Gosh George is cute! Just look at him accept that gift, you can hear him say "you shouldn't have done it!" to the man presenting. What a sweetheart! And to think, some years before this he couldn't have dreamt of receiving such a nice guitar. He earned this one, for sure!
Well, you know, the Rickenbacker representative was just doing business, it was not a present (Rickenbacker was making millions of dolars by then because of The Beatles using their gear). And knowing George, he was probably being sarcastic. 😉
My poor boys dealing with stupidity :)) I've never seen Paul so annoyed in a press conference :D He usually handled them with more patience. It goes to show how it was starting to get on their nerves at this point.
3:55 John's comment about drumming being replaced by a machine was very prophetic. Most drumming you hear in today's pop music is done with the help of a computer.
He also said in 1980 that very soon there won't be singing in music, it'll just be talking. It'll be, Talk Music... The reporter thought that was a far fetched idea...
It's funny how one of them mentioned www and we automatically think the world, wide, web, but they didn't have that concept back then. In one interview clip, Paul mentions a computer in 1964. It's funny to catch these little futuristic tidbits, even though they were yet to be developed.
Anne the British intelligence agency during war 2 had computers but they were all large until gates made the first small size in 1982! So computers had been around years before home usuage!
That is the moment that Rickenbacker gave George the very first custom made version of their new electric 12-String which they went on to sell like hotcakes (the second guitar I ever played was one). I am just seeing this and recognizing the moment. Do you hear the fellow telling John "No this is for George." John was already playing a small one, I guess they were casting bread on the water.
@@hoboroadie Francis Hall “When I heard The Beatles were coming to the United States, I called Brian Epstein and made a date with them in New York for their first appearance in the States, when they were on the Ed Sullivan Show. “They came over to our suite, except for George Harrison who was ill that day, and we showed them the new 12-string we’d just developed [a ’63 prototype 360/12]. John Lennon wanted to know if he could take it back and show it to George Harrison. He asked me if I would go with them back to their suite, so we carried it across the park there in New York. “George was playing it, and the telephone rang. John went to answer it in another room and he came back pretty soon, and he said some radio station, I forget which, wanted to talk to George Harrison, because they’d heard he was ill. I heard him tell them that the doctor told him he was to stay in bed, except for their program that evening. “Pretty soon I heard him telling about the instrument that John had brought over for him to look at. They said do you like that instrument? And he said, ‘I sure do.’ They said, ‘Well, if we buy it for you, will you play it?’ And he said yeah [laughs]. To shorten the story, he took it back to London, and they made A Hard Day’s Night with it. Their first recording with George using that guitar was I Call Your Name.
I like ringos answer to the kids comment "I'm going to start playing the drums like you" then ringo's answer 'youlll never get any where if you play like me" that was great!
This was George's second Ric 12-string, a 360/12 "new style" production model that was persented to him by a Minneapolis music store owner in August 1965. It had the more rounded body, similar to the one Jim (Roger) McGuinn used with the Byrds. He played this one on "Rubber Soul" ("If I needed Someone"), "Revolver" ("Here, There and Everywhere" and the alternate Anthology version of "And Your Bird Can Sing") and on the final '66 tour. His first Ric 360/12 "old style" (with the pointed horns) was the 2nd prototype ever made, and given to him by Rickenbacker owner F.C. Hall when they were in New York for the Ed Sullivan Show in early 1964. That was the one used on many songs and tours in 1964-65 from "a Hard Day's Night" through "Ticket to Ride". The second Ric 360/12 was stolen some years later, but George kept the first one until he passed away, and his son Dani owns it now. Probably worth millions.
At 4:43....so THIS is where that photo of Ringo in The Beatles' 1966 tour program comes from! I knew Ringo looked familiar in this clip. Clicking on this video proved more of a revelation that I thought.
You can understand why the energy and enthusiasm plummeted quickly in pressers like this one. It took very little time for reporters to descend into asking trite questions about money and long hair, as well as fatuous nonsense about free time. Consider. The reporter questions about hair length started as soon as the boys broke through and continued unabated for years. Hearing the same tired questions repeated over and over must have been draining. For some reason, reporters couldn't come up with anything much outside of long hair, despite the fact that The Beatles were cultural icons who were changing popular music. Even excluding their musical greatness, the boys were more than capable of being open, charming and funny. So why those reporters resorted to hair hair hair is just so stupid.
I noticed as well how incredibly hostile the press had become towards them. I really think that The Beatles were a lot more controversial than what we are now told.
SOOOO many interesting questions to be asked... about songwriting process, studio work, arrangements, music in general, etc etc. Years wasted by the darn media on repetitive annoying boring questions 😒
I always cringe when hearing these daft questions. Why didn’t they ask questions how Lennon/McCartney wrote songs? Ringo and George’s musical tastes and influences? What Paul thinks of George as a songwriter, etc? Or even Vietnam?
They go on and on about their bastard hair. Every bloody press conference was like that. Their hair was great, but it became an obsession with journalists, like they couldn't think of anything else to say.
Yep! 😊 My 2 older sisters went to the concert at Met Stadium. I wasn't born till '68, but I clearly remember WDGY. If I'm not mistaken, this station began playing country music not too long afterwards.
The best press conference they did was In New York when they first landed in America. After that it seemed and it showed that the Beatles dreaded these press conferences. I mean, the questions are stupid...@ 2:30, "how can you sleep at night with that long hair". Really? I would've stood up and walked out.
And when John tried cheering him up by doing the "Shazamm" and "ZAP!"-things, Paul just gives him the "yeah, right -.-" look. Something was bothering him, he looked almost angry here.
"That's fab...that's great....you got one for me?". Lennon was jealous....I think Rickenbacker gave McCartney his 4001 bass around the same time. He began using it in recording sessions from late 1965 onwards almost exclusively until the early 80s. Harrison didn't use his Ricks much longer than 1966 for live shows, opting for Fender and Gibson.
George got the guitar... John took it, George couldn't get another Rickenbacker bc those guitars were not imported to the UK and, truthfully, none of them had enough $/£
@@skysmindgarden I doubt that. They tried to purchase a Greek island where they would all live together in '67. But Brian died, and I think that kind of ruined the plan. They also had some difficulties with the purchase.
