The Beatles - Candlestick Park - Part 4 (Last)

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[romans52345]

Every Time i hear Long Tall Sally i think of the Movie Predator 

[vitorbastos123]

Paul´s vocals in that show is awesone, never saw a person sings better

[OrpheusIsThe1]

Hey don't be sorry. We should be thanking you for just thinking of sharing this in the first place let alone taking the time and trouble to have actually put this on here. For years sI have wondered how they sounded at this gig, now thanks to you ~I know. BRILLIANT. Many many thanks from a Beatles fan.

[joedz2]

Paul asked Neil Aspinall to record this show as they thought it would be their last. The tape only lasted for 30 minutes so it ran out before the end of Long Tall Sally. There is no complete recording of this concert... sadly... :-(

[joedz2]

Paul asked Neil Aspinall to record this show as they thought it would be their last. The tape only lasted for 30 minutes so it ran out before the end of Long Tall Sally. There is no complete recording of this concert... sadly... :-(

[fruitsbasketsomah10]

too bad Long Tall Sally was cut off, but thanks for uploading these! :)

[ratchetxrc]

was this the last concert of the tour(im guessing it was) or did they just pull out?

[Yellyist]

Wow, Paul was in TOP vocal form this evening!

[Vitally14]

Looks like ill never know if john really played a riff from a day in a life when he exited the stage

[internazionalikos2]

@Vitally14 Just before leaving the stage, John Lennon teasingly played the opening bars of In My Life, before running off to join the rest of the group backstage. Not 100% sure, just read it somewhere

but i'm sure it wasn't a day in the life because of the time it was released (a day in the life released in sgt peppers in 1967and in my life in rubber soul in 1965)

[TheBlackbird2009]

GREAT STUFF! Really loved it, thank you so much!! Greatings from Argentina!

[njriley55]

Paul actually forgot one of the lyrics in Paperback Writer! He hardly ever did that! It was John who always screwed up the lyrics, esp. during Help! LOL!

[stupidseacucumber]

I remember this day as if it were just yesterday... none of you young people have any idea how amazing this show was. I was There and i sat 3rd row, seat 35. Wow this was the best day of my life! Let's hope that another band just like them comes about.

[manco82]

Imagine if The Beatles had proper equipment and less screaming fans how good this good have been.

[greenhalos725]

It's an honor to listen to this! XD

[Drummerkid461995]

Too bad we couldn't hear the rest of long tall sally and that little part of "in my life." Funny thing is, that after playing a little bit of In my life, they just gave up and walked off the stage.

[danthemankhan]

@Drummerkid461995 I have never heard they played "In My Life" at this or any other show. That seems like some revisionism some fan later invented sentimentally and you heard. It certainly doesn't sound like anything the Beatles themselves would come up with.

[Drummerkid461995]

@danthemankhan You're correct, they never played it live and it was never in their line up. All i'm saying is that they just played a "meager" bit of it, but that audio is lost as well as the rest of long tall sally.

[OropherThranduil]

@Drummerkid461995

NOOOO, they were already off the stage, john went back for a second and teased the audience with a little riff from in my life.

[Drummerkid461995]

@OropherThranduil Yes that's true, I just can't explain things well. 

[OropherThranduil]

@Drummerkid461995

What an asshole John was...

xDDDDD

[GeorgeHarrison00]

The Beatles gave their final full concert ever at Candlestick Park on August 29, 1966.

[stupidcrapcanyonlake]

lol at the begining of every one of these vids, paul says "we'd like to carry on now"

[elwin38]

@stupidcrapcanyonlake HE DID THAT THE ENTIRE TIME THEY TOURED LIVE. even when they were in hamburg in the very early yrs. if you notice paul did most of the talking on stage..period. he spoke for john(and ringo) when they lead off. george talked only when he did his songs.

[UliJones]

Paul McCartney asked Tony Barrow (press officer) to record the show. The tape cut out there because cassette's only lasted for 30mins back then.

[MrBeatlefan57]

I believe they did give it their all because they knew this show was going to be it...the last paying concert to be performed live. I think by 1966, the touring, controversies and screaming made them want to stop...but I dont see how a band exists if it never performs... live

[OropherThranduil]

you know this was their last concert because you can actually hear george do improvisations on day tripper and paperback writer.

[Rush1013]

I have a guitar shaped keychain that says "Here come the BEATLES" on one side and on the opposite it says "KYA Radio 1260 Welcomes The Beatles at Candlestick Park San Fransisco Monday August 29, 1966-8:00 PM" Does anyone know if this is worth anything?

[lakefloor]

To give a bit of insight to the original ending to this show, John ad-libed the guitar outro from In My Life at the end of this show and the Beatles took pictures of each other on the stage as to archive the end of their concert appearances, their farewell performance. I was hoping the snippet of In My Life was on hear, but hey beatle608 my hat is off to you. I've watched all 4 parts and can't thank you enough! Thanks for bringing back the magic!

[OropherThranduil]

@lakefloor

yeah, the damn tape run out right after the long tall sally intro, and mr neil aspinelli didn't change it around to record the rest of the song i think, i'm not sure it was neal, but pauls asked him to stand right before the stage with the recorder, and yeah, that's why we will never hear john play that little intro.

[lakefloor]

@OropherThranduil I was thinking it was Tony Barrow who recorded it at Paul's suggestion. Tony wrote the sleeve notes on the first few British albums. I may be wrong about this. Yea it would have been awesome to hear that little intro piece, but I'm happy to have this much.

[OropherThranduil]

@lakefloor

yeaaaah, it was tony, right, now that i hear the name, damn it he didn't change the tape, but with lasts the beatles were always mean, i mean on all their BBC appearances there was about 1 record played over 4 years, everything other live, and then, their last ever eppearance, they only had records, and one of them was drive my car, i mean they finally got to rubber soul and then they start playing recordfs instead of giving us a live performance of that great song.

[lakefloor]

No doubt about it, you could tell that the Beatles were giving all into this performance knowing that it was their last official concert.

[addylewis]

If you listen to the spoken intro to the last track you can tell Paul wanted to say "goodbye" to the fans but it just didn't come out...

[UliJones]

@addylewis

That's right. He stopped himself just in time. They never said 'Good Night/Good Bye' because that would've been a signal for the fans to leave and impede the bands escape plans.

[puzleman1]

THE GODS OF ROCK AND ROLL!!!!

[MrBeatlefan57]

Paul says he would like to "carry on" and "certainly", he means he wants to keep touring and playing live but Lennon and Harrison decided no and after this show at Candlestick, no more live shows.

[jeffthepoet]

Hi Mr Beatlefan57, Paul was referring to the kids sneaking on the outfield while cops chased them. It humored Ringo who turned around while drumming and laughed. I was at the show. It was funny watching the girls go crazy.

[OropherThranduil]

@MrBeatlefan57

except for the rooftop, which was the best last concert of all time.

[sokerplair]

this is like thebest performance of LONG TALL SALLY and its unfortunately cut

[OropherThranduil]

@sokerplair

naaah, it's one of the songs paul always ripped off completely, it always rocked hardcore, expecially back at the star club.

[carlos7217]

WE'D like to carry on,.....lol

[jeffthepoet]

Before "Paperback Writer" the kids sneaking on the outfield with cops chasing them give the Beatles pause to wonder if they'll "carry on" or "watch this...for a bit..."

[ibray25]

@jeffthepoet

I was one of the kids sneaking on the field. Cop chased me back to the outfield fence and escorted me off the field. Now that I'm older I realize how disruptive it was to the concert. At the time I was just a 16 year old kid kid who didn't know any better and wanted to get close to the band.

[gm2780]

I bet if John hadn't of been murdered they might of got back and did a few one off concerts like Live Aid or something but never a big reunion tour. That just didn't seem theyre style.Still can't believe that back in the day they would only play for around a half hour.Kind of like theyre Lp's at the time, John and Paul mainly splitting the vocal duties with a token George or Ringo number.

[nano952]

roof top was the last last  u know

[nano952]

last concert

[alonenjersey]

You wonder if they would have sounded halfway decent if they had the kind of amps that The Who had at that time.

[BillyRockfish]

No monitors . . . . no live mixers in 1966 . . poor Beatles half the time could never hear themselves . . . I grew up in San Rafael and was too little to go to that show. Too bad. At least I got to see the Giants wrap up the '89 pennant at the stick!

[Attila709]

too bad they didn't get just one Revolver song in there.

[Zazzauser]

Revolver songs are very complex... maybe so complex that performing them live couldn't sound very well... 1966 was an in-studio experiments year

[lilNJ64]

after 1966, the beatles only played one concert, and it was the rooftop. the albums revolver-abbey road were too hard to play live....let it be was going to be an album that they could use live, but then they broke up.

[unfortunatebeam]

@Zazzauser Most of them actually were just the standard lead guitar, rhythm guitar, bass, drums. I think they could have played a number of Revolver songs on stage.

[Zazzauser]

@unfortunatebeam You're right, but Revolver album is the reflexion of the bunch of sound experiments the Beatles made in '66 (vari-speeding, ADT) and, by the way, Revolver that's definitely not like one of their early albums. Many songs from Revolver are tought to play on stage with a satisfying result... Eleanor Rigby deserves a string quartet, I'm Only Sleeping features backwards guitar, in Love You To there's a sitar, For No One the French Horn...

[unfortunatebeam]

@Zazzauser But still, there are a number of them that COULD have been played even just with the four of them, but they didn't do ANY :(

Ringo and Paul should make up for this now while they still can! Paul can be lead guitar, Ringo can play rhythm guitar, Pete Best can do the drums, and, I don't know who could be the forth beatle playing bass? Billy Preston is dead, George Martin is too elderly. Any ideas?

[OrpheusIsThe1]

@unfortunatebeam How about Clapton on lead Ringo on drums Paul on bass andJulian Lennon on rythm???

[Pedro8190]

You mean Papaerback Writer? But it wasn't Revolver song. It was only 1966 song.

It really would've been great if there had been some Revolver songs. At least She Said She Said, And Your Bird Can Sing and Doctor Robert could've been easier to perform live.

[bigdunk9]

And Your Bird Can Sing and She Said She Said easier to perform live?! Haha, live versions would not have done those songs justice. They were written and recorded with the studio as another band member basically, such innovation and brilliance. Revolver is the best album of all time in my opinion.

[PirateDumbell]

or doctor robert

[Pedro8190]

Why not? They played Nowhere Man and Paperback Writer live and that was not very easy.

[dumbangel75]

@Attila709 I know, at least they performed Paperback Writer which is the closest thing to a Revolver song they did.

[douglasamarshall]

@dumbangel75 For all the hype about bad quality, I find the playing on these 4 part Candlestick Park concerts to be quite good. I don't know if the audience heard it with all the screaming, but what the person who recorded these is pretty good. Too bad it wasn't professionally recorded. BTW I saw the concert a year earlier at The Cow Palace.

[Fredrockroll]

@douglasamarshall one of the road crew (propably Neil Aspinall) was beside one of the P.A. with a recording machine. I belive that was Paul that asked him to do so.

[SunshineandBeer]

Thankyou for this - wonderful - can't get enough

[CastleOfThoughts]

Earlier, (in another 'part') McCartney said it was "chilly", and here he says, "Sorry about the weather." How is this Candlestickpark, where it was warm and sunny at their last concert? What "Sorry about the weather?"

[LBrilliante]

San Francisco is usually chilly jacket weather. It is the weather in the Bay Area which is not sunny southern california warm but kinda damp and chilly most of the time.

[BoogieWoogie1963]

This is really interesting. They had all decided together that this would be there last concert. There's a really nice story of all 4 of them taking a moment during this concert to take photo's, to have as a souveneir. After this concert the future was uncertain. Paul certainly wanted to carry on, but John had almost completely wiped away his sanity due to excessive LSD use, and needed to sort himself out.

[BoogieWoogie1963]

George was quite happy to give the whole thing up. It is reported that he said to the others- "thats it im not a Beatle anymore", after the concert had finished. It was very likely that The Beatles would split up in 66. If they had of done there legacy would have been secured due to there early impact, and the albums RUbber Soul and Revolver, but it would not have been the same.

[BoogieWoogie1963]

The Beatles took a risk giving up touring, they could have played it safe and continued to play gigs and make good money, but the music would have suffered. Instead they decided to focus on there art, and as a result, we have all the great music they produced after 1966.

[Zebonka]

I'm Down and Long Tall Sally may as well be the same song, hehe. Still, this is technically not I'm Down.

[Sphericalorb]

Isnt it I ironic it cuts just before John does a guitar solo?

[OropherThranduil]

why john?

[MICHITO62]

It´s cut. Oh shit !!!!!!

[jinxremovingxo]

on the monitors... Rodger Daltrey had a speaker placed in front of him pretty early on... so he could hear over the four stacks... 67/69 ? the three dog night had them in 69 too...

[russelljdj]

It was provided by McCune Sound Service.[2][ Bob Cavin, a former engineer at McCune Sound, designed the first monitor mixer designed expressly for foldback. He also designed the first foldback loudspeaker that had two different listening angles.

[russelljdj]

This is from Wikipedia:

In the early 60s, many sound engineers were wrestling with the problem of giving the artist enough of their own voice to stay in tune during a performance. Using foldback loudspeakers may have been developed independently by sound engineers in different cities who were trying to resolve this problem during the 60s. The 1st recorded time that a loudspeaker was used specifically for foldback was Judy Garland at the San Francisco Civic Auditorium on September 13, 1961. I

[aimtrue45]

Paul really gives it his all when he lauches into Long Tall Sally.

[OropherThranduil]

paul always gave everything onstage i think, but especially on long tall sally.

[thenintendogamer]

@aimtrue45 Yeah with tommorow never knows and strawberry fields forever and such but they could have played taxman or and your bird can sing couldn't they?

[XJNWS]

the last song isnt i'm down but long tall sally.

[jericho360]

Yeah, John, George and Ringo did not know he was going to sing it. It was a shock to them.

[BeatleSongPlayer]

Yeah, Paul (and the rest of them) knew this was their last show, so Paul wanted to end the show like they did in the "old days". He just didn't tell the others, but they picked up on it instantly (both songs are in the key of G) and knew where he was going with it.

[jericho360]

And it sounds like they can hear themselves in this concert, so it would have been easy to pick it up.

[ribs389]

Paperback Writer sounds great much better than the Japan shows.Don't think they ever had vocal monitors, with all the screaming they couldn't hear themselves.Their last gig and they sounded great!!

[beatle608]

Yeah, it wasn't to bad!

[vitorbastos123]

@beatle608 Hey man, in the description, you said it was I´m Down, but is Long Tall Sally!

[beatle608]

@vitorbastos123 you're right! thanks for the correction!

[Debbielein8190]

It must be difficult to sing when you can't hear your voice..

[LBrilliante]

Part of it was that there was a lot of noise.. but also the band was fairly uninterested in the performance. You can see how truly off put John is in particular. They're usually not putting themselves out to do these shows for sure. That being said.. the results are surprisingly competent if not inspired. Wow.. if this band had had the sound system McCartney had at Citi Field last week it would have been incredible.. they could have done all of Revolver in it's entirety... oh well...

[unfortunatebeam]

@LBrilliante well they could have done Revolver back then too if they wanted. How does having a better sound system change that?

[russelljdj]

Monitor Speakers were invented around 1970

[NoswalEvad]

The Stones used them when returning to the road in '69

[russelljdj]

You are correct sir. You know how it is when the years go rolling by. one flows into the next. they must have been "new" in 69? I'll have to research more. I should have said that they were put into use in 1970. Still wrong but I'm sure they were invented a couple years before and put into full use in 69. Thanks.

[LBrilliante]

ribs389. in the anthology.. ringo and paul say that, although not all of them agreed at how bad their performing was, the band had gotten together sometime during the 1966 tour and agreed they had to tighten up a bit. The Japanese shows sounded pretty lax and it seems they're a little tighter here not that the general sonic impact had changed. Too bad too... watching these 1966 performances on youtube i'm surprised at how good the band was.. if only they'd had decent sound systems!

[Voxac100b]

@ribs389 monitors used in this concert they are blasting my laptop speakers!

[ManBeatles]

why all songs they performed as same as the Japan tour in 1966?

[beatle608]

It's the same tour.

[GeorgeHarrison00]

@beatle608 its not! its in Budokan!

[russelljdj]

Actually The Difference is they Did I'm Down on The German, Japan, Philippine tour and Long Tall Sally on the US Tour.

[Pacolikespie1967]

It made me a little sad to not hear how it ended. But at least you had the whole shebang! Thanks!

[beatle608]

You bet!

[buggoff]

There's so much stuff out there on the Beatles...would be great to have them open the vaults and share it all. Thanks for posting this concert. Excellent stuff. Not a bad recording, either, considering the audience screams. The Beatles are actually audible here. As I understand that wasn't the case with most of their concerts.

[beatle608]

I do have some more rare stuff that I should upload. Thanks for the comment!

[buggoff]

Thanks! Could you let me know if you upload that rare stuff? Would like to check it out when you do!

[beatle608]

Sure, It may take a bit, I'll have to get to it.

[fireplace911]

yes it was cut because the recordist used a c60 cassette tape and the concert went for just over half an hour.

[beatle608]

Ohhhh. Ok, thanks!

[BeatlesForeverGirl]

Great!!