The Beatles - Nowhere Man (Live In Japan

[ben77114gaut]

vraiment un grand moment

[sinnjinnrui]

45年前の今日。

[Deel73]

this where he met yoko ono?

[KyleBusch18Rox]

@Deel73 No. Yoko was in London and John met her there.

[bbjvideos1]

where is this?

[Sarahjaneybabe]

*waves arm* *SCREAAAAAAMSS!*

[huntergruntetr123]

haaha (john waves) AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!

[ottofischer52]

and these fucking slit-eyes treated them like underdogs.as they are slaughtering whales now.

[dewojet76]

this concert was in 66



[Flissy1234]

Ahaha george at 00:12 is like "What the hell are you saying John? " XDD

[Masorik17]

Great! notice that the Japeneese audience is way more quite then any other

[TheDicamillo]

@Masorik17 They have manners.

[TheBeatles344]

I LOVE the live harmonies! They are brilliant!

[Doleafol]

This performance is better than their Munich performance. The sound system is better. The singing is more distinct and measured, which makes the harmonies crisper. George's solo has the lingering harmonic note too. 

[sodaproductions777]

your right

[henrylakad]

hey john was still chubby at that time :) i dont like his image in 1970.

[ChaosBunnis]

lol when he waved all the girls were like screaming as loud as they could

[shoa31]

The Beatles worked hard for us. They spent many hours of many years trying to find us new songs and new sounds. The Beatles are sincere and as one described Ringo Starr, "Their commitment to music is much bigger than their ego".

[robbieC971]

tht guitar john has is the same one he used at the rooftop concert, he got it sanded to tht white colour and he took the skratch pl8 off

thumbs up here! its the epiphone casino if anyone wondering

[Adys301]

sweet guitar

[crazylady857]

The conditions must have made it difficult to stay on key or even hear themselves very well. I noticed John gave up on trying to say anything because of the screaming. It must have been surreal!

[dandycandyman]

What does that mean? You sound like such an asshole, since you show you have no clue what Japan is like, besides the stupid stereotype. Think before you type something stupid and show what a clueless dipshit you are.

[horizontalman09]

The World's GREATEST Band

FULL STOP.... :-)

[Mexican122194]

Thumb this up if you think that  The Beatles are Great!! :)

[baseballeddie1177]

one of their best.

[underdog1945]

From watching the video, ive seen that their mics wobble, i have realized that it is not from the amps, but from the intense screaming of all the fans. no other band could pull something like that off.

[axc1080]

Lol George is so slick. When the mic like tilts in the other direction he just makes a quick move and pulls back to him. Like at 1:35

[happykilojoule]

This is from June 30 1966

[TimmyTheMunchlax]

The harmonies with the beatles are untouchable. :D

[mamflyer]

yeah, they are amazing doing the harmonies, and remember that they didnt have monitors to hear what they were singing

[VMATT500C]

I ONLY LIVE.............

[panacea999]

At the start George keeps looking at John....Are we good to go?

[ajptaylor]

That's how it is playing live if you want to be tight. Everybody watches the kick off guy. Nothing unusual in that.

[panacea999]

I know that i just think he looks impatient for John to stop messing about.

[ajptaylor]

The fact that his eyes dart back and forth from John's face and John's fretting hand indicate George is just trying to gauge when John will start the song.

Note that the song starts with simultaneous vocals with no instrument lead. You have to look at the lead guy if you want to be tight from the get go. Anybody who has played live knows that. Should he look at his shoes?

Stop projecting drama where it doesn't exist.

[ferrariman0]

john always would mess around

[LVEMEDO]

BEST BAND never too be equaled never too be forgotten the UNBEATABLE BEATLES

[strat8383]

sooo glad you critics can all do it better... the Beatles put it all together so well.

Your comments make a person wonder why JPG and R even bothered to get up in the morning.

[DYNODRUM]

We all need to to possibly realize -that playing "LIVE",Like this with extremely little in terms of amps, large sound system etc.etc Plus ECHO everywhere in these large places ,hearing deficits and on,were in no comparison to what all these noob bands today have along w/ colored tiolet paper ....

[kickassfan]

music innovators.period.

music history

[Floridaboy7777]

just for the record, the beatles werent singing "quietly".. the damn japanese tried to edit out the screaming, it didnt work so well :)

[brenonion]

really? where did you read that? i thought they were doing it quietly because they didn't want to botch the close harmonies... by this time their live show was lackluster because they hardly ever heard themselves

[Hippieness95]

beatles rock!!!

[CuyahogaMustang]

Is this concert on DVD yet ?

[248sqnrnewman]

yer it is on amazon mate 50 pound for dvd and the album with all the live in japan music on but its only avalible on english amazon.

[raulishoogallagher]

thanx for create oasis beatles !!

[ternak001]

They are tuned differently, anyone know how they're tuned in this concert?

[spectres00]

It sounds as though they're tuned down a semitone

[EVHSlightReturn]

Great song... Lennon/McCartney were just song-writing machines; I don't know how they did it and I'm jealous! Although not my favorite band overall the songwriting and variety of the Beatles music truly puts them in a top 5 list for overall appeal and influence in rock. Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Eddie Van Halen, Beatles... anybody think of a rock musician/group worthy of the 5th spot?

[4ourty5ive]

nirvana

[nerdz410]

JONAS BROTHERS

/sarcasm

/then suck balls, I hate them

[ElvishSpirit]

Nirvana def. They pretty much created the whole grunge and 90's rock scene.

[granbranfan]

The Killers!  But 1st not 5th....

[Ukingdja]

I'd personally have to go with Pink Floyd or the Who for number 5.

[EVHSlightReturn]

Yeah... good picks with David Gilmour and Pink Floyd's Music and The Who, who I haven't listened to much for quite a while until recently, were a diverse band and the ultimate "Anthem Song" Band with a different sound in the 60s compared to later years as the Beatles did.

[Ukingdja]

@EVHS

The Rolling Stones too. How did I forget them?

[bygot80]

The best song ever written !!

Je l'aime beacoup...

Vivan los Beatles

[y537d]

GREAT.

[bapyou]

Glorius.

[150titties]

Truly an amazing video,the Beatles were pioneers of rock&roll in the mid sixties,take a look at the two amps struggling to pump out 100 watts apiece and Ringo's 3 piece drum kit! Yet despite this poor equipment these four young guys sung perfect harmony in decent tune and did not miss a beat "LIVE" for God's sake. Simply amazing talent,who's going to fill there shoes? NOBODY! Thank God I was born in 1950 and grew up at the perfect time to see bands like this! Oooooohhhh what a lucky man I was.

[themike56]

i just wich i was so lucky man im 19 i grew listening the beatles they are amazing

[DYNODRUM]

a MUST REPLY TO TITTIES : tHEY WERE A great band live, in any way you cut it -imagine if all the shows they did were not drowned out w./ audience dribble...This is refreshing to hear / Bands today cant sing a lick and dont even know what Harmony iz.. ooh girl -TIT, TIT, TIT,......

[sigu655]

Paul's bass playing is fan-fucking-tastic. Amazing! Great!

[miluko3]

Like usual. ;]

[28if]

Note the tape was running slow so it's all a bit off.... still a great capture

[gullwing14]

good performance!

[PAULOcbi]

great playing ...beatles rock1

[Ms87GN]

.. great tune. great flick! .. thanks for sharing it.

[nickslick75]

I think the Beatles must have enjoyed Japan at this stage in their lives. Unlike the USA, these people knew when to shut up and listen, rather than screaming over the music.

[xavierbaudet]

In fact they were shocked because they still couldn't hear themselves and they were used to the audience drowning out their mistakes. If you check Paperback Writer in Japan you'll see George Harrison make a move to get the girls to scream during the chorus.

[tokyoisfun]

Actually they sound terrific. I'm aware that they complained a lot but maybe at this stage in their career they just really wanted to stop touring.

But, judging from this, they were spot on, singing some very difficult harmonies too, not missing a beat.

[Ppendu]

Although that's true, I also read that they found it quite confrontating to hear themselves perform and they weren't really proud of what they heard.

But who can tell the myths from the facts after all these years. If I could go to any concert, it would be Japan because you can hear something! (Not to mention cool rubber soul songs!)

[rafalweb]

1:52 - Wow , what harmony....

[MetalliLaucha]

There is one key... keep a good sound during rehearsal and you should sound good live. Of course... then there are engineers and whoever can screw up your sound, but in hands of capable people...

These guys were used to cutting there tracks half live... drums and rhythm section live, and vocals as well...

Wish bands did that today...

[flibideegibbit]

yes, 1966, the infamous tour

[zapspace]

Infamous? Why?

[rafalweb]

I think this was the tour during which Lennon said the Beatles were more popular than Jesus or bigger than Jesus, or something like that. That pissed a lot of people off, and they were burning Beatles records, etc.

[RocknFreakinRoll]

lol. i mean, damn i love Japan and all, but what a shame... the country of technics and just look at those microphones! were they so cheap or what?

pffff after all... The Beatles FOREVER!!!

[Earnest66]

You can make fire from two bits of wood....look at the source.

[OroborusFMA]

Watch out for those Japanese women John LOL.

[bakednfried]

DOESNT HAVE A POINT OF VIEW

KNOWS NOT WHERE HES GOING TO

ISNT HE A BIT LIKE YOUUU

and me....

[bertiersgurl246]

why is it that john always gets his own microphone and george n paul always has to share. Ringo just drums. lol. GO RINGO!

[TullinBlack]

Yeah... poor george btw. the mic truly hates him, it keeps turning xD

[miyavizim]

He's a real nowhere man living in his nowhere land

[redmustang03]

They sound great live, but you can tell by this they were tired from touring. I hope for those people who are over 50 and got to see them live Cherish the time you saw them every single day.

[fpetrozz]

Fuck that microphone man! its turning around all the time!

[Nastadamente]

The Beatles weren't virtuousos, nor were they a live band that had a chance to endlessly improve on the road. They suffered what most garage bands/teen idols had to deal with. Their music was secondary to endless travel to play to screaming audiences of teens. They were so famous that they spent most of their time cooped up and on the run.

[observingworld]

Nastadamente said "The Beatles weren't virtuousos, nor were they a live band that had a chance to endlessly improve on the road. "

The Beatles were actually a very tight band because they'd had years getting that way through practice in Liverpool and Hamburg before they were famous. You might be thinking that they got together as a band just before they landed for the first time in the US. Not so.

[Nastadamente]

The Beatles were a great band. To see them at their peak live check out the Royal Command Performance in late 1963.. the compromises of having to be the Beatles limited their abilities and enthusiasm for performing after that. You can see here the lack of enthusiasm but these are relatively competent but poorly prepared performances..unique because this is one of the few Beatles shows professionally recorded in it's entirety.

[cagy701]

Let me turn this down before I get in trouble. I've already gotten in trouble for learning the guitar solo on this song by neighbors...but I learned it on my Rickenbacker.

I'm cagy701. A die hard Beatles fan and an disaffected appartment dweller.

[mikey1829]

INCREDIBLE

[kickassfan]

this footage belongs to the evening performance summer 66

[nigefal]

jayus the acoustics/sound/intrusments or whatever sound crap no wonder they gave up touring so quickly

[BoostedInline6]

You have any idea how hard it is to perform live like that? Stop listening to the crap on MTV, it's all fake.

[reed14567]

amen man, MTV sucks nowadays.....im 14 and very few have respect for real music.

R etards

A ttempting

P oetry

[luiseno1960]

i agree....

[heyza12]

the way you say it makes it all the more fun to say

[oglockwood]

there is good rap, you know. and it was played on mtv in the early 90s. fucking idiot.

[GerwynG]

doesnt make you any better aguing about it. :)

[willashland]

ridiculous. there is good to be found in almost any genre. would you tell me that tupac, wu tang clan, and dr. dre didn't contribute anything to music?

[mrnovotny72]

Yes, I would

[emilyc9]

you're soooo ignorant!

its extremely hard to preform like that

and the beatles stopped preforming because their music got much deeper and much harder to sing live.

[xHenri]

And because touring is very tiring and the screaming girls get annoying after a while

[thinazzabird]

i have encountered this self-same dilemna xHenri- fortunately you have your mates to ease the sting of it- sort of- close the pod bay doors

[florcallejera]

one of the best bands of all time. thanks for the video!

[rocknroll137]

they are so cute

[adrian5b]

Great song

[oktabios]

si lo notan en el primer verso dejan de cantar !! por k perdieron la afinacion!!!

esto debido a los gritos!!

y lo malo k eran lso conciertos en aquel tiempo

[fpetrozz]

nunca dejan de cantar...se miran entre ellos porque ringo entró RE Lento!

Que no afinaban es seguro...y porque no tenian Retornos...

[GNRfan1969]

aw, poor George! the mic keeps movin on him.

[iwyarmy]

great video thanks for uploading this!

[Almybraga]

Lock these microphones please!!

[nyyterp]

I think this was the June 30 show. The other performance (the following night) of "Nowhere Man" had John singing wrong lyrics. After the "just sees what he want to see" line, John sings "isn't he a bit like me at all..." Paul & George sing the correct harmony, but John's gaffe threw them off for a bit.

[THeMaskedBlogCritic]

George looks completely bored at this point. Consider that at 19 you are told that you are going to tour the world and then you come to find that means be confined to hotel rooms day in and out with the same four guys. Every day. I'm suprised they made it as long as they did. Thanks for this clip. Great stuff!

[nyyterp]

By 1966, the group evolved so quickly, both musically and artistically, that they seemed really out of place still singing "Twist and Shout" and "Rock and Roll Music" in concert.

[garginshmunkle]

But they didnt play Twist and Shout in 1966

[FishbowlStudios]

actually, they did play "Rock and Roll Music to start off the show.

[JaimeChile]

yes, 1966 (june-july).

Soft version, I agree, I like this!

[WatchingTheWheels]

this version is very mellow and soft.. i like it!

[russelljdj]

If you consider the Primitive equipment, the mesely 100 watt amps, and in 1966 absolute distain of touring, and minimal effort these guys still sounded really good. Just think how much better if they wanted to put effort into it. Well see some of the 64-65 shows. Talent. Ya just can't beat it or fake it.

[bob46]

Great clip. Thanks for posting. One of my favorite songs

[rube87]

We're the first...right? :|

[BeatsonsGirl84]

I heard yesterday than Japan has the second biggest Beatles market in the world. Just thought I'd post that.

[begbieboy]

Wonderful, perfect!

[rayIII]

yup... no surprise you're the first comment, I posted it yesterday :p

[Beatlefan432]

Wow I'm supprised that I'm the first comment. I believe that every beatle song is better live and this song proves it.

[Beatlefan432]

I'm very supprised that I'm the first comment. This song, and every song of that metter, sounds even better live than on the records.