Friday, May 15, 2009

The Beatles - The Final Tour: August 1966

Label: Purple Chick, PC-177/78

DISC ONE

Municipal Stadium, Cleveland, OH - 14 August, 1966
1: intro (Can You Hear Me?)
2: Day Tripper (Can You Hear Me?)
3: show interruption (Can You Hear Me? + Vinyl To The Core)
4: I Feel Fine (Vinyl To The Core)

Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Canada - 17 August, 1966 (afternoon):
5: intro (unbooted)
6: If I Needed Someone (unbooted)

Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Canada - 17 August, 1966 (evening):
7: intro (Live Beatles At The Maple Leaf Gardens)
8: Rock and Roll Music (LBATMLG)
9: She's A Woman (LBATMLG)
10: If I Needed Someone (LBATMLG)
11: Day Tripper (LBATMLG)
12: Baby's In Black (LBATMLG)
13: I Feel Fine (LBATMLG)
14: Yesterday (LBATMLG)
15: I Wanna Be Your Man (LBATMLG)
16: Nowhere Man (LBATMLG)
17: Paperback Writer (LBATMLG)
18: Long Tall Sally (LBATMLG)
19: outro (LBATMLG)

Suffolk Downs Racetrack, Boston, MA - 18 August, 1966
20: She's A Woman (We'd Like To Cary On)
21: Long Tall Sally (Vinyl To The Core)

Mid-South Coliseum, Memphis, TN - 19 August, 1966 (afternoon)
22: intro (From Beatles In Memphis 1966)
23: Rock and Roll Music (Berry) (From Beatles In Memphis 1966)
24: She's A Woman (Lennon-McCartney) (FBIM 1966)
25: If I Needed Someone (Harrison) (FBIM 1966)
26: Day Tripper (Lennon-McCartney) (FBIM 1966)
27: Baby's In Black (Lennon-McCartney) (FBIM 1966)
28: I Feel Fine (Lennon-McCartney) (FBIM 1966)
29: Yesterday (Lennon-McCartney) (FBIM 1966)
30: I Wanna Be Your Man (Lennon-McCartney) (FBIM 1966)
31: Nowhere Man (Lennon-McCartney) (FBIM 1966)
32: Paperback Writer (Lennon-McCartney) (FBIM 1966)
33: Long Tall Sally (Johnson-Penniman-Blackwell) (FBIM 1966)


DISC TWO

Mid-South Coliseum, Memphis, TN - 19 August, 1966 (evening)
1: intro (From Beatles In Memphis 1966)
2: Rock and Roll Music (Berry) (From Beatles In Memphis 1966)
3: She's A Woman (Lennon-McCartney) (FBIM 1966)
4: If I Needed Someone (Harrison) (FBIM 1966)
5: Day Tripper (Lennon-McCartney) (FBIM 1966)
6: Baby's In Black (Lennon-McCartney) (FBIM 1966)
7: I Feel Fine (Lennon-McCartney) (FBIM 1966)
8: Yesterday (Lennon-McCartney) (FBIM 1966)
9: I Wanna Be Your Man (Lennon-McCartney) (FBIM 1966)
10: Nowhere Man (Lennon-McCartney) (FBIM 1966)
11: Paperback Writer (Lennon-McCartney) (FBIM 1966)
12: Long Tall Sally (Johnson-Penniman-Blackwell) (FBIM 1966)

Busch Stadium, Boston, MA - 21 August, 1966
13: Rock and Roll Music/She's A Woman (unbooted)

Shea Stadium, New York, NY - 23 August, 1966
14: intro (Beatles' Blast In Stadium Described By Erupting Fans)
15: She's A Woman (BBISDBEF)
16: If I Needed Someone (BBISDBEF)
17: I Feel Fine (BBISDBEF)
18: Yesterday (BBISDBEF)
19: Paperback Writer (BBISDBEF)
20: outro (BBISDBEF)

Candlestick Park, San Francisco, CA - 29 August, 1966
21: Rock and Roll Music (Live in Paris 1964 and in San Francisco 1966)
22: She's A Woman (Paris/San Francisco)
23: If I Needed Someone (Paris/San Francisco)
24: Day Tripper (Paris/San Francisco)
25: Baby's In Black (Paris/San Francisco)
26: I Feel Fine (Paris/San Francisco)
27: Yesterday (Paris/San Francisco)
28: I Wanna Be Your Man (Paris/San Francisco)
29: Nowhere Man (Paris/San Francisco)
30: Paperback Writer (Paris/San Francisco)
31: Long Tall Sally (Paris/San Francisco)


And so to the conclusion of The Beatles as a performing group
(although some might argue the end really came a year or more earlier)
– all the circulating shows from their final tour of the U.S.A.

While this may be a delight for completists, the last show at San
Francisco is the only decent sounding recording here (and not such a
bad performance either, relatively speaking). Also of note is the
'cherry bomb' explosion heard halfway through "If I Needed Someone"
from the Memphis evening show. Otherwise it's slim pickings, pop
pickers.

We've done our best to make everything sound as good as possible -
speed correction, a little eq, and more (but never any compression or
noise reduction!) We even used a source for the San Francisco show
without the digital reverb appearing on most releases of this concert.

It's not all that pretty, but this is it – the end of The Beatles
live. (Unless you count the Rooftop Concert – and that's on A/B Road
if you still need to find it!)

As always, Purple Chick discs are fan created and NEVER FOR SALE!!!

1 comment:

RSTVMO said...

i want! where's link?