THERE IS NO GOOD REASON FOR THIS POST

But here's an underappreciated song (if that is possible) by the Beatles. (NOTE TO YOUNG PEOPLE: The Beatles were a popular band during World War I.) Part of the beauty of this video is that the Beatles clearly realized how stupid they were going to look. (If ONLY modern musicians had this ability.) But it's a good song. Not a great song. But a good song. The weird stuff going on in the video (the TNT, for example) is there because this is a scene from Help, a marvelous movie that no current musical group this blog can think of (which, admittedly, is maybe two musical groups) could ever have made.

Yes, this blog knows it is old. Get the hell off this blog's lawn.

Comments

[Theresa]

The Beatles was part of my generation. I remember them well on the Ed Sullivan show.Sir Paul McCartney will be at Comerica Park this Sunday. They did lots of love songs as does Sir Paul.

[Martini Shark]

-- "Why are they playing a song in the middle of nowhere while no one can hear them? Why can we hear their electronic instruments when there is no power out in that field? Why does that little man want to blow them up"

-- "Because I'm your father, that's why?"

[Guin]

Wonderful. Paul was laughing so hard he could hardly lip-sync (although he was really singing, obviously.) I'm not sure Ringo was even hitting the drums. They were young and happy and no one will ever be anywhere nearly as great as The Beatles.

And Paul hasn't re-married yet! I still have a chance!

[Jeff Meyerson]

Good one, Dave. The contrast between how Paul looked in 1965 (like a baby) and how he looked this weekend at Yankee Stadium (good for a 69 year old) is startling.

As some of you have heard before, I saw The Beatles at Carnegie Hall in February of 1964 on their first trip to the US. And yes, "saw" is the operative word as we were in the balcony (tickets cost $3) and the screaming was deafening.

Thanks for the remembrance, Dave.

*goes to hunt for where the geezer bus is parked*

[Horace LaBadie]

The incredible Leo McKern as Clang, and the edible Eleanor Bron as Ahme. And the plot made as much sense as a season of "24."

[Jeff Meyerson]

February 12, 1964.

[Jeff Meyerson]

The setlist was probably very similar to this:

Beatles Set List
Washington, D.C.
February 1964

Roll Over Beethoven
From Me to You
I Saw Her Standing There
This Boy
All My Loving
I Wanna Be Your Man
Please Please Me
Till There Was You
She Loves You
I Want to Hold Your Hand
Twist and Shout
Long Tall Sally

[Ross]

Wow! Paul McCartney was in another band before Wings.

[Guin]

And in coincidental Beatles news, here are some amazing old photos that are going on the block.

[Guin]

Well, that didn't work. Amazing Beatles Photos second try.

[padraig]

"It's a thingy! An EVIL THINGY!"

Thank you Mr. Starkey, that's a wrap.

[manual tomato]

Saw HELP! at the show theatre in 1964. In '67 was terribly dissappointed Paul had lost his mind anot joned joined up with Plastic YOKO and the ONO Monkees band. Fires a shot at snaggle-arm Elvis for picking flowers near the lawn.

[hogsatemysister]

Did I miss the Geezer Alert? And will Dave ever return Paul's 1964 haircut?

[Coconuts]

Thanks, Dave. Made me smile.....as I remembered watching the Fab Four on the Ed Sullivan Show back in '64.

Also made me think of Topo Gigio and Senor Wences.

[Head_Smashed_In]

Other than the obvious "hits," I think a lot of their early stuff (pre-Sgt Pepper's) is still underappreciated for the most part, and I'm not even a geezer yet.

[Christopher]

Actually, it would appear that the Blog is wrong, as the You Tubes have determined the following:
Artist: The Beat-less

When we get old, it is nice that we can trust the tubes not to let us down.

[Mitch]

I was thoroughly introduced to The Beatles by my high school American history teacher who was about 7 years older than his junior class students. I think he knew the lyrics to all their songs and as a true anglophile, he could recite some of Winston Churchill's famous speeches from memory.

My Denise had the great fortune of seeing The Beatles in person while she was still living in NYC. I think it was their first visit.

Our favorite Beatle was George Harrison.

Denise also saw a young duo named Simon & Garfunkel perform and to the probable amazment of some readers here, Jimi Hendrix who's show she walked out on because she says it was too noisy.

Get off my lawn!

[Elon]

As a young person, I can safely say that most of us have heard of the Beatles.

And I think that is the first time I saw anyone look so lame, while handling explosives. Were they not the Beatles, it would be inexcusable.

[Sky]

Yay! I love that movie! And I'm in my 20's, so there's hope for us yet.

"Why is he not painted red?"

[Olo Baggins of Bywater]

The guitar solo triggered a memory...Joe Walsh was filling in for Steve Dahl on the radio a long while back, HOW YA DOIN! and he went on about this solo once. Apparently all the long haired freaky people guitar players thought George was amazing to be able to play this solo...and Joe, amazing guitarist as he was, figured out how to pull it off.

Turns out George did it in two takes. So Joe claimed he was the only guitar player to ever be able to play it. LOL, may actually be true.

Jeff...I spent time with some audio pros once, who said that those screaming girls get louder than any PA they can safely use.

[Wolfsong]

Actually it was "Fiendish Thingy" and it was George who said it. Just sayin'.

Get off my lawn and stop using my Beatles albums for frisbies!

[John Finn]

Underplayed maybe but hardly underappreciated. It's one of my fave toons by The Fabs. Thanks for posting it. I'll now be wrapped in a cosy blanket of nostalgia for the day.

[wiredog]

Wow. For once I don't feel like a geezer. I was born after Jeff saw the Beatles.

One year after, but still...

[ArcticAl]

Yes I remember it well. And seeing them live in Toronto at Maple Leaf Gardens in 1964. We were so close that we could lip read what they were saying to each other. The roar of screaming girls was deafening so we couldn't hear anything else. I still have the ticket stub.

[Paul]

I think it was a DIABOLICAL thingy.

And this song is great, not just good.

[MikeyVA]

LOVE THIS SONG as a kid still love it!

Hey you kids, get off my lawn and turn down that so called music!

HELP!!!!

[MikeyVA]

My sister went to Red Rocks in Denver to see them in 1964!

Get off my lawn!

[Jeff Meyerson]

*smacks wiredog with walker*

[mudstuffin in klumbus]

after seeing them on ed sullivan i started to let my hair grow and bought a nehru jacket which at first we called a 'beatles jacket'. they are the reason i nagged my parents into buying me a guitar. at one time or another i've performed probably half of their songs. even i can get folks to sing along with 'hey jude'. c'mon people, na, na na nanana na...

[Mitch]

Here's my former teacher:

http://blogs.knoxnews.com/humphrey/2010/10/bredesen-appoints-bruce-opie-a.html

Get off his lawn!

[Jeff Meyerson]

*sways back and forth, waving lighter - falls*

[EyeGore]

Oh wow. There are a bunch of old people on this blog. Thanks Dave. Still have the original LP's. Of course the turntable is broken.

[Betsy]

1965 Comiskey Park Chicago. Cannibal and the Headhunters opened. I won free tickets from some radio station. We were determined to End the Vietnam War by not standing during the national anthem. (It didn't work - at least, not right away.)

Sound: Deafening.
Visuals: Teeny tiny little Beatles way off there in center field, or maybe on the pitcher's mound - hard to remember.
Overall experience: Priceless.

And if you don't get off my lawn RIGHT NOW, I WILL call the police!!! mmmkay?

[MikeyVA]

Betsy,

When my sister went in '64 to Red Rocks in Denver she said she couldn't hear thing but screaming every time they sang, "Yeah, yeah yeah!"

It was just being there I guess.

I was too young for my parents to let me go. They figured that I would have to wait for a few years to become a "Hooligan" (their words).

[Jeff Meyerson]

*waves from very far away at Betsy*

Na na-na-na-na...

[Aimee Shulman]

THAT MOVIE I LOVE THAT MOVIE SO MUCH. It's just so crazy, and .ia that it's far and away better than the kind of movies made my pop stars now (though A Hard Day's Night is a bit superior imo.) Also,as an architecture student I am fascinated by that house they are all living in at the beginning, and hope someday to have the means to construct a hidey-hole in the floor like John has. I'm 23, btw, and have been a fan of the Beatles since I was 16...they're actually quite popular with my generation, though admittedly most don't know about their movies.

[Ceejaytee]

That song's great, not just good. The movie's fun too--I probably should get it for my kids to watch. They're big Beatles fans. I think it's more their speed than Hard Day's Night. Maybe when they're older.

[eil]

I, too, was too young to go to a concert, but my girlfriends and I used to gather at the "hooligan's" house, put Sgt. Pepper on the turntable and sing and dance until we fell down. If I did that today, I would fall down taking the vinyl out of its cardboard. *THUNK* See?

And get OFF my LAWN, you little brats. What's your mother's phone number?

[MikeyVA]

My parent's though any guy without a military hair cut and his shirt tucked in were "hippies."

Oh and WOE BE to him who dares to "honk" from the curb! "Any girl who goes out to a car without bringing the boy in was "cheap."

My dad had to give him the "talk."

It was a wonder I got any dates.

I miss my folks!

[SW]

Now that I'm older, losing my hair, it's...

SCALP!
I need some ruggin'
SCALP!
Not just any ruggin'
SCALP!
You know I need some rug...
SCALP!!

When I was younger, had no need for a toupee
I never needed hat or scarf to keep the cold away
But now my hair is gone and I'm sometimes quite appalled
To look into the mirror and see a guy who's nearly bald...

[MikeyVA]

At least ya don't do the comb-over thing, I hope!

[eil]

Boy, I hear you Mikey. What I wouldn't give for my mom to yell at me and chase me around the sofa with the brush in her hand again...

[Novanglus]

Truer words were never spoken. (sigh)

I met Paul once, briefly in New York when he was making RAM. Long story...seems like years ago. Yoko Ono once gave me a hundred dollar bill lip for playing a love song (Oh MY LOVER) from John after he had passed away. She's really cute in person.

The Beatles..were incredible. How lucky we all were to be in their era.

[Steve]

I've heard people put the Beatles down for being trite and over played. What they neglect is that there has to be a great reason for a group of four young men to be so overplayed that they changed virtually the whole course of popular music.
I never saw them in person but they had WAY more influence on my life than any politician or religious figure ever did.
I'm lucky enough that my lifespan has included the entire history of The Beatles.
I was hooked from the moment they appeared on that tiny B&W screen in our living room, live on Ed Sullivan.
Thanks, Dave.
Oh, Dave influenced me, too. Sure he did.

[Betsy]

Jeff...*wavin' back atcha*
Thanks for the link! Hard to remember that I actually used to fling myself around like that. If I tried now, my knees would explode, and little flags saying "Bang!" would pop out of my patellae.

BTW, upon review, it looks more like the Land of ONE Dance from here...

[MikeyVA]

eil,

My mom used a wooden spoon! I'd take a paddling from her any day for one more hour with her.