Met Pictures Of The Week

[Zvon]

mmmmm,36 days to kill til the season starts.

This week Im gonna do something a little different.

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[Willets Point]

Ah, $5.75 to see the Beatles (and no TicketBastard "service fees" I bet). Probably a small fortune then, but still. Then again most accounts say the show sounded like crap, if you could hear anything over the screaming. Still, it's the Beatles.

[Guest mlbaseballtalk]

Willets Point wrote: Ah, $5.75 to see the Beatles (and no TicketBastard "service fees" I bet). Probably a small fortune then, but still. Then again most accounts say the show sounded like crap, if you could hear anything over the screaming. Still, it's the Beatles.

Yeah, can you imagine back then Paul McCartney trying to do his bit at the end of Hey Jude where every side of the audience does Na na naaa na na na na Na na na na! Hey Jude

Its funny, the Beatles were great live playing clubs in Liverpool, Hamburg, and small theatres in London

Then they started the stadium concerts, and since they were the first they (everyone, Beatles, promoters, ect) had no clue how to properly put something that big on to the point that the Beatles just quit touring all together

[Zvon]

mlbaseballtalk wrote: ="Willets Point"]Ah, $5.75 to see the Beatles (and no TicketBastard "service fees" I bet). Probably a small fortune then, but still. Then again most accounts say the show sounded like crap, if you could hear anything over the screaming. Still, it's the Beatles. Yeah, can you imagine back then Paul McCartney trying to do his bit at the end of Hey Jude where every side of the audience does Na na naaa na na na na Na na na na! Hey Jude Its funny, the Beatles were great live playing clubs in Liverpool, Hamburg, and small theatres in London Then they started the stadium concerts, and since they were the first they (everyone, Beatles, promoters, ect) had no clue how to properly put something that big on to the point that the Beatles just quit touring all together

I just got a DVD copy of their very first US concert in Washington DC,1964.
And there is truth to your statement about people not having a clue how to properly set up for such a large event in tose days.
But the Beatles actually did have a clue, as I saw when they took the stage for the Washington show and proceeded to manually reset the entire stage. It was amazing to see, the biggest band in the world doing doing their own roadie work. They even took the entire drum kit and totally turned it around so it faced the same way the amps were. And, considering all the sound problems (the crowd, mic levels not balanced) they encountered right off the bat, they sounded alot better than I would have thought. They opened with I Saw Her Standing There, and I think it sounded better than thier studio version.

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Check out the doo's,lmao

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[Guest cooby]

Note the blond girl in the glasses wishing she could push the two little girls off that railing

[Zvon]

Long live Lennon.
how ironic.

[Zvon]

cooby wrote: Note the blond girl in the glasses wishing she could push the two little girls off that railing

lmao...we should caption these,lol.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Mennonite chick at 8:00.

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[Guest cooby]

I think the Mennonite chick might be preggers

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[metirish]

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="metirish"]

KOOL! love that cover!

[metirish]

here is a link to that day...

http://www.therockradio.com/2005/08/flashback-beatles-rock-shea-stadium.html>

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metirish wrote: here is a link to that day... http://www.therockradio.com/2005/08/flashback-beatles-rock-shea-stadium.html>

Link dont work 4 me.
Damn, i was lookin 4ward to that.

[metirish]

Sorry Zvon that link does not seem to work, Google Beatles at Shea and you will come accross a link for a rock station, that's it..meanwhile I found a great pic...

[Zvon]

="metirish"]Sorry Zvon that link does not seem to work, Google Beatles at Shea and you will come accross a link for a rock station, that's it..meanwhile I found a great pic...

Ill do that.
Great clear color pic!
Never saw that one.
Maybe the 66 show tho, cuzza the cloths.
Still, that goes right into my Beatle file, thnx.

[Guest cooby]

You know, those litle girls are probably 50 now.

[Gwreck]

Willets Point wrote: Ah, $5.75 to see the Beatles (and no TicketBastard "service fees" I bet). Probably a small fortune then, but still. Then again most accounts say the show sounded like crap, if you could hear anything over the screaming. Still, it's the Beatles.

$5.75 for a 30 minute show wasn't that much of a bargain.

Seriously. The first show was about 30 minutes long.

Thanks to all for digging up the pictures. Only Shea concert photos I have are from a couple years ago when Bruce was there.

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