Post by henryj on Nov 11, 2013 21:14:29 GMT
Well, I got to see the Beatles live. Geezer that I am, I saw the Beatles perform in Memphis, TN on August 19, 1966. Mid-South Coliseum. Their part of the show lasted about 30 minutes.
Official set list:
Rock and Roll Music
She’s a Woman
If I Needed Someone
Day Tripper
Baby’s in Black
I Feel Fine
Yesterday (performed as a band!)
I Wanna Be Your Man
Nowhere Man
Paperback Writer
Long Tall Sally
Opening Acts:
Fashion Show
Remains
The Ronnettes (backed by the Remains. Not exactly a Phil Spector wall of sound.)
Bobby Hebb
The Cyrcle
I found the fashion show somewhat boring. Though I had heard of the Remains, I had never heard them on the radio nor seen their records in stores,
and 1 have not since.
Equipment:
John and George had begun playing brown sunburst Epiphone Casinos. John had not yet removed either the finish or the pickguard from his Casino. Paul was still playing his Hofner bass, despite having been photographed with his Rickenbacker. They played through the big Vox Super Beatle amps (the American versions of the AC-100, if I understand correctly). Don’t know about the PA system. George played a Ric 360-12 new style, not the old style such as he had played in A Hard Days’ Night, on his song “If I Needed Someone.”
Before the Beatles came on, an announcer said that anyone seen taking pictures would be removed from the Coliseum and their camera confiscated. We saw a number of girls seen carried off crying by security guards carrying the confiscated cameras.
You could hear the Beatles singing over the girls screaming. Barely. One cool thing about the Beatles’ live performances was the fact that they did not go near a mike unless they were actually singing. When Paul started singing “She’s A Woman,” the mike was dead, and you could not hear him at all, so he calmly strolled over to the mike John was supposed to sing into.
John was wearing rose-tinted steel-rimmed glasses. I had never seen him wearing glasses before.
This was the afternoon show that we saw. Reportedly, at the evening performance, someone threw a firecracker on the stage, making a gunshot-like sound. When John did not hit the floor, the Beatles continued playing. This was not long after John’s “more popular than Jesus” comment.
Another 10 days and their touring days would be be over.
Official set list:
Rock and Roll Music
She’s a Woman
If I Needed Someone
Day Tripper
Baby’s in Black
I Feel Fine
Yesterday (performed as a band!)
I Wanna Be Your Man
Nowhere Man
Paperback Writer
Long Tall Sally
Opening Acts:
Fashion Show
Remains
The Ronnettes (backed by the Remains. Not exactly a Phil Spector wall of sound.)
Bobby Hebb
The Cyrcle
I found the fashion show somewhat boring. Though I had heard of the Remains, I had never heard them on the radio nor seen their records in stores,
and 1 have not since.
Equipment:
John and George had begun playing brown sunburst Epiphone Casinos. John had not yet removed either the finish or the pickguard from his Casino. Paul was still playing his Hofner bass, despite having been photographed with his Rickenbacker. They played through the big Vox Super Beatle amps (the American versions of the AC-100, if I understand correctly). Don’t know about the PA system. George played a Ric 360-12 new style, not the old style such as he had played in A Hard Days’ Night, on his song “If I Needed Someone.”
Before the Beatles came on, an announcer said that anyone seen taking pictures would be removed from the Coliseum and their camera confiscated. We saw a number of girls seen carried off crying by security guards carrying the confiscated cameras.
You could hear the Beatles singing over the girls screaming. Barely. One cool thing about the Beatles’ live performances was the fact that they did not go near a mike unless they were actually singing. When Paul started singing “She’s A Woman,” the mike was dead, and you could not hear him at all, so he calmly strolled over to the mike John was supposed to sing into.
John was wearing rose-tinted steel-rimmed glasses. I had never seen him wearing glasses before.
This was the afternoon show that we saw. Reportedly, at the evening performance, someone threw a firecracker on the stage, making a gunshot-like sound. When John did not hit the floor, the Beatles continued playing. This was not long after John’s “more popular than Jesus” comment.
Another 10 days and their touring days would be be over.