Comments on: On Air – Live At The BBC Volume 2

By: ian

ian — Thu, 20 Mar 2014 12:14:54 +0000

What is the tune Paul plays at the beginning of I Feel Fine, when the song breaks down?

By: robin raven

robin raven — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 18:00:49 +0000

Still missing I Call Your Name and I Should Have known Better. The She’s a woman version from the radiospecial ‘The Beatles invite you to take a ticket to ride’ (1965) is awsome. Paul singing ‘My love don’t mind me presents’!

By: Sour Milk Sea

Sour Milk Sea — Sun, 02 Feb 2014 22:41:24 +0000

Anyone else think it’s weird how “Bye, Bye” is at the end of disc 1? I would have put it at the end of 2, for a nice bookending effect (not counting the pop profiles)

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 22:53:35 +0000

True to form, John blows the lyrics on “I’m Talking About You” (he did it in the Star-Club version too, albeit differently). You’ll have to play Chuck Berry’s original for comparison. John gets a bad rap for fluffing lyrics, but to be fair about it, all 4 of them did it in live performance occasionally, fluffing them or singing verses out of order. They were usually aware of it at the time too, but you can’t very well stop a song & start over in the middle of a live performance, can you? Even some of their cover versions cut for EMI have wrong lyrics. “Matchbox” springs to mind, but most fans back in ’64 wouldn’t have known that because they hadn’t heard Carl Perkins’ original. Actually, it was quite a common thing in the old days when we learned lyrics off of records. I mis-heard certain lyrics for many years, until the days of CD digital re-mastering came along. Some recordings are beyond technology though. I still don’t know exactly what The Kingsmen are saying in their version of “Louie Louie”, and I still hear “there’s a bathroom on the right” in “Bad Moon Rising”.

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 04:15:44 +0000

Nice to have a version of “I’m Talking About You ” in better sound quality than the Star-Club tapes. Re my earlier post: It would be kind if cool to save the ’62 Pete Best BBC cuts for a 4-track companion EP (just wishful thinking, obviously)…

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 11 Nov 2013 06:30:21 +0000

It’s too bad that the BBC studio version (rather than the live version on Vol. 1) of “Some Other Guy” isn’t included on this set. I’m looking forward to seeing how the new re-mastered version of Vol. 1 compares to the original. It’s amazing to me that it’s been almost 20 years since Vol. 1 came out. I had a record store back then and was so excited when it was released. Wonder if there’s gonna be a 4-track EP companion released with this volume also?

By: BBCSessions1963

BBCSessions1963 — Sat, 14 Sep 2013 05:41:10 +0000

I think Besame Mucho is also another un official released BBC song.