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URGH: Please!

My post had nothing to do with mixing tracks, or sound quality. Or production. Or George Martin. There is no legitimate (legal) CD of the Hollywood Bowl for sale, but lots of bootlegs of both 64 and 65. The Beatles' performance is haphazard, sloppy. If you had never heard of the Beatles, and someone erased the screaming from that tape so you could just hear the music, you would wonder what the commotion was about. They sound like a garage band rehearsing, with no great players.

They were only an extraordinary live band until Beatlemania hit, when they could no longer hear each other; after that they they played like shite. They rehearsed ONE DAY for a twelve song tour of Sweden.They were in fact, during their time, great RECORD makers. But that is far different and should not be confused with being great musicians, which they were clearly not. And their time has come and gone.

The other poster here suffers from the halo effect; he believes anything the beatles did was super because he loves the Beatles. BTW, I like the Beatles MUSIC, and have 20-30 hours of unreleasd studio tapes. But there is a difference between enoying the music, (which is what it is about) and hero worship of the musicians, (which is where it turns into a pathology) and that's where fantacism begins. He probably believes their shit did not stink. That is not a musical problem or issue for this board.

That's a 3% er.

That is a joke. Blame fans, equipment, whatever. They were a lousy live band from 1964 on. But great recording artists.


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