@corydonald1 - It's no more sexist than most of the songs sung by women today that have the same message towards males. Sad that there's so many songs today from women with this message towards males but very few from males towards females. Feminism has only turned females into the males of the 1960s and turned males into the females of the 1960s. There's no such thing as gender equality. One gender is always going to be the victim of the other. Today males are the largest victim of sexism.
Love the Beatles, Awesome tune! Want to hear a band that covers this almost EXACTLY Even the vocals, which is Amazing! Do a youtube search Nucleus You Can't do that. You Really won't be dissapointed taking a couple minutes of your time to check them out. They Truly do an awesome cover! Love to hear your comments too!!! PS check out their other Beatles covers too!
I still am amazed at how incredibly great this band was. There will never be another like The Beatles. I honestly feel sorry for the small percentage of people out there who don't get or haven't yet experienced their magic. Few things give me more joy than listening to The Beatles. My kids are learning to love them, too.
On October 9th we will all watch "Imagine" in honor of the greatest singer ever's birthday. Let's give him the best birthday present ever: the highest viewed video on YouTube!! Let's give him what he deserves and what Justin Bieber does not deserve to have!
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young ppl dressed so clean back then XD Nice hair and nice clothes. Looks very nice! Not used to seeing that. Everyone dresses with there pants below there ass where i live
...... I was 9 when this gem came out and my father was a police sgt... so when the 'bad' kids in the neighborhood would start to mess around..ie: swearing, making obnoxious comments to the girls ect.. I'd sing' 'You can't do that' and they'de get madder than hell cause they were afraid of my old man... GOOD TIMES...-:)
THIS THIS THIS IS PURE BRILLIANT - I WAS ORIGINALLY SHOOT AT GRANADA MANCHESTER STUDIO 6 - JUST AS YOU WALK IN THRU THE ENTRANCE - AND ROGER ENGLAND HAS THEIR AUTOGRAPHS - THIS THIS IS BRILLIANT - OH YOU CAN'T DO THAT
May 24, 1964. The Ed Sullivan show broadcasts an interview with The Beatles about their new movie "A Hard Day's Night" - and runs a tape of The Beatles performing "You Can't Do That" from the film. The track never made the final film, but was featured as the B side to "Can't Buy Me Love".
Ha Ha Ha!!! This audience is perplexed and dead!!! They just don't know what to do!! They dance the dance of the dead! If Michael Jackson was performing, this audience would be whipped up into a total frenzy!!!!!!! Michael would work his magic!!!
I used to go and see them at our local dance hall before they recorded Love me do,and up untill they got Huge.I to wish I could re live it again the whole of that time was amazing.
I was about 18 when this was first released. My best mate, Harry Fenton, was a big 'Stones' fan - whilst I loved, and always will do, the 'Fab Four'. Whenever this came on the in pubs or clubs Harry would sidle up to the nearest girl & start singing ..... ''I've got something to say that might cause you pain - a 12" chopper with a varicose vein''. Well, it made me laugh anyway. Sadly, Harry's now gone - but like The Beatles - his legacy will live on forever.
i heard this song being covered every weekend in a london pub when i was working there a couple of years ago...i am telling you, the frigging tune would just refuse to go out of my head. really nice one.
@rjdmillerca Ahh poor Harry....we knew him not...you knew him well....long live Harry and the Beatles.....wow, that would have been wierd.....Here's Ed Sullivan saying...."and now!!...Harry and the Beatles!!!"
I was about 12 at the time.(you old guy)........Never thought much of the Stones at that time. Now the Stones get my respect...but that is just being respectful I think. Long live your friend Harry. God bless. Beatles were everything from hoky to heady to heartfelt. Well rounded 'eh?
I'm always amazed how the stupid cameramen show the strumming hand on a lead break instead of the hand that actually selects the notes being played. I guess they go for the hand that moves the most. LOL However, in this case, it might not have mattered, sense they were imitating the song.
I always liked the guitar lead on this song, it had a lot of rocknroll twang, and some power and drive to it - never knew it was Lennon, he sounds good - I won't say better than George, but certainly distinctly good
what'd I say? Oh, sure, Lennon was the leader of the band, the rocknroller, the ascerbic cynic, the tough guy - and sure, George was junior to him, all the way around - I was just talking about playing lead (I think - that comment was a while back) - truthfully, I thought Lennon on his own made music that was political at the expense of beautiful, and Harrison on his own wrote too simplistic songs, both musically and lyrically - it was the combination of all 4 that caught fire -
"The Beatles Cow Palace 1964" ...choppy video and slightly out of sync (possibly using Hollywood Bowl audio), but shows John playing guitar solo in this song - around the 2nd - 3rd song.
Could someone tell me what album this comes off of? I know it's an early song, but if it's on an album somewhere, or a "best hits" album, I'd like to have it!
@RevolverKat Thanks much; I can look for that at least! It should be easier to find an album than a song alone! It's funny, but before I discovered "You Tube", I rarely heard many of the older Beatles tunes. Some of my friends and young relatives listened to them years ago on the radio, or on records that they bought. Apart from the most listened to songs, I didn't know much about them, they were just popular music.
@loveoldsongs The funniest thing is- I remember hearing songs, and not knowing it was them singing, or hearing other groups doing covers and thinking it was them! Sometimes, I guess because of the British accents, I couldn't always tell. Now I know! A lot of them sounded like Beatles to me! Some sounded different, though. When some of the American groups started to do large-scale work of their own, I could tell who they were, somewhat! That said, I think I can remember some of the more remote
@loveoldsongs lesser-known Beatles tunes without knowing it was them that did them! Now you take songs like "I'll Get You In The End". I knew that was the Beatles. But I couldn't find it anywhere on "You Tube", because I didn't know the title. I just knew they said "oh yeah" a lot(LOL) in the song! I did hear it on an old episode of "Ready Steady Go" that came on for a short while on tv a few years ago. Also, there was that one titled "Run For Your Life" I think. That one I remember a lot,
@loveoldsongs but I didn't know it was the Beatles that did it! It sounded like them, but I didn't know it WAS them! Some songs done by other artists sounded so much like them, I thought it was them. Now I know that I was partly right. Some of their songs frequently done by other British artists at the time, so I was partly right, such as Peter and Gordon, or B.J. Kramer and the Dakotas!
@JohnPaulGeorgeRing0 first of all, (not trying to be a dick), but why wouldnt you google that? lol... but john plays a 1958 rickenbacker 325 rhythm guitar
Don't know much about drumming, but I know Ringo's left handed, which accounts for some differences in his technique. Read a Lennon quote when questioned about Ringo's drumming. Seemed like he got a little pissed, and defended Ringo vigorously. Even said that Ringo was 'the glue that held the band together.' Personally I respected Lennon for sticking up for his friend. Ringo may or may not have been a better technical drummer, but he was the better fit in the band.
"I was twelve. I sneaked out of school during morning milk break, bought the record, and broke into matron's room because she had a record player. Then I played it, not loud enough to get caught, but just loud enough to hear with my ear pressed up against the speaker. Then I played it again for the other ear. That was when the housemaster found me and put me into detention, which is what I had expected. It seemed a small price to pay for what I now realize was art." - Douglas Adams on this song
This is the BBCs Radio 2s Sounds of the 60s Beatles A to Z song for week starting SAT08MAY10 where the history of this song is given about 35 mins into the prog It can be heard online for 7 days after May8th at the prog site Thank you for posting this video of a performance by the greatest group the world will ever see
Yeah, it's common knowledge. He never really proved that he was anything more than a consistently hard hitter and on beat. Cite the song if he did anything complicated or even a good drum fill. Come on, he only had 6 pieces anyway. Neil Peart had 27 pieces when he started with Rush. Ringo filled the position well, but if you blow enough sunshine up his ass it's going to start to burn. The class of the Beatles wasn't in each one, it was in the unit that played 8 hour sets in Hamburg.
@kaonnon Ringo's drumming wasn't complicated or even complex, but it was tasteful. "Ticket to Ride," "Tomorrow Never Knows," "In my Life" etc. Even this song. Yeah, he won the lottery when Best got fired, but he was a very solid melodic drummer. And Neil Peart and Rush suck.
Um..Ringo was the drummer/singer for Rory Storm + The Hurricanes which was the biggest band in the Liverpool Merseybeat of the late 50s and early 60s before The Beatles even had a name. To quote Paul McCartney in Anthology on replacing Best with Ringo, "We knew we needed 'The Great Drummer in Liverpool.'"
To quote John Lennon in Playboy 1980: "Ringo was a star in his own right in Liverpool before we even met. He was a professional drummer who sang and performed and had Ringo Star-time and he was in one of the top groups in Britain but especially in Liverpool before we even had a drummer. So Ringo's talent would have come out one way or the other as something or other."
Mike McCartney -- "There were quite a few drummers around Liverpool and I used to go home and tell Paul about Ringo. I often saw him play with Rory Storm. ...With Rory he was a very inventive drummer. He goes around the drums like crazy. He doesn't just hit them -- he invents sounds." (1983 interview for The Beatles: A Celebration by Geoffrey Guilliano, 1992)
"He (Pete Best) was doing OK, but if you compare it to Ringo, he just did not have that swing. He just did not have that rock. He just didn't." -Klaus Voormann
@kurt52073 Ignorant people who don't know anything about the nuance of music call Ringo's srumming "simple." Ringo was a master of subtlety. To quote The Polices Stewart Copeland: "Ringo is the leader in the education for all young drummers of style over flash, always playing the right things rather than a lot of things.
Elvis Costello - "Ringo Starr played the drums with an incredibly unique feel that nobody can really copy, although many fine drummers have tried and failed." (Rolling Stone, Issue 946 — April 15, 2004)
Ringo "doesn't dazzle with flashy technique and pyrotechnics," says The Cars' lead guitarist, Elliot Easton. "What he does is so much more elusive and difficult: He plays songs on the drums. Anybody who has sat down behind a drum kit in the last 45 years owes him." (USA Today, Praising Ringo Starr, one drummer to another)
Dave Ballinger -- "Technically brilliant drummers do not necessary make good rock drummers. ...You don't have to be a technical Buddy Rich type drummer, you just need to be inventive. He (Ringo) did things I would never have thought of doing." (interview for Speaking Words of Wisdom)
Max Weinberg -- "More than any other drummer, Ringo Starr changed my life. The impact and memory of that band on Ed Sullivan Show in 1964 will never leave me. I can still see Ringo in the back moving that beat with his whole body, his right hand swinging off his sock cymbal while his left hand pounds the snare. He was fantastic, but I think what got to me the most was his smile. I knew he was having the time of his life." (The Big Beat, 1984)
"He is a good solid rock drummer with a steady beat, and he knows how to get the right sound out of his drums. Above all, he does have an individual sound. You can tell Ringo's drums from anyone else's and that character was a definite asset to the Beatles' early recordings." -George Martin (All You Need Is Ears, 1979)
Kenny Aronoff -- "He consistently came up with new ideas that always seemed perfect for the song, but it wasn't just a matter of him picking a basic beat for a song, because lots of drummers could do that. Ringo definitely had the right kind of personality and creative ideas for The Beatles music. You will rarely find a Beatles song without something noticeable that Ringo played or didn't play." (Modern Drummer magazine, Oct. 1987)
Tim Riley -- "Ringo wanted to serve the songs rather than show off. As a song writer's drummer, Ringo was the type of musician who could follow instructions as he completed the overall sound. His commitment to the music was bigger than his ego." ( Tell Me Why, 1988)
Kenny Arnoff -- "I consider him one of the greatest innovators of rock drumming and believe that he has been one of the greatest influences on rock drumming today... Ringo has influenced drummers more than they will ever realize or admit. Ringo laid down the fundamental rock beat that drummers are playing today and they probably don't even realize it. (Modern Drummer,Oct. 1987)
"Starr is vastly underrated. The drum fills on the song "A Day in the Life" are very complex things. You could take a great drummer today and say, 'I want it like that.' He wouldn't know what to do." - Drummer Phil Collins (The Making of Sgt. Pepper, 1992)
"One of Ringo's great qualities was that he composed unique, stylistic drum parts for The Beatles songs. His parts are so signature to the songs that you can listen to a Ringo drum part without the rest of the music and still identify the song." -Steve Smith (Journey)
"Ringo is the most underrated drummer in the industry! His drumming is like life—it gives you the most solid beat. When he drummed on my Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band album, I was totally amazed that he had no difficulty in following the very complex improvisational vocals I did again, no overdubs. I think his incredible drumming was what made so many great Beatles songs possible." -Yoko Ono, Modern Drummer Dec 09
"Ringo Starrs drumming is infallible, untouchable, and he is quite simply the greatest drummer in the history of rock n roll music." -Black Crowes drummer Steve Gorman
"Ringo is one of the greatest rock drummers. There were times when hed get in the middle of a drum fill and not know how to get out, and thats what made it great." -Ken Scott (Beatles recording engineer)
"Ringo's tom fills really make the song, but funnily enough, he hated doing them because he could never remember what he was did one take to the next. I think that's why his fills are so spectacular - he felt that he would never reproduce them, so he'd better get 'em right." -Geoff Emerick on Here Comes The Sun
"We loved him. And we just thought he was the very best drummer we'd ever seen. And we wanted him in the group. We were big fans of his." -Paul McCartney talks Ringo, Larry King 2007 Interview
@Xmenfan246 Going back and listening to the first couple albums, I dig the way he plays the eighth notes with his right hand on the crash cymbal as opposed to the on the high hat. It makes the whole band sound bigger, more exciting.
You do know that Pete Best would never have left and Ringo Starr would never have been picked up had Best and Lennon not had some argument right? Williams, their manager, fired Best because he wasn't writing the songs and later the Beatles mentioned having regrets about the whole thing. Ringo picked up a shitload of pointers on songwriting from John and Paul too. And they were called the Fab Four because they were the biggest band at the time and the press had no imagination in the 60s.
@kaonnon Wasn't it The Beatles who fired Pete Best? Allan Williams wasn't their manager, he was rather their agent. They were already with Brian Epstein when Pete was fired and he was never given an explanation. Correct me if I'm wrong.
@ostbg It was mostly personal reasons, like how he didn't really socialize well with the other Beatles and refused to conform to their style changes. He was also considered the pretty boy of the group, and rumor has it they were jealous he got the most attention. When George Martin said he was not a fan of Pete Best's durmming, it was their excuse to replace him.
@Xmenfan246 I know the story but anyway thanks. :) I thought kaonnon got the info wrong. I don't claim to know everything but I haven't heard of an argument between John and Pete. What I know is they actually got on quite well. I haven't heard of the Beatles expressing any regrets, either. Only George Martin later apologized to him. The Beatles have only said that Pete had missed a few gigs and Ringo had to sit in for him. He'd already been part of the group and they only had to make it official
@ostbg On the other hand, Ringo wasn't the first drummer The Beatles called when they decided to replace Pete. If I remember well they called two other people before Ringo and after they refused they called him. What do you know about that?
@bosoxboy1468927 : Type in "The Beatles - You Can't Do That - live", and look for the title, "The Beatles: Cow Palace Concert, San Francisco 1964" It's out of sync, but it shows him doing the solo from the side-front.
@bosoxboy1468927: Type in "The Beatles - You Can't Do That - live", and look for the title, "The Beatles: Cow Palace Concert, San Francisco 1964" It's out of sync, but it shows him doing the solo from the side-front.
@ChaMonJamAud: He was, and he also backed the Isley Brothers. I love Little Richard too ! Got a documentary where LR talks about Hendrix. He said ' sometimes God picks up all the goldust and sprinkles it back on someone'. Lovely man !
btw serveTHEservants, Paul was probably the most skilled in the group, he played some of the Beatles harder guitar solos, good morning good morning, Taxman, and George doesn't have many awesome Beatle Solos. (I do still think George was the best, just look at his solo career!)
According to George Martin in his book 'Summer of Love' he stated that George was the best MUSICIAN of the Beatles. He did masses of great solos throughout all the Beatles albums. Take 'Til There was you' for example. Paul didnt play as many solo's people think. Their are 'myths' on the internet re this. For the facts, you have to refer to 'The Complete Beatle Sessions' which tells you who played what on every session
Yes. But I was really surprised to learn it was Paul McCartney who did the Indian style guitar solo on George Harrison's. Taxman. I would never have known that had I not read this from several reliable sources including Paul himself. Always had believed that was Harrison until recently.
Come on people, Music is an art. There are many artists doing something different. To those in the comments saying Ringo is sloppy, if there was anyone other then him there it would have not been the Beatles.
Ringo is NOT sloppy. The only thing that could manifest that stupid notion is the fact that his hi-hats are always open just above the normal height that you would normally have on your 16th notes.
Basically, he's always doing a shuffle, opening the hats that wide gives it a more dramatic feel. Hearing that "tsh-sh tsh-sh tsh-sh" puts more rhythm and time, and pronounces that it's a shuffle.
Hey Neil, try recording some number one hits. Also, being "sloppy" does not sound too much like a technical term that a real musician would use. Your Ringo comment contradicts your comment about his "technique." I think that being in time during an entire eight year career - something attested to by George Martin - testifies to Ringo's greatness. It sounds like you don't know what you're talking about when it comes to playing the guitar, drums, or musical vocabulary in general.
Plus, if "Hendrix" is the best example of a guitarist he can come up with I'm not really interested in hearing his opinions on who's good and who isn't. I'm so sick of that dude's legend status. (Wow, pentatonic scales. I hope he plays them over and over again while high on acid!) The Beatles wrote music, something a lot of "musicians" and bands don't do well. Are they the best musicians in the world? No, but the people who are couldn't write the music that changed the world like they did.
I used Hendrix as an example for a sloppy guitarist. Hendrix is NOT the best guitarist of all time, I agree. My favorite all time guitarist is Stevie Ray Vaughan.
You seriously voted my comment down because I said my favorite guitarist of all time was Stevie Ray Vaughan who is widely considered to be one of the top 3 guitarists of all time?
@NeilFraudstrong . I merely commented on the fact that Vaughan was nothing more than a competent, pale imitation of the true genius, Jimi Hendrix. I did not vote on anything
Jimi was nothing until Clapton found him. America didn't want a damn thing to do with him.until he hit big, and there was still controversy over him..Now all of a sudden his face is on t-shirts at walmart, ooh wow what a true genius right? Stevie was a real genius too because he KNEW what he was playing. If you asked jimi the chords to any of his songs.. he'd be like "I'm not sure of the names...". I'm just defending stevie, I love jim but steve has to have props.
Er....it was Chas Chandler of the Animals who 'found' Jimi. I have a documentary where Clapton saw Jimi for the first time,
quote ' Chas brought this black guy in to play with us' 'After playing, he left the stage and my life was never the same again'. I have played guitar for 40 years.
Heard them all. Imo, the 2 greatest guitarists of all time are Jimi Hendrix and Chet Atkins. As for 'knowing chords' that makes JH even greater. If you know the SOUND of each note, thats everyone's dream !
Imitation? Vaughan brought about a whole new aspect of music.
He's not even in the same genre.
Hendrix knew a few things... But Vaughan could slaughter most people with his raw feeling. Steve didn't need gypsy outfits or playing with his teeth or any retarded gimick to get himself noticed. His music had such virtuosity and feeling that any guitarist listening just puts himself in his shoes as though he were playing that guitar himself.
Bull shit, Hendrix didn't influence Stevie THAT much. I mean, Stevie plays straight blues. You know what Jimi inspired? That fucking hat that he ripped off of bob dylan anyway.
Pale imitation of what? He's never imitated his routine, costumes, or even guitar style AT ALL. What is he imitating? that's like saying Jimi imitated bob dylan just because he was his idol.
What is a good guitarist? Point is... everyone is good in any sense, so it doesn't matter how much you know, how fast you play, or what you know, there's always someone better in a different way. I mean what would you base the best guitarist on? Speed? Technicality? Virtuosity? Feeling? Who cares, lets all just jam.
nautyknight is right
ooholala 1 week ago in playlist The Beatles
i believ that george is playin a badd ass vintage rickenbacher
dawggybonz 4 weeks ago in playlist Beatles
it's hilarious how sexist this is but nobody cares because it's awesome
corydonald1 4 weeks ago
@corydonald1 - It's no more sexist than most of the songs sung by women today that have the same message towards males. Sad that there's so many songs today from women with this message towards males but very few from males towards females. Feminism has only turned females into the males of the 1960s and turned males into the females of the 1960s. There's no such thing as gender equality. One gender is always going to be the victim of the other. Today males are the largest victim of sexism.
NautyKnight 3 weeks ago
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Love the Beatles, Awesome tune! Want to hear a band that covers this almost EXACTLY Even the vocals, which is Amazing! Do a youtube search Nucleus You Can't do that. You Really won't be dissapointed taking a couple minutes of your time to check them out. They Truly do an awesome cover! Love to hear your comments too!!! PS check out their other Beatles covers too!
Nucleus2011 1 month ago
I still am amazed at how incredibly great this band was. There will never be another like The Beatles. I honestly feel sorry for the small percentage of people out there who don't get or haven't yet experienced their magic. Few things give me more joy than listening to The Beatles. My kids are learning to love them, too.
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sdccds11 4 months ago
I like John Solo Guitar!!!!!!!!!
rauhbautz44 4 months ago
me encantaaaaaa
matrimoniofeliz7 4 months ago
what a bunch of badasses! i love the beatles!
umRuss012787 5 months ago 2
young ppl dressed so clean back then XD Nice hair and nice clothes. Looks very nice! Not used to seeing that. Everyone dresses with there pants below there ass where i live
ViacomFailsAtLife 5 months ago
...... I was 9 when this gem came out and my father was a police sgt... so when the 'bad' kids in the neighborhood would start to mess around..ie: swearing, making obnoxious comments to the girls ect.. I'd sing' 'You can't do that' and they'de get madder than hell cause they were afraid of my old man... GOOD TIMES...-:)
Thanks for the post...
time2act1001 6 months ago
i'm only 15 and my REGULAR genre is HIP-HOP i don't mind some BEATLES..! Heyyyy Every Album is Hitting my IPOD tonight..!
RackoutShit 6 months ago
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listen to "head cat" version of this beautiful song! Lemmy interprets the song very well!
sbirulines 6 months ago
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sbirulines 6 months ago
THIS THIS THIS IS PURE BRILLIANT - I WAS ORIGINALLY SHOOT AT GRANADA MANCHESTER STUDIO 6 - JUST AS YOU WALK IN THRU THE ENTRANCE - AND ROGER ENGLAND HAS THEIR AUTOGRAPHS - THIS THIS IS BRILLIANT - OH YOU CAN'T DO THAT
geoffdoor 6 months ago
I love this song!
dodounightwish 7 months ago
waaaaaaaait, whos playing the cowbell?
focorockstar 7 months ago
0:52 sarah palin
ebilz1013 7 months ago
Lennon rules,...
stoobee09 7 months ago
Guitars are unplugged.... o_O
lalunedemars09 8 months ago
@lalunedemars09
that's just the proof that the beatles were a magical band :-D
LadoJMR 8 months ago
@LadoJMR Yep. I love The beatles~ RIP John and George :'D
lalunedemars09 7 months ago
May 24, 1964. The Ed Sullivan show broadcasts an interview with The Beatles about their new movie "A Hard Day's Night" - and runs a tape of The Beatles performing "You Can't Do That" from the film. The track never made the final film, but was featured as the B side to "Can't Buy Me Love".
Released by: EMI Records
Release date: Sep 9, 2009
ppmrxky 8 months ago
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archie977 8 months ago
@archie977 .....Okay this is a beatles video not a micheal Jackson video... o_O
lalunedemars09 7 months ago
They are lip syncin !!!! Ohhh!!! Guitars are unplugged.....
karagerrard 8 months ago
Ha Ha Ha!!! This audience is perplexed and dead!!! They just don't know what to do!! They dance the dance of the dead! If Michael Jackson was performing, this audience would be whipped up into a total frenzy!!!!!!! Michael would work his magic!!!
TheMJtheGOD 8 months ago
@TheMJtheGOD Thank god it wasent MJ he woulda molested all the boys in the crowd.
SrPantalonesdefuego 7 months ago
@SrPantalonesdefuego wow classy.
rayallen0 6 months ago
I love this song *_* they're so cute!
Revolutionarg 8 months ago
dedidaca a shhhhhhhhhhhhhh °x°
abrahamnonnel 8 months ago
this is not good audio or video.
jayfey77 8 months ago
too fn fun.
animascat 8 months ago
MORE COWBELL!!
jias188 8 months ago
to all gitter strummers of the world
check the right hand action of John & George, wrist=calm, hand=wild
MacLenHarStar 9 months ago
Cowbell ,cowbell . cowbell .
I used to go and see them at our local dance hall before they recorded Love me do,and up untill they got Huge.I to wish I could re live it again the whole of that time was amazing.
fromstonburger 9 months ago
I WANT A TIME MACHINE !!!!!
*Back To The Past
hahahhahahah
95izreen 11 months ago
johns guiter solo is just awsome!!!!
thebeatles962 11 months ago
0:41 Oh my God. Literally took my breath away. George-ous!!
katebug35 11 months ago 3
I love how Ringo jumps up and down on the drums. He is so into it lol :)
d0macamuzika 11 months ago
Awww, the memories.
I was about 18 when this was first released. My best mate, Harry Fenton, was a big 'Stones' fan - whilst I loved, and always will do, the 'Fab Four'. Whenever this came on the in pubs or clubs Harry would sidle up to the nearest girl & start singing ..... ''I've got something to say that might cause you pain - a 12" chopper with a varicose vein''. Well, it made me laugh anyway. Sadly, Harry's now gone - but like The Beatles - his legacy will live on forever.
flamvile 1 year ago 49
@flamvile Dang How Old r u know then??
MyahhYup90 11 months ago
@MyahhYup90 must be about 65
corydonald1 4 weeks ago
@flamvile That was a better choice than "It Won't be Long" which somehow never worked out for me. R.I.P. Harry.
thestalkinghorse 2 months ago
Goddamn, those closeups of Paul. SWOOON. Hope I find a husband like that for sure.
progressivemay 1 year ago
Johnny and the Moondogs BABY
whatitis117 1 year ago 2
Isn't this just the track from the album?
skunkboy72 1 year ago
5 people did that
mrsciencecheese 1 year ago
i heard this song being covered every weekend in a london pub when i was working there a couple of years ago...i am telling you, the frigging tune would just refuse to go out of my head. really nice one.
peace & love from netherlands...
henny
henny66306 1 year ago
Has any band in Rock and Roll history ever made better use of the cowbell??? I think not!
rjdmillerca 1 year ago 29
@rjdmillerca Ahh poor Harry....we knew him not...you knew him well....long live Harry and the Beatles.....wow, that would have been wierd.....Here's Ed Sullivan saying...."and now!!...Harry and the Beatles!!!"
I was about 12 at the time.(you old guy)........Never thought much of the Stones at that time. Now the Stones get my respect...but that is just being respectful I think. Long live your friend Harry. God bless. Beatles were everything from hoky to heady to heartfelt. Well rounded 'eh?
101AOK 9 months ago
@rjdmillerca War
Dymys200 9 months ago
@rjdmillerca think of "HOnky TOnk WOmen"..
glimmertwins4 8 months ago
@rjdmillerca NO!
GothMetalhead999 1 month ago in playlist The Beatles
I also cover this 1964 Beatles classic:
youtube.com/watch?v=4TbVPTrX1eI
AndyBoy63 1 year ago
The Beatles were actually all barely 20 y.o......at that time.....
bvb7589 1 year ago
john is so focused on the solo.
Kevvrock1208 1 year ago
Love John's guitar playing here!!!
Kaya1955 1 year ago
I'm always amazed how the stupid cameramen show the strumming hand on a lead break instead of the hand that actually selects the notes being played. I guess they go for the hand that moves the most. LOL However, in this case, it might not have mattered, sense they were imitating the song.
Greenames 1 year ago
A much as I LOVE everything the boys do.... MORE COWBELL!!!!!! I MUST have more cowbell!!!!
cubfanbellsman1 1 year ago
I always liked the guitar lead on this song, it had a lot of rocknroll twang, and some power and drive to it - never knew it was Lennon, he sounds good - I won't say better than George, but certainly distinctly good
SupernalOne 1 year ago
@SupernalOne Not Better than George, comeooon dude, George was Good, but not in Johns Class vocally or writting...nuff said!
jjs499 1 year ago
@jjs499
what'd I say? Oh, sure, Lennon was the leader of the band, the rocknroller, the ascerbic cynic, the tough guy - and sure, George was junior to him, all the way around - I was just talking about playing lead (I think - that comment was a while back) - truthfully, I thought Lennon on his own made music that was political at the expense of beautiful, and Harrison on his own wrote too simplistic songs, both musically and lyrically - it was the combination of all 4 that caught fire -
SupernalOne 1 year ago 2
gotta see the live Austrailia footage. John`s Jammin it Live
Rick36561 1 year ago
"The Beatles Cow Palace 1964" ...choppy video and slightly out of sync (possibly using Hollywood Bowl audio), but shows John playing guitar solo in this song - around the 2nd - 3rd song.
pianorman 1 year ago
This clip SHOWS him playing the solo, but the audio is the studio version (which is awesome).
Speaking of awesome -- the girl in the black dress and black beehive hairdo. Holy schmokes.
jaystarstar 1 year ago
Could someone tell me what album this comes off of? I know it's an early song, but if it's on an album somewhere, or a "best hits" album, I'd like to have it!
loveoldsongs 1 year ago
@loveoldsongs It's on A Hard Day's Night.
RevolverKat 1 year ago
@RevolverKat Thanks much; I can look for that at least! It should be easier to find an album than a song alone! It's funny, but before I discovered "You Tube", I rarely heard many of the older Beatles tunes. Some of my friends and young relatives listened to them years ago on the radio, or on records that they bought. Apart from the most listened to songs, I didn't know much about them, they were just popular music.
loveoldsongs 1 year ago
@loveoldsongs The funniest thing is- I remember hearing songs, and not knowing it was them singing, or hearing other groups doing covers and thinking it was them! Sometimes, I guess because of the British accents, I couldn't always tell. Now I know! A lot of them sounded like Beatles to me! Some sounded different, though. When some of the American groups started to do large-scale work of their own, I could tell who they were, somewhat! That said, I think I can remember some of the more remote
loveoldsongs 1 year ago
@loveoldsongs lesser-known Beatles tunes without knowing it was them that did them! Now you take songs like "I'll Get You In The End". I knew that was the Beatles. But I couldn't find it anywhere on "You Tube", because I didn't know the title. I just knew they said "oh yeah" a lot(LOL) in the song! I did hear it on an old episode of "Ready Steady Go" that came on for a short while on tv a few years ago. Also, there was that one titled "Run For Your Life" I think. That one I remember a lot,
loveoldsongs 1 year ago
@loveoldsongs but I didn't know it was the Beatles that did it! It sounded like them, but I didn't know it WAS them! Some songs done by other artists sounded so much like them, I thought it was them. Now I know that I was partly right. Some of their songs frequently done by other British artists at the time, so I was partly right, such as Peter and Gordon, or B.J. Kramer and the Dakotas!
loveoldsongs 1 year ago
@loveoldsongs
check out Lies by the Knickerbockers - I used to think that was the Beatles
SupernalOne 1 year ago
i love playin the rythm for this on guitar! the cluncky G7s and C7s!
KMEECHY 1 year ago
this was music,u go sixties
kickassfan 1 year ago
Paulie has a bracelet! i wonder why...
royalparadigm 1 year ago
Ei brothers and sisters
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enjoy !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Daytripperify 1 year ago
during the solo, the john does not look once for guitar
solo 100% complete
Gabrielleiteoliveira 1 year ago
COWBELL best instrument EVER :D
Flamos013 1 year ago
greens the color of envy, i just got that.
Rush1013 1 year ago 3
one of the cooler early Beatle tunes. John was great
frank47hammer 1 year ago
there is no bigger beatle fan in the world than me but this is lip singing . I have played this song in various garage bands for 35 years . Love it
bigbuzman 1 year ago
what kind of guitar/model does john have? please someone reply to this i wanna know!
JohnPaulGeorgeRing0 1 year ago
@JohnPaulGeorgeRing0 first of all, (not trying to be a dick), but why wouldnt you google that? lol... but john plays a 1958 rickenbacker 325 rhythm guitar
smokencoke1 1 year ago
Don't know much about drumming, but I know Ringo's left handed, which accounts for some differences in his technique. Read a Lennon quote when questioned about Ringo's drumming. Seemed like he got a little pissed, and defended Ringo vigorously. Even said that Ringo was 'the glue that held the band together.' Personally I respected Lennon for sticking up for his friend. Ringo may or may not have been a better technical drummer, but he was the better fit in the band.
almostavgjoe 1 year ago
nOW I UNDERSTAND CUSH. I CANT DO THAT, I WONT
blaqstonedcherry 1 year ago
"I was twelve. I sneaked out of school during morning milk break, bought the record, and broke into matron's room because she had a record player. Then I played it, not loud enough to get caught, but just loud enough to hear with my ear pressed up against the speaker. Then I played it again for the other ear. That was when the housemaster found me and put me into detention, which is what I had expected. It seemed a small price to pay for what I now realize was art." - Douglas Adams on this song
sulljoh1 1 year ago
wow! I had never seen a vid of this great song
cbimbi 1 year ago
As a Beatles fan, I love all their songs even the non hits. I always liked this one too. Thanks. Jim.
retirednavyman 1 year ago
i'm sooooooo jealous that this people was there and i just 'CAN"T DO THAT' :(:(
goldboy9303 1 year ago
This song just flat out rocks.
whathoney73 1 year ago 2
me fascinaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
fixyou1 1 year ago
Gr8 R&B feel....
kevinherbert 1 year ago
IM GONNA LET YOU DOWN, ILL LEAVE YOU FLAT!!!
Doolian123 1 year ago
Beatles forever. Beatles para siempre.
aremanil 1 year ago
I like the way young people used to dress back then
level242 1 year ago 2
Lennon was such an awesome riff maker.
obscurebandfan 1 year ago
This is the BBCs Radio 2s Sounds of the 60s Beatles A to Z song for week starting SAT08MAY10 where the history of this song is given about 35 mins into the prog It can be heard online for 7 days after May8th at the prog site Thank you for posting this video of a performance by the greatest group the world will ever see
RickmalR 1 year ago
Yeah, it's common knowledge. He never really proved that he was anything more than a consistently hard hitter and on beat. Cite the song if he did anything complicated or even a good drum fill. Come on, he only had 6 pieces anyway. Neil Peart had 27 pieces when he started with Rush. Ringo filled the position well, but if you blow enough sunshine up his ass it's going to start to burn. The class of the Beatles wasn't in each one, it was in the unit that played 8 hour sets in Hamburg.
kaonnon 1 year ago
@kaonnon Ringo's drumming wasn't complicated or even complex, but it was tasteful. "Ticket to Ride," "Tomorrow Never Knows," "In my Life" etc. Even this song. Yeah, he won the lottery when Best got fired, but he was a very solid melodic drummer. And Neil Peart and Rush suck.
kurt52073 1 year ago
Um..Ringo was the drummer/singer for Rory Storm + The Hurricanes which was the biggest band in the Liverpool Merseybeat of the late 50s and early 60s before The Beatles even had a name. To quote Paul McCartney in Anthology on replacing Best with Ringo, "We knew we needed 'The Great Drummer in Liverpool.'"
Xmenfan246 1 year ago
To quote John Lennon in Playboy 1980: "Ringo was a star in his own right in Liverpool before we even met. He was a professional drummer who sang and performed and had Ringo Star-time and he was in one of the top groups in Britain but especially in Liverpool before we even had a drummer. So Ringo's talent would have come out one way or the other as something or other."
Xmenfan246 1 year ago
Mike McCartney -- "There were quite a few drummers around Liverpool and I used to go home and tell Paul about Ringo. I often saw him play with Rory Storm. ...With Rory he was a very inventive drummer. He goes around the drums like crazy. He doesn't just hit them -- he invents sounds." (1983 interview for The Beatles: A Celebration by Geoffrey Guilliano, 1992)
Xmenfan246 1 year ago
To quote Klaus Voormann on Ringo during his days with Rory Storm + The Hurricanes: "He was a fantastic drummer. Really incredible."
Xmenfan246 1 year ago
"He (Pete Best) was doing OK, but if you compare it to Ringo, he just did not have that swing. He just did not have that rock. He just didn't." -Klaus Voormann
Xmenfan246 1 year ago
@kurt52073 Ignorant people who don't know anything about the nuance of music call Ringo's srumming "simple." Ringo was a master of subtlety. To quote The Polices Stewart Copeland: "Ringo is the leader in the education for all young drummers of style over flash, always playing the right things rather than a lot of things.
Xmenfan246 1 year ago
Elvis Costello - "Ringo Starr played the drums with an incredibly unique feel that nobody can really copy, although many fine drummers have tried and failed." (Rolling Stone, Issue 946 — April 15, 2004)
Xmenfan246 1 year ago
Ringo "doesn't dazzle with flashy technique and pyrotechnics," says The Cars' lead guitarist, Elliot Easton. "What he does is so much more elusive and difficult: He plays songs on the drums. Anybody who has sat down behind a drum kit in the last 45 years owes him." (USA Today, Praising Ringo Starr, one drummer to another)
Xmenfan246 1 year ago
Dave Ballinger -- "Technically brilliant drummers do not necessary make good rock drummers. ...You don't have to be a technical Buddy Rich type drummer, you just need to be inventive. He (Ringo) did things I would never have thought of doing." (interview for Speaking Words of Wisdom)
Xmenfan246 1 year ago
Max Weinberg -- "More than any other drummer, Ringo Starr changed my life. The impact and memory of that band on Ed Sullivan Show in 1964 will never leave me. I can still see Ringo in the back moving that beat with his whole body, his right hand swinging off his sock cymbal while his left hand pounds the snare. He was fantastic, but I think what got to me the most was his smile. I knew he was having the time of his life." (The Big Beat, 1984)
Xmenfan246 1 year ago
"He is a good solid rock drummer with a steady beat, and he knows how to get the right sound out of his drums. Above all, he does have an individual sound. You can tell Ringo's drums from anyone else's and that character was a definite asset to the Beatles' early recordings." -George Martin (All You Need Is Ears, 1979)
Xmenfan246 1 year ago
Kenny Aronoff -- "He consistently came up with new ideas that always seemed perfect for the song, but it wasn't just a matter of him picking a basic beat for a song, because lots of drummers could do that. Ringo definitely had the right kind of personality and creative ideas for The Beatles music. You will rarely find a Beatles song without something noticeable that Ringo played or didn't play." (Modern Drummer magazine, Oct. 1987)
Xmenfan246 1 year ago
Tim Riley -- "Ringo wanted to serve the songs rather than show off. As a song writer's drummer, Ringo was the type of musician who could follow instructions as he completed the overall sound. His commitment to the music was bigger than his ego." ( Tell Me Why, 1988)
Xmenfan246 1 year ago
Kenny Arnoff -- "I consider him one of the greatest innovators of rock drumming and believe that he has been one of the greatest influences on rock drumming today... Ringo has influenced drummers more than they will ever realize or admit. Ringo laid down the fundamental rock beat that drummers are playing today and they probably don't even realize it. (Modern Drummer,Oct. 1987)
Xmenfan246 1 year ago
"Starr is vastly underrated. The drum fills on the song "A Day in the Life" are very complex things. You could take a great drummer today and say, 'I want it like that.' He wouldn't know what to do." - Drummer Phil Collins (The Making of Sgt. Pepper, 1992)
Xmenfan246 1 year ago
"One of Ringo's great qualities was that he composed unique, stylistic drum parts for The Beatles songs. His parts are so signature to the songs that you can listen to a Ringo drum part without the rest of the music and still identify the song." -Steve Smith (Journey)
Xmenfan246 1 year ago
"Ringo is the most underrated drummer in the industry! His drumming is like life—it gives you the most solid beat. When he drummed on my Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band album, I was totally amazed that he had no difficulty in following the very complex improvisational vocals I did again, no overdubs. I think his incredible drumming was what made so many great Beatles songs possible." -Yoko Ono, Modern Drummer Dec 09
Xmenfan246 1 year ago
"Ringo Starrs drumming is infallible, untouchable, and he is quite simply the greatest drummer in the history of rock n roll music." -Black Crowes drummer Steve Gorman
Xmenfan246 1 year ago
"Ringo is one of the greatest rock drummers. There were times when hed get in the middle of a drum fill and not know how to get out, and thats what made it great." -Ken Scott (Beatles recording engineer)
Xmenfan246 1 year ago
"Ringo's tom fills really make the song, but funnily enough, he hated doing them because he could never remember what he was did one take to the next. I think that's why his fills are so spectacular - he felt that he would never reproduce them, so he'd better get 'em right." -Geoff Emerick on Here Comes The Sun
Xmenfan246 1 year ago
"He's an underrated cat, really underrated as a drummer." -Mac Rebennack on Ringo, 1989 Interview
Xmenfan246 1 year ago
"We loved him. And we just thought he was the very best drummer we'd ever seen. And we wanted him in the group. We were big fans of his." -Paul McCartney talks Ringo, Larry King 2007 Interview
Xmenfan246 1 year ago
@Xmenfan246 Going back and listening to the first couple albums, I dig the way he plays the eighth notes with his right hand on the crash cymbal as opposed to the on the high hat. It makes the whole band sound bigger, more exciting.
kurt52073 1 year ago
You do know that Pete Best would never have left and Ringo Starr would never have been picked up had Best and Lennon not had some argument right? Williams, their manager, fired Best because he wasn't writing the songs and later the Beatles mentioned having regrets about the whole thing. Ringo picked up a shitload of pointers on songwriting from John and Paul too. And they were called the Fab Four because they were the biggest band at the time and the press had no imagination in the 60s.
kaonnon 1 year ago
@kaonnon i knew that oh wut 10 yrs ago
queenlover1998 1 year ago
@kaonnon Wasn't it The Beatles who fired Pete Best? Allan Williams wasn't their manager, he was rather their agent. They were already with Brian Epstein when Pete was fired and he was never given an explanation. Correct me if I'm wrong.
ostbg 1 year ago
@ostbg It was mostly personal reasons, like how he didn't really socialize well with the other Beatles and refused to conform to their style changes. He was also considered the pretty boy of the group, and rumor has it they were jealous he got the most attention. When George Martin said he was not a fan of Pete Best's durmming, it was their excuse to replace him.
Xmenfan246 1 year ago
@Xmenfan246 I know the story but anyway thanks. :) I thought kaonnon got the info wrong. I don't claim to know everything but I haven't heard of an argument between John and Pete. What I know is they actually got on quite well. I haven't heard of the Beatles expressing any regrets, either. Only George Martin later apologized to him. The Beatles have only said that Pete had missed a few gigs and Ringo had to sit in for him. He'd already been part of the group and they only had to make it official
ostbg 1 year ago
@ostbg On the other hand, Ringo wasn't the first drummer The Beatles called when they decided to replace Pete. If I remember well they called two other people before Ringo and after they refused they called him. What do you know about that?
ostbg 1 year ago
Lennons riff is kill!
whatitis117 1 year ago
More cowbell.
cmina 1 year ago 59
@cmina oh man lmfao!!!!!!!!!
1beatles 1 year ago
@cmina LOL! I love SNL XD
IwillKillYourCereal 1 year ago
this is the cloest thing to seeing johns guitar solo. no other live preformance shows it
bosoxboy1468927 1 year ago 38
@bosoxboy1468927 : Type in "The Beatles - You Can't Do That - live", and look for the title, "The Beatles: Cow Palace Concert, San Francisco 1964" It's out of sync, but it shows him doing the solo from the side-front.
pianorman 1 year ago
@bosoxboy1468927 I think get back in the rooftop concert was another guitar solo performed by John.
carlosdorna 1 year ago
@bosoxboy1468927
KMEECHY 1 year ago
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@bosoxboy1468927: Type in "The Beatles - You Can't Do That - live", and look for the title, "The Beatles: Cow Palace Concert, San Francisco 1964" It's out of sync, but it shows him doing the solo from the side-front.
pianorman 1 year ago
@bosoxboy1468927 ...go to Cow Palace 1964 - it's slightly out of sync, but shows John playing the solo from the side-front
pianorman 1 year ago
@bosoxboy1468927 Cause he's rythm guitar.
themeisner14 1 year ago
@bosoxboy1468927 You're right, they never shows Johns solo on this song. Just unfortunate they're lip synching and hes not actually playing
CommieCotch 1 year ago
@bosoxboy1468927 John plays the lead and solos in get back live at the rooftop
alejandrosuckmy 1 year ago
JOHN AT HIS BEST
GARYMAX1313 1 year ago
One of my favorites!
Maureen825 1 year ago
I luv JOHN LENNON <3
AdamLambertsVoice 1 year ago
i like this song just becouse john is singing.
passiize1 1 year ago
this an awsome song Beatles for life
Hgman13 1 year ago
more cowbell!!
whoooooaaaaahhhh!
PatrickMcBride65 1 year ago
@ipolson
Really? Wow, I didn't know that. A bit o trivia though: Hendrix was first a young guitarist in the band for Little Richard =D who is AWESOME
ChaMonJamAud 1 year ago
@ChaMonJamAud: He was, and he also backed the Isley Brothers. I love Little Richard too ! Got a documentary where LR talks about Hendrix. He said ' sometimes God picks up all the goldust and sprinkles it back on someone'. Lovely man !
ipolson 1 year ago
btw serveTHEservants, Paul was probably the most skilled in the group, he played some of the Beatles harder guitar solos, good morning good morning, Taxman, and George doesn't have many awesome Beatle Solos. (I do still think George was the best, just look at his solo career!)
BKRjedproductions 1 year ago
According to George Martin in his book 'Summer of Love' he stated that George was the best MUSICIAN of the Beatles. He did masses of great solos throughout all the Beatles albums. Take 'Til There was you' for example. Paul didnt play as many solo's people think. Their are 'myths' on the internet re this. For the facts, you have to refer to 'The Complete Beatle Sessions' which tells you who played what on every session
ipolson 1 year ago
Yes. But I was really surprised to learn it was Paul McCartney who did the Indian style guitar solo on George Harrison's. Taxman. I would never have known that had I not read this from several reliable sources including Paul himself. Always had believed that was Harrison until recently.
m06een00 1 year ago
Beatles <3
Arth151 1 year ago
Come on people, Music is an art. There are many artists doing something different. To those in the comments saying Ringo is sloppy, if there was anyone other then him there it would have not been the Beatles.
ETericET 1 year ago
@ETericET
Ringo is NOT sloppy. The only thing that could manifest that stupid notion is the fact that his hi-hats are always open just above the normal height that you would normally have on your 16th notes.
Basically, he's always doing a shuffle, opening the hats that wide gives it a more dramatic feel. Hearing that "tsh-sh tsh-sh tsh-sh" puts more rhythm and time, and pronounces that it's a shuffle.
serveTHEservants 1 year ago
@ETericET Exactly. There's a reason they;re called The Fab Four. John, Paul, George and Ringo are irreplaceable.
Xmenfan246 1 year ago
I think I hear congas
bennosteve 1 year ago
@bennosteve
Not at all... Maybe you're confusing them with the prominant cowbell.
serveTHEservants 1 year ago
Hey Neil, try recording some number one hits. Also, being "sloppy" does not sound too much like a technical term that a real musician would use. Your Ringo comment contradicts your comment about his "technique." I think that being in time during an entire eight year career - something attested to by George Martin - testifies to Ringo's greatness. It sounds like you don't know what you're talking about when it comes to playing the guitar, drums, or musical vocabulary in general.
MrBlakelliott 1 year ago 14
Plus, if "Hendrix" is the best example of a guitarist he can come up with I'm not really interested in hearing his opinions on who's good and who isn't. I'm so sick of that dude's legend status. (Wow, pentatonic scales. I hope he plays them over and over again while high on acid!) The Beatles wrote music, something a lot of "musicians" and bands don't do well. Are they the best musicians in the world? No, but the people who are couldn't write the music that changed the world like they did.
irgifted 1 year ago
I used Hendrix as an example for a sloppy guitarist. Hendrix is NOT the best guitarist of all time, I agree. My favorite all time guitarist is Stevie Ray Vaughan.
NeilFraudstrong 1 year ago
@NeilFraudstrong : You're kidding right? Jimi was the real thing, Vaughan a talented imitation
oldjoe5 1 year ago
@oldjoe5
You seriously voted my comment down because I said my favorite guitarist of all time was Stevie Ray Vaughan who is widely considered to be one of the top 3 guitarists of all time?
NeilFraudstrong 1 year ago
@NeilFraudstrong . I merely commented on the fact that Vaughan was nothing more than a competent, pale imitation of the true genius, Jimi Hendrix. I did not vote on anything
oldjoe5 1 year ago
Jimi was nothing until Clapton found him. America didn't want a damn thing to do with him.until he hit big, and there was still controversy over him..Now all of a sudden his face is on t-shirts at walmart, ooh wow what a true genius right? Stevie was a real genius too because he KNEW what he was playing. If you asked jimi the chords to any of his songs.. he'd be like "I'm not sure of the names...". I'm just defending stevie, I love jim but steve has to have props.
serveTHEservants 1 year ago
"Jimi was nothing until Clapton found him".
You do realize what a dumb statement that is? That is like saying Einstein was nothing until he got into the newspapers.
All of a sudden his face is on t-shirst at walmart? What planet are you from? Jimi's likeness has been on t-shirts since 1967.
Stevie was a Hendrix wannabe. An excellent player, but not a game changer like Hendrix.
oldjoe5 1 year ago
1, no it isn't.
Jimi played at maybe 5 clubs ever before Clapton dragged him off his skinny ass.
Jimi was sleeping under cardboard before that.
2, okay, find a jimi hendrix shirt from 67 and post it on here. Also, no it wasnt fucking commercialized until after the 90s ish.
serveTHEservants 1 year ago
You must be quite young
oldjoe5 1 year ago
Er....it was Chas Chandler of the Animals who 'found' Jimi. I have a documentary where Clapton saw Jimi for the first time,
quote ' Chas brought this black guy in to play with us' 'After playing, he left the stage and my life was never the same again'. I have played guitar for 40 years.
Heard them all. Imo, the 2 greatest guitarists of all time are Jimi Hendrix and Chet Atkins. As for 'knowing chords' that makes JH even greater. If you know the SOUND of each note, thats everyone's dream !
ipolson 1 year ago
@oldjoe5
Imitation? Vaughan brought about a whole new aspect of music.
He's not even in the same genre.
Hendrix knew a few things... But Vaughan could slaughter most people with his raw feeling. Steve didn't need gypsy outfits or playing with his teeth or any retarded gimick to get himself noticed. His music had such virtuosity and feeling that any guitarist listening just puts himself in his shoes as though he were playing that guitar himself.
serveTHEservants 1 year ago
If Hendriz had not existed it is doubtful we ever would have heard of Vaughan and his playing certainly would have sounded nothing like it did.
Never take the pale imitation over the original
oldjoe5 1 year ago
Bull shit, Hendrix didn't influence Stevie THAT much. I mean, Stevie plays straight blues. You know what Jimi inspired? That fucking hat that he ripped off of bob dylan anyway.
Pale imitation of what? He's never imitated his routine, costumes, or even guitar style AT ALL. What is he imitating? that's like saying Jimi imitated bob dylan just because he was his idol.
serveTHEservants 1 year ago
If you don't think Vaughan's style was an attempt to sound like Hendrix -- conscious or not -- there is no more to say
oldjoe5 1 year ago
@NeilFraudstrong
What constitutes the best guitarist?
What is a good guitarist? Point is... everyone is good in any sense, so it doesn't matter how much you know, how fast you play, or what you know, there's always someone better in a different way. I mean what would you base the best guitarist on? Speed? Technicality? Virtuosity? Feeling? Who cares, lets all just jam.
serveTHEservants 1 year ago