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murphy12
Salmon
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Posted: 10/31/2009 12:30:00 PM
My mum says I saw them on the Sullivan show, but I don't remember it(was only four at the time). A friend of mine here is a spry 60-something lady from Birmingham. She remembers going by train to Liverpool to the Cavern Club and seeing them there. What a treat to have done that!
Posts: 100 Location: Vermont, USA Registered: 11/11/2008 12:54:00 PM
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WhenTheRainComes
Salmon
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Posted: 10/31/2009 2:47:00 PM
quote: My mum says I saw them on the Sullivan show, but I don't remember it(was only four at the time). A friend of mine here is a spry 60-something lady from Birmingham. She remembers going by train to Liverpool to the Cavern Club and seeing them there. What a treat to have done that!
I'm a rather un-spry 60-year old, and before I take the Dirt Nap, I want to go to Britain to see the WWII aerodromes, and the Cavern Club......there's Holy ground over there on the Emerald Isle....
Posts: 101 Location: The Deep South, USA Registered: 9/16/2009 7:43:00 PM
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buchrob
Barracuda
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Posted: 10/31/2009 7:09:00 PM
Absolutely. At the Montreal forum in 64 or 65.
In those days, they dragged out about 6 opening acts before the Fab 4 did their 30-minute set.
At that point I knew they would never tour gain because the screaming din was so LOUD.
By the way, for the other Scotsmen out there, I paid $8.50 Canadian for my ticket, and the show was NOT sold out, but a great time was had by all.
Posts: 195 Location: Stanstead, QC Registered: 9/28/2008 9:49:00 AM
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997
Trout
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Posted: 11/1/2009 4:30:00 PM
I never saw them - born after they split up - BUT, I worked with a few people in England who did. One of them skipped school went to the concert in uniform and was on the front page in uniform. She said it was just screaming.
A friends mum met them at the Hammersmith Odeon, she was gutted because John Lennon was shorter than her! Got all their autographs though. My art teacher was at the making of A Hard Days Night - the live bits, he wasn't that impressed. Another friend here in Tokyo was lucky enough to be at the Budokan gigs - he said the sound was OK - could here everything, the screaming was only really between songs!
Posts: 72 Location: Tokyo Registered: 1/27/2006
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MapleRick
Byrdie
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Posted: 11/1/2009 5:06:00 PM
Nope - never saw them live, but a woman I worked with for quite a few years saw them in Toronto in 1965, and still carries her ticket stub around with her in her purse to this day. She occasionally let her co-workers look at it, but only if we were very good to her, and then only for a second or two. I think she paid $6. to see them, and in those days "see" was quite literal, as they couldn't be heard.
Posts: 443 Location: Ottawa, ON, CANADA Registered: 2/19/2007 11:17:00 AM
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Los_Dodgers
Salmon
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Posted: 11/1/2009 8:47:00 PM
Photo of my pal Lori "Lorax" Black as a 10-year-old with the Beatles backstage at the Cow Palace near San Francisco in 1964. Paul invited her mother backstage when he heard that she was in attendance. He later put her mother on the Sgt. Pepper cover. Lori played the Cow Palace as a bassist with the seminal metal-grunge Seattle band the Melvins supporting Rush in 1994 on their Counterparts tour. Geddy and Alex are Melvins fans.
cut and paste the link (photo taken by her father):
http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/oo108/losdodgers_album/beat-gen-4043-shirley_temple-1.jpg
Posts: 100 Location: near Aberdeen (WA) and Laurel Canyon (CA) Registered: 8/24/2008 9:02:00 PM
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xpitt
Shark
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Posted: 11/1/2009 10:56:00 PM
In 1966 - I was age of 16 - they came over to Germany for a short four concert tour, which was organized by a Youth Magazine called "Bravo". I was living in Hannover in northern Germany that time. The stepfather of my best friend was offering us to be our chauffeur and brought us to Hamburg in a three hours drive (Baby You Can Drive My Car)- in these days that was way too cool to get offered by a stepfather! And then we had them right in front of us - security wasn't like it would have been today, we could walk right to the ramp later in the concert, John and Paul sticking their heads together to one microphone and shouting "yeah, yeah, yeah" or were just doing these "uuuuhs". ...ah, and like everybody said ...screaming girls...As Rickygitarre mentioned here somewhere else they were playing the Epiphones, but in these days I didn't know too much about guitars or Ricks in special. In one of the following youtube vids you can see George with his twelve string doing "If I needed Someone".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cij-N512dEE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvLx-gmNAso
I will never forget that day. When my family moved to Munich I saw a lot of concerts in the following years in the "Circus Krone", where another of that four concerts of the Beatles took place, Recently I saw that group "Rain" there and all the memories came back.
That friend from Hannover was the one friend you could have once in a lifetime, we were always connected and sadly he passed too early in 2003, so when remembering these fab days I remember him. His stepdad is still around and when I'm in Hannover I drop in and we'd have a beer and talk about these days. In a few years I hope to be able to sing along with "When I'm Sixty Four".....
Posts: 680 Location: Munich , Germany Registered: 6/9/2007 2:16:00 AM
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fadeaway326
Grouper
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Posted: 11/2/2009 4:58:00 AM
My Govt Teacher saw them live twice (her dad was a photographer) and she passed out durring "I feel fine" at shea stadium. my english teacher actually WAS THERE durring the broadcast of the Ed Sullivan show (yes, in the audience!) i wish i could have been there. i gave them both copies i burned of the shea stadium and ed sullivan appearences, i got 102% and 105%. BEATLES FOREVER!
Posts: 1 Location: Florida Registered: 11/2/2009 4:54:00 AM
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doodads
Grouper
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Posted: 11/2/2009 9:13:00 AM
I saw them at their first American concert at the Washington Coliseum in Washington DC. I think my ticket cost about $3.00. The screaming from the girls was so loud that you could not hear them singing and could barely hear the instruments.
Posts: 2 Location: North Bethesda, MD Registered: 11/2/2009 8:39:00 AM
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NicksRic
Grouper
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Posted: 11/2/2009 9:50:00 AM
I saw them in DC also, like doodads. Some dad of an attendee said he could hear them perfectly OUTSIDE. So many people moved down to front, so we did too. Very noisey. Still I am glad I got to see them. And it made me buy a RIC 360-12/c63 just like George's.
Posts: 2 Location: Tampa, FL Registered: 12/17/2008 5:29:00 PM
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8MilesHigher
Mackerel
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Posted: 11/2/2009 11:25:00 AM
I saw George's Dark Hoarse tour in 1974. There were three Beatle songs on the set list... In my Life, Something and Guitar Gently Weeps, if I recall.
Posts: 36 Location: Los Angeles area Registered: 12/16/2005
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Zurdo
Shark
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Posted: 11/3/2009 1:04:00 PM
quote:In 1966 - I was age of 16 - they came over to Germany for a short four concert tour, which was organized by a Youth Magazine called "Bravo". I was living in Hannover in northern Germany that time. The stepfather of my best friend was offering us to be our chauffeur and brought us to Hamburg in a three hours drive (Baby You Can Drive My Car)- in these days that was way too cool to get offered by a stepfather! And then we had them right in front of us - security wasn't like it would have been today, we could walk right to the ramp later in the concert, John and Paul sticking their heads together to one microphone and shouting "yeah, yeah, yeah" or were just doing these "uuuuhs". ...ah, and like everybody said ...screaming girls...As Rickygitarre mentioned here somewhere else they were playing the Epiphones, but in these days I didn't know too much about guitars or Ricks in special. In one of the following youtube vids you can see George with his twelve string doing "If I needed Someone".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cij-N512dEE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvLx-gmNAso
I will never forget that day. When my family moved to Munich I saw a lot of concerts in the following years in the "Circus Krone", where another of that four concerts of the Beatles took place, Recently I saw that group "Rain" there and all the memories came back.
That friend from Hannover was the one friend you could have once in a lifetime, we were always connected and sadly he passed too early in 2003, so when remembering these fab days I remember him. His stepdad is still around and when I'm in Hannover I drop in and we'd have a beer and talk about these days. In a few years I hope to be able to sing along with "When I'm Sixty Four".....
"came over to Germany" ?? or "came BACK to Germany"??
I mean, weren't The Beatles a German group? :-))
"O komm doch, komm zu mir
Du nimmst mir den Verstand
O komm doch, komm zu mir
Komm gib mir deine Hand"
Hella?
Posts: 396 Location: Florida Registered: 6/4/2009 2:15:00 PM
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xpitt
Shark
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Posted: 11/3/2009 10:14:00 PM
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"O komm doch, komm zu mir
Du nimmst mir den Verstand
O komm doch, komm zu mir
Komm gib mir deine Hand"
....good point, Zurdo ! Maybe that's what the screaming girls were shouting up to the fab four on stage :-)
Posts: 680 Location: Munich , Germany Registered: 6/9/2007 2:16:00 AM
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Zurdo
Shark
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Posted: 11/4/2009 12:17:00 AM
yes, a German group playing German electric guitars and drums, like Hofner, Rickenbacker, and Ludwig.
"Sie liebt dich ja ja ja
Sie liebt dich Ja Ja Ja
Sie liebt dich ja ja ja Jaaaaa
Du glaubst sie liebt nur mich?
Gestern hab' ich sie gesehen.
Sie denkt ja nur an dich,
Und du solltest zu ihr gehen.
Oh, ja sie liebt dich.
Schöner kann es gar nicht sein.
Ja, sie liebt dich,
Und da solltest du dich freu'n"
Posts: 396 Location: Florida Registered: 6/4/2009 2:15:00 PM
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xpitt
Shark
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Posted: 11/4/2009 12:51:00 AM
That single was recorded for the german market, "Sie Liebt Dich" & "Komm Gib mir Deine Hand". In Hamburg they played the original versions though ....:-)
Recently Rickenbacker made a run of special guitars especially for the Japanese market...well, that's where it all started...A RIC distributor in Hamburg St. Pauli would be a good idea !
Posts: 680 Location: Munich , Germany Registered: 6/9/2007 2:16:00 AM
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