It’s not that the band is terrible live, it’s just that the songs are so damn good on the studio recordings. It’s been argued that George Martin is the so-called fifth Beatle, these recordings help make that argument in my opinion. That said, the performances are solid but ultimately pale comparisons of their studio counterparts. I would say that this album is 100% absolutely the best live recordings of The Beatles I’ve ever heard. I was pleasantly surprised at how good these recordings sound. Released originally in 1977, LIVE AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL has been remastered and remixed. LIVE AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL documents several concerts from August of 1965, near the very end of the groups touring life. It’s not that the band was bad in concert, it’s just that live recordings from the era in which the Beatles performed live are spotty at best. So when it was announced that LIVE AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL would be coming out in conjunction with Ron Howard’s Beatle documentary THE BEATLES: EIGHT DAYS A WEEK, I bookmarked the release date but didn’t hurry to get around to listening to it until recently. I remember getting my hands on that set way back in my early Beatle-years and promptly tossing it aside.
Over the years I’ve heard a handful of live Beatle recordings, mostly from the LIVE AT THE BBC double-album. But for the most part, it’s because The Beatles so famously turned their back on touring and became the quintessential studio band. That’s partly because the group was long disbanded by the time I was born in the early 1980’s (thus no chance of me ever seeing them live). I can’t think of a band I associate less with live performance than The Beatles.
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