The Beatles' first US concert

gweimer · April 30, 2012, 07:20:28 PM

I don't know if anyone has seen this, but I thought I'd post it.

http://guitarsquid.com/posts/lost-footage-from-the-beatles-first-u-s-concert-to-appear-in-new-documentary/9484/

clankenstein · April 30, 2012, 10:22:56 PM

far out! that was fun.

hieronymous · May 01, 2012, 12:29:56 AM

Amazing how they turned around on the stage without much help from roadies!

The best part to me though, the music is awesome!

Basvarken · May 01, 2012, 02:09:17 AM

great!

godofthunder · May 01, 2012, 05:51:14 AM

I have seen that before great stuff! to funny watching them rearrange the stage, they do it in remarkable humor. I see stuff like that and I long for the days when all you needed was a 50w amp and a Hofner.

drbassman · May 01, 2012, 07:30:15 AM

Very cool, I really enjoyed it. Not just simple amps and guitars, look at Ringo's kit!!!! I miss those days too. The drummer from my former group must have had 7-8 drums and I don't know how many cymbals. I don't miss helping him set that crap up!!!!

jumbodbassman · May 01, 2012, 08:37:57 AM

GREAT!!!

Barklessdog · May 01, 2012, 01:22:28 PM

They're music still sounds good after all these years. Funny how only one mic was working (or low volume?) and they managed to all three of them sing & play in it so tight.

godofthunder · May 01, 2012, 01:38:15 PM

Can you imagine a pro act putting up with those mic and stage issues today

?? Where was Mal? Axl would have had a aneurysm.

uwe · May 02, 2012, 10:09:21 AM

And remember: They learned all this in Germany.

godofthunder · May 02, 2012, 12:49:55 PM

And don't forget that Paul's Hofner is a product of German engineering.

Basvarken · May 02, 2012, 04:15:45 PM

Don't tell me they weren't a German band!

godofthunder · May 02, 2012, 05:18:10 PM

LMFAO! When The Beatles came back from Hamburg people though they were a German band. That version of I want to Hold Your Hand was done as a thank you to their German fans, recorded in France I believe and appeared on the American lp Something New.

uwe · May 02, 2012, 05:33:50 PM

Admittedly, the contours of the Höfner owed more than a little to the EB model of an American guitar maker whose name is lost in the mists of time.

But the Beatles haircut ("Pilzkopf") is an original all-German design. Much like our Wehrmacht helmets in fact. With just a little debt to French existentialists.

Pilgrim · May 02, 2012, 07:04:09 PM

Quote from: godofthunder on May 02, 2012, 12:49:55 PM
And don't forget that Paul's Hofner is a product of German engineering.

That's why the intonation was off, and he finally had it corrected a few years ago, right?