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| Thread ID: 111653 | 2010-08-05 17:56:00 | Where Were You When The Beatles Hit? | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 1124882 | 2010-08-05 17:56:00 | 1963 and I was deeply into Surf music and some of the locally acceptable bands like Eddie & The Showmen, The Rivingtons, Dion & The Belmonts and The Ventures or B. Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels. Soupy Sales was on TV - as was Lloyd Thaxton and color TVs were only in about 50% of homes. When The Beatles hit that day - I was sitting on the lunch-lawn at my Huntington Beach high school, I listened on a 7-transistor pocket radio and just sat there - stunned. "One, two, three, four!" - the count-in to 'I Saw Her Standing There' was magical - like we were in the studio and hearing The Beatles actually performing it live! KRLA and KFWB were playing both the A & B side of their first record to hit the US and I guess my lunch period kept me from hearing 'Please Please Me' a bit before. What was left of my sophomore year was so totally musically wild and unbridled from that point on. "Please, Please Me" - was such a catharsis and total turn-around in music. We listened to everything Beatles we could - watched everything Beatles we could and talked about Beatles all the time. Was it 'Bubble-Gum Rock" - a term that wasn't coined for a long time yet (The Ohio Fruit Gum Company, etc) or was it cutting edge? It pandered to everybody! I was a surfer, (Cowabunga! dude) - but somehow The Beatles transcended all genres of rock & roll in that if you really listened deeply and technically to them or not - it was cool just to dig them since they were so different. We had Hippies, left over Beatniks ala:Kerouac and Maynard G. Krebbs, Juicers and Dopers and Surfers and Gremmies and Car-Girls, Leather dudes and Romalar Freaks and Greasers and Hodads and ---- well, just about every possible permutation of 'individuals' trying to fit into their own iconoclastic stereotype for acceptability to their own kind. They all felt The Beatles were undeniably the greatest thing while at the same time wearing their tie-dyes and granny glasses, Paisley, Love beads, Polyester, Pendeltons, Chinos, A1 Peggers, DAs, pocket protectors or slide rules. Everybody could identify with them and that's prolly how they grew such a large following - they made everyone feel that they were THEIR GROUP and that they were exclusively for them. So - perhaps they were the first fusion/musical group - because they fused a whole bunch of lifestyle genres of: We - who were the future of the world. PS: I think "Flying" was one of the greatest songs they ever did. No --- make that: "Bluejay Way". But now you know where my head was then! Oh yeah - I had a couple of Beatles coats too - and some Beatles shirts with the high tube collars. But yeah --- YOU HADDA BE THERE. That's the only way to say it - everything else is a newsreel of the reality. Where wuz youse guys when it all changed? |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1124883 | 2010-08-05 19:31:00 | I was in the middle of Africa just starting high school the day I heard "Please Please Me" for the first time, that and "Ticket to Ride" changed me and my world at the time, also "This Could Be The Last Time" by the Stones. | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1124884 | 2010-08-05 19:37:00 | I was there.... Just met SWMBO and the world looked pretty good! Had started travelling round NZ and was at Napier with the intent to see NZ before I went to see the rest of the world but after meeting SWMBO, I never got any further! Great days Joe. Don't seem to fit any of the categories though? :thanks for the reminder. Ken |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 1124885 | 2010-08-05 19:47:00 | Ummmm still waiting to be created, I had to wait another 4 years (born 67) so my music tastes were not really Beatles but 70's Glam rock | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1124886 | 2010-08-05 20:58:00 | I was still thirty years away :p | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1124887 | 2010-08-05 21:00:00 | I remember first hearing 'Love me do" on the radio in 1963, followed by " Please, Please me". Been a HUGE fan ever since. They almost alone changed the way of life of the western world in the sixties. You really had to be there at the time to realise the changes that did happen because of their experiments in music, attitudes, clothing & freedom etc. No celebrity has ever had the same impact since. | fnphoto (2434) | ||
| 1124888 | 2010-08-05 21:09:00 | The winter of 1962/63 was one of the coldest on record . In Birmingham (England, not the pseudo place inb Alabama), we had continuous below zero for weeks on end, built an igloo in the garden for the kids, it lasted 3 months . First complete rebuild of Vincent Black Shadow from a heap of bits, completely stripped down, bought for 50 GB pounds from a hefty policeman who didn't know his own strength and had stripped many threads, also made a new crankpin and rebuilt the big ends and flywheel . At end of year left Lucas and went to English Electric . Beatles didn't make any impact whatsoever, just another pop group . Anyway who would want to listen to the plethora of crap pop on radio and TV when Bix Beiderbecke and Louis Armstrong could be put on the turntable, or listen to the weekly Steve Race jazz program on BBC ? |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1124889 | 2010-08-05 21:11:00 | They helped make the sixties an amazing era to live through no one will ever be more creative more distinctive and more revolutionary,than the Beatles were! | BigBadBob (14963) | ||
| 1124890 | 2010-08-05 22:02:00 | And Decca weren't interested. Be a 5 min wonder. :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 1124891 | 2010-08-05 22:14:00 | And Decca weren't interested. Be a 5 min wonder. :) I wonder if the guy that turned them down still has a job. Turning down the greatest act of all time was a bit more than a little boo boo! The Beatles are still making millions more than forty years after their breakup. The Beatles Rock Band is another great product recently released. |
Paul Ramon (11806) | ||
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