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GonzoVeritas t1_iyew94g wrote
Fun fact - they had to stop playing clubs earlier in their career because the fanatic female audience was spontaneously urinating all over the floor when they came out to perform. It was too much for the club owners.
2ekeesWarrior t1_iyf86ff wrote
I'm sorry WHAT
GonzoVeritas t1_iyfas92 wrote
From an interview with Bob Geldof:
>“The Beatles was a case of watching females in excelsis. It's the old cliché, but you couldn't hear them for all the screaming. I remember looking down at the cinema floor and seeing these rivulets of piss in the aisles. The girls were literally pissing themselves with excitement. So what I associate most with The Beatles is the smell of girls' urine.”
and...
>John B. Lynn, son of the owner of a venue The Beatles played, told The Washington Post that the concert hall smelled like the pee of over-excited girls after the show.
2ekeesWarrior t1_iyfbe3s wrote
Was it like that with all the budding Rock and Roll pioneers? The pop stars of the time?
GonzoVeritas t1_iyfbmx8 wrote
Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones told a similar story. He said they wanted to keep performing in clubs, but the owners wouldn't let them because of all the piss. Mick would come out, and the piss would flow.
BadgerSauce t1_iyfau0b wrote
He’s saying they peed on the floor like an excited puppy.
bolanrox t1_iyegjny wrote
My mother was at Shea for them and Grand funk. She said it all just became a wash of white noise from the screams.
amazingsandwiches t1_iyemd8w wrote
Whoopi Goldberg was at the Shea show.
TastyCartographer630 t1_iyeyjey wrote
Holy shit that guys mom is Whoopi Goldberg
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vonsnape t1_iyf6wjl wrote
I can’t spell her name🤫 but the actress from the Alien films was too
Anus_Targaryen t1_iyf9cj9 wrote
Suhgurnee Weever
vonsnape t1_iyf9gvo wrote
Shigury Wiggidity
amazingsandwiches t1_iyfdg7u wrote
Shiboobly Weeber
IDontKnowYouPickOne t1_iyebfwh wrote
This also allowed them to be more experimental in the studio. The songs they recorded during this period were not intended to be played live, so the arrangements and instrumentation could be far more complex. It wasn’t until “Let It Be” that they wrote songs they intended to play in front of an audience again, which explains the simpler arrangements on that record.
Remorseful_User t1_iyen71r wrote
Plus they had more time to work on the songs.
[deleted] t1_iyfdgt6 wrote
They had more time to explore being humans, the effects of psychedelics on their art, the warm comfort of being rich enough to explore at their leisure, and they also had Epstein to keep them in check.
dratsablive t1_iyf67t9 wrote
I was going to post this, they knew they wouldn't be able to recreate a lot of the music live.
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sonofabutch t1_iyeende wrote
Jimi Hendrix playing "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" at The Saville on Sunday, June 4, 1967... the album had been released just three days earlier!
> “Jimi was a sweetie, a very nice guy. I remember him opening at the Saville on a Sunday night, 4th June 1967. Brian Epstein used to rent it when it was usually dark on the Sunday. Jimi opened, the curtains flew back and he came walking forward, playing 'Sgt. Pepper', and it had only been released on the Thursday so that was like the ultimate compliment. It's still obviously a shining memory for me, because I admired him so much anyway, he was so accomplished. To think that that album had meant so much to him as to actually do it by the Sunday night, three days after the release. He must have been so into it, because normally it might take a day for rehearsal and then you might wonder whether you'd put it in, but he just opened with it. It's a pretty major compliment in anyone's book. I put that down as one of the great honours of my career. I mean, I'm sure he wouldn't have thought of it as an honour, I'm sure he thought it was the other way round, but to me that was like a great boost.” – Paul McCartney
bolanrox t1_iyegaln wrote
they also wear like there is no way his guitar is still in tune after all that, and it was the first song of the night. What is he going to do?
Jimi asks if clapton can come up on stage and help him tune back up
BluesforaRedSun t1_iyf92xb wrote
Phish played the White Album in its entirety for their 1994 Halloween costume.
[deleted] t1_iyfd2e9 wrote
They were not in it for solely the money. Plus if they were touring these albums would have never been made. The amount of freedom and artistic exploring they were allowed was unheard of. Now they would be Disney'd into oblivion.
bjb406 t1_iyeh4r8 wrote
Growing up I sort of knew a family with the last name "Pepper". One of the kids was named "Sergeant".
amazingsandwiches t1_iyemnm9 wrote
That's some shit you do to the Golden Retriever, not the kid!
DaveOJ12 t1_iyez0o7 wrote
I knew someone named Paige Turner once.
6of1HalfDozen t1_iyew8tp wrote
And of the song on Let it Be were recorded from a live performance on the studio roof top
subsonicmonkey t1_iyf0y0v wrote
Some of them, yes. Not all.
umronije t1_iyekbvo wrote
They were never played live by the Beatles. There are some excellent tribute bands that regularly play them. My favorite is "The Rain" https://www.raintribute.com/rain
hamockin t1_iyf6lwr wrote
A Dutch tribute band called the analogues plays these studio albums live. Check them out on YouTube. Unbelievable.
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odiin1731 t1_iyf1n9j wrote
Because the songs from those two albums would have been very easy to play live with just a four-piece band.
thesonsofpoop t1_iyef31i wrote
The white album isn’t actually titled the White Album
Jk2two t1_iyeogyq wrote
Yet everyone refers to it as such…
Pherllerp t1_iyete74 wrote
Pedantic.
DaveOJ12 t1_iyeyxhs wrote
They're not wrong, though.
Goodbye_Galaxy t1_iyf74i5 wrote
That's what pedantic means.
NeoPossum t1_iyeyeq6 wrote
Nah, it's the White Album.
Nobody I know who's a Beatles obsessive calls it "The Beatles".
Including myself, and I'm very much in the above.
shingofan t1_iyez376 wrote
It's semantics at this point, much like how Metallica's fifth album isn't actually titled the Black Album, but people call it that anyway.
RetroMetroShow t1_iyejvfh wrote
Wait which album do you mean?
Kirkverbal t1_iyekfip wrote
You know that one that's white?
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thesonsofpoop t1_iyelvm0 wrote
Their album that has an all white cover, except for the title. The album is actually a self-titled album, The Beatles.
DroneOfDoom t1_iyeygo1 wrote
On that same theme, Metallica’s Black Album isn’t actually titled The Black Album either.
cheguevara_malcolmx t1_iyeac7z wrote
Yes, the screams of the crowd were drowning out the sound equipment of the day. The Beatles couldnt even hear themselves play.