The Big Three - By The Way + Cavern Stomp - 1963 45rpm

[tony00165]

I think Epstein was frightened of them...once Brian had top executives in his office trying to impress..Bob Wooler and Ronnie Appleby were sitting in the corner Waiting to be asked into the conversation...suddenly without knocking the door burst open and Hutchie came in...he shouted to Brian Epstein....'Hey 'Arry..lend's a fiver and I'll let you feel my arse'......(gales of laughter when we heard about it)....Epstein was NOT impressed ....at all.

[kitcheneral]

I got see Griff play with his band when he moved to Canada in the 70s. He sure could play the guitar with style.

[pinchold]

A merseysound classic!

[harmusman]

Have left a response to these three on Tribute to Liverpool video and now have to say I'm glad I caught up with them again. I was impressed with them on that night in Finsbury Park and agree with others they were a great sound, pity they didn't come through with the rest of the Liverpool/Merseybeat sound as a group in their own right.

[frankiehiyo]

I had the chance to see the Big three on a few occasions. This was when they where doing the rounds in the early days of what is now called Merseybeat.

They where one of the better groups, and considering they where three in number, their sound was a class above most groups. A classic example of poor promotion and crap management.

[stuartgreece]

I remember dancing to this in Dumfries impressing the chicks,being from Liverpool was a blast in the 60s

[Krzyszczynski]

Quite right, todynewton - should have made that clearer. Epstein wanted them to do cheerful little pop numbers and/or standards like all his other groups. He never could understand that the Beatles were not the final product of pop's evolution, didn't like the Three as people and didn't take much trouble with them at all. The photo on the Cavern EP has them wearing the sweat-stained suits they'd just performed in. The Beatles in that situation would have had clean ones ferried to them!

[vietnamprom]

Would you have LP or CD of The Big Three Live at the Cavern? Can you post Bring It On Home To Me? with Bob Wooler announcing? One of my favorite track.

[Sids60sSounds]

Not got that one, matey. Good luck hunting

[yogiman333]

I thought along with the beatles and gerry and the pacemakers the best 3 merseyside groups in the early 60's

[taphn]

why didn't these guys makeit this is a great song

[por944dav]

@taphn , because they were swamped by other , more populist, groups like searchers, gerry and pacemakers etc. In Liverpool they were idolised.

[Krzyszczynski]

Unlucky with their time and place, these three. When at their peak it was the pop-oriented sound of Merseybeat that was in demand. (Listen to their records, and you can almost sense poor old Hutch wanting to give the drums a real bash, instead of just gently keeping time on the hi-hat and snare.) Two years later the wild sound and image they were more at ease with was being peddled by the Stones and the Who - and Liverpool was totally passe (even if they'd still been together by then).

[todynewton]

@Krzyszczynski They had to record such (classics) as ziperdy bloomon doo dar instead of their stage act,because that was what the manager wanted.