My how time flies! Fifty years ago - February 9, 1964...
 

Time to sound off. Were you one of the 75 million viewers who saw the Beatles perform for the first time on American TV on the Ed Sullivan Show?

I was and it was amazing to say the least.

Yes Dan, I was. I was 11 1/2 years old, and sat in my parents' bedroom and watched this amazing rock and roll band on TV. I hadn't really listened to much music up to that point, but after seeing them my parents bought me a little record player and I started to buy 45's. Albums came later.

I also saw the Beatles live twice, in 1964 and again in 1966.

And as I type I'm listening to a special edition of the weekly show Breakfast with the Beatles, honoring the anniversary. It's hosted by Ken Dashow, who is a Beatles fanatic.

Wow! It doesn't get any better than that! Thanks for sharing that Barry.

I was twelve and fourteen when I saw them, so today it is a kind of a blur. There are many things I remember about those two concerts, but I couldn't tell you one song I heard (at the first concert the microphones broke and you could only hear their guitars. That mechanical failure has been well documented).

Let's go back even further. Elvis the pelvis on Ed's show in 56! I remember! They Cutt him off at the waist...my, my how times change. (I saw the Beatles at Olympia in 64). Harrison with Shankar, Lennon for the John Sinclair bene, Ringo at Buffy Sainte Maries house.......(never saw Paul separately though).

On another note, does it really seem that time has flown?
To me it seems like many lifetimes have passed for me since 64.:)

1964 does seem like a thousand years ago. I was alive, and I remember it, but it was a different world entirely.

Truer words have never been spoken.

I guess it's safe to say we're not going back to 1964 anytime soon. We're stuck with 2014, so we might as well try to make the most of it.

That's why I'm sending you the new Bruno Mars cd.:cool:

I actually thought his show at the Super Bowl was pretty entertaining. But I'm more the Jefferson Airplane kind of fan.

Any thoughts on the tribute show? What were your favorite performances?

I'd ask about least favorite, but I think it's a fairly unanimous tie between Katy Perry, and the Pharrel performances...

My favs of the show were probably John Mayer/Keith Urban on Don't let me down, and Dave Grohl's Hey Bulldog...

I considered Walsh and the others version of While my guitar gently weeps good, but not great. It's hard for anyone to pull that song off after seeing this performance of it..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SFNW5F8K9Y

Here's a few other of Grohl's McCartney performances...

Maybe I'm Amazed, with Norah Jones
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0hO4hBEvxY

Band on the run
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYetH6DeMcY

I liked the show last night. I wasn't sure it would hold my interest but I stuck it out until the end. I especially liked Annie Lennox singing "Fool on the Hill" because I think that's an underrated Beatles' song. I'm a huge fan of the group's early material from 1963-64, and that was virtually absent save Ringo singing "Matchbox" and Paul's "I Saw Her Standing There", so that was a disappointment. But what I came away with was simply how many amazing songs they wrote. The show could have lasted ten hours and had a hundred numbers sung, and they never would have run out of classic material.

Well there always has to be a dissenter !!!
 

Morning,

I grew up in California in the 60's and 70's and to be honest never could and still don't much care for the Beatles..................Didn't like Dylan, or a lot of the mainstream stuff out in those days, although I was very very into music and probably went to 100-200 concerts between age 13/14-17. I didn't really understand the adulation for the Beatles, still don't.

Music was very different for me in Cali, my first real full concert extravaganza was to see Alice in 72 or 73, now that was a concert. But I had been to concerts for several years prior, CCR, Kansas, Beach Boys, Jefferson Airplane, Dead (Before they were a Cult) In the early 70's I saw all of the following numerous times, some dozens (Like Airplane/Starship), I was at the 1975 tour debut of Starship with Papa John Creech and then saw them about 10-12 times, other staples were, BTO, Bad Company, UFO, Uriah Heep, Montrose (Another band I saw 20-30 times), The Tubes, Journey (Another one I saw at least 30-40 times), Iron Butterfly, Yes, Hawkwind, Moxy, Mott the Hoople, Cheap Trick, Thin Lizzy....ect.

Basically I went from top 40 Bubble Gum direct to Rock N Roll, from The Archies in 1969 to Led Zepplin, who I saw at Keisar Pavillion in San Fran in 1971 with Lee Michaels as the opener!

So no I'm not impressed with the Beatles, but of course there are some songs I think were OK, and I actually thought the Long and Winding Road album had some good music on it.

Neil

I was only half tongue in cheek. See you at Baxters.
(No man is an island...);)

I'll be bathing.:)

And no man is an island....he's a peninsula.

translove airways? get you there on time!

That's Donovan.:)

Airplane images from my "work" library.

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50 years ago my dad was 2.


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I remember it well.

I also remember the Stones having to change "let's spend the night together" to "let's spend some time together"

"The Beatles? weren't they Paul McCartney's band before Wings?" :D

The best thing to happen to McCartney was Lennon's death. McCartney is overrated.