@@chasbodaniels1744 They were invented years later. At Shea Stadium they basically mic'ed the ams through the stadium's PA system. That same system they use to make announcements about lost children and stuff. It was abysmal.
@@jessereale Pete Best is like the man who let the woman behind him in line in a supermarket go ahead of him because she only had one item -- watches as the woman wins the grand prize as the one-millionth customer.
Francisco Mondragón Listen to what John sings; they’re replying with the wrong part. They sing “shake it up baby” after “you know you twist, little girl”, and then George sings “twist and shout” after “you know you twist so fine”, as Paul sings the correct lyrics.
1:32, I love how Ringo reacts to Pauls sudden ball squeeze and just plays the drum roll in time anyway ahaha if the drummer doesn't fuck up then you have no worries
Harrison Hazza Everyone else is wrong. John thought there was going to be a break for an instrumental solo, so he was confused when there wasn’t (when Paul kept singing).
No amateur band would accept the conditions under which the Beatles performed. Ringo couldn't hear the guitars or voices. He was just watching their asses moving. No monitors.
Sometimes the best part of being at a live gig is when there's a mistake or a technical glitch. Hot mic feedback, amp crackles, guitar string breaks, wrong chord, wrong words...... to be so polished and perfect live you might as well just play the record.
True. They were a very tight band, and this is not an obvious thing since they were using no gimmicks and 60's technology was paleolithic. Mistakes are human and you dont make mistakes unless you re a robot.
You gotta give it to them. No monitors, no in-ears and thousands of people constantly screaming. They could barely hear themselves and they still managed to pull it off.
@@garyroy6497 They never had any feed- back monitors which would have allowed them to hear what they were playing. At Shea stadium they used the PA monitors! One of the sad facts was by 1968 amps and monitors had developed and become more powerful allowing the musicians to hear what they were playing. But by that time the Beatles were on their way to ending as a band.
I’m addicted to this video.... Love watching John look at Paul Loved Ringo save the day, and his smile as he did Love George walking by the amplifier..... I keep this in my saved videos Tomorrow is John’s Birthday, miss you John Lennen
This is what I never understood!!! For me it's impossible to know where I am in the key if I can't hear myself, meanwhile Paul can sing the intro without so much as a reference note
Shai - Most of the crowd-noise is overdubbed, isn' it? And most of the bands from that period were much better musicians and played greater stuff than these childish songs...
@@senseichess8688 - It's simply the truth... Their audience was 14-year old little girls, what do you pretend? They played childish songs for children, what's the problem?
@@pit2ryan3 well if you thing i want to say I want to hold your hand is childish...ok and there were a few others like that but not alot...and they certainly changed rapidly to astonishing grown up songs very quickly
Okay, just to list the I'm Down Mistakes, Paul doesn't remember the words, John feeds him the intro, Paul comes in with the second verse instead, when it comes time for the actual second verse Paul likely realizes that he can't just repeat the second verse words that he's just done so he tried to swap out with the words of the first verse this second time around, dries up instead, Ringo laughs, they move on . . . . . while this is happening John is busy with George doing back up vocals and going chunka chunka chunka, the part of the clip where he [comically] immediately pull his hands behind his back and crosses them is likely the moment he realizes that he kept chunka chunkaing right through the beginning of George's guitar break. It was a cheese fest but it worked anyway because they were such a great band. I'm Down was fun clumsiness, their performance was still upbeat at this time, but it wasn't long before their performance diminished as their skills at being a band diminished on account of all the bedlam.
Ernesto Gasulla, that's exactly why they stopped touring. They cant hear themselves and coinsequently became careless and stopped practicing.. so they stopped touring.. I heard that from an interview of one them.
@@shoepermanbutthman2188 That's the sad bit really about the Beatles touring. By the end of the 60's amps and monitors had become more powerful, so would have allowed the Beatles to hear what they were singing and playing. But by then the Beatles had all but ended.
Louis Denaro you’ve got the bit about Paul not knowing the words all wrong, Paul knew the words fine, thing is that’s by this point in their career, they had made it. They were at the top and it really didn’t matter if they had some fun and messed around during live concerts, no one could hear them anyway. At the start, John being his silly self tells Paul to sing a funny line John had made up. Paul decides not to and sings the correct line, but the second verse he decides to do it but mid way through the last bit he starts laughing hence why he stops lol, so yeh that’s what happened with the lyrics
Definite mistakes everywhere-vocal flubs, wrong lyrics, wrong cords and guitars not tuned, but totally the Beatles-still the best ever and I would rather hear this than anything else today in pop music. They are so amazing!
No sound monitoring back in those days, playing to stadium size crowds screaming, no one could hear anything. Nobody cared. No one cares. But the mistakes show what great showmanship they had!!
The Beatles were the greatest band anywhere at anytime. They were the most important cultural phenomenon of the second half of the 20th century. It was always "bright confident morning" when the Beatles played. Finally I hope Paul and Ringo live forever. RIP John and George
YOUR mistake at 1:57: The Beatles seem to start "She's a Woman" but go into "Baby's in Black." In fact, it's a tape edit, since the original recording was botched for a few songs. It's just a clever tape segue, skipping the bad part. However, John did mess up a lyric during the opening song "Rock N' Roll Music" (John repeats a lyric and omits "I must admit they had a rocking band"). Also, you could have included a famous mistake from their 1966 Tokyo Budokan concert during "Day Tripper," when Paul hits the wrong bass chord.
Well nobody can ever accuse them of lip syncing.... Also, the fact that this video is only a couple minutes long shows that 99% of the time they were perfect on stage.
I find it quirky and cute when they messed up. It shows that even the most famous people can mess up. So we shouldn’t be worried about messing up in performances
I was 7 years old when me, my sister and my best friend Kevin and his family took us to see this little band at Shea Stadium in 1966. Tickets were an extraordinary 5 dollars. Unreal! YES I heard all their "mistakes" and I pointed them out to everyone who could hear me. Problem was no one COULD HEAR ME! The girls screaming like this is something you never forget. When I bought Live at the Hollywood Bowl LP in 1977 I blasted the speakers out my bedroom window on the second floor. All the teens in the neighbohood came over. I told them "THIS is what it sounded like at Shea on that rainy humid August night....but we couldn't hear the music as well!"
The fact that the Beatles are so incredibly famous that there are 565,000 views on this video of their screwups is mind blowing to me (in a good way). We as fans can’t get enough of even the most minute details of their existence. JPG&R forever!!!!
"I feel fine" the second time, the microphone of George and Paul wasn't active. John sang alone. Finally, after the second verse, the man behind the mixing console activated the microphone. This wasn't a mistake of the BEatles.
I remember playing in my band, singing Eric Clapton's "Wonderful tonight" I was singing lead and the drummer harmony. We got the two lines "... do I feel alright..." and "... do I look alright..." mixed up. It came out as "... do I f#@k alright... " The rest of the song was drowned in laughter! 🤣
I saw the Beatles live in Portland Oregon August 22, 1965. George was singing, but apparently forgot the words to part of the song. So, rather than stop, he continued on with sort of a la-la-la-la to try to cover the mistake. In another part of the show, while John was talking, Paul had a beverage cup in his hand and reached back to put it on top of a guitar amp. He misjudged and put it too close to the edge causing the cup to immediately fall off spilling the contents to the stage floor. Not sure whether he or the amp got splashed. He just laughed and returned to the mics for the next song.
It's funny seeing Paul and George both look at John at 0:17 as if to say, "what are you doing, man?" and John doesn't seem to understand what the problem is.
The Beatles gave live, friendly performances where they engaged with the audience and everyone had a good laugh. These weren't mistakes as such, more the result of them clowning around It's one of the reasons they were so very popular, especially before their got recording contracts.
The screaming is what caused most of the mistakes, John at one point looked like he doesn't know which part of the song they're on because he couldn't hear themselves too much screaming by the fans
There are some mistakes in the official studio albums here and there ... the one I remember now is in Hold Me Tight ... Paul starts one of the phrases “Tonight....” when he ALMOST went “me tight” instead but you can hear how he corrects himself in a split second and you can hear him singing the rest smiling more like stifling a laugh ! Hahaha. They sure had fun playing.
This was the main reason John and George, mainly, argued it was time to quit touring. The noise on stage was so bad they couldn't tell if they screwed up the songs or not -- it was killing their playing. Ironically, within a couple years after that (1969-70) much improved monitor speakers became available and it became possible to play basketball-sized arenas like Madison Square Garden with better sound.
