Posted on 08/25/2016 4:34:02 PM PDT by Mariner
Here's something I find remarkable: There are only three professionally made recordings of The Beatles playing live in concert. Sure, there are bootleg recordings that don't sound very good. And there's a single-microphone recording from the band's days performing in Hamburg in the early '60s, but that's it.
All three professional recordings were done at The Hollywood Bowl. One is a performance from August 1964 and the other two from August of '65. And "professional" in the mid-'60s means they were recorded on three-track analog tape. That's the best they could do. Even the label, Capitol Records, concluded the recordings didn't sound good enough to release. They eventually did, but not until 1977, and even then the album they put out, The Beatles Live At The Hollywood Bowl, sounded just okay.
All that's changed thanks to the remarkable work of Giles Martin, son of the legendary Beatles producer, George Martin. Using new technology, Giles Martin has brought new clarity to the recordings, more presence and reduced the overall roar of the crowd, a sound that was so loud it drowned out much of the band's performance. Give a listen to Martin's reworked version of "A Hard Day's Night."
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Quite an improvement. I well remember buying and listening to the Hollywood Bowl album in 1977, and I was soooo disappointed at the sound quality and all the unbearable shrieking all the time. It gave an idea what the stadium concerts were like but I never even listened to that album again.
I’m glad to have the opportunity to rediscover the material in a better way.
They were on the roof of the Abbey Road studio, I believe. That was for the movie “Let It Be”....
Beatles classic rock ping
I read one of those books on John, I think the one about his last year on earth written by a domestic helper.
Lennon played down his early stuff, saying he just synthesized what was out there for his commercial songs.
Well, their harmonies in spots are very Everly Brothers; singers of Cathy’s Clown, compare that kind of harmony to some of the early Beatles songs. And of course, they were clearly influenced by Elvis, Buddy Holly and Chuck Berry for starters.
It seemed humble for Lennon to say such a thing but maybe there is some truth in it. I mean, the way he said it made it sound like anyone could have done it which they certainly couldn’t.
Speaking of Billy Preston, subbing for Larry Elder yesterday, Mark Davis was talking about Preston for some reason and said Preston was on that roof playing organ when the Beatles played “Get Back”. Davis also said if one finds an original 45 single of “Get Back”, the credits for the song say it is by “The Beatles and Billy Preston”.
You don’t understand Paul at all.
There is nothing leftist about the way Paul lives his life, and few understand money as well as Paul McCartney obviously does.
“Can’t buy me love; everybody tells me so...”
He doesn’t live by what anybody else tells him!
You know that Paul is left handed, right?
“Lefty” has a different connotation than that here.
Did you read post #47? Do you understand what a pun is?
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What you offered was not a pun, it was misdirection.
I wouldn’t paint Lennon so one-dimensionally. Let’s look at a few lines from Revolution:
But when you talk about destruction
Don’t you know that you can count me out
and
But if you want money for people with minds that hate
All I can tell you is brother you have to wait
and
But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao
You ain’t going to make it with anyone anyhow
This was pretty sophisticated for a twenty-something of the era, and doesn’t seem to indicate a hardcore leftist as you say.
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