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Haha, (air conditioned if possible) most little bands of today wouldnt accept that!

Air conditioned cars were not common in 1965. They were around but were hardly standard equipment even in Cadillacs which were THE cars to have here in 1965.

Wow! Big differences between 1965 and 2005. Especially item #5, holy **** (pretty scary that was only 40 years ago)! I would suspect that wasn't a problem in Portland, but I know that in New Orleans (and presumably many other cities in the south), integrated audiences were *illegal* until the early 60s.

Yea, but even if it was uncommon......a band such as the beatles could have requested just about anything.....rare or uncommon and gotten it

Not down South, people were getting killed down there for marching for integration. Beatle records got burned by the religious right during the mid 60s's because of a stupid remark by Lennon. Very different times then. Our wonderful country is still very racist.

.....i meant the air conditioned cars.......

wow - this is very interesting....

Cool stuff....

Bob, did you notice the clause that they will "not play before a segregated audience"?

Steve, that's the item #5 that I mentioned above (which, I think, Bob was also referring to). It's important to note that most Europeans were completely dumfounded by American racism & segregation at the time. Even in New York City, in the mid-60s, it was considered scandalous for a bunch of (mostly or entirely) black jazz musicians to discuss music with a European jazz fan in her hotel room, wheras that was completely normal for touring musicians in Paris, where it would have been considered a sign of cultural awareness. Reading about what some of the great American jazz musicians had to go through in the 40s and 50s (when things were even worse) is generally pretty scary and disconcerting ...

http://www.beatlesource.com/savage/main.html

Yes... that is a GREAT site.

On another note, I was just looking up the chords for the song "Badge" by Cream and I noticed that the writing credits are to Clapton AND his buddy George Harrison. Never knew that.

I think Ringo gave "Badge" the name too.

The title came from a misread, Harrison had scribbled down where the 'bridge' was supposed to go on the sheet of lyrics, Clapton read it as 'Badge', thus the title, or at least the lore.

The lyrics supposedly came from Ringo when he was spouting gibberish under the influence of soemthing...and the lyrics sound like gibberish.

The swans live in the park. Perfect sense. Where else where they live?

My Soundlab has a preset called "Badge." Maybe it means "bridge"?

Dang... I'm thinking of contacting that guy with the time machine. And the only weapon I'd bring wouldbe a few scotch'n'cokes.