Posted on 07/19/2016 7:03:49 PM PDT by Mariner
Like everyone else, The Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards was a Beatles fan, but he said they weren’t a particularly great live band.
“Musically, the Beatles had a lovely sound and great songs. But the live thing? They were never quite there,” he told the Radio Times
And while Richards was friends with The Beatles in their early years, he “excommunicated” them in 1967 after they became influenced by mystic leader Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, NME reported.
“He was a f—ing operator, a sucker job,” Richards said of Yogi.
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I saw them at the Hollywood Bowl in 1965, and who could tell how good they were or weren’t over the screaming? You couldn’t hear a note. Just AAAAAAAAAAHHHH! from five thousand people.
I saw KC as an opening act the week their first album came out. They played it note for note all the way through. Just amazing. By the end of 21st Century Schizoid Man my friends and I were looking at each other like “did they just play that”? The other two bands were good, but I really couldn’t get into them much after that.
For all the drugs he’s done, he’s pretty sensible.
That yogi crap with the beatles was stupid and i DONT like their live music NEARLY as much as the recorded.
See #39.
Can’t agree with Keith. The Beatles were one of the few bands that could do onstage what they did in the studio pretty convincingly. It’s the Stones who are so off onstage that more than once a song started and I had no clue what it was until the lyrics started. Listening to their live stuff it doesn’t sound to me like Keith or any of the others can get anywhere near their studio sounds. I have noticed though that when they do a cover song they sound like a smoking bar band. Weird.
George Harrison prepared the Rolling Stones for their first contract. Both bands made songs that are stale today.
‘If I speak with the tongues of men, and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal” (I Cor 13: 1).’
Both bands downplayed the Lord and highlighted the evil one. Allester Crowley picture on Sgt. Pepper’s cover? Not the best role model. ‘Sympathy for the Devil’? Never do that.
Eddie Van Halen is humble and thanks God every day for his mysterious talent for playing guitar. Poor David Lee Roth: vice has destroyed his ability to sing.
On their worst night the Fab Four were better than the Stones on their best night.
” i DONT like their live music NEARLY as much as the recorded.”
You go and hear them live?
Awesome dude!
You have to be above a certain age to remember that shriek. The frequency bordered on “only dogs can hear it”.
Don’t agree fully but nice post!
ya see, just like many others mentioned the Ed Sullivan show as an example, so did I.
Throw away the crack pipe.
I can only imagine what The Beatles in their prime would have sounded like LIVE with modern equipment / PA & without all the girls’ deafening screams . They were a fab live act BEFORE the Ed Sullivan show .
The most striking live/studio gap I have ever seen was when I went to a Howard Jones concert as a fluke. Howard Jones was modestly popular in the mid 80s in the MTV days. I wasn't a fan, but I saw him later in concert, and he was simply astounding at his abilities live. He was a fantastic pianist, who wove various different songs he has done together so well it surprised you when you realized they had started out different, distinct songs. Sadly not even one tenth of his talent ever made it onto MTV, he would have been far more popular if it had.
Grand Funk Railroad - the tightest band live EVER
I wish Tull would come back to the stage. Loved the idea of a flute in a band. Ian Anderson’s flute made the music seems very renaissance-y.
Bouree
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2RNe2jwHE0
If anyone gets a chance to go see Paul McCartney these days, do, he’s certainly great in concert. I felt as if I saw the Beatles, well, nearly.
He does quite a bit of all his stuff, Sgt Pepper’s, White Album, oh it’s a blast. He even played with the guitar FROM Sgt Pepper’s.
Sounded just like a mosquito.
Perfect reason NOT to do too many drugs, John.
The Beatles never particularly struck me as concert music.
Zappa had top quality sound as well.
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