The Beatles Bible - Topic: A Hard Day's Night 1964

MeanMrsMustard on A Hard Day's Night 1964

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 03:56:14 +0100

Has anyone seen the "You Can't Do That" outtake? It's on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....20imqxPFig

HammerDealer on A Hard Day's Night 1964

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:12:58 +0100

I can't rent the DVD's where I am, I'll have to buy them.

RonnieRIG on A Hard Day's Night 1964

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:37:46 +0100

I would assume he was probably hitting the cymbals and the drums. The music in the studio that they were miming to would have been loud enough anyways, so hitting the cymbals wouldn't have destroyed any ears. Also, I know now that in music videos that mute the cymbals and drums with special padding so it's not too loud. They could have possibly done that too.

Zig on A Hard Day's Night 1964

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:59:46 +0100

mithveaen said:

And no I hadn't noticed those faces... my favorite bit is when George falling off his amp LOL!!!

I have a question... I mean I know they're not playing but Ringo is not even hitting the cymbals right?

I agree - George knocking over the amp in the rehearsal scene is funny.

I'm not sure about the cymbals thing. Since they mimed all of the songs in the movie he could have been hitting them from time-to-time and it wouldn't have mattered.

I'm sure there is someone in the forum who can answer that - lots of knowledgable Fab-o-philes in here!

mithveaen on A Hard Day's Night 1964

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:43:23 +0100

Zig said:

This past Friday night, I watched AHDN again in honor of Paul's birthday. It reminded me that I've been meaning to bring something up but keep forgetting to…

Have you ever noticed that John does his (as Geroge put it in Anthology) 'spastic' face in the beginning of If I Fell? Take a look – on the words "help meeeeeeeeeee understand".

I did the same.. I watched AHDN and Good Night New York City. *wearing her Magneto helmet*

And no I hadn't noticed those faces... my favorite bit is when George falling off his amp LOL!!!

I have a question... ...

Zig on A Hard Day's Night 1964

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:08:59 +0100

This past Friday night, I watched AHDN again in honor of Paul's birthday. It reminded me that I've been meaning to bring something up but keep forgetting to…

Have you ever noticed that John does his (as Geroge put it in Anthology) 'spastic' face in the beginning of If I Fell? Take a look – on the words "help meeeeeeeeeee understand".

As a matter of fact, as I am typing this, I notice on the post just before this one that Sunii has the 'spastic' face thing going on with her latest ...

Sunii on A Hard Day's Night 1964

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 23:55:42 +0100

Blue suits?! Whoa...and an orange helicopter? I, too, never would have thought that.

mithveaen on A Hard Day's Night 1964

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 21:08:01 +0100

Zig said:

skye said:

Burnt Orange was all the rage:

Never in a million years would I have guessed the helicopter was orange. I'm a Burnt Sienna man myself.

Those suits were blue!!! They look....... weird!!!!!!!! LOL!!!!

Zig on A Hard Day's Night 1964

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 18:16:51 +0100

skye said:

Burnt Orange was all the rage:

Never in a million years would I have guessed the helicopter was orange. I'm a Burnt Sienna man myself.

Joe on A Hard Day's Night 1964

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 17:50:53 +0100

RonnieRIG said:

I have the United Artists version of the soundtrack. The songs are not lower in pitch on the album.

Perhaps they slowed the songs down in the film to make the movie a little longer?

Thanks RonnieRIG. Intriguing. Maybe it really was just the way the songs were played back when they were editing the film. I can't imagine they really would have slowed them down to lengthen the film, as there were unreleased scenes they could have used instead.

Joe on A Hard Day's Night 1964

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 17:47:32 +0100

The colours in that AHDN pic look a little oversaturated, though I may be wrong. The suits seem blue, whereas they were actually grey: http://www.beatlesuits.com/Bea.....DNsuit.htm

RonnieRIG on A Hard Day's Night 1964

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 17:45:11 +0100

Joe said:

I might be able to help here. Tapes of the mono mixes were given to United Artists and Capitol to be used in the film and soundtrack in the US.

As United Artists (UA) made the film, George Martin and EMI weren't responsible for how the songs were used in the film beyond recording and mixing them. The playback of the songs in the film was, presumably, down to UA. Perhaps when they assembled the film versions their tape machines were set to play at a different speed, or they thought for some reason it sounded better.

Here are some ...

skye on A Hard Day's Night 1964

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 17:23:27 +0100

Burnt Orange was all the rage:

skye on A Hard Day's Night 1964

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:00:17 +0100

I'm not sure what Mr. Big wants, but for me, yes please! I'd like to hear him working it out on guitar.

Happy Nat on A Hard Day's Night 1964

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 15:23:47 +0100

MrBig said:

Hey Happy Nat, with your site and all, do you think you could post some outtakes?

Um, I'm supposing you mean out-takes of If I Fell, right (just making sure that's what you mean)? I have plenty of other out-takes on there already. Just clarify that's what you meant and I will see what I can do. I don't have any early Abbey Road takes, but I do have all the BBC takes, a whole bunch of live versions, a composing tape of John's with a few versions of just him and a guitar working it out, an ...