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I have a guitar player mag froma few years back where they try to dissect and get the tones of a few fab records, including CD with sound samples. If I can dig it out, I'll relay what their reseach came up with. I'm sure Daytripper's on there.
BTW, I feel alot had to do with Lennon's physical technique. On his fast strum, he seemed to have his ulna and radius firmly implanted on the bridge of his guitar, letting his metacarpals do all the work.

Jeez- If all you guys were cancer researchers there would've been a cure long ago! Great detective work!

Jerry,

If you mean he kept his arm planted on the bridge and let his wrist to the strumming... I think you're correct!

Doug

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!! Stop!!!

>he seemed to have his ulna and radius firmly implanted on the bridge of his guitar, letting his metacarpals do all the work.

yea, and his tonsils weren't too shabby either

Except after "Twist & Shout."

ha.. yup... I think "shreaded" is the word, and that is why when they played that song live it was almost always at the end of the set.

Really? The only footage I've seen of it, it's been the opener, such as the Hollywood Bowl and Shea Stadium. I like how they would open with it halfway through the song, because the harmony would be a great sound check or voice warmup before going into a verse.

John Lennon wrote this set list for The Beatles’ first concert in America on February 11, 1964, at the Washington Coliseum, which normally hosted boxing and wrestling events. The Beatles played in the round to 8,092 screaming fans, performing 12 songs and rotating after every three songs to face a different section of the audience.

Twist and Sout was John's throat-ripper, and Long Tall Sally was Paul's (although Paul's vocal chords may be rip-proof).

Fascinating! I have never seen that entire concert, so I never knew that George got to lead it off with 'Beethoven.' It's not on the "First Visit" DVD, but I think I remember seeing a standalone DVD of that concert somewhere online.

There are a few of the Beatles' early setlists in "The Beatles: A Diary" by Barry Miles. Most of these have "Twist and Shout" as the final song. For example,

ABC Cinema, Great Yarmouth (10 week series of seaside concerts starting 6/30/03):
Some Other Guy
Thank You Girl
Do You Want To Know A Secret
Misery
A Taste of Honey
I Saw her Standing There
Love Me Do
From Me To You
Baby It's You
Please Please Me
Twist and Shout

"Twist and Shout" seemed to be the regular finale for most of the live performances in '63 and into early '64. I see that one time they played it next to last and finished with "From Me To You" and some other times next to last finishing with "Long Tall Sally" (Paul's opportunity to rip some vocal chords).

Wow, I've never seen footage of their performing the first 5 songs on the setlist (w/ the exception of SOG, the Cavern archival footage. Would've loved to have seen them play THANK YOU GIRL and MISERY.

Here's a video of the lads performing live in Japan. Both John and George are playing their Casino's in Day Tripper.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddy7Ajt8Vpo&search=the%20beatles

It doesn't answer the original, but I thought some of you might be interested in seeing it.

From the look on Ringo's face, they should've been playing "Help." Pretty easy to see why they stopped touring.