If I Fell in the Heartland

studiotwosession · Post by **studiotwosession** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 6:53 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeuSdfFeEyc

Scastles · Post by **Scastles** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 7:49 am

The Indiana State Fair? Although it sounded at times if there were screams, most of the shots of the audience showed them to be somewhat subdued and bewildered. Facial expressions like, who are these guys?

studiotwosession · Post by **studiotwosession** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 1:37 pm

The things about Beatles shows is, that was back in the days where kids went to rock shows with their parents. So, at some shows perhaps 30 percent or more of the audience was probably not diggin' the band in the least, merely tolerating it. Yes, there was a lot of shouting, but I'm pretty sure it was not from the over 25 crowd in '64.

Scastles · Post by **Scastles** » Wed Apr 18, 2007 1:48 pm

At some shows possibly, but I was at the Dallas show in '64 and there were no 'quiet' seats, parents or not.

firstbassman · Post by **firstbassman** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 5:03 pm

Little off on the harmony there fellas. I guess even they were human.

Most (if not all) audience shots from those days were cutaways that were inserted in the editing later. Who knows what was going on while the audience looked subdued. The band could have been tuning or talking for all we know. The original footage was probably show MOS (silent).

When I was very young (around this time) I had an illness and went to live a few weeks with my aunt and uncle. All I had to entertain me were some items left in my cousin's bedroom: Hard Day's Night LP, two Bill Cosby records, a few Smothers Brothers albums and a couple of issues of Playboy magazine.
I won't tell you which I enjoyed the most.
But HDN and If I Fell probably got used the most.

studiotwosession · Post by **studiotwosession** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 3:04 am

I think there's a part where you can tell Lennon is purposely off, his sense of humor kicking in there.

larrywassgren · Post by **larrywassgren** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 10:02 am

Sounds pretty damn good to me

Thanks for the link, hadn't seen this one before.

studiotwosession · Post by **studiotwosession** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 3:03 pm

It's the first time I've heard them playing it live save a boot of the Hollywood Bowl tapes, the version of which is botched.

larrywassgren · Post by **larrywassgren** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 5:00 pm

It's also cool to see John playing it on his Rickenbacker 325, not the J-160E. Great stuff!

brammy · Post by **brammy** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 10:23 am

cool clip... but I'm surprized that nobody has mentioned how FAST they were playing it.

Scastles · Post by **Scastles** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 10:38 am

Yeah, they were burnin' it up. It's all of five seconds faster than the studio version

brammy · Post by **brammy** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 10:19 pm

hmmm... maybe it was Ringo pounding so hard that made it seem faster, although 5 sec is 5 sec.

In the HDN (ie: studio) version he's playing softer:

studiotwosession · Post by **studiotwosession** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 2:57 am

It seems a lot faster than that.