The Beatles David Frost Show 1968

[tommyrock69]

They're bloody DRUNK!

I love it!

[tigranvartanovitch]

Confirmed. George is playing a Fender Bass VI.

[metaknigthmaster]

mario???

[zhidd]

Just yesterday I was reading of how Peter Cook said his only regret was once saving David Frost's life. Watching Frost so condescendingly repeating how brilliant the Beatles were when - clearly- all he wanted was for them to shut up, makes me regret Cook's good deed, too.

[Feisty1967]

This is an outtake right?

[CletusColtrane]

@Gyphia

Yep, he was was often disrespecful of George's playing, and would re-do his parts......How George put up with this crap I'll never know

[troikagirl]

@pauljames00....You are either tone deaf or have cloth ears.

[back2realitygal11]

is this where they did that Hey Jude performance?

[bucks1955mjm]

@back2realitygal11 Yes. Cool to see Beatle personalities and Frost looking frustrated.

[coreyrjrocknroll]

look at paul at 0:05 lol!!

[pauljames00]

paul is the worst beatle

[KimFTW0]

@pauljames00 You have got to be kidding me.

[Kinetic226]

0:19 ZAPPPPITY DOOOO DEEHH DAH John <3 miss u

[jrock714]

look people, you're all wrong! ringo played bass on his kick drum while paul *played the high hats and harp* on tax man.

[bondurango]

"It's now or never". ROFLMAO.

[Papatorrejano]

@bondurango That and 0:20 "bah dep be doh bap dong"

[4FabBEATLES]

there's better quality footage of the same thing on youtube- I think its from the Beatles on the BBC or Let it Be or something

[JRM515]

@4FabBEATLES There's a great quality footage on The Beatles Anthology DVD set.

[nightcrawler511]

where is ther full video!!!!!!!!

[nightcrawler511]

19 seconds is fuuny

[Antroid]

actually Paul didnt play bass at all on taxman, He played lead guitar and George played the bass.

[ledZeppelin7680]

wrong, if all of you would look it up instead of mindlessly argueing you'd realise that paul played bass, and the solo, the rest of the lead was played by george.

[andantinowithaswager]

nice little song

[bkthin]

dat's right

[Mikelan082]

No George Harrison played Rythm guitar on Taxman (he is using the 9# chord,which is the same chord Jimi Hendrix used on Foxy Lady) and he is playing the bass lines on the lead guitar on Two of Us.

[bkthin]

paul played the lead on his acoustic. george played the bass part on his guitar.

[jgil1967]

george played bass in Taxman and Two of Us

[YouBoob85]

taxman? No he didnt. Its one of maccas most famous lines.

[jgil1967]

yes he did (:

[YouBoob85]

no he didnt

[jim25shwp]

Spot on, Taxman bass is McCartney

[Carlota1840]

YouBoob is right. Paul plays bass on Taxman.

[bapyou]

I love when they fuck around. "It's now or neveeeer!" So snide. This is where the Sex Pistols got their rude attitude. From John Lennon.

[kooodeal]

Looks like they are spoofing playing,off key and wrong instruments for a gag sketch.

[daleroes]

Yeah so sometimes John or George would play bass line often on a six string guitar if Paul were playing acoustic guitar or piano, right?

[limunan]

Fender VI is bass?

[limunan]

Fender VI is a bass?

who play bass in this song?

[trev8200]

Maybe Its Playback

[NilezII]

The Fender VI is a six-string bass guitar. Jack Bruce played one early on in The Cream.

[genglemt]

Yep. And it looks like Lennon is playing his Casino. I think that was his favourite guitar for a long time.

[limunan]

is this geroge play a bass?

and why this live revolution had "count me ou and in"

[alanbick]

George is playing a Fender VI it has a longer scale (neck length) than a standard guitar and a thicker gauge of strings.

[limunan]

what day that day?

[ROVINATO]

first half of september 1968....

[kickassfan]

geniouses

[jayfey77]

you spelled geniuses wrong.

[kickassfan]

ok jayfey77

[Renshen1957]

The people in the US saw the promo film (I saw it on TV) on the Smother's Bros show which in the intro stated they were performing live (No David Frost Intro). The following week Revolution was performed (Paul mimes, John's scream). In both clips the pilot lights for the Fender lamps aren't visible, in other words the amps are turned off. There is no bass head. Don't believe everything you hear on TV.

[jayfey77]

the vocals were live and the scream was paul not john it doesnt even sound anything like the record scream.

[Renshen1957]

Earlier comment did not post. Michael Hogg shot/directed Hey Jude's promo film; the final film was a combination of TWO different takes. Beatles Live Impro, David Frost intro, and the audience on stage were filmed as part of the Video. There is no bleed through from the crowd singing into any of the mikes. Rhythm track, Fade out, and Backing choir are same as LP. John stops playing Guitar at 4'15" to 4'18" to direct crowd but Guitar continues in background, Paul is singing Live, G & J aren't.

[RonaldVaughan]

Where's the rest of this video?

What was the song?

Yes,BEATLES never played live again to a

"regular" audience...you got that right.

But that makes this all the more important...

[Renshen1957]

Sorry to burst the bubble, only this little improv was live, the missing part to come (Hey Jude, previously recorded) was "mimed" (UK) or "lipsync'd" (US). This "introduction" was to trick the audience into believing the entire performance was live. Wasn't the first time, Ready Steady Go, an all Beatle TV show early in their career, also had the music recorded, to be lipsync'd for TV, including a performance of Shout.

This video contains the last live Beatles before a regular audience.

[rjkahlon]

Its not lip synced. Ready Steady Go was a promo, not a performance. This is a live performance.

[Renshen1957]

Don't believe me? Check out on you tube Beatles at David Frost's part 1: Hey Jude more info. That video points out the promo was both filmed and taped.  It is also at a different angle

[rjkahlon]

How does that prove that they were lip syncing. The Beatles performance was filmed and the soundboard through which the sound went through was taped. If you watch the video, you'll see that John misses a long part where he was supposed to sing along with Paul. And Paul gave him a WTF look.

[QVrat123]

they sound wasted at the end

[crimsonkng]

What a fabulous clip.  Their charm (not taking themselves too seriously) comes through loud and clear, I think.

[CineRecon]

......ok

[UtoobRulz]

jphn? wtf?

[rjkahlon]

This actually right after he quit lsd and went to india.

[lcvd1]

What a great beat up video from the past! Quality is really bad as it should be do to time.

What was Paul trying to do when he seemed to be briefly interrupting while the cue was given to start?

[mariole33]

Hee! Very cute how Paul misses his cue and hurries to jump in. Loved John's vocals. These guys are so great. :)

[Inscrutable1]

David Frost was such a cold,snobby prick!

[inwoodliver]

he is still alive i believe, i always found him cool but interesting!

[ROVINATO]

this is the live performance in whiche they presented the song to the whole world, about a month after they had already completed. But having chosen it obviously as their new hit single they had to do that....the rest is history

[StevenJanice]

Great clip!!! :) George Martin wrote David Frost's theme song called "By George" This is Sept 4th, 1988, filmed at Twickenham Studios. Only the vocals were live. There was a Muscian's Union clause that no miming could be done. :)Into to "Hey Jude"!

[StevenJanice]

Sorry Sept 4, 1968. Oooops!

[RonaldVaughan]

Well,no "miming" (lip-synch) was done on the

INTRO....but see Renshen's comment,below....

[reubenrosenbeard]

magnificent! magnificent! beautiful! magnificent! live and in front of an audience frost stars once again.

[GeorgeKyoto]

Nice!!

[KenfromDublin]

This is the session where they played Hey Jude I believe. (Can't remember if they mimed it or not)