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Two mics, none on the drums and a total of two hundred watts on stage!
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It looks like there may be a microphone facing up at Ringo from the front edge of the drum riser.Kiddwad57 wrote:Two mics, none on the drums and a total of two hundred watts on stage!
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Yes, sometimes Ringo got a microphone to sing "Boys."jps wrote:It looks like there may be a microphone facing up at Ringo from the front edge of the drum riser.Kiddwad57 wrote:Two mics, none on the drums and a total of two hundred watts on stage!
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Even wilder! The mic in that photo is actually on the floor in front of the stage and is being used to record the concert. When Ringo sang on this concert, he used one of the two already there. He lowered the mic on the stand, placing it between his legs! Not even a boom. This for an audience of over 8,000 people. The actual pa cabs were the Altec or JBL theater boxes suspended above the stage, which you can see from some of the shots on The Beatle's Storey and Second Album covers. I'll bet Brammy has some of those, maybe? The concert footage was to be combined with what is now called The Beach Boys Lost Concert and some footage by the Four Seasons that I have yet to see. It was going to be shown as a syndicated closed circuit event at movie theaters, but never happened.
Brammy, thanks for all of these pictures!
Brammy, thanks for all of these pictures!
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I found these. Sorry if they're not big enough. You can see the PA in the shot Brammy provided. I think Ringo is actually singing in that one too. He's using Lennon's mic.
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Just a guess, may be the same one, but from a different perspective. If you take a look at the other photos you can see that there are no mics that close to anything around, excepting mouths. I wasn't actually there, mind you!
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My guess is that when Ringo was not using that microphone to sing into it was used as reinforcement for his drums (at least, the kick drum, anyway).
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Jeff, you got me curious so I checked out some of the footage of that concert on YouTube. It's quite a revelation! The whole thing is pretty darned raw, excepting the band's performance. No evidence of mics on the drums- heck, it looks like one of the two vocal mics was d.o.a., with George moving from his original mic over to Lennon's just to sing Roll Over Beethoven. They must have gotten the other one working though, because both McCartney and Harrison used it later.
Things did improve by their summer tour that year. 100 hundred watt amps for everyone and some mic-ing for the drums and Ringo's vocals. (Check out the missing wheel on Harrison's amp trolly!)
Things did improve by their summer tour that year. 100 hundred watt amps for everyone and some mic-ing for the drums and Ringo's vocals. (Check out the missing wheel on Harrison's amp trolly!)
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A correction: According to beatlesource, Lesley Gore was the third act to be on the concert tape, not the Four Seasons.
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A lot of the films of the DC concert are edited.... check out the beginning of the video on this page ....
http://www.beatlesbible.com/1964/02/11/ ... -coliseum/
At the start the drums were facing the wrong way and Ringo had to try to turn them around. Eventually Mal (along with someone else) did the job..... but (as we see in the other photos) the drum riser was rotated multiple times...... "The group were performing in the round, and Ringo Starr's drum riser was turned 180 degrees after the third song by Mal Evans, to allow the audience behind them to watch the performance. This was repeated again after I Wanna Be Your Man, and following She Loves You they turned 45 degrees."
The first song was 'Beethoven' which was unusual for a Beatles concert at the time..... and of course the jelly beans were flying.....
" That night, we were absolutely pelted by the fuckin' things. They don't have soft jelly babies there; they have hard jelly beans. To make matters worse, we were on a circular stage, so they hit us from all sides. Imagine waves of rock-hard little bullets raining down on your from the sky. It's a bit dangerous, you know, 'cause if a jelly bean, traveling about 50 miles an hour through the air, hits you in the eye, you're finished. You're blind aren't you? We've never liked people throwing stuff like that. We don't mind them throwing streamers, but jelly beans are a bit dangerous, you see! Every now and again, one would hit a string on my guitar and plonk off a bad note as I was trying to play." ....George Harrison
After the show, the Beatles attended a benefit dance where the infamous cutting of Ringo's hair took place:
" People were sort of touching us as we walked past, that kind of thing. Wherever we went we were supposed to be not normal and we were supposed to put up with all sorts of **** from lord mayors and their wives and be touched and pawed like A Hard Day's Night only a million more times. At the American Embassy, the British Embassy in Washington, or wherever it was, some bloody animal cut Ringo's hair, in the middle of... I walked out of that. Swearing at all of them and I just left in the middle of it. " ..... John Lennon, 1970
http://www.beatlesbible.com/1964/02/11/ ... -coliseum/
At the start the drums were facing the wrong way and Ringo had to try to turn them around. Eventually Mal (along with someone else) did the job..... but (as we see in the other photos) the drum riser was rotated multiple times...... "The group were performing in the round, and Ringo Starr's drum riser was turned 180 degrees after the third song by Mal Evans, to allow the audience behind them to watch the performance. This was repeated again after I Wanna Be Your Man, and following She Loves You they turned 45 degrees."
The first song was 'Beethoven' which was unusual for a Beatles concert at the time..... and of course the jelly beans were flying.....
" That night, we were absolutely pelted by the fuckin' things. They don't have soft jelly babies there; they have hard jelly beans. To make matters worse, we were on a circular stage, so they hit us from all sides. Imagine waves of rock-hard little bullets raining down on your from the sky. It's a bit dangerous, you know, 'cause if a jelly bean, traveling about 50 miles an hour through the air, hits you in the eye, you're finished. You're blind aren't you? We've never liked people throwing stuff like that. We don't mind them throwing streamers, but jelly beans are a bit dangerous, you see! Every now and again, one would hit a string on my guitar and plonk off a bad note as I was trying to play." ....George Harrison
After the show, the Beatles attended a benefit dance where the infamous cutting of Ringo's hair took place:
" People were sort of touching us as we walked past, that kind of thing. Wherever we went we were supposed to be not normal and we were supposed to put up with all sorts of **** from lord mayors and their wives and be touched and pawed like A Hard Day's Night only a million more times. At the American Embassy, the British Embassy in Washington, or wherever it was, some bloody animal cut Ringo's hair, in the middle of... I walked out of that. Swearing at all of them and I just left in the middle of it. " ..... John Lennon, 1970