anyone see the documentary of their first tour last night?
Interesting, for me cos i love the directors the maysles brothers film the salesman alot.
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but at that time, they had one or two ok songs, as the performances show, alot of keenly nice boy lovey dovey stuff which they balance off stage with alot of youthful wide eyed, cynical humour. They also had a fucking good manager, who in the film, just seems to sit back with his foxy secretary pushing all the right buttons, taking the calls engineering. It seems they could have been any interchangable merseyside beat combo were it not for the machine. Throughout, the blessings of Elvis and the colonel and various music moguls of the time, are quoted, just to remind you these guys are the actors, not the playwriters at that point.
The most interesting and revealing scene is when the band finish their first tv performance, where they look really fucking old school clean and british and go to an underground club, while an r and b band play on the stage, with a fierce performance, that has all that whole unique nyc cool as fuck buzz about it, the band try to fit in but look woefully stiff, (probably literally) as some fine hip girls shake it to the music, all they can do is gawp.
The next perfomance after a long train journey, they take some of that energy they saw on stage and loose some of the stiffness, let their hair down a bit more, i think they play 'can't buy me love'.
Who actually really thinks sergant peppers is good though?
It's an overegged mess to my ears, they did better albums. rubber soul and revolver are much better.
