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chromaticfades · 4 days

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Had a stressful week at work, so I said fuck it and drove out to see my favorite Beatles tribute band.

Time to rock out to my favorite songs and forget everything.

#music #the beatles #Beatles tribute band #the sun kings #live music

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chromaticfades · 11 days

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The Beatles Cirque Du Soleil show in Las Vegas is closing on July 7th omg good thing I saw it last year :(

#I had a crazy ‘need to do this’ urge to see it and booked an impulse trip to Vegas in June #like I just bought my show tickets yesterday #holy shit #I’m so glad I get to see it again before it closes

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chromaticfades · 14 days

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From Paul's Instagram April 16, 2024. Let It Be coming May 8!

#I don’t fucking believe it #they’re actually releasing it?!?#I can’t wait #the beatles #favorite bands

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chromaticfades · 2 months

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GEORGE HARRISON on his 21st birthday. 25 February, 1964.

#Happy Birthday George!#the beatles #favorite bands

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chromaticfades · 3 months

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Ringo Starr is playing a show in my area on my birthday. It’s fate.

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chromaticfades · 4 months

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Paul McCartney - “Live in the New World (1993)”

This aired ‘live’ in the US, on my dad’s 41st birthday, a few weeks after I turned 10. I remember him turning to me during his birthday dinner and telling me he’d secretly set the VCR to record it so I could watch it later, because he knew how much it would mean to me. We sat down to watch it together the next day, and much to both of our relief it worked perfectly.

I watched that VHS tape so much over the next few years I legitimately wore it out. I’m now a few months out from my own 41st birthday, and legitimately cried tears of joy when I found it on YouTube.

the what-sounds-like russian overdubs when Paul talks were obviously not in the version I saw as a kid

Fun fact - in the original US broadcast (and thus captured on that VHS) there was a beer commercial set on a train that played a couple times that was my rather random introduction The James Gang.

#paul mccartney #the beatles #music #live music #concert video #personal anecdotes about music #finding this video legitimately made my fucking day #Youtube

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chromaticfades · 4 months

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I was watching a YouTube video about Saturday morning cartoons, and the video mentioned The Beatles cartoon series.

The cartoon went into syndication when I was four, and at that point I was already beyond obsessed with the band. So with those memories triggered, I decided tonight would be a good time to watch the series again for the first time in 30-something years.

This show is even more of an acid trip than I remember (and I remembered it being really fucking weird).

No wonder I was such a bizarre child.

#the beatles #the beatles cartoon

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chromaticfades · 5 months

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I’ve been a Beatles fan since the early 1980’s, first hearing them when I was 2 or 3.

The moment I first heard their music is legitimately my earliest childhood memory. They imprinted on me in a very special way from the start, and they’re still my favorite band and the one constant positive I’ve had in my life to this day.

And it’s amazing, to me at least, that all these years later I’m still finding new performances and interviews and other video/audio I’ve never seen before.

Like this performance at the ABC Theater in 1965 - I’d seen clips, and the performance of “Yesterday”, but getting to see it in its entirety now is incredible to me.

don’t mind me I’m just over here getting super emotional over a youtube video

#the beatles #music #favorite bands #I stumbled upon this earlier and it made my day #for a band that could barely hear themselves play most of the time they always sound so amazing live

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chromaticfades · 5 months

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The Monkees play Michael Nesmith's "Cruisin'" (live at the Universal Amphitheatre on July 9, 1989). The very brief snippet of footage is courtesy of CNN, the rest of the audio is courtesy of the indispensable Monkees Live Almanac.

#this is awesome #the Monkees playing one of Nez’s solo hits #I wish the four of them had toured more together in the last years but I understand why they didn’t #the monkees #favorite bands

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chromaticfades · 5 months

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