couple questions for the future if you don't mind.. How did George's SG get such a nasty scratch on it? Appears to not have one until Pete Ham was gifted it.. Hmm.. The Beatles rock band shows John's Rickenbacker 325 Miami waiting as a backup. It's a quick shot and I've never seen it in videos or actual photos. They had Paul's input on about every detail, so is this Paul being sentimental about a guitar he played a lot with or a cameo for the instrument? Thanks and great videos!!👍
The picture of John ‘blowing his nose’ using Paul’s tie was taken on December 3 at Glasgow’s Odeon Cinema where they played their opening concert on this tour.
Request I saw a video of the Beatles live and the Gretsch Country Gentleman Mal-functioned and he was given one that worked. LIVE have you seen that floating around? Thanks for your work🎸
When you think about these things, you start to understand why they lasted such a short period of time as a band. Besides pumping out album after album every year, they toured like CRAZY, an unhealthy amount even. Since I was a child I've always wondered why didn't they just take a break for a while, like every other band instead of breaking up. I suppose some of them were _not_ willing to go back to this life.
En otro video leí el comentario de un señor que asistió a uno de esos conciertos (creo que al Hammersmith Odeon), donde relata un curioso incidente con John y su micrófono, estaba fallando, incluso lo electrocuto algunas veces, y harto de la situación a mitad de "Rock and Roll Music" (el tipo asegura que fue esa canción, aunque pudo haber sido otra, ya han pasado más de 50 años) John aventó el pedestal junto con el micrófono al suelo, para retomar su canto en otro micrófono. Me sorprendió mucho porque además de la historia oficial que todo mundo conoce, todavía te sigues encontrando anécdotas de personas que de alguna u otra forma se cruzaron con Los Beatles, y eso enriquece más su legado histórico y musical. Es una lástima que a partir de esa gira y todo 1966 hay muy poco material, y los pocos archivos que están completos pertenecen a colecciones privadas, como el audio del Shea de 1966. Saludos desde México, lindo video c:
Hendrix actually had a much worse tour schedule, zigzagging back and forth across the country. The Beatles also got paid, whereas Hendrix got ripped off a lot by his business managers. He made comparatively little money during his chaotic short career.
5:08 I think that’s actually his rickenbacker at the bottom right corner. I notice the strap is not on his shoulder and also look at the pick guard. He probably took the guitar off him at some point.
Yeah the black Strat is definitely a source of curiosity. During the Rubber Soul recording sessions, Mal was sent out to get two strats for John & George and both were painted ‘Sonic Blue.’ While I’m not sure what became of John’s, I do know from books I have that George repainted his with various things (including some of Patties nail polish). Anyway, it just seems curious as to why John would have the black strat when he already had one on hand. I won’t go into conspiracy theories about what became of his prior one but we’ll probably never know the full story behind it.
My vote is that the black Strat is his sonic blue Strat, refinished. The black headstock makes it seem like this was a custom job. Both John and George had had guitars refinished in black previously (John's first 325 and George's 425). It explains why the blue Strat is never seen again (though, of course, doesn't explain why the black Strat is not seen again after the April '66 studio shot).
There is the enduring story about guitars being stolen from EMI Abbey Road in 1969. Originally it was thought that several disappeared including Paul's bass and George's Tenneseean but we've seen this year that they went missing in different circumstances. So possibly that second 360/12 is the only one that was stolen which makes sense to me because in theory someone might get away with pinching one instrument.
The Paramounts soon to become Procol Harum were one of the support acts along with The Moody Blues. The latter had to play their set over again during one night because The Beatles were late in arriving at the venue. The final UK tour was where they met for the first time the infamous journalist Philip Norman. George Harrison in particular took an instant dislike to him. Not surprising given the shite Norman wrote about The Beatles in later years.
Another oddity was that John Lennon used, at least during rehearsal, his sonic blue Fender Strat for the concert shows at Astoria in Finsbury Park, London on December 10 and 11, 1965. I'm not sure he actually used it for any of the concerts though. Wish we had more pics or audio.
Yes, but that was when The Beatles were rehearsing at Donmar Warehouse Theatre, London on November 20, 1965, just prior to embanking on their December 1965 UK tour. The photo I was talking about was taken when The Beatles were rehearsing at Astoria in Finsbury Park, London on December 10 and 11, 1965. John Lennon is playing (probably rehearsing) on stage with Paul McCartney and is using his Sonic Blue Fender Strat. Lennon never played it in concert however as photographic evidence shows him using his Ric 325 for the 1965 UK tour. Unfortunately, I'm not able to upload the photo☹
@@mikelopiccolo4092Got a link? I wasn’t aware or any photos of John playing a sonic blue Strat that post date the first photos of the black Strat . I guess it could be George’s but George’s Strat wasn’t amongst the tour guitars..but they were in London. Hmmm.
It was one of 5 songs for which promotional films were produced in a one-day filming session, at a time when "music videos" weren't yet a thing, and when TV stations around the world couldn't get enough Beatles material (or couldn't get The Beatles in-person). In addition to the contemporaneous songs (Help, Ticket To Ride, Day Tripper, We Can Work It Out), two very half-hearted videos for the older I Feel Fine were produced (one of them riding an exercise bicycle, the other just of them eating fish and chips on the studio floor) - probably a combination of having the remaining studio time available and knowing that they could produce pretty much anything and it would be lapped up by adoring audiences.
I heard that they played Yes It Is on one of the dates. Could that be this true? I also heard they did that song on Top Of The Pops. Boy, would I love to see a LIVE clip of that. It is one of my favorite Beatle tunes! Can anyone verify the above info? Thanks!
This is indeed the most mysterious part of the Beatles' tours...to the point of, Why? Were the Beatles trying to enforce security on photographs and film? I suppose publicity wasn't as important then as in 1963-64, but still. The following year, they agreed to a single live TV show (Top of the Pops??) but it was famously not recorded due to a union disagreement. I just wonder what this was all about? I'll bet there are frustrated photographers out there who could tell us.
Well, I saw them during a show 1965, Empire Theatre, and you could hear them, but they were done. They didn't care. They could have beefed up the Vox amps. Out of tune, they were studio musicians. People came to see them, not listen to the.
I think they just wanted to simplify the gear for ease of touring. Remember, losing that acoustic Gibson a year or two previously was a big deal. It would be better (esp. for Neil and Mal) to not bring acoustics on tour if possible. The only time an acoustic guitar got used by 1965 was for Paul doing Yesterday. Meanwhile, the Vox organ was used ONLY for I'm Down, so why not delete it if possible? All of which leads me to a Major Theory 😳, to wit: perhaps John wanted to keep the organ, and if Paul could use it for Yesterday, then the organ has two songs not just one, if also We Can Work It Out then THREE songs and it can stay, but Paul's acoustic could go. And if John could play the organ with the Ricky on his back, the mechanics of stage flow could be simpler as well. So I think these were experiments on a short, somewhat hidden tour...by the next year they had decided no organ, no acoustics at all...f it all, keep it simple and just do the 1966 set list as simply as possible.
@@jackeppington6488 ...except that on the '66 tour they had the organ on stage at least in West Germany and Japan but they didn't use it. It does seem to have gone by the North American leg though.
I like that 63 gig where John was ill and Paul and George did the entire gig off the hoof without him. I bet Paul sang Twist and Shout better than John.
In 1972, when John did the One to One concert he kept his Telecaster guitar on his back while playing keyboards... ua-cam.com/video/PyMhN3pKy34/v-deo.html
To be fair they played THIRTY MINUTE SETS after Ringo joined so PLEASE stop the "it was so grueling" baloney. The hard woodshedding was done with Pete in Hamburg for the years they played 5-6 sets 6 days a week. 🎸
How was Epstein so obtuse to not have any of this UK tour filmed and recorded? He should have documented every concert from 64 -66. And Never should he have booked concerts in the Philippines when Australia was a much better choice. He also should heave cancelled or never book concerts in Memphis, and played 2 Boston shows in the Garden NOT Suffolk Downs. Dumb moves in hindsight. It has also been said these were their BEST Live shows since "Beatlemainia" began. Excellent Video!
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I'm quite honored to be first person to ever say: "The Beatles Are The Best Band Ever."
It makes sense for Paul to play the organ on Yesterday. He probably played the notes of the string quartet whereas George took over his guitar part.
This is the most underrated Beatles channel on youtube! Keep up the great work Nick!
Please don’t fall into the trap of youtube comments sayingsomething is ‘underrated’ theres millions of them
😎👍 Another interesting fact about this tour: The Moody Blues were the opening act. This is significant, as it's probably when Paul McCartney and Denny Laine exchanged phone numbers at some point (which of course, would have repercussions six years later). 🎸
4:55 John did the same thing during the Madison Square Garden concert in 1975. When he played electric piano his Les Paul Junior was strapped on his back.
You surely mean 1972!
Thanks for another great video Nick!👍👍 Andy Babiuk figures that Ivor Arbiter gave John the Strat because he knew that he liked black, but there's no evidence to confirm it. Do you have the book "The Beatles Live!" by Mark Lewisohn? It's an amazing resource that documents every gig they ever played, all the music and lots of commentary. From their first trip to Hamburg in 1960 they almost never stopped!
Wow! I tip my hat to a young fan who has provided such a flawlessly factual deep dive into a previously neglected subject. So many items I’ve never heard and photos I’ve never seen!
This is one of the holy grail mystery shows that will hopefully see the light of day. Same with that 66 UK show and the ending of their very last concert which figured a snippet of In My Life played by John.
But another thing that I wonder about this their handful of Japan shows in 66. We always see the same 2 shows, but they actually played at least 5, some photos show them using Fender amps instead of the usual vox
Great rare photo finds, many of which I've never seen. Thank you!
A little covered period in Beatles history. Good job!
Love that Guerssen Los Shakers "For You" vinyl in the background!
Excellent video! The two things I find most interesting about it are Paul playing Yesterday (Live) on keyboards, and a black Stratocaster with matching black headstock. I thought the matching headstock thing was much more modern?
Would be cool to see more photos of this tour come to light! It’d be interesting to see if John ever played that black Stratocaster live
Superb presentation and investigative skills Nick. You have unearthed some real photographic gems and historic back stories. Thank you for sharing.
it is always refreshing to see a video of beatles trivia i have not heard a hundred time before - you did some great research for this video!
Nifty info, mate.☮️ Aside from the White album their 65 era is a great live era for them. 66 live was too much stress I think.
LIKED ...SUBSCRIBED !!! Thank you Nick . Over here in Wales UK , I just found this channel and am a 61 year old Beatles "trainspotter" . I appreciate the time and effort that you have put into making this video . I look forward to checking out your other releases .
My eldest son spent three years at LIPA and met Paul , and I spent some time with drummer , Alan White of Plastic Ono fame .
You realise when George said, 'We gave our nervous systems,' he was massively downplaying it.
Great job excellent work
Nick. I must compliment you on your research regarding the guitars, songs and details of those tours. I think Mark Lewisohn himself should be proud. This is one of the very best posts I’ve seen and I’ve seen a great deal of them. More power to you, my friend! Cheers!
I enjoy your channel really good work. Yes the Beatles had alot of gigs but you have to realize as a working band staying booked was what it was all about. Think of it as a regular job. you go to work 9 to 5 every day and some times on weekends. Being in a working band is no different. Working musicians live to play music either live or as a studio musician. it's a job not a hobby. They're not weekend warriors. I'm not sure but if you looked up other working bands like Zeppelin, Clapton or Dylan etc. they all probably had similar type schedules. Keep up the good work!
Good point. Many '60's bands worked this way, it was their "day job". Animals, Stones, Kinks always playing somewhere. At least thru the '60's. They were always playing, all the time.
Very interesting facts. Many I didn't know. Thanks, from Sydney. Subbed...and great photos.
Amazing video,thank you
This is tremendous. A lot of things I never heard before. Looking forward to watching the rest of your videos. Good job!
Very interesting facts! Great video Nick!
Thanks very much for your "Deep Dives" into some Beatles anomalies! I thought we were big Beatles fans back in the day, but you have topped it!! Wow! Can't wait for more of your videos and perhaps guitar lessons of what tricks John played his short scale Rickenbacker, for example...
Nice Beatle Detective work! Keep them coming, Peace, Sal 💪🏻🎸
Great video, and great to notice the "Shakers For you" album right behind you. Shakers are amazing!!
Wonderful content!! Greetings from the Netherlands!
An excellent and timely video! I'm absolutely fascinated by this tour.
I recorded a track trying to imagine what the live organ version of We Can Work It Out might have sounded. 😅
Beautiful work. Absolutely stunning
great research, thanks!
Fantastic video. I never knew these points.
I love your Beatle story vids. More please.
Nick you’re the best young man!
can’t tell you how much I look forward to your videos the best on UA-cam for Beatles nerds specially musicians -as a bass player I loved your previous work. We all really wanna know what and how they played. You do a wonderful wonderful job. Keep them coming dude cheers from Chicago .
Great research! Love the video!! 👍👍🎸🎸🎸🥁😎
Sehr interessant! Vielen Dank!
Howdy Nick 👋 Keep up the great work
Amazing new information and photos 📸 well done 👏
So cool Nick, thanks! I happened to see in the photo (with Paul playing the organ) that there is a big Fender Amp and head pictured prominently. Maybe the Vox's needed a supplement? !
That's their blonde Bassman that they had been using in the studio.
very interesting analysis thanks
5:10 John does use the organ for I'm Down that was showed in the Hammersmith Odeon concert film during this tour
Fantastic Video! I love this stuff, and have always wondered about a lot these Beatle anomalies.
Loved this vid.
Wonderful content. I'm a newcomer to your posts and I'm enthralled :)
Really loving this series. Amazing work, Nick!
Great video my friend !!! I love the details explored !!! More videos please !!!
Great video. I love the rare images and the information that you provided for this period of Beatles history. I just subbed and can't wait to check out your other videos.
I can't believe they did so many gigs in 1963. Almoost one a day !
love this
Another notable moment is that the day after this tour's last show, Paul McCartney took LSD for the first time: without the other Beatles, but with Tara Browne, whose death in a car crash is immortalized in "A Day in the LIfe."
Excellent video
The tour was documented in the U.K Musical (Weekly) papers. The tour concluded in Cardiff (Capitol Cinema) Sunday 12th December.
Nicely done!
I like how they worked up Yesterday with the band with just guitars, it must have sounded really cool with keys.
And where did the Gibson es345 go after this time period, did he trade it in for the SG Gibson??? Wish someone would ask Paul or Ringo while they are still alive. You do such a Great Work on these Videos.
I've wondered that. The 345 vanishes forever and the SG shows up soon afterwards.
Ahhh the world when it was sane, happy days listening to their music and every day was to be looked forward too.....fast forward to 2024 and a very dark cloud hangs over the World..peace and love replaced by hate and violence......I miss those days, my friends and the expectation that all was good and possible.....All you need is love..👍👍👍
Sad isn't it. But it's never too late to forgive & love again
Sane? I think your rose-coloured glasses were a bit too thick.
This is great work! I know a lot about the Beatles at 70 years old, but you had most everything I didn't know. And interesting stuff too. Even the tiny things! Do you have any Beatle cards?
Good work, just subscribed
In The Beatles Anthology documentary, Ringo said after they stopped touring in the US in August 1966 that The Beatles did a few more concrets in England after Candlestick park before they actually called it quits, but I'm thinking he got the late 65 UK tour (after their major 1965 US tour which includes the famous Shea Stadium concert) confused thinking that the late UK 65 tour was 1966
That makes sense, because Paul also remembers that period as taking place in 66 -- his accident, his first use of LSD etc.
Their dates in Scotland are really bizarre. They played places like Dingwall and Kirkcaldy that have tiny populations. The audience couldn't have been more than a couple of hundred people.
As always a very fun, cool, informative and Fab video! I had no idea, nor had seen the all black guitar strap Lennon wore instead of the VOX Python Strap!
A lot of work indeed, but the effort shows! I have a couple questions for the future if you don't mind.. How did George's SG get such a nasty scratch on it? Appears to not have one until Pete Ham was gifted it.. Hmm..
The Beatles rock band shows John's Rickenbacker 325 Miami waiting as a backup. It's a quick shot and I've never seen it in videos or actual photos. They had Paul's input on about every detail, so is this Paul being sentimental about a guitar he played a lot with or a cameo for the instrument?
Thanks and great videos!!👍
So they played Nowhere Man and If I Needed Someone on Rickenbackers? Would be cool to hear a 325 play either of these songs
Very cool. Thanks... where is that black strat?
The picture of John ‘blowing his nose’ using Paul’s tie was taken on December 3 at Glasgow’s Odeon Cinema where they played their opening concert on this tour.
At 5:48 it says Helter skelter 27 minute version, just curious what is this?
It's just a long ass extended version of the the song on the record
It was a slow jam version of the song they played during an lsd fuled marathon session
Request I saw a video of the Beatles live and the Gretsch Country Gentleman Mal-functioned and he was given one that worked. LIVE have you seen that floating around? Thanks for your work🎸
Paul played a Rickenbacker Bass for the 1st time on this tour..still looking for a photo
On record not on tour
He brought a Rick on tour in 66 as a backup, but didn't play it. For this 65 tour he had a second Hofner for backup.
When you think about these things, you start to understand why they lasted such a short period of time as a band. Besides pumping out album after album every year, they toured like CRAZY, an unhealthy amount even.
Since I was a child I've always wondered why didn't they just take a break for a while, like every other band instead of breaking up. I suppose some of them were _not_ willing to go back to this life.
Wow, very interesting stuff!
En otro video leí el comentario de un señor que asistió a uno de esos conciertos (creo que al Hammersmith Odeon), donde relata un curioso incidente con John y su micrófono, estaba fallando, incluso lo electrocuto algunas veces, y harto de la situación a mitad de "Rock and Roll Music" (el tipo asegura que fue esa canción, aunque pudo haber sido otra, ya han pasado más de 50 años) John aventó el pedestal junto con el micrófono al suelo, para retomar su canto en otro micrófono. Me sorprendió mucho porque además de la historia oficial que todo mundo conoce, todavía te sigues encontrando anécdotas de personas que de alguna u otra forma se cruzaron con Los Beatles, y eso enriquece más su legado histórico y musical. Es una lástima que a partir de esa gira y todo 1966 hay muy poco material, y los pocos archivos que están completos pertenecen a colecciones privadas, como el audio del Shea de 1966. Saludos desde México, lindo video c:
If you have ever had a shock through a microphone when you are singing then you can understand that sort of behaviour ....
@@Tom-hk6ub yup 😯
whera can i find the full list of beatles white wales?. Nice video
The Hammersmith Odeon show sounded rather good from what I have seen on UA-cam. It’s a pity this wasn’t recorded!
Hendrix actually had a much worse tour schedule, zigzagging back and forth across the country. The Beatles also got paid, whereas Hendrix got ripped off a lot by his business managers. He made comparatively little money during his chaotic short career.
5:08 I think that’s actually his rickenbacker at the bottom right corner. I notice the strap is not on his shoulder and also look at the pick guard. He probably took the guitar off him at some point.
I disagree. It has three Strat pickups and a white pickguard.
Yeah the black Strat is definitely a source of curiosity. During the Rubber Soul recording sessions, Mal was sent out to get two strats for John & George and both were painted ‘Sonic Blue.’ While I’m not sure what became of John’s, I do know from books I have that George repainted his with various things (including some of Patties nail polish). Anyway, it just seems curious as to why John would have the black strat when he already had one on hand. I won’t go into conspiracy theories about what became of his prior one but we’ll probably never know the full story behind it.
My vote is that the black Strat is his sonic blue Strat, refinished. The black headstock makes it seem like this was a custom job. Both John and George had had guitars refinished in black previously (John's first 325 and George's 425). It explains why the blue Strat is never seen again (though, of course, doesn't explain why the black Strat is not seen again after the April '66 studio shot).
"Paul McCartney played the organ ..." 😴
"... on 'Yesterday'" 😳
Did George use his second Rickenbacker 360/12 during this series of concerts? The one with the rounded edges. Wonder where that guitar is now?
That 2nd Rickenbacker is still lost out there
There is the enduring story about guitars being stolen from EMI Abbey Road in 1969. Originally it was thought that several disappeared including Paul's bass and George's Tenneseean but we've seen this year that they went missing in different circumstances. So possibly that second 360/12 is the only one that was stolen which makes sense to me because in theory someone might get away with pinching one instrument.
Where can I get the full list for the Beatles White Whales?
The Paramounts soon to become Procol Harum were one of the support acts along with The Moody Blues. The latter had to play their set over again during one night because The Beatles were late in arriving at the venue. The final UK tour was where they met for the first time the infamous journalist Philip Norman. George Harrison in particular took an instant dislike to him. Not surprising given the shite Norman wrote about The Beatles in later years.
Just read Philip Norman's George bio. Decent, but unfair in places. He projects his own opinions as facts a lot.
I would love a video based on the White Whales list at 5:44
Another oddity was that John Lennon used, at least during rehearsal, his sonic blue Fender Strat for the concert shows at Astoria in Finsbury Park, London on December 10 and 11, 1965. I'm not sure he actually used it for any of the concerts though. Wish we had more pics or audio.
The rehearsal shows him using a black Strat with black headstock, no?
Yes, but that was when The Beatles were rehearsing at Donmar Warehouse Theatre, London on November 20, 1965, just prior to embanking on their December 1965 UK tour. The photo I was talking about was taken when The Beatles were rehearsing at Astoria in Finsbury Park, London on December 10 and 11, 1965. John Lennon is playing (probably rehearsing) on stage with Paul McCartney and is using his Sonic Blue Fender Strat. Lennon never played it in concert however as photographic evidence shows him using his Ric 325 for the 1965 UK tour. Unfortunately, I'm not able to upload the photo☹
@@mikelopiccolo4092Got a link? I wasn’t aware or any photos of John playing a sonic blue Strat that post date the first photos of the black Strat . I guess it could be George’s but George’s Strat wasn’t amongst the tour guitars..but they were in London. Hmmm.
Plus in Hamburg Germany they were playing 12 hours a day I think Lennon said.
2:54 Why would they have been making a promo film for "I Feel Fine" in 1965? It doesn't make sense.
It was one of 5 songs for which promotional films were produced in a one-day filming session, at a time when "music videos" weren't yet a thing, and when TV stations around the world couldn't get enough Beatles material (or couldn't get The Beatles in-person). In addition to the contemporaneous songs (Help, Ticket To Ride, Day Tripper, We Can Work It Out), two very half-hearted videos for the older I Feel Fine were produced (one of them riding an exercise bicycle, the other just of them eating fish and chips on the studio floor) - probably a combination of having the remaining studio time available and knowing that they could produce pretty much anything and it would be lapped up by adoring audiences.
@crosstownchord Thankyou for the explanation. As soon as I saw it Lennon's hair had that "Ticket To Ride" / '65 look and I was confused.
I heard that they played Yes It Is on one of the dates. Could that be this true? I also heard they did that song on Top Of The Pops. Boy, would I love to see a LIVE clip of that. It is one of my favorite Beatle tunes! Can anyone verify the above info? Thanks!
Read "The Memoirs of Billy Shears". That may give you a bit of an insight into what was going on.
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i read Somewhere Paul played The Drums On this tour for one of the support acts i dont know if this is a true story
The Strat is actually a sparkle cherry red. no?
This is indeed the most mysterious part of the Beatles' tours...to the point of, Why? Were the Beatles trying to enforce security on photographs and film? I suppose publicity wasn't as important then as in 1963-64, but still. The following year, they agreed to a single live TV show (Top of the Pops??) but it was famously not recorded due to a union disagreement. I just wonder what this was all about? I'll bet there are frustrated photographers out there who could tell us.
Well, I saw them during a show 1965, Empire Theatre, and you could hear them, but they were done. They didn't care. They could have beefed up the Vox amps. Out of tune, they were studio musicians.
People came to see them, not listen to the.
Why didn’t John use the organ for I’m Down in 1966 even though the Organ was already set up for the song during the tour?
I think they always wanted to do different stuff, not to get bored.
I think they just wanted to simplify the gear for ease of touring. Remember, losing that acoustic Gibson a year or two previously was a big deal. It would be better (esp. for Neil and Mal) to not bring acoustics on tour if possible. The only time an acoustic guitar got used by 1965 was for Paul doing Yesterday. Meanwhile, the Vox organ was used ONLY for I'm Down, so why not delete it if possible? All of which leads me to a Major Theory 😳, to wit: perhaps John wanted to keep the organ, and if Paul could use it for Yesterday, then the organ has two songs not just one, if also We Can Work It Out then THREE songs and it can stay, but Paul's acoustic could go. And if John could play the organ with the Ricky on his back, the mechanics of stage flow could be simpler as well. So I think these were experiments on a short, somewhat hidden tour...by the next year they had decided no organ, no acoustics at all...f it all, keep it simple and just do the 1966 set list as simply as possible.
... and I'm very surprised to hear that Paul played Yesterday on yhe organ ???
@@jackeppington6488 ...except that on the '66 tour they had the organ on stage at least in West Germany and Japan but they didn't use it. It does seem to have gone by the North American leg though.
@@jackeppington6488I’ve also just remembered that they didn’t play I’m Down on the US leg, which may be why they didn’t bother with the organ.
We Can Work It Out live?
I like that 63 gig where John was ill and Paul and George did the entire gig off the hoof without him. I bet Paul sang Twist and Shout better than John.
Donc you have a bootleg of that ??
In 1972, when John did the One to One concert he kept his Telecaster guitar on his back while playing keyboards... ua-cam.com/video/PyMhN3pKy34/v-deo.html
To be fair they played THIRTY MINUTE SETS after Ringo joined so PLEASE stop the "it was so grueling" baloney. The hard woodshedding was done with Pete in Hamburg for the years they played 5-6 sets 6 days a week. 🎸
They play 30 minute concerts…not Bruce Springsteen 3 1/2 hour shows.
John playing a strat looks so wrong lol
How was Epstein so obtuse to not have any of this UK tour filmed and recorded? He should have documented every concert from 64 -66. And Never should he have booked concerts in the Philippines when Australia was a much better choice. He also should heave cancelled or never book concerts in Memphis, and played 2 Boston shows in the Garden NOT Suffolk Downs. Dumb moves in hindsight. It has also been said these were their BEST Live shows since "Beatlemainia" began. Excellent Video!
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I'd love a video of you talking about these white whales, that'd be cool