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Re: Lost Birkenhead recording?
Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2023 9:35 am
by BDJ
eclipsed1 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 27, 2023 11:05 pm
No, on close inspection that's actually a turntable.
So there's the evidence they were actually miming during the concert...
Re: Lost Birkenhead recording?
Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2023 12:01 pm
by Lord Reith
Mind you, I can't understand why they would be miking The Beatles PA through the house PA... surely it would be much simpler to have the guys sing into the house mics?
And if that is what was going on then, crikey, that must have been a bloody awful racket!
Re: Lost Birkenhead recording?
Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2023 1:22 am
by WOA76
I ask Tony Bramwell about PA system he on Facebook
as Paul McCartney said What know anything about as ASK TONY
Re: Lost Birkenhead recording?
Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2023 12:44 pm
by WOA76
- I contacted Tony
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Lord Reith wrote: ↑Thu Apr 27, 2023 10:41 am
While i was looking at 1963 photos today I noticed something unusual about this picture. Can you see it?
birkenhead.jpg
Let's zoom in and you'll see that standing next to one of the PA speakers, there's a dark haired girl holding onto a microphone:
birkenhead2.jpg
Now this microphone is different to the one John andf the other two are singing into. I hadn't realised till now but The Beatles had their own vocal PA system at this time, because you can also see the same speakers and mics in the Stowe concert a few weeks earlier. And you also see the same mics in the EMI House performance:
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I asked Tony for you
Re: Lost Birkenhead recording?
Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2023 3:09 pm
by BDJ
WOA76 wrote: ↑Thu Jun 08, 2023 12:44 pm
IMG_4566.jpeg
Lord Reith wrote: ↑Thu Apr 27, 2023 10:41 am
While i was looking at 1963 photos today I noticed something unusual about this picture. Can you see it?
birkenhead.jpg
Let's zoom in and you'll see that standing next to one of the PA speakers, there's a dark haired girl holding onto a microphone:
birkenhead2.jpg
Now this microphone is different to the one John andf the other two are singing into. I hadn't realised till now but The Beatles had their own vocal PA system at this time, because you can also see the same speakers and mics in the Stowe concert a few weeks earlier. And you also see the same mics in the EMI House performance:
a13296835c049d6d58a2c7549dbaa0bb--shearing-on-thursday.jpg
1.jpg
mic.jpg
I asked Tony for you
Aren't both pictures from Stowe School, but different dates? The square speakers appear to be the school's PA system.
Re: Lost Birkenhead recording?
Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2023 10:30 am
by Lord Reith
Well thanks for asking but that doesn't seem to make sense. They are using the same PA at two completely different locations in the same time frame. Stowe School is not likely to have lent them their public address system. Also, as I said the same distinctive microphones are seen in other gigs from the period. I wouldn't expect even Tony to recall some minor detail like that from 60 years ago. Clearly they had some sort of PA they were using, even if it was only for a very short time.