Yes, John gave 100% to his Beatles career. In the 1970's he was bitter about the Beatles. I was glad though that it seemed that he came to terms with the Beatles in his last interviews of 1980.
They all got what amounted to ‘basic training’ while playing at some really rough clubs in Hamburg, Germany before coming to America. They got good musically and learned how to put on a show!
It was the surprise...hearing new sounds...new lyrical content...it just knocked me out. And they were so funny! So smart. Not like the surly 50s rocker before them end and not like the rock stars after them. They sent everything up! So great.
What a great time it was to be 6 years old and have my mind blown and my life changed forever. Became a guitar player like so many others. Own a guitar shop. Play in bands on weekends. Blame it all on the Beatles.
Someone should write a book that documents all of the kids who got into pop music directly because of the The Beatles. Two prominent ones are Davy Jones and Phil Collins. Every time I hear someone say that some other band than the Beatles is the best band in history, I inform them that pop music as we've known for the last half-century wouldn't have existed if not for the Beatles.
except for the guitar shop, ditto for me. Ed Sullivan Feb '64. game changer. I've probably bought/owned/sold owned enough guitars to start a shop over the years, but that doesn't really count.
This is so good it's staggering. As a band their flawless. Ringo Starr in particular is unbelievable. This is even a pretty decent recording given the lack of Technology of that day. Damn these guys could play for real
The Beatles at the very least redefined Rock n Roll but more likely reinvented it. Not only were they exceptionally musically talented but also great live performers as well. By 1963 they were already seasoned veterans for live stage performances. In this earlier 60's era they were having a blast (lots of fun) on stage and totally in their element.
Amazing! The best band ever! Hearing John's melismas on 'Twist and Shout' is breathtaking! Gives me chills to this day...Paul's vocals are always great, but John had so much soul and power! Ir's rare now but we always called that 'emotional conviction'. ❤❤❤
They were the one and only who changed the world The Fab Four The Beatles will be forever loved all those years ago. As the stars fade one by one they will always be our star the long and winding road and they made a film start out of them and John Lennon brought us all together and George gave us something to think about her...Thank you mates for bringing us Love love love from me to you...god bless
You are very right. When we compare their singing here with the 1966 Budokan Japan performances, where they really singing out of key, it's obvious they want spent more time in the studio. The whole 1966 tour was a disaster anyway, with the kicking out of the Phillippines as dramatic highlight.
@@paulbakker6765 I dare say that's not about Paul. He's still committed as hell to his work. All that happened when John cooled down and got quite uninterested.
Thing is, as they became famous they played on bigger venues bigger noiser crowds with sound system that couldn't keep up cause nobody has ever seen such hysteria the Beatles created, by 1966 they were going through the motions during their last tour, they released Revolver some of their songs already evolved from pop to psychedelic so it was a combination of all that stuff, they did better at the 2nd japan show though.
Great to hear them raw, this early, without the clean studio sound. You get to hear more of what Ringo was doing. Man, his playing was really original and unique and hard to emulate. Way ahead of this, as they all were. Thanks for the post.
Patrik Arthur Tony Sheridan had the Beatles HIS back up Band.. Sheridan did my Bonnie lies over the Ocean. Was in 63. THAT the first time I heard the Beatles. So what the excitement about.. I saw the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show. Cool the screaming girls SHUT UP Dingbats let's hear what these guys are singing. Yeah Yeah Yeah.
Beatlemania was occurring in the Liverpool region in 1962 before it went national and then worldwide. That Beatles sound that resulted in that Beatlemania was a sound that included the drumming of one Pete Best.
what another stunning performance full of energy, love of what they did and just before America and the world. the recording may be primitive, poor vocal-instrument balance, but hell - wow! and when John does the middle section of This Boy, wow again!
My band has been playing outside b/c of COVID, under our bassist’s car port. We did Roll Over Beethoven a couple weeks ago, with me singing. His house backs up to a walking path and this guy cheered for us after we were done! I was proud and felt like I did a little tribute to this awesome song - to both George and Chuck Berry (who has the same birthday as me). :) My guitar is almost the same as George’s Gretsch Duo Jet (only difference is I don’t have a Bigsby on it).
I was there too! I saw them 3 or 4 times at the Empire, and that time when they were on the Town Hall balcony with the Lord Mayor, receiving the key to the city or something. What a time to be a teenager living in Liverpool! Looking back I realize what a blessing it was, like being at the centre of the universe. I was 15 at this concert too.
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@@ohio9900 Memories that lived with you for all your life! !Thank you for sharing!!
They were such a tight band.Solid,economical drumming,tremendous,unique bass and great guitar work.Totally underrated as a live band,it's a real shame they got tired of it after only a few years due to the noise of the crowd.
How is it when you have a band playing like this with crappy sound recording, crappy PA system, the audience constantly screaming over the music and playing 55 year old songs they still sound like the greatest band ever.
I know these were great and classic amplifiers. I meant crappy amplifiers in as much as they did not have enough of them to have a great PA sound system for the size of the venues they played. Just look at how bare the stage is of sound equipment, can you imagine anyone these days playing that size venue with 30 watt amps. So maybe I should have said crappy PA system.
Inadequate PA systems, no question. People routinely play 5k seat halls and larger with amps such as these, owing to today's superior PA systems. The powerful Vox AC-30 was plenty enough in '63, even in front of 600 screaming girls, but the PA systems of the day couldn't do it. The Beatles performed at Atlanta's Fulton Co. Stadium some 18 months after this show and apparently heard themselves for the first time in a large venue! They had a fantastic PA system, it seems. It's on UA-cam, btw.
A tight band ,young George is on his game,just great! I learn't to play the guitar well enough because pf this band and just wanted to have a band, never got quite the skill or anykind of fame but enjoyed doing our best as school boys 63---66 and of course we could get some of the gear they had at that time (expensive) but not to high tech in those days. Just great to hear this live performance recording just as is.
Wow, this concert performed on my birthdate, i turned three that day and two months form that time i became a Beatles fan!! Thanks for sharing Doctor Robert,,, greetings from Buena Park, CA. USA!!
Thanks for posting !! A rare gem, warts and all. George's cover of Chuck Berry's 'Roll Over Beethoven' is my all-time favorite version. (No. 2 would be Berry's original.) But man, do they play it fast here (the adrenaline at work).
Only regret is not seeing the Beatles, “back in the day”. Have seen McCartney 4 times including Candlestick park and have seen Ringo’s All Star Band twice, all great shows. This is truly how it was live without a great PA and with fans screaming, truly a classic gig!! Ha ha, whoever did the mix on the PA should have been fired! Ringo had an almost dead mic on, Boys!
Nobody had to deal with think kind of sound amplification nightmare before this,, Elvis and Sinatra yes, but they did not need three mics (or more) , Elvis and Frank could just have one mic , cutting down the amount headache, feedback etc.
Just think, "This Boy" was relegated to the B side of a single. How many groups would kill to have one song as good as "This Boy" in their entire carers?
And then they went and did the same with "Rain". They were/are light years ahead of the rest and it's not fair to compare them. It wasn't effortless with The Beatles (just listen to the rehearsal bootlegs from any of their albums) but they made it seem so
@@WhiteCamry Actually, Babe was their big number one hit and the album went triple-platinum. After that, Paradise Theater was a number one album, Kilroy Was Here another huge album. So it certainly didn't destroy their career as they went on to have several successful albums afterwards.
..And on the 8th day, God made You Tube. Cos for Beatle fanatics like me, how else would I experience such visceral raw emotion rip through me when I hear them. They were always in my conscience until I saw the film Backbeat in '93; I was 16. Thats when my obsession exploded. And Im not alone. I picked up the Bass and dabbled in Paul's sublime basslines. Still got 200 to learn.... We'll never ever see another phenomenon like The Beatles. Or maybe there will be. Like John said in an interview in 74, the next big band phenomenon will be playing fizzygogs and zappledangs... This is what 8hrs a day in Hamburg nurtured, combined with ferocious natural talent, humour, pain, drive, courage et al. And here we see them in front of their home crowd. All at ease. Like a posher evening at The Cavern... (which is where I met my Brasilian wife btw in 2013.. but thats another story). .. John is very funny: '..this ones from The Muscle Man sung by Peggy Legg..'.. and '.. the next number is a special one that we only do every night..'😂 I love it so much it makes me weep with total happiness. Thank you for posting this.
They sound great in these early live show recordings, I think because shows like this one were very much like their Cavern shows, same sort of club atmosphere, especially this show in Liverpool was like playing to their Cavern fans, which were probably all there.
The reason they sound 'great' is simply because they were already veterans at live performance since their Hamburg gigs beginning 1960. They clocked up more stage hours than ANY other rock & roll ('beat group' of the day) act literally in the world, America included. So this performance is not unusual for The Beatles. It simply is what they did so well. Primitive live recording of the day meant the balance between instruments and vocals is not good, but nonetheless the energy & their spot on vocals are pure dream to listen to in 2017. This is THE BEATLES BEING THE BEATLES and WOW !! And isn't John in fine form with his wit, just John being John. Beautiful !!
December 7, 1969, just 6 short years later, John had already left the Beatles and the Altimont Free Concert had just happened the day before. The 60s were short but sweet.
As far as "turning on the drum mic" goes......this recording is actually a very proper balance, with the drums where they belong, back with the instruments. It's the goddam VOCALS that are important, not the damn drums! You can hear Ringo and his fabulous playing just fine on this recording, which is pretty fucking amazing considering the equipment and where it was done. I can hear every instrument perfectly.
It's Ringo's vocal Mic on "Boys" where is is singing lead that is mostly missing. It's a great Karaoke version as is. I agree the drums are a good mix with the instruments for a 1963 recording.
For the Beatles, "raw" is way beyond "raw" is for everyone else. The recording studio and it's polish doesn't count here. These guys were already polished. What made them sound "raw" sounding was no monitors, and they couldn't hear a damn thing they were singing or playing with all that screaming. .Get them live on a radio program and you hear something not so "raw." the microphones do NOT pick up the real sheer volume of the screaming THEY hear AT them. think about it...the mics are pointing toward them, not at audiences.
Terry it s really true what you said about them! I have already remarked that if they weren’t exist we should have to invent them! Signed Philippe Guedj from Mazkeret Batya Israël
The opening drum vamp was obviously over the opening titles. Even though the BEEB managed to lose all but the last 9 minutes or so of the visuals of this show , there is no other reason for that vamp. The long vamp at the end was time filler over the end credits for the broadcast and still exist visually. YT postings elsewhere of the end vamp sometimes credit a segue' into " The Third Man" as a " new, rare" song for them. Sorry, it's just them "larkin' aboot" for their homies.......... This is almost same show they brought to USA's Washington Coliseum and Carnegie Hall on 2/11/64 and 2/12/64 with the addition of "I Wanna Be Your Man" which, by that time Bongo decided to learn.. Here, it is essentially a record release party for "With The Beatles", released in the UK on 11/22/63. Played before 3000 plus fan club members at the Liverpool Empire, this was their largest audience to that point. Some of the John and George spoken intros as heard here date to the Cavern days for the home crowd. With Beatlemania at full speed in the UK, it was a no-brainer by the BBC to broadcast the show. Some songs here, notably " This Boy" are played somewhat tentatively due to their relative newness. At the point in "I Want To Hold Your Hand" where the sound brightens, that coincides with the beginning of the remaining video footage. They would appear in Liverpool only once more as part of the Northern premiere of "A Hard Days Night" in July 1964.
I was a kid when "From Me To You" hit the airwaves in LA summer '63.A summer with many great hits competing for the airwaves ie. Ronnettes "Be My Baby". "Little" Stevie Wonder "Fingertips 1 and 2. Bob Dylan "Freewheelin". Beach Boys "Surfer Girl" etc. etc. And then "From Me To You" was played. I thought for sure it was a number 1 hit. But we had to wait a few months more to Feb. 64 Ed Sullivan Show. Overnight America was snapped out of the grief of the Kennedy assassination. America should erect a statue to the Beatles for that on Mount Rushmore..
Funny now to hear "the 'B-side' of our latest record...!" Not only that, but it would seem that most, if not all, of their singles were true "Double A-sided" singles.....😎
They were still singing Twist and Shout in the Hollywood Bowl album that came out earlier this year. Would have love to have had This Boy added to the mix, however.
There is a video of this performance on the Internet. As they are playing the "From Me... Reprise," the curtain comes across and other people (??) come on stage, etc. Great rendition of that song, I always felt! George's country-rock comes out here!
I saw her standing there was the essence of the early Beatles. Great Harmony between John and Paul, Great guitar work by George and tight drumming from Ringo. The lyrics (my opinion) as in all early Beatles work were trivial, but the combo of all the individuals was sensational. What a sound.
This is a recording of a real band who could sing in key (NO autotune), play their own instruments, AND write their own songs. Although they covered many great songs that inspired them during their career. Current music isn't even music. Producers who use every studio trick possible to make "vocalists" who can't sing a note on key sound passable. Passable -- not even good -- much less great or memorable.
Lennon's triplets on All My Loving is still one of the greatest rhythm guitar performances ever.
THE GREATEST BAND OF ALL TIME PERIOD.
John in 63' was just KILLIN' it. Amazing singing.
Yes, John gave 100% to his Beatles career. In the 1970's he was bitter about the Beatles. I was glad though that it seemed that he came to terms with the Beatles in his last interviews of 1980.
Yeah no acid, drugs and Yoko. Ok just kidding.
@@Solidude No, you're right.
They all got what amounted to ‘basic training’ while playing at some really rough clubs in Hamburg, Germany before coming to America. They got good musically and learned how to put on a show!
@@Solidude No, kidding. Truth. No insane Primal Scream therapy which as George says (shuddinger as he says it) damaged his voice. Forever.
Paul's bass on Boys is coming through loud and clear! Love it!
Unfortunately, Ringo's voice isn't.
I was born in 1984. I so wish I could have seen the Beatles, bought Beatle albums when they were brand new. Just the most amazing band ever.
It was the surprise...hearing new sounds...new lyrical content...it just knocked me out. And they were so funny! So smart. Not like the surly 50s rocker before them end and not like the rock stars after them. They sent everything up! So great.
@@glawnow1959 Did you know how special they truly were when it was happening in real time?
I will alwz say....u can't explain ...Beatlemania....u had 2 b there....the same w ...the 60s...u had 2 b there✌️✌️😍😘
There will never be another Beatles
The best of the best ,I'll always missed the Beatles
What a great time it was to be 6 years old and have my mind blown and my life changed forever. Became a guitar player like so many others. Own a guitar shop. Play in bands on weekends. Blame it all on the Beatles.
Someone should write a book that documents all of the kids who got into pop music directly because of the The Beatles. Two prominent ones are Davy Jones and Phil Collins. Every time I hear someone say that some other band than the Beatles is the best band in history, I inform them that pop music as we've known for the last half-century wouldn't have existed if not for the Beatles.
except for the guitar shop, ditto for me. Ed Sullivan Feb '64. game changer. I've probably bought/owned/sold owned enough guitars to start a shop over the years, but that doesn't really count.
And The Beatles were inspired first by Lonnie Donegan and later by Elvis. Paul McCartney was a great Elvis fan.
They really went all out for Liverpool. Ringo sounds phenomenal
This is so good it's staggering. As a band their flawless. Ringo Starr in particular is unbelievable. This is even a pretty decent recording given the lack of Technology of that day. Damn these guys could play for real
I like being able to hear John's harmony parts more clearly
JL vocals are mind blowing. I was 2 yr old when this happened!
The Beatles at the very least redefined Rock n Roll but more likely reinvented it. Not only were they exceptionally musically talented but also great live performers as well. By 1963 they were already seasoned veterans for live stage performances. In this earlier 60's era they were having a blast (lots of fun) on stage and totally in their element.
They just sang with such fervor. Really putting their heart and soul into it.
Amazing! The best band ever! Hearing John's melismas on 'Twist and Shout' is breathtaking! Gives me chills to this day...Paul's vocals are always great, but John had so much soul and power! Ir's rare now but we always called that 'emotional conviction'. ❤❤❤
"Roll Over Beethoven"! They were on fire!
They were the one and only who changed the world The Fab Four The Beatles will be forever loved all those years ago. As the stars fade one by one they will always be our star the long and winding road and they made a film start out of them and John Lennon brought us all together and George gave us something to think about her...Thank you mates for bringing us Love love love from me to you...god bless
you can tell they were still hungry here, and it shows ....they're so on fire here
You are very right. When we compare their singing here with the 1966 Budokan Japan performances, where they really singing out of key, it's obvious they want spent more time in the studio. The whole 1966 tour was a disaster anyway, with the kicking out of the Phillippines as dramatic highlight.
@@paulbakker6765 I dare say that's not about Paul. He's still committed as hell to his work. All that happened when John cooled down and got quite uninterested.
Thing is, as they became famous they played on bigger venues bigger noiser crowds with sound system that couldn't keep up cause nobody has ever seen such hysteria the Beatles created, by 1966 they were going through the motions during their last tour, they released Revolver some of their songs already evolved from pop to psychedelic so it was a combination of all that stuff, they did better at the 2nd japan show though.
John's 1/16th note rhythm in "All My Lovin'" is still remarkable and was never repeated by him or anyone else. They were kissed by the gods.
*triplet rhythm
@@jk4675 Yes. It's a quarter-note triplet rhythm, not that he knew or cared what the hell it was called.
Fantástico los Beatles gracias gracias
The primal excitement these guys generated was gold.
Great to hear them raw, this early, without the clean studio sound. You get to hear more of what Ringo was doing. Man, his playing was really original and unique and hard to emulate. Way ahead of this, as they all were. Thanks for the post.
George sounds great, better than credited
that may be true.the problem is you have to endure rush
john - to enjoy peart you have to endure rush.
what,i have to like rush?
again,my point is in order to listen to peart play I must sit through rush.you are right about neil peart being a great drummer though.
The Beatles offering a grand performance in their hometown.
Ringo is the best, I think without him, the beatles would sound absolutely different. It has the beat that characterizes the group.
Patrik Arthur Tony Sheridan had the Beatles HIS back up Band.. Sheridan did my Bonnie lies over the Ocean. Was in 63. THAT the first time I heard the Beatles. So what the excitement about.. I saw the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show. Cool the screaming girls SHUT UP Dingbats let's hear what these guys are singing. Yeah Yeah Yeah.
Michael Quarry lol
Without ANY one of them---A FLOP! It took FOUR to "Score"!
Beatlemania was occurring in the Liverpool region in 1962 before it went national and then worldwide. That Beatles sound that resulted in that Beatlemania was a sound that included the drumming of one Pete Best.
Yes. Ringo was awesome!
was there in 1963 - cilla black, gerry and pacemakers and lots of others - was fabulous
what another stunning performance full of energy, love of what they did and just before America and the world. the recording may be primitive, poor vocal-instrument balance, but hell - wow! and when John does the middle section of This Boy, wow again!
My band has been playing outside b/c of COVID, under our bassist’s car port. We did Roll Over Beethoven a couple weeks ago, with me singing. His house backs up to a walking path and this guy cheered for us after we were done! I was proud and felt like I did a little tribute to this awesome song - to both George and Chuck Berry (who has the same birthday as me). :) My guitar is almost the same as George’s Gretsch Duo Jet (only difference is I don’t have a Bigsby on it).
That is super cool! It's great that you're still able to play music with your bandmates and have fun, take care! :)
I was there aged 15 or was fabulous
I was there too! I saw them 3 or 4 times at the Empire, and that time when they were on the Town Hall balcony with the Lord Mayor, receiving the key to the city or something. What a time to be a teenager living in Liverpool! Looking back I realize what a blessing it was, like being at the centre of the universe. I was 15 at this concert too.
@@ohio9900 Memories that lived with you for all your life! !Thank you for sharing!!
Lucky you got to see them before they became international stars
They were such a tight band.Solid,economical drumming,tremendous,unique bass and great guitar work.Totally underrated as a live band,it's a real shame they got tired of it after only a few years due to the noise of the crowd.
Not to mention the crazy timetables Brian got them into!
@@RiXFortuna BUT those schedules gave us regular people the best group ever 🌹💖🌉
Girls screaming is definitely not the reason they stopped playing live , that doesn’t make any sense.
They were a good live band, but was outclassed by The Who at the end
That's not the real reason. George said, in an interview that something happened at the end of 1966 that changed everything.
Simply outstanding
It's fascinating to hear them perform a reprise at the end of the show.
Flawless walking bass playing on "all my loving" while Paul is singing.
and also on boys. Very rare in a beatles live recording to hear the bass that clearly.
Love George's intro to Roll Over Beethoven.
How is it when you have a band playing like this with crappy sound recording, crappy PA system, the audience constantly screaming over the music and playing 55 year old songs they still sound like the greatest band ever.
Crappy amps? The Vox AC-30 is rated right up there with the Marshall JTM-45 and Fender Twin Reverb as for being a "classic" tube amp.
I know these were great and classic amplifiers. I meant crappy amplifiers in as much as they did not have enough of them to have a great PA sound system for the size of the venues they played. Just look at how bare the stage is of sound equipment, can you imagine anyone these days playing that size venue with 30 watt amps. So maybe I should have said crappy PA system.
Inadequate PA systems, no question. People routinely play 5k seat halls and larger with amps such as these, owing to today's superior PA systems. The powerful Vox AC-30 was plenty enough in '63, even in front of 600 screaming girls, but the PA systems of the day couldn't do it. The Beatles performed at Atlanta's Fulton Co. Stadium some 18 months after this show and apparently heard themselves for the first time in a large venue! They had a fantastic PA system, it seems. It's on UA-cam, btw.
because everybody suppose this band was a bullshit and use waste instruments for record and they mistake again
Terry Riley I know, so true. It says a lot about their unmitigated excellence! No one will ever match them..😓
The Beatles definitely at their Peak as a live band
That intro!
A tight band ,young George is on his game,just great! I learn't to play the guitar well enough because pf this band and just wanted to have a band, never got quite the skill or anykind of fame but enjoyed doing our best as school boys 63---66 and of course we could get some of the gear they had at that time (expensive) but not to high tech in those days. Just great to hear this live performance recording just as is.
Wow, this concert performed on my birthdate, i turned three that day and two months form that time i became a Beatles fan!! Thanks for sharing Doctor Robert,,, greetings from Buena Park, CA. USA!!
Thanks for posting !! A rare gem, warts and all. George's cover of Chuck Berry's 'Roll Over Beethoven' is my all-time favorite version. (No. 2 would be Berry's original.) But man, do they play it fast here (the adrenaline at work).
Maybe the preludin at work.
Fast...fast...fast.
just put me in a time machine, fantastic -- shake it up baby, woo-oo
Some wicked Lennon guitar on "All My Loving." I still never come across anyone playing that rapid strum.
THAT BASS!
Damn...Great Ringo!!!! From me to you with third man version is an amazing Ringo's performance
Only regret is not seeing the Beatles, “back in the day”. Have seen McCartney 4 times including Candlestick park and have seen Ringo’s All Star Band twice, all great shows. This is truly how it was live without a great PA and with fans screaming, truly a classic gig!! Ha ha, whoever did the mix on the PA should have been fired! Ringo had an almost dead mic on, Boys!
Nobody had to deal with think kind of sound amplification nightmare before this,, Elvis and Sinatra yes, but they did not need three mics (or more) , Elvis and Frank could just have one mic , cutting down the amount headache, feedback etc.
You mean saw him in '66?
Me encanta el sonido en directo! con los fallos de sonido, los micros, como sobresale la segunda voz que hace John, le dá frescura y autenticidad!
Tienes razón se escucha clarita la voz de Jhon.
Bummer about the bloody mic during 'Boys' the only upside to this is that you can hear Paul's immaculate bass perfectly!
Just think, "This Boy" was relegated to the B side of a single. How many groups would kill to have one song as good as "This Boy" in their entire carers?
John's solo in the middle was so good that in one of the Ed Sullivan videos Paul and George backed off smiling like "watch this."
I would be happy to hear a contemporary group with a singer who could sing the bridge in "This Boy" as well as John Lennon.
And then they went and did the same with "Rain". They were/are light years ahead of the rest and it's not fair to compare them. It wasn't effortless with The Beatles (just listen to the rehearsal bootlegs from any of their albums) but they made it seem so
OTOH, Styx had "Babe, I Love You" and that destroyed their career.
Just sayin'.
@@WhiteCamry Actually, Babe was their big number one hit and the album went triple-platinum. After that, Paradise Theater was a number one album, Kilroy Was Here another huge album. So it certainly didn't destroy their career as they went on to have several successful albums afterwards.
They was fab.
OMG 😱 this is epic!!! Pure music of the fav 4
..And on the 8th day, God made You Tube. Cos for Beatle fanatics like me, how else would I experience such visceral raw emotion rip through me when I hear them. They were always in my conscience until I saw the film Backbeat in '93; I was 16. Thats when my obsession exploded. And Im not alone. I picked up the Bass and dabbled in Paul's sublime basslines. Still got 200 to learn....
We'll never ever see another phenomenon like The Beatles. Or maybe there will be. Like John said in an interview in 74, the next big band phenomenon will be playing fizzygogs and zappledangs...
This is what 8hrs a day in Hamburg nurtured, combined with ferocious natural talent, humour, pain, drive, courage et al.
And here we see them in front of their home crowd. All at ease. Like a posher evening at The Cavern... (which is where I met my Brasilian wife btw in 2013.. but thats another story). ..
John is very funny: '..this ones from The Muscle Man sung by Peggy Legg..'.. and '.. the next number is a special one that we only do every night..'😂
I love it so much it makes me weep with total happiness.
Thank you for posting this.
This recording clearly shows that "the boys" where on their job and did not "phone it in". Paul on bass is outstanding
Quando vc consegue escutar com o coração a musica muda de dimensão 😊😊😊 Marcio de Matos
Great Stuff. Too bad no one had the foresight to record their 1965 UK tour! Rumored to be some of their best live shows.
Really a shame! Only photos and very little footage of the Hammersmith Odeon has surfaced but no audio.
Super fun !!!!
Love the screwing around at the end.
This is a classic
They sound great in these early live show recordings, I think because shows like this one were very much like their Cavern shows, same sort of club atmosphere, especially this show in Liverpool was like playing to their Cavern fans, which were probably all there.
The reason they sound 'great' is simply because they were already veterans at live performance since their Hamburg gigs beginning 1960. They clocked up more stage hours than ANY other rock & roll ('beat group' of the day) act literally in the world, America included. So this performance is not unusual for The Beatles. It simply is what they did so well. Primitive live recording of the day meant the balance between instruments and vocals is not good, but nonetheless the energy & their spot on vocals are pure dream to listen to in 2017. This is THE BEATLES BEING THE BEATLES and WOW !! And isn't John in fine form with his wit, just John being John. Beautiful !!
If anyone wonders why this still is the best group ever. Now, here's your chance to start listen! No.1 Sound.
Sadly Ringo's microphone is on vacation.
Gotta love that drum intro
great stuff & what a cool pic!
so cool to hear ringo doing a solo on from me to you
Ringo actually hated drum solos, and was disinclined to do one...
Just when I thought I'd heard every Beatles tape, record ,cd, video. Yea, if they cleaned this up it would be awesome.
I`m in love with them *-*
Fantastic, simply fantastic.
December 7, 1969, just 6 short years later, John had already left the Beatles and the Altimont Free Concert had just happened the day before. The 60s were short but sweet.
Been looking for a decent version of this concert since the Bootleg Youngblood came out in the early 80s. Thx !
As far as "turning on the drum mic" goes......this recording is actually a very proper balance, with the drums where they belong, back with the instruments. It's the goddam VOCALS that are important, not the damn drums! You can hear Ringo and his fabulous playing just fine on this recording, which is pretty fucking amazing considering the equipment and where it was done. I can hear every instrument perfectly.
It's Ringo's vocal Mic on "Boys" where is is singing lead that is mostly missing. It's a great Karaoke version as is. I agree the drums are a good mix with the instruments for a 1963 recording.
Nobody mic'd drums in the early 60s anyway (look at period photos). That was later on.
Yes, and I remember how John and Paul had to correct their mike's while they were singing.
For the Beatles, "raw" is way beyond "raw" is for everyone else. The recording studio and it's polish doesn't count here. These guys were already polished. What made them sound "raw" sounding was no monitors, and they couldn't hear a damn thing they were singing or playing with all that screaming. .Get them live on a radio program and you hear something not so "raw." the microphones do NOT pick up the real sheer volume of the screaming THEY hear AT them. think about it...the mics are pointing toward them, not at audiences.
Terry it s really true what you said about them!
I have already remarked that if they weren’t exist we should have to invent them!
Signed Philippe Guedj from Mazkeret Batya Israël
This is what George was talking about in his song "When We Was Fab" !!
Ringo's riser brings to mind a blue tweed Bassman.
The opening drum vamp was obviously over the opening titles. Even though the BEEB managed to lose all but the last 9 minutes or so of the visuals of this show , there is no other reason for that vamp.
The long vamp at the end was time filler over the end credits for the broadcast and still exist visually.
YT postings elsewhere of the end vamp sometimes credit a segue' into " The Third Man" as a " new, rare" song for them.
Sorry, it's just them "larkin' aboot" for their homies..........
This is almost same show they brought to USA's Washington Coliseum and Carnegie Hall on 2/11/64 and 2/12/64 with the addition of
"I Wanna Be Your Man" which, by that time Bongo decided to learn..
Here, it is essentially a record release party for "With The Beatles", released in the UK on 11/22/63.
Played before 3000 plus fan club members at the Liverpool Empire, this was their largest audience to that point. Some of the John and George spoken intros as heard here date to the Cavern days for the home crowd.
With Beatlemania at full speed in the UK, it was a no-brainer by the BBC to broadcast the show.
Some songs here, notably " This Boy" are played somewhat tentatively due to their relative newness.
At the point in "I Want To Hold Your Hand" where the sound brightens, that coincides with the beginning of the remaining video footage.
They would appear in Liverpool only once more as part of the Northern premiere of "A Hard Days Night" in July 1964.
I was a kid when "From Me To You" hit the airwaves in LA summer '63.A summer with many great hits competing for the airwaves ie. Ronnettes "Be My Baby". "Little" Stevie Wonder "Fingertips 1 and 2. Bob Dylan "Freewheelin". Beach Boys "Surfer Girl" etc. etc. And then "From Me To You" was played. I thought for sure it was a number 1 hit. But we had to wait a few months more to Feb. 64 Ed Sullivan Show. Overnight America was snapped out of the grief of the Kennedy assassination. America should erect a statue to the Beatles for that on Mount Rushmore..
Love the drums Intro
The drum intro sounds like If You Got Trouble.
Enrico Sanchez Ha ha ha...
Devo should have done that song.
La voz de George cantando This Boy, quedó encima de las de Paul y John... una rareza...
Funny now to hear "the 'B-side' of our latest record...!"
Not only that, but it would seem that most, if not all, of their singles were true "Double A-sided" singles.....😎
THIS BLOW AWAY MY YOUNGBLOOD BOOTLEG WAY DON'T THEY PUT THIS MUSIC OUT
They were still singing Twist and Shout in the Hollywood Bowl album that came out earlier this year. Would have love to have had This Boy added to the mix, however.
This is great to hear.
There is a video of this performance on the Internet. As they are playing the "From Me... Reprise," the curtain comes across and other people (??) come on stage, etc. Great rendition of that song, I always felt! George's country-rock comes out here!
Rick Kartis Can u please provide a link to the video of this? It’s gotta be rare!
muito bom adorei nunca tinha ouvido
Fantastic talents unlike most of the tin idols of today.
hahaha! I initially read that as 'unlike most of the idiots today' - both work for me ;)
"Most?"...how about "all?"...
@@beatlejim64 There's always exceptions to the rule... even if it takes listening to music in other languages to find them.
so far (only on second song, their on fire and JL is really on fire)!
Now the Beatles are the first jam band as well because of that thing they did at the end.
I saw her standing there was the essence of the early Beatles. Great Harmony between John and Paul, Great guitar work by George and tight drumming from Ringo. The lyrics (my opinion) as in all early Beatles work were trivial, but the combo of all the individuals was sensational. What a sound.
better harmony between george and paul on "all my hatin'".
nonrepublicrat. You got that right! Sometimes George sang the second verse by himself, and that still sounded better than this version.
Les Nagy --%
a very complete setlist for a 30 minute show.
Just over 5 years later they were recording 'Let It Be' ......
Perfect !!!!
The Beatles kicked ass!
Wow
Just before they hit the shores of America for the first time.
McCartney is one of the absolute greatest rock singers ever!
Ringo!!
Turn Ringo's mic on will ya??
nah the bass is better
.....I love the bass in this song......Macca was a wonderful bass-player since then......the rhythm of this song is wonderful......
.....I mean in "Boys".....
Wayne Dent lol
I remember them complaining about the screaming, and I agree. This is so hard to enjoy because of it.
I remember having this on bootleg in the early 80s.
(Not on this video) John: "We'd like to do a song off our latest album or our latest electronic noise, depending on which side you're on."
Wow ive never heard george sing so aggressively before
They did the 'thas boy' at end of song, u know it was hard to not crack up
Massive bass runs in "All My Loving".
This is a recording of a real band who could sing in key (NO autotune), play their own instruments, AND write their own songs. Although they covered many great songs that inspired them during their career. Current music isn't even music. Producers who use every studio trick possible to make "vocalists" who can't sing a note on key sound passable. Passable -- not even good -- much less great or memorable.
James Crow no tech what’s so ever