First Beatle Experience

Now that was a ROCK SHOW!!! 2 1/2 hours of hit songs (with 2 encores) some with a bit of a make over, all for the better and worth every penny. Incredibly tight band backing Sir Paul and heavy on the pyrotechnics on Live & Let Die. Damn, I hope I can do anything other than sleep for 2 1/2 hrs. when I'm 68!

                                                                                            Get Back Loretta,

                                                                                            J Dawg

Very first exposure was listening to Radio Luxembourg on 208m medium wave (funny how that sticks after all these years) in bed at night, under the covers with my little transistor radio, just as they 'happened' in 62-63.

I actually 'saw' (a relative term) them play live at the old D.C stadium before it became the RFK in August '66. They were ant-like figures a mile away from where I sat, but I can still claim to have 'seen' them perform (once). 

That was us last night G Dawg, 3rd deck stadium seats, thank God for giant video screens. Paul mentioned the final tour in '66 and how they couldn't hear themselves play, but he said nowadays we have very loud thingys. For a stadium show the sound was superb, I've been to indoor gigs in acoustically correct venues that didn't sound that good. He got a good laugh out of the crowd when he admitted, we change guitars quite a bit because we have lots of nice ones and we love showing them off. I never knew till last night that Blackbird was written as his feelings on racial unrest in the US south in the '60s, you learn something new everyday. Finally saw a Beatle, another check off on the "bucket list".

                                                                                                         Let It Be,

                                                                                                         J Dawg

I just had MY first Beatle experience a couple weeks ago too... Ringo Starr, at Bethel Woods.  Good seats too... 10th row center.  It was an unexpected invite from my taper friend, when his buddy couldn't make it.  I hadn't looked into Ringo's All Starr Band beforehand... currently Edgar Winter, Rick Derringer, Gary Wright, Richard Page, Wally Palmer and Gregg Bissonette... so that was like an unexpected bonus for me.  The band sounded GREAT, I had a real good time.  If anyone is interested, here's the recording, and there are still currently 37 seeders... of course you need a Dime account, or a friend with one... I don't think he uploaded it anywhere else...
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-deta … ?id=310460

--Vik

This is where I slide quietly in and admit, that being a scouser I didn't see them at the Cavern, but a year or so after they became "famous". They did a tour of the Uk and played the Odeon cinema in Southport, about 25 miles North of Liverpool. I went with a mate. To be honest we couldn't hear a thing for girls screaming at the top of their voices. That wasn't the only thing, they had to clean and disinfect the theatre seats after the show I'm told?????? Far from enjoyable, they just had little amps on stage, no PA, they didn't stand a chance.

As an aside, I had it pointed out to me the other day that my first evergig to see Sonny Boy Williamson at the Cavern in 1964 wasn't the only first I had that night. I hadn't realised that he was backed by none other than the Yardbirds with a 19 year old EC on guitar - Well how the hell was I to know!!!!!????

Never seen the fab four live but remember vividly going to Bournemouth to see the screening of Hard Day's Night with my mum and a cousin.  Dunno why they invited me as I must have only been about 6 but I remember seeing the queues of girls snaking outside the cinema and up a side passage, and all through the film the screaming was SO loud you couldn't hear the film.  For some reason I remember thinking that I should scream too, even though at that age of course I didn't realise why the other girls were doing it!

I'm sure I'm like most people my age, I heard them on the radio. But I really didn't get into them until college. That's when I finally "got it."

Spin the bottle...1964.