August is the absolute worst time to be at Candlestick. I know from many Giants' games that August nights are miserable. Cold, windy, foggy. The lads must have frozen.
Man. listen closely to George vamping on "Rock and Roll Music" thats some really great jam ... so much better than what was recorded on the original. Too bad they didnt try to record this professionally. The excuse was Crowd Noise.
@beatle608 George said to the others he was leaving the Beatles right after this concert ("That's it, i'm no longer a Beatle" was his words). And they were apart for a few months, in "vacations". So you can say they did, but never oficially, and got back afterwards.
reading comments left hear I see alot of people wonder why bigger amps couldn't have been used to project more. first lets be clear. no band had ever had to deal with the mass hysterics that were louder then the roar of jet engines before. and none had played huge baseball staidums either. no amp or team of them in 1963-1966 could overcome that. even the staidum p.a. system was useless in the onslaught. as with all things beatle they were the first at these things and tecnology lagged behind.
This is so amazing, the audio quality is quite good all things considered. Such a historic piece of rock n roll history. The last concert the Beatles ever played to a live audience (rooftop gig notwithstanding). For those of us too young to have ever had a chance to see them live this is the next best thing. Hearing this transports me right to 1966 on that August day in Candlestick Park and I am from Cleveland Ohio and born 11 years after this. Wow man!
@njriley55 As I understand it for '66 the Beatles did have on-stage monitors and their own sound system with Altec-Lansing amplified towers on the stage. So they did actually have the ability to sound good, unfortunately it was their last ever tour :(
I've got this on CD. It's called The Beatles at Shea Stadium. There's a CD and a DVD. The DVD and 1st part of the CD are the complete footage and audio from the Shea Stadium show in '65, along with a press conferance and clips from another Aerican concert. The 2nd half of the CD is this (The Beatles at Candlestick Park), the last ever Beatles performance. It's just a shame the quality isn't any clearer. But it's still historical never the less.
@chilibro Woodstock would have been great, but The Beatles had stopped touring in 1966.In August 1969 when Woodstock was happening The Beatles were in the studio recording their last album,Abbey Road,and then (sadly) preparing to break up.
@frankty67 oh yeah i know all that thanks i was just saying that it would of been cool if they did cause they were kind of the biggest band of the 60's (and for all of time and forever will be)
Im not sure if Weezer played at the '94 or '99 Woodstocks. But I believe both shows were released on dvd and you can check the the dvds or the internet.
dylan lived near woodstock at the time but didn't give a shit, he was rather annoyed by all the hippies hanging around before his door.
the beatles didn#t perform for obvious reasons, and the stones i think still hadn't come back to performing live, since taylor wasn' t in the band then.
@OropherThranduil The Rolling Stones live album 'Get yer ya ya's Out" (Live at Madison Square Garden), on the back of the record it was recorded Aug.28th and 29th 1969,with photos of Mick Taylor.And the Live at Hyde Park dvd (The Stones in the Park) was a July 1969 concert, Mick Taylors 1st ever appearence with the Stones a few days after Brian Jones died.So I guess the Stones were to busy the week/month of Woodstock to appear there.
I don't think early 1960s technology really allowed heavy loud bands at the time to play and sound good live.They only had stage amps.No PAs for stadiums.Kids screaming thru the whole show.And the songs advanced so much by even mid 1965 they were finding it hard to reproduce their new material live,properly with just 4 guys.Nowadays with tapes,sampling,extra musicians on stage it can be done. Check out Cheap Trick doing the whole Sgt. Pepper album live on dvd.They did a great job..With help
@frankty67 yes, indeed, the Rolling Stones definitely were some of the early rockers to take full advantage of the new sound systems in 1969. Get Your Ya Ya's Out was a million miles different than Got Live if You Want It which at best sounds like it was recorded inside a sardine can. Thank for the info Pienvla
got life actually consists at least for half of the album of studio overdubs and actually one studio song with screaming over it.
even the beach boys first live album has ,more real live playing on it.
and that one was actually tamed, the beach boys were, when brian was still their regular bass player,a ahrd rocking life force in 63/64, especially carl on the lead knew how to play a solo.
@zosohead Well.... Paul wrote Yesterday, Let it be, The long and winding road, Hey Jude, Eleanor Rigby, Here, there and everywhere, Penny Lane, The fool on the hill. John wrote Help, Lucy in the sky with diamonds, All you need is love, Julia, In my life, Nowhere man, Imagine, Across the universe. I would say that Lennon&McCartney was pretty damn talented! George was good too, but he wasn`t in John and Pauls league. No way! George wrote four classics for the Beatles, John and Paul 200!
@phillyphan814 Hi I dont think much footage exists of the historic concert, only the audio, there is snippets of it, try looking further on You Tube. Imagine this had happend now days, every tom dick and harry would have on there mobile phones.
@phillyphan814 You can see some of this concert footage in the Beatles Anthology dvd set. Check it out it's pretty awesome. Paul and John are cracking up the whole time. Later Paul said that they couldn't even hear themselves playing over the roar of the audience! After this concert Paul decided not to perform live (with the Beatles) anymore. Although they did produce many music videos, stand outs include Rain, Paperback writer, All You Need is Love, Hey Jude, etc..
I think it's interesting that they were able to give the performances they gave over all of the screaming considering they had no monitors whatsoever. It's tough enough now having monitors and playing in front of a drummer that likes to slam his drums. I would dare say, that if they had thought of developing a monitor system, so they could hear themselves, they may have performed live for a longer period and their history would have been totally different; and John Lennon would have lived longer
@DrRobertMPick i wasn't talking about lead vocals, talking about pauls backing vocals on the chorus!!!! so pauls vocals were awesome on 'if i needed someone' :))))))
@macteacher20 after all these yrs you still have your voice???LOL. i wasnt born yet (born in '68) but i'm a diehard fan and wish i could go in a time machine and been there. This turned out to be historic for NOBODY knew this was it! NO MORE TOURING EVER AGAIN!! I think deep down they already knew this was it.
Some wise owl (lord knows who now) said that when they came back from Hamburg The Beatles were without doubt the best live band in the UK - probably anywhere.Under threat by the KKK and under a barrage of screams they are tight and punchy.I love the later albums but it's a huge shame in so many ways that they stopped playing live here.
@SpamZoid Well, it would tear up the field for the 49ers in Aug/Sep. And no one in SF is going to go to the stick to see minor league baseball. It's a cold, miserable place in the spring and summer. Your players would hate you.
they knew this will be their last live concert for a long long time, so they really put everything into it, listen to day tripper and paperback writer, george is actually improvising some parts of his solos, and after long tall sally was finished john came back on and played the intro to in my life, but since the tape cut off trough long tall sally, which was only played because of the last concert thing, we will never hear john play that little riff to tease the audience.
You know how Paul says that "If I Needed Someone" was on the Rubber Soul LP? He was thinking of the UK Rubber Soul. It was actually on "Yesterday"... And Today in North America. But who cares honestly, just listen to the song!
Paul was Juiced! He sings "wrong" lyrics to She's a Woman, uncharacteristicly out of tune on If I Needed Someone, and he even forgot the name of the song "If I needed...uh...Someone" and such. He was high!
Paul sounds GREAT on If I Needed Someone. He's a bit tired granted, but he really hits those notes. Responsibly. Reliably. He's really powerful on that track, you can't deny this.
@LikeWiseLikeYou Listening to this again it sounds like Paul is singing a harmony in 3rds and 5ths or whatever on if I needed someone so he's technically not out of tune as I thought before. Problem is he's singing solo since I don't hear John and that accounts for him sounding "off". I think they were singing into separate mics and Johns mic was off as was typical they always had one dead mic. The audio on this is bad overall too. As for the rest he still sounds juiced.
Paul was so juiced during this concert! "Wrong" lyrics to She's a Woman, really out of tune harmony on If I Needed Someone and some wild bass lines. I thought it was John who usually was the wild one, but Paul is in this case.
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?
Great tape, but I thought it was John who was always getting the words wrong. This is about the fourth video I've seen where Paul screws up the words to his own songs. It''s "My love don't give me presents," Paul. I trust you're doing better at 68 giving two hour concerts than you were at 24 giving 20 minute howdy doody sessions.
Just think; At this point they weren`t selling out shows anymore. The stadiums were only half full which is one of the reasons they stopped touring. Is that messed up or what? People forget that from about 1966 till they broke up they weren`t that big and they were financially broke from Apple. It wasn`t until the late `70`s that people started getting into them again, buying the albums en masse that they started getting rich. Lennon was worth only 3 million when he died.
@Fritha71, you are indeed correct. In fact, the Beatles were the biggest band (and the most brilliant) in the world at the time of the 1966 Candlestick concert, what with landmark album, Revolver, and the singles Yellow Submarine, Eleanor Rigby topping the charts, and Taxman, She Said, She Said, Tomorrow Never Knows getting airplay in the then nascent FM alternative/rock/soul stations.
And the landmark Peppers, White, Abbey Road, and Let it Be were yet to come!
@JamesTKirkCobain: you are just plain wrong! The Beatles continued selling millions of albums during throughout the 1970s, and the among biggest albums of 1973 were "Beatles 1962-1966," and "Beatles 1967-1970," followed by "Red Rose Speedway, and "Living in the Material World," by the Macca and George respectively, both of which featured the number one hits, My Love and Give Me Love." PLEASE. LEARN YOUR HISTORY. As for Lennon, his estate in NEW YORK alone declared 5-6 million back in 1980!
August 29,1966......Paul asked press agent Tony Barrow to put his portable tape recorder next to one of the speakers before the concert...this is that tape...
Paul McCartney and his band will be in San Franciso, at now called "At&t Park" on July 10th. Hell ya I'm going...ok, so its not the Fab Four, butt I'll take it. Will be nice to be outside for that size of a concert...especially in SF.....I'm secretly stiLL going to scream out "RINGO..I love you"...........if not now,when???...........:o)
Stage amps got a little bigger, but to no avail....back then then was no real PA, no monitors(sides?), they piped the sound into the stadium's announcement horns-, it's a miracle 'cause it's sounds pretty good.
@egyptianminor It sounds good because there was monitors and a PA was installed they are not using the house P.A. it would have sounded much better if professionally recorded.
Paul McCartney will be performing at AT&T Park in San Francisco, California on Saturday, July 10, 2010. He just added 2 other concerts to his "Up and Coming Tour." The other concert added is at Rio Tinto Stadium in Sandy, Utah on Tuesday, July 13, 2010. It will be his first concert in Utah.
I think it was George, who first began to say he could no longer stand touring as early as 1965. I believe after the debacle in the Phillipines in the summer of 66 Lennon and Harrison told manager Brian Epstein no more touring.
It's little known that on some dates in the 1966 US Tour group had the pleasure of having a decent sound system including stage monitors. This was one of them.
This was The Beatles last live touring concert. They'd had enough by this point, of not being able to hear themselves and putting up with crazy places like the American bible belt. .
Well alright, but how to reproduce their "(post)Revolver tune"(multitracs etc.) on stage without using playback technique? IMHO that's one indication to answer the question: "Why did they stop thier live performances?" - Their songs just started getting too sophisticated (especially in terms of instrument usage).-mainly concerning thier psycedelic period.
Not only that, but really all their audiences wanted to do was just look at the group in person and that was it. Hell, they could have walked on stage without their guitars, shit in ziplock bags and the girls still would have screamed in approval.
You might as well have just found the winning Powerball ticket! I love hearing people finding something they totally lost or forgot about 40 years later and it's a priceless valuable! Congrats! What a find, eh? It's great that you are framing it for your son, but you do realize you can retire and buy an island now, right? lol
My auntie went to this concert and she discribed it like trying to listen to a transistor radio on the ground from 10 feet away. My dad always told me as a child that his mom wouldn't let him go because he was only 11 and he was freaked when I told him I found this...
Thanks for posting the music, beatle608. I had the fortune of being at this concert with my three older brothers. As a youngster, I laughed at all the crazy girls screaming their heads off. The boys took forever to come out, and the bands before them didn't interest me like the Cyrcle ("Red Rubber Ball"), Ronnettes, and Remains. Funny part during the Beatles was seeing the sneaks coming on the outfield with cops chasing after them. Ringo would turn around and laugh. Beatles rock!
Sound was good you can hear the echo bounce. clair brothers did the sound for a 66 show in Clevland told it was good but the best for audio was ATLANTA the year before 5000w system and you can hear the group during the gig say what a show!
Cuando cantan "baby s in black", Paul Mc Cartney lo tapa a John con su impresionante voz,...ni hablar del estribillo, en que llega a notas altas. así era el gordo...siempre demostraba que el era el mejor.
@baracuda5555 I especially like the harmonies in this version. They are not that audible in studio recording, but bad quality here makes us hear what a great job with the backing vocals was made by Paul.
They didn't take touring seriously. what is amazing is that they were sitting backstage at Shea Stadium (with the then record attendance) trying to decide what songs they might play.
Very cool you were there!! Didn't "The Remains" also play as an opening act? I know this because my middle school music teacher was the bass player in that band!
I believe the following songs the Beatles could've played live off Revolver were:Taxman,Here There And Everywhere,And This Bird Can Sing.Could have been played live.Songs like Tomorrow Never Knows,Elenor Rigby and When I'm Sleeping were too advanced to reproduce live.
Well, here is one fan who actually was there to witness the last Beatles concert 1966 SF.
I won 2 tickets on the Radio, took a friend and
had the time of our life. Looking back, we did not realize it was their last concert. We were "in the moment", screaming with the best of them. I will always remember being there, apart of history, and apart of Beatles-mania.
they KNEW it was going to be the last gig. That's one reason they attempted to play better than usual. In the anthology book, George says they all brought their own personal cameras with them on stage so they could all take a picture at the end of it.
now,where are the other parts? :-) The Beatles Forever!
7Nikola 3 weeks ago
August is the absolute worst time to be at Candlestick. I know from many Giants' games that August nights are miserable. Cold, windy, foggy. The lads must have frozen.
zazozung 1 month ago
Genial!! :)
MichaelBeatles 1 month ago
Man. listen closely to George vamping on "Rock and Roll Music" thats some really great jam ... so much better than what was recorded on the original. Too bad they didnt try to record this professionally. The excuse was Crowd Noise.
Mustangwild1 2 months ago
@Mustangwild1 I'd almost swear that Mick Taylor was back behind the curtain kickin out that jam.
Mustangwild1 1 month ago
yup... they tired of not hearing themselves play... sad
sneakerino 2 months ago
this was the last concert?
slash249 3 months ago
@slash249
Yes August 29th 1966
Chimbo65 1 month ago
They broke up after this show, even though I like the ablums released after this show than prior.
dvs2751 4 months ago
@dvs2751 They didn't break up after Candlestick!
beatle608 4 months ago 6
@beatle608 George said to the others he was leaving the Beatles right after this concert ("That's it, i'm no longer a Beatle" was his words). And they were apart for a few months, in "vacations". So you can say they did, but never oficially, and got back afterwards.
Fredrockroll 1 week ago in playlist Mais vídeos de beatle608
@dvs2751 They broke up in 1969 NOT 1966
breadboyplaysguitar 1 month ago
@dvs2751 they stopped touring after this one I believe, they didn't break up though
chriswba05170 1 month ago
I love when Paul says (or screams) ahhhhhh ahhhhhh ahhaaaha' ( 5:58 - 6:14 )
Especially during the ( 6:07 - 6:10 ) =P
Greetings from Brazil
guilhermevideira17 5 months ago
45 years ago today they played the last concert. Wow
Vitally14 5 months ago
I was there at Candlestick on 8/29/66.I had just turned 18,and had graduated
from high school in June.I was seated in the lower section on the 3rd base
side.The stage was erected at 2nd base.The stadium(home of the SF Giants
baseball) was only a little more than 1/2 full.The Beatles entered from the cen-
terfield area,driven in in a big silver-colored Armored-Truck.The girls screamed
so much throughout the show,it was difficult to hear the music.The Beatles
sounded much better on records.
loungerenownrecords 5 months ago
Paul outshines George on If I Needed Someone!
OtisBlue22 5 months ago
Correction: Elvis Presley was playing to ballparks packed with screaming teens ten years earlier!
OtisBlue22 5 months ago
sounds alot better than i expected it to
mosttiptoptopcat 5 months ago
reading comments left hear I see alot of people wonder why bigger amps couldn't have been used to project more. first lets be clear. no band had ever had to deal with the mass hysterics that were louder then the roar of jet engines before. and none had played huge baseball staidums either. no amp or team of them in 1963-1966 could overcome that. even the staidum p.a. system was useless in the onslaught. as with all things beatle they were the first at these things and tecnology lagged behind.
TheBabyboomkidof53 5 months ago
@TheBabyboomkidof53 very wel said!
charliedontsurf70 5 months ago
i love how they go ahh on if i needed someone
totaldrambeatles22 5 months ago
I think any actual footage I have seen shot of this show, was from some fan, on a home camera, and its very raw at that, but it's only snippets.
What I want to know, why was there no footage or audio captured of the Late 1965 final tour of Britain? I mean it don't exist, not one piece.
JRGrange25 7 months ago
@JRGrange25 The very last British concert would have been filmed if the stupid camera crews weren't on strike.
Attila709 7 months ago
Audio is post-processed.
Turned out good, well relatively.
Guess the purpose was to get more "live" feeling ( via wiiiide stereo ).
buildelectriccarsnow 8 months ago
Paul sounds like he's playing live from the moon
lupica747 8 months ago
You'd think after a couple years of being drowned out at every show they'd have invested in some decent amps.
NotADood 8 months ago
@NotADood probably didnt have the technology back in 65/66 to make big enough amps so they could hear themselves over 50,000 people
keithmoon1947 6 months ago
Aaah, the Dodge Dart Era, 1966 when the Beatles did their Swan Song Concert. Real treat, this. I just LOVE it! Makes you feel like you were there.
BeatleBangs1964 9 months ago
Wow, Paul was in top form that night. His voice is just great!
Yellyist 9 months ago
if i needed someone my favorite song :) im in love with song
misteriox90 9 months ago
If I needed someone is my favourite song off Rubber Soul. George was so underrepresented.
unfortunatebeam 9 months ago
@1olrocker,Nope there was not an advanced equipment to compete with all the screaming at the time.
zoyelque2009 9 months ago
This is so amazing, the audio quality is quite good all things considered. Such a historic piece of rock n roll history. The last concert the Beatles ever played to a live audience (rooftop gig notwithstanding). For those of us too young to have ever had a chance to see them live this is the next best thing. Hearing this transports me right to 1966 on that August day in Candlestick Park and I am from Cleveland Ohio and born 11 years after this. Wow man!
1olrocker 9 months ago
if i could've heard "if i needed someone" live i would be happy for the rest of my life and i'd never stop bragging about it
jajerome2011 9 months ago
God bless. Where the hell are the drums?
alonenjersey 9 months ago
So sad, this was their last real concert together (I don't count the rooftop on Savile Row)
njriley55 10 months ago
Paul is screaming over George in "If I Needed Someone"
myrtlebox 11 months ago
@myrtlebox They could barely hear themselves sing (no monitors) and George wasn't singing loud enough. I'm surprised they sound as good as they do!
Wonder why Paul changed the word 'give' to 'buy' in She's a Woman?
njriley55 10 months ago
@njriley55 As I understand it for '66 the Beatles did have on-stage monitors and their own sound system with Altec-Lansing amplified towers on the stage. So they did actually have the ability to sound good, unfortunately it was their last ever tour :(
1olrocker 9 months ago
I wonder if anyone other than The Beatles knew that this show was the end of the line for Beatles concerts?
richard42960 11 months ago
@richard42960 Certainly folks like Brian Epstein, Tony Barrow, Mel Evans, Alf Bicknell & Tony Bramwell.
alonenjersey 10 months ago
Last concert ever :(
TheBEATLESMania100 11 months ago
What, if they played "tomorrow never knows" at this fuckin' nice sound
Milzililili99 1 year ago 2
If I Needed Someone is so Psycodelic!!!
guilhermevideira17 1 year ago 22
@guilhermevideira17 yep sounds like a little psycadelic. A hint of the direction they were headed.
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Daytripperify 1 year ago
I've got this on CD. It's called The Beatles at Shea Stadium. There's a CD and a DVD. The DVD and 1st part of the CD are the complete footage and audio from the Shea Stadium show in '65, along with a press conferance and clips from another Aerican concert. The 2nd half of the CD is this (The Beatles at Candlestick Park), the last ever Beatles performance. It's just a shame the quality isn't any clearer. But it's still historical never the less.
TheComedyChannelUK 1 year ago
if they only played woodstock as last concert
chilibro 1 year ago
@chilibro Woodstock would have been great, but The Beatles had stopped touring in 1966.In August 1969 when Woodstock was happening The Beatles were in the studio recording their last album,Abbey Road,and then (sadly) preparing to break up.
frankty67 11 months ago
@frankty67 oh yeah i know all that thanks i was just saying that it would of been cool if they did cause they were kind of the biggest band of the 60's (and for all of time and forever will be)
chilibro 11 months ago
chilibro Why the 3 biggest artists of the day,The Beatles,The Stones,and Dylan, never made it to Woodstock is strange.
Its also weird that when people mention Woodstock they always mean the original 1969 show.Never 1994 or 1999. I guess we all know why...
frankty67 11 months ago
@frankty67 i didnt know there was one in 94 and 99 do you know if weezer happened to play at one or both of them
chilibro 11 months ago
Im not sure if Weezer played at the '94 or '99 Woodstocks. But I believe both shows were released on dvd and you can check the the dvds or the internet.
frankty67 11 months ago
@frankty67
dylan lived near woodstock at the time but didn't give a shit, he was rather annoyed by all the hippies hanging around before his door.
the beatles didn#t perform for obvious reasons, and the stones i think still hadn't come back to performing live, since taylor wasn' t in the band then.
OropherThranduil 10 months ago
@OropherThranduil The Rolling Stones live album 'Get yer ya ya's Out" (Live at Madison Square Garden), on the back of the record it was recorded Aug.28th and 29th 1969,with photos of Mick Taylor.And the Live at Hyde Park dvd (The Stones in the Park) was a July 1969 concert, Mick Taylors 1st ever appearence with the Stones a few days after Brian Jones died.So I guess the Stones were to busy the week/month of Woodstock to appear there.
frankty67 10 months ago
The Masters. What more need be said.
pienivla 1 year ago
@pienivla mediocre at best when live, that;s why they stopped play live.
great in studio but who can live in a fish bowl, not even a gold fish!
"Great formulaic songs but I don't think it was my best" -john lennon (1980)
pachacutti 1 year ago
I don't think early 1960s technology really allowed heavy loud bands at the time to play and sound good live.They only had stage amps.No PAs for stadiums.Kids screaming thru the whole show.And the songs advanced so much by even mid 1965 they were finding it hard to reproduce their new material live,properly with just 4 guys.Nowadays with tapes,sampling,extra musicians on stage it can be done. Check out Cheap Trick doing the whole Sgt. Pepper album live on dvd.They did a great job..With help
frankty67 11 months ago
@frankty67 yes, indeed, the Rolling Stones definitely were some of the early rockers to take full advantage of the new sound systems in 1969. Get Your Ya Ya's Out was a million miles different than Got Live if You Want It which at best sounds like it was recorded inside a sardine can. Thank for the info Pienvla
pachacutti 11 months ago
@pachacutti
got life actually consists at least for half of the album of studio overdubs and actually one studio song with screaming over it.
even the beach boys first live album has ,more real live playing on it.
and that one was actually tamed, the beach boys were, when brian was still their regular bass player,a ahrd rocking life force in 63/64, especially carl on the lead knew how to play a solo.
OropherThranduil 10 months ago
poor pauls voice was badly strained.
Kevvrock1208 1 year ago
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If I needed Someone sounded the best. George had more talent and class than Lennon and McCartney combined.
zosohead 1 year ago
If I needed Someone sounded the best. George had more talent and clas than Lennon and McCartney combined.
zosohead 1 year ago
@zosohead Yes he did but sadly he didnt get as much attention as they did.
BL80488 1 year ago
@zosohead Well.... Paul wrote Yesterday, Let it be, The long and winding road, Hey Jude, Eleanor Rigby, Here, there and everywhere, Penny Lane, The fool on the hill. John wrote Help, Lucy in the sky with diamonds, All you need is love, Julia, In my life, Nowhere man, Imagine, Across the universe. I would say that Lennon&McCartney was pretty damn talented! George was good too, but he wasn`t in John and Pauls league. No way! George wrote four classics for the Beatles, John and Paul 200!
Yellyist 9 months ago
Happy Birthday John :))
thebigsuperbeatle 1 year ago
THe beatles are the best band in the world do have any footage
phillyphan814 1 year ago 19
@phillyphan814 Sadly I don't, just the audio, thanks for watching!
beatle608 1 year ago
@phillyphan814 Hi I dont think much footage exists of the historic concert, only the audio, there is snippets of it, try looking further on You Tube. Imagine this had happend now days, every tom dick and harry would have on there mobile phones.
JRGrange25 1 year ago
@phillyphan814 You can see some of this concert footage in the Beatles Anthology dvd set. Check it out it's pretty awesome. Paul and John are cracking up the whole time. Later Paul said that they couldn't even hear themselves playing over the roar of the audience! After this concert Paul decided not to perform live (with the Beatles) anymore. Although they did produce many music videos, stand outs include Rain, Paperback writer, All You Need is Love, Hey Jude, etc..
surfitbig 7 months ago
The Beatles last live concert then 3 later they played their last live performance in their whole career 3 years later in 69
TheBEATLESMania100 1 year ago
I think it's interesting that they were able to give the performances they gave over all of the screaming considering they had no monitors whatsoever. It's tough enough now having monitors and playing in front of a drummer that likes to slam his drums. I would dare say, that if they had thought of developing a monitor system, so they could hear themselves, they may have performed live for a longer period and their history would have been totally different; and John Lennon would have lived longer
jsmyers24151 1 year ago
@jsmyers24151 hi monitors were used in this concert have a look at the orig film. ALTEC Lansing 9844 speakers. The amps were not mic'd up though.
Voxac100b 1 year ago
For Reneeperezz a month ago - it was George who sang "If I Needed Someone" not Paul.
DrRobertMPick 1 year ago
@DrRobertMPick i wasn't talking about lead vocals, talking about pauls backing vocals on the chorus!!!! so pauls vocals were awesome on 'if i needed someone' :))))))
reneperezz 10 months ago
I was ONE of those screamin' girls at Candlestick Park and proud of it! Beatles 4 ever.....
macteacher20 1 year ago
@macteacher20 after all these yrs you still have your voice???LOL. i wasnt born yet (born in '68) but i'm a diehard fan and wish i could go in a time machine and been there. This turned out to be historic for NOBODY knew this was it! NO MORE TOURING EVER AGAIN!! I think deep down they already knew this was it.
elwin38 1 year ago
los mejoress 4ever!!!!
rastukizgz 1 year ago
The last publoic conecert!
Que privilegiadoslos que estuvieron allí!
Yo teníameses de vida...
primaveraIII 1 year ago
Some wise owl (lord knows who now) said that when they came back from Hamburg The Beatles were without doubt the best live band in the UK - probably anywhere.Under threat by the KKK and under a barrage of screams they are tight and punchy.I love the later albums but it's a huge shame in so many ways that they stopped playing live here.
fendermac 1 year ago
So cool to hear this historic performance!
JohnNiemsMusic 1 year ago
pauls vocals on if i needed someone are sweeeet
reneperezz 1 year ago
does anyone know if baseball could be played at candlestick park again?. im minor leauge manager and im interested in having my team play there.
SpamZoid 1 year ago
@SpamZoid Well, it would tear up the field for the 49ers in Aug/Sep. And no one in SF is going to go to the stick to see minor league baseball. It's a cold, miserable place in the spring and summer. Your players would hate you.
zazozung 1 year ago
@zazozung
How will it tear up the field for the 49ers, Isnt that place switchable from football to baseball. Vice Versa?
SpamZoid 1 year ago
I was born on the 30th anniversary of this concert!!!
zackbeatle64 1 year ago
they knew this will be their last live concert for a long long time, so they really put everything into it, listen to day tripper and paperback writer, george is actually improvising some parts of his solos, and after long tall sally was finished john came back on and played the intro to in my life, but since the tape cut off trough long tall sally, which was only played because of the last concert thing, we will never hear john play that little riff to tease the audience.
OropherThranduil 1 year ago
You know how Paul says that "If I Needed Someone" was on the Rubber Soul LP? He was thinking of the UK Rubber Soul. It was actually on "Yesterday"... And Today in North America. But who cares honestly, just listen to the song!
FRE1991DDIE 1 year ago
'my love don't "BUY" me presents'. I love it!
thegernblanston 1 year ago
Paul was Juiced! He sings "wrong" lyrics to She's a Woman, uncharacteristicly out of tune on If I Needed Someone, and he even forgot the name of the song "If I needed...uh...Someone" and such. He was high!
GHR1227 1 year ago
@GHR1227
Whoa, whoa... what are you talking about??
Paul sounds GREAT on If I Needed Someone. He's a bit tired granted, but he really hits those notes. Responsibly. Reliably. He's really powerful on that track, you can't deny this.
LikeWiseLikeYou 1 year ago
@LikeWiseLikeYou Listening to this again it sounds like Paul is singing a harmony in 3rds and 5ths or whatever on if I needed someone so he's technically not out of tune as I thought before. Problem is he's singing solo since I don't hear John and that accounts for him sounding "off". I think they were singing into separate mics and Johns mic was off as was typical they always had one dead mic. The audio on this is bad overall too. As for the rest he still sounds juiced.
GHR1227 1 year ago
@GHR1227 pity this wasn't professionally recorded. 5 mics where used. which was luxury for the band!
Voxac100b 1 year ago
Paul was so juiced during this concert! "Wrong" lyrics to She's a Woman, really out of tune harmony on If I Needed Someone and some wild bass lines. I thought it was John who usually was the wild one, but Paul is in this case.
GHR1227 1 year ago 2
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?
Rush1013 1 year ago
@Rush1013
If it's in decent shape, probably quite a bit.
RollingOrmond 1 year ago
@RollingOrmond
its in perfect shape, thats why i think it might be a reproduction. I bought it at a garage sale and they guy said he knew nothing about it.
Rush1013 1 year ago
@Rush1013
Yeah, forty-four years later and in perfect shape suspicious. Still, take it to a Rock memoribilia place to be sure.
RollingOrmond 1 year ago
Great tape, but I thought it was John who was always getting the words wrong. This is about the fourth video I've seen where Paul screws up the words to his own songs. It''s "My love don't give me presents," Paul. I trust you're doing better at 68 giving two hour concerts than you were at 24 giving 20 minute howdy doody sessions.
Tidsch 1 year ago
i love the echo in this field
anothercrazyguru66 1 year ago
I know why they broke up the fans are so load u can barley hear them play. imagine hearing that everyday for 9 years
grgharrison9 1 year ago
Just think; At this point they weren`t selling out shows anymore. The stadiums were only half full which is one of the reasons they stopped touring. Is that messed up or what? People forget that from about 1966 till they broke up they weren`t that big and they were financially broke from Apple. It wasn`t until the late `70`s that people started getting into them again, buying the albums en masse that they started getting rich. Lennon was worth only 3 million when he died.
JamesTKirkCobain 1 year ago
@JamesTKirkCobain
Wow, that takes guts to tell how people really felt about the Beatles instead of just spinning the usual 'revered always' myths.
RollingOrmond 1 year ago
@JamesTKirkCobain Umm, Sgt Pepper was big alright......they were HUGE in 1967! Had they toured then woah, but they didn't, they could afford not to.
Fritha71 1 year ago
@Fritha71, you are indeed correct. In fact, the Beatles were the biggest band (and the most brilliant) in the world at the time of the 1966 Candlestick concert, what with landmark album, Revolver, and the singles Yellow Submarine, Eleanor Rigby topping the charts, and Taxman, She Said, She Said, Tomorrow Never Knows getting airplay in the then nascent FM alternative/rock/soul stations.
And the landmark Peppers, White, Abbey Road, and Let it Be were yet to come!
jaimeguitar50 1 year ago
@JamesTKirkCobain: you are just plain wrong! The Beatles continued selling millions of albums during throughout the 1970s, and the among biggest albums of 1973 were "Beatles 1962-1966," and "Beatles 1967-1970," followed by "Red Rose Speedway, and "Living in the Material World," by the Macca and George respectively, both of which featured the number one hits, My Love and Give Me Love." PLEASE. LEARN YOUR HISTORY. As for Lennon, his estate in NEW YORK alone declared 5-6 million back in 1980!
jaimeguitar50 1 year ago
August 29,1966......Paul asked press agent Tony Barrow to put his portable tape recorder next to one of the speakers before the concert...this is that tape...
beatlejim64 1 year ago
Paul McCartney and his band will be in San Franciso, at now called "At&t Park" on July 10th. Hell ya I'm going...ok, so its not the Fab Four, butt I'll take it. Will be nice to be outside for that size of a concert...especially in SF.....I'm secretly stiLL going to scream out "RINGO..I love you"...........if not now,when???...........:o)
MissSusieQue1 1 year ago
Stage amps got a little bigger, but to no avail....back then then was no real PA, no monitors(sides?), they piped the sound into the stadium's announcement horns-, it's a miracle 'cause it's sounds pretty good.
egyptianminor 1 year ago
@egyptianminor It sounds good because there was monitors and a PA was installed they are not using the house P.A. it would have sounded much better if professionally recorded.
Voxac100b 1 year ago
Paul McCartney will be performing at AT&T Park in San Francisco, California on Saturday, July 10, 2010. He just added 2 other concerts to his "Up and Coming Tour." The other concert added is at Rio Tinto Stadium in Sandy, Utah on Tuesday, July 13, 2010. It will be his first concert in Utah.
yerblues1968 1 year ago
I was at this concert, my first one. My mother took me, God bless her and the worlds greatest band!
qhgypsy 1 year ago
is the last beatles concert
fedesofidanimarce 1 year ago
its so rediculous they never were able to play the albums live from after this period. I think people would have killed to see them play sgt peppers.
tonyrosam 1 year ago
They were rockin' at this show! Cool upload.
BarryDennen12 1 year ago
I think it was George, who first began to say he could no longer stand touring as early as 1965. I believe after the debacle in the Phillipines in the summer of 66 Lennon and Harrison told manager Brian Epstein no more touring.
MrBeatlefan57 1 year ago
They were not singing at that concert ;)
tbag010 1 year ago
They sure do look stoned in that picture at 4:00 - especially George!
goodhumourman 1 year ago
they were stoned 24/7
southplnk 1 year ago
It's little known that on some dates in the 1966 US Tour group had the pleasure of having a decent sound system including stage monitors. This was one of them.
Ottoboy111 1 year ago
Yes by all accounts the sound was good I think the PA wattage was around the 1100 mark and the wind was blowing in the right direction.
Voxac100b 1 year ago
I LOVE THE BEATLES!!!
startledmonkey 2 years ago
This was The Beatles last live touring concert. They'd had enough by this point, of not being able to hear themselves and putting up with crazy places like the American bible belt. .
ViciousMandy 2 years ago
not being mean... but paul definetly overdid "If I needed someone"...
Kevvrock1208 2 years ago
If I needed Someone's intro is just so... just... so cosmically marvelous.
buzonperiodista 2 years ago 3
Wow, superb!
sbbinahee 2 years ago
George will always be a better guitar player plan he's given credit for. Listen for the fills and notes he plays as John holds down the rhythum.
WillieDangerously 2 years ago 2
Man, it's so hard to comprehend that Revolver had already been released by this concert. Here they're mostly performing songs from '64-'65.
crazydude235 2 years ago
Well alright, but how to reproduce their "(post)Revolver tune"(multitracs etc.) on stage without using playback technique? IMHO that's one indication to answer the question: "Why did they stop thier live performances?" - Their songs just started getting too sophisticated (especially in terms of instrument usage).-mainly concerning thier psycedelic period.
blondauge 2 years ago
Not only that, but really all their audiences wanted to do was just look at the group in person and that was it. Hell, they could have walked on stage without their guitars, shit in ziplock bags and the girls still would have screamed in approval.
petsounds75 2 years ago 2
Great stuff !!! Great live recording considering the technology available at the time; and don't the guitars sound great ! Regards.
Splitskirts 2 years ago
I was at this show and had a blast !
A year ago I found my ticket to this show plus the program that they gave out.
The program is large with many pages and
Photos . The ticket was from the old KYA
Radio here in San Francisco.
I put them in a frame for my son!
Richard1952Tele 2 years ago 21
Hey guy! You are a lucky man. Congratulations because you made a part of the history.
ccbgable 2 years ago
lucky son
dhaliwalia 2 years ago
@Richard1952Tele
You might as well have just found the winning Powerball ticket! I love hearing people finding something they totally lost or forgot about 40 years later and it's a priceless valuable! Congrats! What a find, eh? It's great that you are framing it for your son, but you do realize you can retire and buy an island now, right? lol
1olrocker 1 year ago
@Richard1952Tele u were at a beatles concert and i didnt T__T
LordEizen 1 year ago
@Richard1952Tele Its crazy how you have the privilege of saying you went to the last Beatles concert
annshshs 1 year ago
@Richard1952Tele My God!!!....you re soooooo lucky!
alemaldonado 1 year ago
heard paul at coachella...still rocking....great voice....great spirit....dare i say thank the Lord for the Beatles?
deserteacher 2 years ago 4
no need to dare, say it loud and proud!
beatle608 2 years ago 3
fuck jesus thank Lennon!
tonyrosam 1 year ago
@tonyrosam i actually do appreciate lennon. doesn't mean i can't also love Jesus.
deserteacher 1 year ago
THE BEATLES : ]
722erodz 2 years ago
yes, the best!
beatle608 2 years ago
Lennon used to swear in songs all the time,he knew no 1 could hear what he was sayin anyway...
carlos7217 2 years ago
Ringo used to say that the only way he could tell a song was ending was by watching Paul's ass. love it.
bucks1955mjm 2 years ago 3
My auntie went to this concert and she discribed it like trying to listen to a transistor radio on the ground from 10 feet away. My dad always told me as a child that his mom wouldn't let him go because he was only 11 and he was freaked when I told him I found this...
KRAZYCorps 2 years ago
Thanks for posting the music, beatle608. I had the fortune of being at this concert with my three older brothers. As a youngster, I laughed at all the crazy girls screaming their heads off. The boys took forever to come out, and the bands before them didn't interest me like the Cyrcle ("Red Rubber Ball"), Ronnettes, and Remains. Funny part during the Beatles was seeing the sneaks coming on the outfield with cops chasing after them. Ringo would turn around and laugh. Beatles rock!
jeffthepoet 2 years ago
No problem! Thanks for watching the videos, and I always like to hear these stories!
beatle608 2 years ago
i was there : ]
722erodz 2 years ago 2
lucky :) was it loud?
startledmonkey 2 years ago
no i was just joking. i know i shouldn't joke like that with THE BEATLES. BEATLES FOREVER : ]
722erodz 2 years ago
i wasn't born yet either. lol.
722erodz 2 years ago
wish i could go back in time with THE BEATLES : ]
722erodz 2 years ago
Sound was good you can hear the echo bounce. clair brothers did the sound for a 66 show in Clevland told it was good but the best for audio was ATLANTA the year before 5000w system and you can hear the group during the gig say what a show!
Voxac100b 1 year ago
Cuando cantan "baby s in black", Paul Mc Cartney lo tapa a John con su impresionante voz,...ni hablar del estribillo, en que llega a notas altas. así era el gordo...siempre demostraba que el era el mejor.
angelbassman 2 years ago
on 1:35 next to johns face does it say paul is dead?!?!?!?!?!
ACDC983 2 years ago
Jesus Christ, I can't hear a damn thing over that screaming!
FetaCheese222 2 years ago
This live version of "If I needed someone" is well played and sung.
baracuda5555 2 years ago 10
of course... I mean it's the Beatles :D
beatlesbassboy 2 years ago
@baracuda5555 I especially like the harmonies in this version. They are not that audible in studio recording, but bad quality here makes us hear what a great job with the backing vocals was made by Paul.
ChingizKahn 1 year ago
rock and roll music is my favorite song the beatles played in concert
TheBeatle65 2 years ago 2
Can anybody tell me why Ronnie Spector did not appear with The Ronettes while opening for The Beatles on this leg of tour?
alonenjersey 2 years ago
rock and roll music, love that one
WiltatKansas 2 years ago
They didn't take touring seriously. what is amazing is that they were sitting backstage at Shea Stadium (with the then record attendance) trying to decide what songs they might play.
lakefloor 2 years ago
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stillaCAgirl 2 years ago
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stillaCAgirl 2 years ago
Very cool you were there!! Didn't "The Remains" also play as an opening act? I know this because my middle school music teacher was the bass player in that band!
pogoleetas 2 years ago
Are you serious? that's pretty cool.
lakefloor 2 years ago
The Remains are a cult band
dummytree 2 years ago
I believe the following songs the Beatles could've played live off Revolver were:Taxman,Here There And Everywhere,And This Bird Can Sing.Could have been played live.Songs like Tomorrow Never Knows,Elenor Rigby and When I'm Sleeping were too advanced to reproduce live.
choadman1 2 years ago
Yeah I always wondered why they didn't at least make an attempt to play some of the "simpler" songs from Revolver.
Apparently they were considering doing a version of Yellow Submarine but it didn't work out.
Marcuskristicus 2 years ago
Well, here is one fan who actually was there to witness the last Beatles concert 1966 SF.
I won 2 tickets on the Radio, took a friend and
had the time of our life. Looking back, we did not realize it was their last concert. We were "in the moment", screaming with the best of them. I will always remember being there, apart of history, and apart of Beatles-mania.
stillaCAgirl 2 years ago 3
You still have your ticket stubs? What section where you in and who was the opening act?
5inthehole 2 years ago
i can see why they'd wanna stop touring. too loud to hear yourself
lova88oasisyennilyla 2 years ago
they KNEW it was going to be the last gig. That's one reason they attempted to play better than usual. In the anthology book, George says they all brought their own personal cameras with them on stage so they could all take a picture at the end of it.
jaredgetsacookie 2 years ago