brammy wrote:And the further irony of the whole thing is that (as you probably know) often today's "wall" of speakers are often just props with the real speaker being
a smaller one that is mic'd.
Just props? Say it isn't so!
Re: Groovy Beatles pictures
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 12:52 am
by brammy
HAAAAAAAAAA..... great pix!
Re: Groovy Beatles pictures
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 1:01 am
by brammy
Re: Groovy Beatles pictures
Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2013 1:35 am
by brammy
Re: Groovy Beatles pictures
Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2013 11:03 am
by rickyfricky
So I lit a fire, isn't it good . . .
Re: Groovy Beatles pictures
Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 6:56 pm
by sixtwentytwelve
These may well have been posted before, but both photos show JL's Capri sporting the elusive "radio knobs." The top photo was taken on December 8, 1961 (Cavern with Davy Jones); the bottom photo was taken on November 10, 1961 (Tower Ballroom).
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Re: Groovy Beatles pictures
Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 11:11 pm
by rickyfricky
Please sir or madame, would ya read my book . . .
Re: Groovy Beatles pictures
Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2013 12:29 am
by brammy
Indeed! .... Gretsch 6120... I guess Lennon's cousin David Birch removed the pickguard.
One day, John invited Freddie, Pauline and their baby David to his new house at Tittenhurst Park near Ascot, to which he’d moved from Weybridge, and a terrifying scene blew up. ‘John looked so weird,’ Freddie told me, ‘with this vacant look in his eyes. It was the drugs: they had turned his brain.’
John seized Freddie by the lapels and shook him, screaming and howling at him. The baby was crying too. John told his father if he went to the press with his life story, he would lock him in a crate and throw him out of a plane into the ocean to be drowned. Freddie believed his son was unbalanced enough to do just that.
Freddie never saw John again. The relationship between father and son had been damaged beyond repair — the nightmare combination of John’s drug abuse and primal scream therapy proved too much.
After Christmas, in 1965, John was embarrassed to hear that Alf had made a record: "That's My Life (My Love and My Home)", released on 31 December 1965. John asked Epstein to do anything he could to stop it being released or becoming a hit. The record never made it into the charts.
I read (in the book REVOLVER) that Epstein bought the elder Lennon's record contract and made the records disappear. In that book, it mentioned that the record had begun to crack the British top 40.
