Great footage of The Beatles' Casinos

[Woody Sound]

I didn't know they were already using them in the mid 60's. Cool sounds.

[Crm114]

A coworker of mine at Fujitsu Santa Clara California had a Hummer when they were a big deal
He’d go bombing around with a whole group of guys that had Hummers rally club driving through Portola Valley and just making their rounds

one of the guys in the group Was Steve Wozniak and the rally ended up at his place in the hills

in his living room he had this glass caseAnd in it was John Lennon’s casino that he used a Csndlestick Park in the last show they did in the States

The case was unlocked guys just were taking the sucker out and Woz was very matter of fact about it
I couldn’t believe it when I heard that story

[Doctor Jeff]

John and George got them in ‘66. Paul got his in ‘64. Prior to that I think John played a Rickenbacker 325 primarily and George a Gretsch DuoJet.

[ccroft]

I got mine around '69. More to do with Grant Greene. Probably had more to do with being the most affordable quality instrument in town. Wish I could remember the price, and I wish I still had it!

I learned the ins and outs of hollow body feedback at an early age.

[Joeontheguitar]

I'm pretty sure the Casino that Lennon played is (now) in the collection of Yoko Ono and it travels around the world to musea every now and then. I think he had just one and that's the one that he had sanded down to get a more transparant sound. Lennon knew nothing about guitars by the way. There's an anecdote that he once asked a guitar salesman for a guitar with 'humperdinckels', when he meant humbuckers.

It still surprises me every time that the Fab Four were able to sing (pretty reasonably) in key through a stadium PA that wasn't made for singing (the rest of the sound were their -designed for them - 100 watt AC100 Voxes) and without any monitors, with thousand of screaming girls and even with quite complex backing vocals.

[citizenk74]

I'm pretty sure the Casino that Lennon played is (now) in the collection of Yoko Ono and it travels around the world to musea every now and then. I think he had just one and that's the one that he had sanded down to get a more transparant sound. Lennon knew nothing about guitars by the way. There's an anecdote that he once asked a guitar salesman for a guitar with 'humperdinckels', when he meant humbuckers.

It still surprises me every time that the Fab Four were able to sing (pretty reasonably) in key through a stadium PA that wasn't made for singing (the rest of the sound were their -designed for them - 100 watt AC100 Voxes) and without any monitors, with thousand of screaming girls and even with quite complex backing vocals.

John was fond of (and very good at) word play, as evidenced by his book A Spaniard in the Works. I have a copy* on our dining room bookshelves,** a gift from my very hip and raised right youngest granddaughter. We think very highly of the Fab Four in our family. Proper traditions should be diligently maintained.

*Replacing my worn-out paperback from back in the day.

** Distinct from the wall-to-wall shelves in the living room, and the irregular towers in the bedroom, and the boxes in the other rooms, and....

[citizenk74]

A long, long time ago I had a Super Beatle amp, which I played through a dual Showman speaker cabinet with two 15" JBLs. The amp was monumentally heavy, and loud. The entire rig weighed more that a VW Bug, I think.

[Doctor Jeff]

I'm pretty sure the Casino that Lennon played is (now) in the collection of Yoko Ono and it travels around the world to musea every now and then. I think he had just one and that's the one that he had sanded down to get a more transparant sound. Lennon knew nothing about guitars by the way. There's an anecdote that he once asked a guitar salesman for a guitar with 'humperdinckels', when he meant humbuckers.

It still surprises me every time that the Fab Four were able to sing (pretty reasonably) in key through a stadium PA that wasn't made for singing (the rest of the sound were their -designed for them - 100 watt AC100 Voxes) and without any monitors, with thousand of screaming girls and even with quite complex backing vocals.

It’s amazing to think that there have been musicians who are not complete gearheads. I don’t think it was that prominent in the day—people just used whatever tool they had at hand, or whatever the concert promoter provided at the venue where they played.

Though I think George was pretty fond of his gits and ukes.

Heard this today and thought of dear old George...album finished after his death. He only plays git-uke on this one, the guitar solo is Mark Flanagan.

One reviewer said that “Harrison never seemed to recognize the difference between philosophical profundities and the sound of a catchy song, and that may have been his greatest gift to the world.”

[Crm114]

I saw the Beatles and Comiskey Park in 1965 my friend and I decided to go that day and we hopped on the subway down to Comiskey we walked up and bought our tickets at the box office $4.75
we were the second level second row near first base so all the screaming was across from us or behind us or below us and we could hear those suckers and they were good they had Thai harmonies and they were just taken good they did about 35 maybe 40 minutes

An amazing experience you can find clips on YouTube where you can see what the stage set up look like it was nothing much they were on a platform that was like two steps up they have their amps and these speakers on the side of the stage and they were going through the PA of the baseball stadium and it was good